#sncc — Public Fediverse posts
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April 17, 1960 - Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in of four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly 150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as overturning segregation in the South.
They also considered it important to give young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement, as many had participated in sit-ins that had proliferated to dozens of cities over the previous three months.
At the Raleigh conference Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” an adaptation of an old labor song. This song would become the national anthem of the civil rights movement.
People joined hands and gently swayed in time singing “black and white together,” repeating over and over, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day.”
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"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."
"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.
"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...
"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
#sncc #BernardLaFayette #selma #ushistory #obit -
"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."
"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.
"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...
"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
#sncc #BernardLaFayette #selma #ushistory #obit -
"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience"
- #StokelyCarmichael aka #KwameTure
https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/
#BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
10 september, 1962: fannie lou hamer survives an assassination attempt by shite supremacists. you can't kill a legend like fannie lou, dumbfucks.
#fannieLouHamer #SNCC #civilRights #mississippi #womensRights #blackVoices #racism #feminism #art #illustration -
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
#RobertMoses #SNCC -
April 17, 1960 - Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in of four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly 150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as overturning segregation in the South.
They also considered it important to give young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement, as many had participated in sit-ins that had proliferated to dozens of cities over the previous three months.
At the Raleigh conference Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” an adaptation of an old labor song. This song would become the national anthem of the civil rights movement.
People joined hands and gently swayed in time singing “black and white together,” repeating over and over, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day.”
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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When white women assume that they represent all women, and presume to communicate or act based on that deeply mistaken position:
#link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UedZpCj8k
Nothing About Us Without Us
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See our latest post on the Student protests in McComb, Mississippi following the death of Herbert Lee and suspension of Brenda Travis, who spent a year in jail for attempting to integrate a lunch counter. #NonviolentHigh #McComb #HerbertLee #BrendaTravis #SNCC #BobMoses
https://zurl.co/Pdgy -
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
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"Hamer was raised in cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta and became a sharecropper. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize Freedom Summer, a campaign to educate and register Black voters. With Mississippi conducting whites-only primaries, activists formed the racially integrated #Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to confront leading Democrats on a national stage."
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New #research article coming out this year showing that US Southern counties with #CivilRights organizations during the movement era (1954-65) now enjoy less #RacialInequality than those lacked any orgs. This diagram shows the prevalence of these CR organizations by county. Lots of #NAACP chapters, relatively few CORE orgs or #SNCC projects. Most counties had just one of the "Big 4" (NAACP, CORE, SNCC, or #SCLC), 44% had 0. Counties containing #Atlanta and #Jackson, MS had all four. #Juneteenth
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In the early 1960s, Historian #HowardZinn was asked by a book publisher to write a history about the NAACP. He responded that the real dynamic force in the #movement for Black freedom of that era was #SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). He preceded to write an amazing #history of that organization and it's still essential #reading. He wasn't just a passive author, either, but an advisor to his #activist students at Spelman College and he walked the picket-lines with them.
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Sellers describes in heavy detail the experiences of violence and fear the members of SNCC went through.
These descriptions convey the hardship of this fight in a sense that cannot be grasped through a lecture or textbook.
After he declares the movement as his first priority (over school or social life), Sellers leans wholeheartedly into his dangerous work, noting an SNCC leader who claimed they were now on "🔸the river of no return🔸".
#sncc #civilrightsmovement
https://notevenpast.org/review-of-the-river-of-no-return-the-autobiography-of-a-black-militant-and-the-life-and-death-of-sncc-by-cleveland-sellers-with-robert-terrell-1990/ -
Song of the Day October 4 2023
In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown
H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)
https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Justice #Politics #Oppression #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied
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Song of the Day October 4 2023
In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown
H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)
https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Justice #Politics #Oppression #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied
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Song of the Day October 4 2023
In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown
H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)
https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Justice #Politics #Oppression #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied
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Song of the Day October 4 2023
In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown
H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)
https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Justice #Politics #Oppression #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic
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#OTD in 1960, four Black university students sat down at a lunch counter in a segregated F. W. Woolworth Company store and refused to leave until they were served. They were denied service, but they came back every day for weeks with more and more people, eventually forcing desegregation in the service industry and leading to the formation of the SNCC.
Today’s art is by Naquee White: https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/gallery/2019-gallery/the-greensboro-sit-in/1836/?class0=race&class0_0=10
#history #BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #BlackHistory #art #desegregation #ToWeRi #Feb1
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#OTD Frances M. Beal was born in 1940. She began organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; due to gender biases she experienced within the organization she co-founded the Black Women's Liberation Committee of SNCC in 1968, which evolved into the Third World Women's Alliance. There, she edited the newspaper Triple Jeopardy, the 1st issue of which is today's work, which was sourced here:
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/at-the-intersections-of-race-gender-and-class-honoring-the-revolutionary-feminist-legacy-of-the-third-world-womens-alliance
#history #SNCC #BlackHistory #ToWeRi #Jan13 -
#OTD Frances M. Beal was born in 1940. She began organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; due to gender biases she experienced within the organization she co-founded the Black Women's Liberation Committee of SNCC in 1968, which evolved into the Third World Women's Alliance. There, she edited the newspaper Triple Jeopardy, the 1st issue of which is today's work, which was sourced here:
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/at-the-intersections-of-race-gender-and-class-honoring-the-revolutionary-feminist-legacy-of-the-third-world-womens-alliance
#history #SNCC #BlackHistory #ToWeRi #Jan13 -
TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️
*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.
#Reconstruction #JamesSAllen #SNCC #civilrights #communist #blackbelt #south #scottsboro #communism #history #writer #historian #signed #book #signedbook
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TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️
*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.
#Reconstruction #JamesSAllen #SNCC #civilrights #communist #blackbelt #south #scottsboro #communism #history #writer #historian #signed #book #signedbook
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TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️
*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.
#Reconstruction #JamesSAllen #SNCC #civilrights #communist #blackbelt #south #scottsboro #communism #history #writer #historian #signed #book #signedbook
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TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️
*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.
#Reconstruction #JamesSAllen #SNCC #civilrights #communist #blackbelt #south #scottsboro #communism #history #writer #historian #signed #book #signedbook
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TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️
*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.
#Reconstruction #JamesSAllen #SNCC #civilrights #communist #blackbelt #south #scottsboro #communism #history #writer #historian #signed #book #signedbook
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#OTD in 1995 #MarionShepilovBarry Returned To #TakeTheOath for his 4th Term As #MayorMarionBarry of #WashingtonDC . The caustic & charismatic former 60's & 70's #CivilRights leader had lost much of his sheen and the mayor gig he'd held since 1978 a few years earlier, due to having "violated the public trust" and serve a #FederalPrison sentence after being videotaped smoking #CrackCocaine in a hotel room #StingOperation set up by federal agents.
When Marion Barry left prison in 1992, he was met by six church busloads of supporters who prayed for him and cheered him on, and the seasoned slickster quickly re-ascended DC's political ladders and Barry's supporters unfurled the reassuring #CivicMinded #CampaignSlogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C."
As Barry ran for his fourth term for mayor, it shocked outside observers and when his critics brought up his past felonious failings, they were told "#GetOverIt ". Union Temple Baptist #MegaChurch Reverend Willie Wilson who helped organize the #MillionManMarch on Washington during Barry's 4th mayoral term said of him ″People are often stigmatized because of transgressions they may have committed and many times observers don’t realize that a human being is an imperfect thing, #MarionBarry, while not being perfect, has many good qualities that can be used to the benefit of the #community.″
Barry's #triumphant #SecondHoneymoon #VictoryCelebration was short lived, as the city, which had been plagued by #corruption scandals, and led the nation in homicides under his last two admittedly #DrugAddled terms as #Mayor, was now amidst a spiraling 90's #BudgetCrisis, and over a billion in debt since he'd last held the reigns of power. Barry's first accomplishment was to float a bond and get #WallStreet to lend the city $250 million to keep the empty city coffers paying bills.
Newt Gingrich's #GOPControlledCongress soon stripped #theChocolateCity of its symbolic vote on the house floor, and the #ClintonAdministration assumed control of the city's operations, hiring, firing, #debt payment liabilities and day to day spending, leaving the former #HomeRule champion mayor #stripped of all authority other than #performative #oversight of of #ParksandRecreation, #publiclibraries , #DCTourism board and mostly #CeremonialDuties.
Barry declined to run again in 1998, but stayed active in #Ward8 #Soufeast #DistrictPolitics serving as an #outspoken, #controversial #CityCouncil member oft hounded by petty political squabbles, #PressScandals and #TaxTroubles for much of #TheNineLivesOfMarionBarry until his death in 2014.
To see a multimedia slideshow and better understand his enduring appeal as #MayorForLife to many citizens of DC, and how he arose from poverty to join #SNCC and emerge from the civil rights struggles in the 1960s to an indefatigable #PoliticalPower broker in the nation's capital , visit this link : https://artsandculture.google.com/story/marion-barry-mayor-for-life-dc-public-library/wwURqe0pMAhWFw?hl=en
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#OTD in 1995 #MarionShepilovBarry Returned To #TakeTheOath for his 4th Term As #MayorMarionBarry of #WashingtonDC . The caustic & charismatic former 60's & 70's #CivilRights leader had lost much of his sheen and the mayor gig he'd held since 1978 a few years earlier, due to having "violated the public trust" and serve a #FederalPrison sentence after being videotaped smoking #CrackCocaine in a hotel room #StingOperation set up by federal agents.
When Marion Barry left prison in 1992, he was met by six church busloads of supporters who prayed for him and cheered him on, and the seasoned slickster quickly re-ascended DC's political ladders and Barry's supporters unfurled the reassuring #CivicMinded #CampaignSlogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C."
As Barry ran for his fourth term for mayor, it shocked outside observers and when his critics brought up his past felonious failings, they were told "#GetOverIt ". Union Temple Baptist #MegaChurch Reverend Willie Wilson who helped organize the #MillionManMarch on Washington during Barry's 4th mayoral term said of him ″People are often stigmatized because of transgressions they may have committed and many times observers don’t realize that a human being is an imperfect thing, #MarionBarry, while not being perfect, has many good qualities that can be used to the benefit of the #community.″
Barry's #triumphant #SecondHoneymoon #VictoryCelebration was short lived, as the city, which had been plagued by #corruption scandals, and led the nation in homicides under his last two admittedly #DrugAddled terms as #Mayor, was now amidst a spiraling 90's #BudgetCrisis, and over a billion in debt since he'd last held the reigns of power. Barry's first accomplishment was to float a bond and get #WallStreet to lend the city $250 million to keep the empty city coffers paying bills.
Newt Gingrich's #GOPControlledCongress soon stripped #theChocolateCity of its symbolic vote on the house floor, and the #ClintonAdministration assumed control of the city's operations, hiring, firing, #debt payment liabilities and day to day spending, leaving the former #HomeRule champion mayor #stripped of all authority other than #performative #oversight of of #ParksandRecreation, #publiclibraries , #DCTourism board and mostly #CeremonialDuties.
Barry declined to run again in 1998, but stayed active in #Ward8 #Soufeast #DistrictPolitics serving as an #outspoken, #controversial #CityCouncil member oft hounded by petty political squabbles, #PressScandals and #TaxTroubles for much of #TheNineLivesOfMarionBarry until his death in 2014.
To see a multimedia slideshow and better understand his enduring appeal as #MayorForLife to many citizens of DC, and how he arose from poverty to join #SNCC and emerge from the civil rights struggles in the 1960s to an indefatigable #PoliticalPower broker in the nation's capital , visit this link : https://artsandculture.google.com/story/marion-barry-mayor-for-life-dc-public-library/wwURqe0pMAhWFw?hl=en
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#OTD in 1995 #MarionShepilovBarry Returned To #TakeTheOath for his 4th Term As #MayorMarionBarry of #WashingtonDC . The caustic & charismatic former 60's & 70's #CivilRights leader had lost much of his sheen and the mayor gig he'd held since 1978 a few years earlier, due to having "violated the public trust" and serve a #FederalPrison sentence after being videotaped smoking #CrackCocaine in a hotel room #StingOperation set up by federal agents.
When Marion Barry left prison in 1992, he was met by six church busloads of supporters who prayed for him and cheered him on, and the seasoned slickster quickly re-ascended DC's political ladders and Barry's supporters unfurled the reassuring #CivicMinded #CampaignSlogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C."
As Barry ran for his fourth term for mayor, it shocked outside observers and when his critics brought up his past felonious failings, they were told "#GetOverIt ". Union Temple Baptist #MegaChurch Reverend Willie Wilson who helped organize the #MillionManMarch on Washington during Barry's 4th mayoral term said of him ″People are often stigmatized because of transgressions they may have committed and many times observers don’t realize that a human being is an imperfect thing, #MarionBarry, while not being perfect, has many good qualities that can be used to the benefit of the #community.″
Barry's #triumphant #SecondHoneymoon #VictoryCelebration was short lived, as the city, which had been plagued by #corruption scandals, and led the nation in homicides under his last two admittedly #DrugAddled terms as #Mayor, was now amidst a spiraling 90's #BudgetCrisis, and over a billion in debt since he'd last held the reigns of power. Barry's first accomplishment was to float a bond and get #WallStreet to lend the city $250 million to keep the empty city coffers paying bills.
Newt Gingrich's #GOPControlledCongress soon stripped #theChocolateCity of its symbolic vote on the house floor, and the #ClintonAdministration assumed control of the city's operations, hiring, firing, #debt payment liabilities and day to day spending, leaving the former #HomeRule champion mayor #stripped of all authority other than #performative #oversight of of #ParksandRecreation, #publiclibraries , #DCTourism board and mostly #CeremonialDuties.
Barry declined to run again in 1998, but stayed active in #Ward8 #Soufeast #DistrictPolitics serving as an #outspoken, #controversial #CityCouncil member oft hounded by petty political squabbles, #PressScandals and #TaxTroubles for much of #TheNineLivesOfMarionBarry until his death in 2014.
To see a multimedia slideshow and better understand his enduring appeal as #MayorForLife to many citizens of DC, and how he arose from poverty to join #SNCC and emerge from the civil rights struggles in the 1960s to an indefatigable #PoliticalPower broker in the nation's capital , visit this link : https://artsandculture.google.com/story/marion-barry-mayor-for-life-dc-public-library/wwURqe0pMAhWFw?hl=en