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James Forman, the Glossary

James Forman (October 4, 1928 – January 10, 2005) was a prominent African-American leader in the civil rights movement.^[1]

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography (ethnic groups), culture, politics, economy, languages, and religion (Islam, Christianity, traditional religions).

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Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ߛߋߞߎ߬ ߕߎ߬ߙߋ; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984.

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Alabama State Capitol

The Alabama State Capitol, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the First Confederate Capitol, is the state capitol building for Alabama.

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Albany Movement

The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters' rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961.

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Amelia Boynton Robinson

Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. James Forman and Amelia Boynton Robinson are activists for African-American civil rights.

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American University

American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that would promote public service, internationalism, and pragmatic idealism.

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Atheism

Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Basic Books

Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

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Birmingham campaign

The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Black Belt (geological formation)

Black Belt is a physical geography term referring to a roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.

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Black Manifesto

The Black Manifesto was a 1969 manifesto that demanded $500 million (~$ in) in reparations from white churches and synagogues for their participation in the injustices of slavery and segregation committed against African-Americans.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

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Black studies

Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of the peoples of the African diaspora and Africa.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bob Moses (activist)

Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. James Forman and Bob Moses (activist) are activists for African-American civil rights, African-American activists and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. James Forman and Booker T. Washington are African-American activists, African-American writers and American writers.

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Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. James Forman and Carl Sandburg are writers from Chicago.

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Casey Hayden

Sandra Cason Hayden (October 31, 1937 – January 4, 2023) was an American radical student activist and civil rights worker in the 1960s. James Forman and Casey Hayden are freedom Riders and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal and to fight the influence of religion in government.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.

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Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine).

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Congregation Emanu-El of New York

Congregation Emanu-El of New York is the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.

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Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Dick Gregory

Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic. James Forman and Dick Gregory are activists for African-American civil rights.

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Direct action

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals.

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Dont Look Back

Look Back is a 1967 American documentary film directed by D. A. Pennebaker that covers Bob Dylan's 1965 concert tour in England.

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Eldridge Cleaver

Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an American writer and political activist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. James Forman and Eldridge Cleaver are African-American writers.

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Ella Baker

Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. James Forman and Ella Baker are activists for African-American civil rights, African-American activists and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Englewood Technical Prep Academy

Urban Prep Charter Academy succeeded Englewood High School, Englewood Technical Prep Academy and TEAM Englewood Academy High School in Chicago.

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Esmond Romilly

Esmond Marcus David Romilly (10 June 1918 – 30 November 1941) was a British socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist, who was in turn a schoolboy rebel, a veteran with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and, following the outbreak of the Second World War, an observer with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

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Eyes on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States.

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Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. James Forman and Freedom Riders are activists for African-American civil rights.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, also known as the Freedom Summer Project or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. James Forman and Freedom Summer are student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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George Wallace

George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms.

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Greenwood, Mississippi

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.

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Hospice

Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Institute for Policy Studies

The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is an American progressive think tank started in 1963 and based in Washington, D.C. It was directed by John Cavanagh from 1998 to 2021.

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J. L. Chestnut Jr.

J. James Forman and J. L. Chestnut Jr. are African-American activists.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. James Forman and James Baldwin are African-American atheists and American atheists.

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James Bevel

James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States. James Forman and James Bevel are activists for African-American civil rights, African-American activists, freedom Riders and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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James Forman Jr.

James Forman Jr. (born James Robert Lumumba Forman; June 22, 1967) is an American legal scholar currently on leave from serving as the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

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James Meredith

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement). James Forman and James Meredith are African-American activists.

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Jessica Mitford

Jessica Lucy "Decca" Treuhaft (née Freeman-Mitford, later Romilly; 11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.

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Jewish Defense League

The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right religious and political organization in the United States and Canada.

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Korean War

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.

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League of Revolutionary Black Workers

The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan.

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List of civil rights leaders

Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights.

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Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock (I’i-zhinka) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas.

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Lynching

Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Marshall County, Mississippi

Marshall County is a county located on the north central border of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit online encyclopedia that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Rosa Luxemburg, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu).

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Meir Kahane

Meir David HaKohen Kahane (רבי מאיר דוד הכהן כהנא; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset before being convicted of acts of terrorism.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed in the state of Mississippi from 1964 to 1968, during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Nancy Mitford

Nancy Freeman-Mitford (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973) was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist.

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National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (NECLC), until 1968 known as the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, was an organization formed in the United States in October 1951 by 150 educators and clergymen to advocate for the civil liberties embodied in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, notably the rights of free speech, religion, travel, and assembly.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Outhouse

An outhouse is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers a toilet.

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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Racial quota

Racial quotas in employment and education are numerical requirements or quotas for hiring, promoting, admitting and/or graduating members of a particular racial group.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Reparations for slavery in the United States

Reparations for slavery is the application of the concept of reparations to victims of slavery or their descendants.

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Reserve Officers' Training Corps

The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC; or) is a group of college- and university-based officer-training programs for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces.

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Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.

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Riverside Church

Riverside Church is an interdenominational church in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, associated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ.

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Robert F. Williams

Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. James Forman and Robert F. Williams are activists for African-American civil rights.

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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.

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Roosevelt University

Roosevelt University is a private university with campuses in Chicago and Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson

Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson (April 25, 1942 – October 7, 1967) worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from its earliest days in 1960 until her death in October 1967. James Forman and Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson are freedom Riders and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Sammy Younge Jr.

Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. (November 17, 1944 – January 3, 1966) was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate a "whites only" restroom. James Forman and Sammy Younge Jr. are activists for African-American civil rights, African-American activists and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Selma to Montgomery marches

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. James Forman and Stokely Carmichael are activists for African-American civil rights, freedom Riders and student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.

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The Chicago Defender

The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper.

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The Freedom Singers

The Freedom Singers originated as a quartet formed in 1962 at Albany State College in Albany, Georgia. James Forman and The Freedom Singers are student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University (Tuskegee or TU; formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute) is a private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. James Forman and w. E. B. Du Bois are activists for African-American civil rights and African-American activists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forman

Also known as Forman, James.

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Members of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

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