ORGANIZATION

Founded in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Founding Date:
1960

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marion Barry	Politician	6-Mar-1936	22-Nov-2014	Twice Mayor of Washington, DC
Harry Belafonte	Singer/Songwriter	1-Mar-1927		Calypso singer
Julian Bond	Activist	14-Jan-1940	15-Aug-2015	NAACP Chairman, 1998-2010
H. Rap Brown	Activist	4-Oct-1943		Die, Nigger, Die!
Stokely Carmichael	Activist	29-Jun-1941	15-Nov-1998	Black separatist, Pan-Africanist
George E. Curry	Publisher	23-Feb-1947		Emerge editor-in-chief
Ruby Dee	Actor	27-Oct-1924	12-Jun-2014	The Jackie Robinson Story
Marian Wright Edelman	Activist	6-Jun-1939		Founder, Children's Defense Fund
Dick Gregory	Activist	12-Oct-1932		Autobiography: NIGGER!
Fannie Lou Hamer	Activist	6-Oct-1917	14-Mar-1977	Organizer, Mississippi Freedom Summer
John Lewis	Politician	21-Feb-1940		Congressman, Georgia 5th
Shirley MacLaine	Actor	24-Apr-1934		Terms of Endearment
Mark Palmer	Diplomat	14-Jul-1941	28-Jan-2013	US Ambassador to Hungary, 1986-90
Sidney Poitier	Actor	20-Feb-1927		In The Heat Of The Night
Bobby Rush	Politician	23-Nov-1946		Congressman, Illinois 1st
Bernie Sanders	Politician	8-Sep-1941		US Senator from Vermont
Mario Savio	Activist	8-Dec-1942	6-Nov-1996	Free Speech Movement
Pete Seeger	Singer/Songwriter	3-May-1919	27-Jan-2014	We Shall Overcome
Howard Zinn	Historian	24-Aug-1922	27-Jan-2010	A People's History of the United States

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