[H. Rap Brown\Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin]
Black Past: “Brown was born in 1943 and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1960 he joined the Non-Violent Action Group (NAG) and moved to Washington, D.C. In 1964 he became NAG chairman. His activities with NAG soon drew him to SNCC.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Pan-African Profile: H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
Book Review: Gwendolyn Patton ‘My Race to Freedom’
[Gwendolyn Patton\My Race for Freedom]
Glick: “Gwendolyn Patton was a long-distance runner for the freedom of Black people and all people in the US and around the world. In the last years of her life she wrote an autobiography, ‘My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement.'”
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Congressman John Lewis: “Keep the Faith”
[John Lewis]
Donita Judge: “Congressman John Lewis’s final public appearance was on June 7, at Black Lives Plaza in Washington, D.C., where he stood in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter Movement. There he passed the torch to the next generation.”
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President Obama: John Lewis was Warrior on “Battlefield of Justice”
[John Lewis]
President Obama: “When we do form a more perfect union, whether it’s years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries, John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.”
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We Must Restore Voting Rights Act to Honor John Lewis
[John Lewis\Voting Rights Act]
Morial: “John Lewis paid for the Voting Rights Act with his own blood. The Supreme Court made a mockery of his sacrifice when it gutted the Act, saying the country had changed and states no longer needed federal oversight to protect Black voters…”
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Praises Pouring in For Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
[Congressman John Lewis]
CBC: “As Chair of SNCC, John Lewis was one of the “Big 6” leaders of the historical March on Washington on August, 28, 1963, and was the youngest speaker to address the hundreds of thousands marching for jobs and freedom that day.”
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Praises Pouring in For Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
[Congressman John Lewis]
CBC: “As Chair of SNCC, John Lewis was one of the “Big 6” leaders of the historical March on Washington on August, 28, 1963, and was the youngest speaker to address the hundreds of thousands marching for jobs and freedom that day.”
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GEORGE FLOYD’S MURDER: 8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS
[George Floyd\Oakland Institute]
Oakland Institute: “Today millions of Americans are rising up, collectively expressing outrage, and demanding an end to racism and violence against Black and Brown communities.”
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