Victoria Gray Adams

Victoria Gray Adams

female, deceased (2006)
Jackson State University, Jackson, African American, Civil rights activist, tuskegee institute, john stennis…StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee
Victoria Jackson Gray Adams was a pioneering civil rights activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Born on November 5 1926, in Palmers Crossing,...
Lenni Brenner

Lenni Brenner

male, 72 years old
historian, American Civil Rights Movement, StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee, Orthodox Jewish, James Farmer, Freedom rides…Committee against Zionism and Racism, Committee for Narcotic Reform
Lenni Brenner (born 1937) is an American Marxist writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights activist and a prominent opponent of...
Mario Marcel Salas

Mario Marcel Salas

male, 60 years old
From San Antonio, Texas, Frankenstein The Dawning and the Passing, African Americans' rights activist, mixed race, from San Antonio, Phyllis Wheatley…StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee, American Friends Service Committee, African Support Liberation Committee
Mario Marcel Salas. (born July 30, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas) is a civil rights leader, author and politician. His parents were an Afro-Mexican...
Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin

male, 62 years old
Immigration incidents, American, anarchist, African Americans' rights activist, United States Army, Black Panther Party member…StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (born 1947 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an African American writer, activist, and Black anarchist. He is a former member of...
Markel Hutchins

Markel Hutchins

male
Christian, StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee, Civil Rights, From Atlanta, african methodist episcopal church, stone mountain
The Reverend Markel Hutchins is an American civil rights leader (www.civilrightsleader.org) and a minister at Philadelphia Baptist Church in...
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

female
University of Florida, Temple University, african, advisory board, religion, Human Services…StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion and affiliated faculty in the Women Studies Department at the University...

Ivanhoe Donaldson

 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
currently a vice-president for PWRT Services, University of Massachusetts, drum, StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee, Black Education, Chicago SNCC History Project
Ivanhoe Donaldson Ivanhoe Donaldson was a very active member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1968, Donaldson helped...

William Mandel

male
married, congress, post office, ford, cia, justice of the peace…Activities Committee, Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
William Mandel wrote: > > An exceptional man's description of his extraordinary wife, a great > unsung American I knew for sixty years, actually...

Zoharah Simmons

University of Florida, quaker, Temple University, temple, religion, Human Services…American Friends Service Committee, StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee
Zoharah Simmons Dr. Simmons is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She is also affiliated...

Charles McDew

male
african, status, Metropolitan State University, StudentNon-Violent CoordinatingCommittee, principal architects, Iowa Commission
Charles McDew, one of the principal architects in the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, will discuss...