Anthony Spearman
FILE – The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, then-president of the North Carolina NAACP, crumples up a mailer which tells voters that IDs are needed in the upcoming 2020 election during a news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 27, 2019. The civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died by suicide after being found in his Greensboro home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound last summer, according to an autopsy released Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP, File)