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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
ORGANIZATION
Founded in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Founding Date:
1960
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Marion Barry |
Politician |
6-Mar-1936 |
22-Nov-2014 |
Twice Mayor of Washington, DC |
| Harry Belafonte |
Singer/Songwriter |
1-Mar-1927 |
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Calypso singer |
| Julian Bond |
Activist |
14-Jan-1940 |
15-Aug-2015 |
NAACP Chairman, 1998-2010 |
| H. Rap Brown |
Activist |
4-Oct-1943 |
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Die, Nigger, Die! |
| Stokely Carmichael |
Activist |
29-Jun-1941 |
15-Nov-1998 |
Black separatist, Pan-Africanist |
| George E. Curry |
Publisher |
23-Feb-1947 |
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Emerge editor-in-chief |
| Ruby Dee |
Actor |
27-Oct-1924 |
12-Jun-2014 |
The Jackie Robinson Story |
| Marian Wright Edelman |
Activist |
6-Jun-1939 |
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Founder, Children's Defense Fund |
| Dick Gregory |
Activist |
12-Oct-1932 |
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Autobiography: NIGGER! |
| Fannie Lou Hamer |
Activist |
6-Oct-1917 |
14-Mar-1977 |
Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer |
| John Lewis |
Politician |
21-Feb-1940 |
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Congressman, Georgia 5th |
| Shirley MacLaine |
Actor |
24-Apr-1934 |
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Terms of Endearment |
| Mark Palmer |
Diplomat |
14-Jul-1941 |
28-Jan-2013 |
US Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-90 |
| Sidney Poitier |
Actor |
20-Feb-1927 |
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In The Heat Of The Night |
| Bobby Rush |
Politician |
23-Nov-1946 |
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Congressman, Illinois 1st |
| Bernie Sanders |
Politician |
8-Sep-1941 |
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US Senator from Vermont |
| Mario Savio |
Activist |
8-Dec-1942 |
6-Nov-1996 |
Free Speech Movement |
| Pete Seeger |
Singer/Songwriter |
3-May-1919 |
27-Jan-2014 |
We Shall Overcome |
| Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
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