Constance Romilly graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1958. She left college in April of her senior year, traveled around a bit with one of the SNCC field secretaries, and eventually ended up in NY working for the newly formed Friends of SNCC.
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Through her involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Diane worked closely with Martin Luther King.
In 1962, King nominated Nash for a civil rights award sponsored by the New York branch of the NAACP to acknowledge her exemplary role in the student sit-ins.
Civil rights activist Dorie Ann Ladner was born on June 28, 1942 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
As an adolescent, she became involved in the NAACP Youth Chapter where Clyde Kennard served as advisor.
Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge, a native of Detroit, Michigan, began her civil and human rights work as a member of the Detroit NAACP Youth Council in the 1950’s. The seeds of this life-long endeavor took root with her work as a full-time staff member of the Northern Student Movement (NSM) from 1960 to 1963.
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Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez served full-time in the 1960’s with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. She is a Chicana feminist and a long time community organizer, activist, author, and educator.
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The granddaughter of a slave who was beaten for refusing to marry a man her master chose for her, Ella Baker spent her life working behind the scenes to organize the Civil Rights Movement.
Faye Bellamy, a member of SNCC was the only sister at the table of leadership in 1965 when the decision to march to Selma to Montgomery was being deliberated.
About Dr. Janet Janet Jemmott Moses was born in 1942 and grew up in the South Bronx of New York City. She attended public schools and graduated from Hunter College in 1962. In 1964, she left her teaching post at Wadleigh Junior High School in Harlem to join the ranks
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Leah Wise Leah Wise is a dancer, oral historian, grandmother, disabled steel-fitter, fighter of Klan violence and community organizer. She uses the enormous range of her talents to stimulate hopes, dreams and activism of those marginalized by mainstream American culture and politics. Starting with her work four decades ago with
About Fatou Kiné “losing a foot is not a handicap, it’s losing your head that’s a handicap”. If God allows you to use your brain well, you must take advantage of it to be useful to your loved ones and your people. After my Koranic education, the president of the
Ms Magasouba Mariama Diallo was born on September 30, 1965 in Kédougou.
She is a community development woman who began serving her community in 2007 in the field of health, raising awareness and supporting pregnant women in prenatal consultations (CPN) and childbirth.
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Marie Walo Boubane was born on March 07, 1973 in Kédougou. She did her primary education at the current Marcel Paravy Catholic Mission school in Kédougou.
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