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Tag: civil rights leaders

Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

Julian Bond: A Dedicated Life of Service

by Reporter II August 17, 2015October 30, 2020

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tenn. into a family of privilege. His father, Horace Mann Bond, was a noted educator who served as president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia, where such notables as W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson were frequent guests. During […]

Diane Nash, a native of Chicago, was instrumental as a change agent in the nonviolent movement for civil rights that began in 1959 when she was a student at Fisk University. In 1960, she became one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and from 1961-1965 was actively working with SNCC and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Posted inNational

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Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

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Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

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Posted inNational

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Posted inNational

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Posted inNational

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by Reporter II December 13, 2014October 30, 2020
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

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Posted inColumnists, Julianne Malveaux, Op-Ed, Opinion

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