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For the 4th year in a row, the Transformative Justice Coalition and the Voting Rights Alliance, in honor of Black History Month, are publishing a daily special series devoted to sharing the legacies and stories of the sheroes, heroes, and events in the fight for Black suffrage. This series incorporates social media posts; daily newsletters; an interactive calendar; and, website blog posts to spread the word broadly. In addition to 11 NEW articles this year, the series is starting off its first 7 days with stories of Black women involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement in honor of the 100th Year Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, even to though many African American women were not able to vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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On February 15th, we honored
Ella Baker, one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.
"Her political activism began in Harlem in the 1930s. She worked with the cooperative movement during the Great Depression; supported the campaign against Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia; and opposed the racist conviction of the famed Scottsboro boys.
Baker was a field secretary and director of branches for the N.A.A.C.P. in the 1940s, and she traveled throughout the Jim Crow South, organizing against discrimination and recruiting people to the Civil Rights Movement. She worked alongside King and others in the Southern Christian Leadership Council in the 1950s and was a mentor to the young activists who founded the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1960. S.N.C.C. went on to lead the 'Freedom Rides,' in which participants risked life and limb to desegregate interstate transportation, and then to organize 'Freedom Summer,' a massive voter registration drive targeting disenfranchised black southern voters." (Ransby, B., 2020)
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Fun Facts:
- "Gov. Roy Cooper issued a proclamation declaring April 15 as Ella Baker Day in North Carolina. Previous declarations were made by the town of Littleton, Warren and Halifax counties" (Weldon, L., 2018).
- "'Fundi,' a Swhali word, was Baker's nickname, meaning a person who passes down their craft to the next generation" (Herriot, A., 2020)
Recommended Reading:
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One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and...
One Person, One Vote: the Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights shows how SNCC united with local people to build a grassroots movement for change.
Read more
onevotesncc.org
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~References~
Ella Baker, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. , None. [Between 1942 and 1946] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/item/94504496/
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. (2020). One Person One Vote.
Duke University and The SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Legacy Project. Retrieved from:
http://onevotesncc.org/
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