A Shreveport pastor and civil rights leader passed away Monday. Calvin Austin III, died Feb. 3 at Willis Knighton Health after undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit. Austin spent his life dedicated to the Lord and helping people around him through church and local activism.

Shreveport Civil Rights icon, Reverend Calvin Austin has passed away. Austin died earlier today at Willis Knighton Hospital while undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit.

Shreveport pastor and civil rights activist Reverend H. Calvin Austin, III, passed away yesterday, February 3rd. He led a 1963 walkout at Booker T. Washington High School to protest police abuse, and at just 13 years old,