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James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement.He was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...
Joseph Charles Jones (August 23, 1937 – December 27, 2019) was an American civil rights leader, attorney, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and chairperson of the SNCC's direct action committee. [1] Jones was born in Chester, South Carolina. [2]
He was a key leader in the development of the Black Power movement, first while leading the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), then as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and last as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
Black Power movement Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown ; October 4, 1943), is an American human rights activist, and Muslim cleric who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
The MFDP delegation was not seated, but their influence on the Democratic Party later helped to elect many black leaders in Mississippi. They forced a rule change to allow women and minorities to sit as delegates at the Democratic National Convention. [46] The 1964 schism with the national Democratic Party led SNCC toward the "black power ...
Casey Hayden was born Sandra Cason (a name she continued to use legally) on October 31, 1937, in Austin, Texas, [1] as a fourth-generation Texan. [2] She was raised in Victoria, Texas, in a "multigenerational matriarchal family" [3] —by her mother, Eula Weisiger Cason ("the only divorced woman in town"), her mother's sister, and her grandmother.