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.
