ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marion Barry	Politician	6-Mar-1936		Crack-smoking ex-mayor of Washington, DC
Julian Bond	Activist	14-Jan-1940		NAACP Chairman
H. Rap Brown	Activist	4-Oct-1943		Die, Nigger, Die!
Stokely Carmichael	Activist	29-Jun-1941	15-Nov-1998	Black separatist, Pan-Africanist
George E. Curry	Publisher	23-Feb-1947		Emerge editor-in-chief
Ruby Dee	Actor	27-Oct-1924		The Jackie Robinson Story
Marian Wright Edelman	Activist	6-Jun-1939		Founder, Children's Defense Fund
Dick Gregory	Activist	12-Oct-1932		Autobiography: NIGGER!
John Lewis	Politician	21-Feb-1940		Congressman, Georgia 5th
Mark Palmer	Diplomat	1941		US Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-90
Bobby Rush	Politician	23-Nov-1946		Congressman, Illinois 1st
Mario Savio	Activist	8-Dec-1942	6-Nov-1996	Free Speech Movement
Howard Zinn	Historian	24-Aug-1922		A People's History of the United States

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