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Dolores HuertaAbout Dolores Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in New Mexico. Her parents divorced when she was very young. She was raised in Stockton, […]

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Efia NwangazaAbout Efa Efia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black […]

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Elisabeth OmilamiAbout Elisabeth Ayesha Imam recognises that systems of oppression, exclusion and marginalisation – such as around gender and sexuality, c […]

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Faya Ora Rose Toure About Faya Rose Faya Ora Rose Toure is a woman of many gifts – playwright, songwriter, poet, activist, and institution builder. In fact, s […]

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Dr. GwendolynAbout Dr. Gwendolyn Dr. Gwendolyn was born in a small town outside Detroit, Michigan called Inkster. After the passing of her mother, at […]

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Jaribu HillAbout Jaribu JARIBU HILL is the founder and executive director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights. She is a human rights […]

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Jeanne GaunaAbout Jeanne JEANNE GAUNA was a co-founder of the South West Organizing Project (SWOP), a prominent environmental, economic, and justice […]

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Mary Liuzzo LilleboeAbout Mary MARY was born in Detroit, Michigan, the second of Viola Liuzzo’s five children. Mary’s life and the lives of her siblings were […]

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Mawina (Sowa) KouyateAbout Mawina MAWINA (SOWA) KOUYATE came out of the struggles for tenant rights, joined the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party […]

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Njere Akosu Alinah AlghaneeAbout Njere Njere was a Freedom Fighter, wife of Ras Mausi Alghanee for 36 years, mother of six, and grandmother of three. She grew up in the New Afrikan Independence Movement in Detroit, Michigan. Njere fought for the release of the RNA-11 of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika. She had a close connection with activist Queen Mother Moore, who she felt passed her the mantel to fight for reparations. She kept the name of Queen Mother Moore alive. She would often say “Queen Mother Moore told us, don’t weary and don’t error.” At the time of her passing, she was the co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA).Njere was educated at Wayne State University, majoring in Mass Communications and earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts and an A.A. in Early Childhood Education.She co-authored Let the Sisters Speak (1980) and Hand Us the Rule Book from the Poles of Supreme Authority (2003, Rasfari Women). Njere served on the National Board of Directors for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, beginning in 1994. She was also involved with the Ethiopian Women’s Federation, Queen Mother Moore Foundation, New Afrikan Women’s Organization, Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, ABISA, Unlimited Family Corporation, and was a founding committee member of Empress of Zion (Rastafari Women). She also served on the Unity Board of Directors for the African Community Centers for Unity and Self-Determination, founded in 2003.Njere was a cooperative owner of Saba Shule (1985-1988). She served as the Assistant Director of the Georgia Citizen’s Coalition on Hunger (1989-1996); Executive Director of the Georgia Advocate for Battered Women and Children (1996-97); and Southern Region Coordinator for the Million Woman March (1996-98).One of Njere’s greatest commitments and loves was the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA). She joined and worked hard as a member, eventually being elected as the national secretary of the organization. She took this job seriously, maintaining and protecting the records of the organization for three terms. She later became the national female co-chair, traveling around the country organizing and making the demand for reparations.Njere was a popular radio personality for WRFG public radio in Atlanta, Georgia, where she consistently spoke truth to power. Before her transition, Njere worked diligently for Disabled in Action.Mama Njere embodied the best of movement: diligence, commitment, dedication, and love! Njere Alghanee was known as Sister Courage, a title she well deserved and a title so fitting for a Wa … Njere Akosu Alinah AlghaneeRead More »

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Constance CurryAbout Constance Constance Curry is a writer, activist, and a fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, […]

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Constancia “Dinky” RomillyAbout Constancia 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.In the fall of 1963, Jim Forman and Casey Hayden ask her to come to Atlanta to help Jim work on an oral history of the work of SNCC. Like everyone else in the movement, she ended up doing all kinds of work, and they never did get the oral history edited. She did fund-raising, coordinated the Friends of SNCC, and managed the fleet of donated and purchased SNCC cars.In 1965, she and Jim made a commitment of marriage to each other, and she moved to New York to work in the New York SNCC office, and later for the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF). Their two children, James Robert Lumumba and Chaka Esmond Fanon, were born in New York.In 1972, they moved to Detroit where Jim worked with the Black Workers Congress and Constancia went to nursing school. Later they were divorced and she moved back to New York with the boys.She worked at Bellevue Hospital in the emergency room on the midnight shift and got involved in community work. One huge project was the struggle for community control of the schools, and they fought a losing battle to keep their neighborhood school, PS 122, open.In 1979, she and her sons moved back to Atlanta, where she worked at the county hospital, Grady Memorial in the emergency room. She completed a BSN and MS, met and married her husband, Terry Weber and his son Ben. During that sojourn in Atlanta, she was active in local political campaigns, improved health care for the indigent, and better wages and working conditions for hospital staff. Once the three boys graduated from high school, she and Terry decided to move back to New York. She went back to Bellevue as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, helping to establish the Pain Treatment Center. She retired from Bellevue in 2006.For the past four and half years, Constancia has been serving as president of The Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre, supporting a cultural center in The West Bank, Palestine.She also volunteered for the Obama for President Campaign, Health-Care Now, and Physicians for a National Health … Constancia “Dinky” RomillyRead More »

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Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge About Dorothy 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. As the emerging Civil Rights Movement began to spread North, Martha Prescod, a friend, organized the Detroit Friends of SNCC. Mrs. Dewberry-Aldridge worked full-time on the staff of SNCC from 1963 to 1969. She later became co-Director of the Detroit SNCC office with Martha Kocel, becoming director when Ms. Kocel left to work in Boston.In 1965, James “Jim” Forman suggested that the Detroit SNCC office adopt the Lowndes County project and thus a forty-year relationship with the people of Lowndes was initiated. This suggestion evolved and under the leadership of Simon Owen, a Lowndes County native who lived in Detroit, into the Michigan-Lowndes County Christian Movement for Human Rights (M-LCCMHR). This energetic group raised funds for the early candidates of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization; purchased 225 acres of land for residents who had been thrown off the land for voting rights activity, and for its continuing upkeep; provided college scholarships for Lowndes County Youth and later, organized Freedom Tours for the youth of Lowndes Clounty and Albany, Georgia to visit historic underground railroad sites in Detroit and Canada. Support was also given to the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.Through her work with the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR), she organized and led bus tours for young people from Metropolitan Detroit to Lowndes County, Birmingham, Selma, Albany, Memphis, Nashville, and other places where the Movement’s battles were waged. Through her work in the international arena, she worked in the Anti-Apartheid and African Liberation Support Movements, and was a United States Delegate to the Sixth Pan African Congress in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and was among the first United States citizens to be admitted to the Peoples’ Republic of China, after its reopening in 1972.This recognition is humbly accepted in the names of those who welcomed SNCC workers into the Lowndes County “Beloved Community”, Matthew and Emma Jackson, Mary Jane Jackson, Laura Mae Reed, Lula Gulley, and Mattie Lee Moorer.Mrs. Dewberry-Aldridge is married to fellow human rights activist. Reverend Dan Aldridge, and they have one daughter, Che’-Lin, and a g … Dorothy Dewberry AldridgeRead More »

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Elizabeth Martinez About Elizabeth Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez served full-time in the 1960’s with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in […]

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Janet Jemmott MosesAbout 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 […]

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