Today In Labor History June 29, 1941: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was a key figure in the Black Power movement, becoming honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and, later, as the leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. The FBI attempted to destroy him through COINTELLPRO, and succeeded in convincing Huey Newton that he was a CIA agent. This, and the Panthers’ embracing of white activists into their movement, led him to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1968, he married the famous South African singer Miriam Makeba and moved to Africa, changing his name to Kwame Ture and campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #StokelyCarmichael #BlackPanthers #sncc #BlackPower #fbi #racism #cointellpro #africa #PanAfricanism #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #BlackPanthers #sncc #HRapBrown #prison #incarceration #SuperMax #WrongfulConviction #racism

Song of the Day March 1 2023

In honor of the 96th birthday of Harry Belafonte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte

The National Equal Justice Award Honors Harry Belafonte

https://youtu.be/T7gd8ao4y1I

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #March1 #HarryBelafonte #NationalEqualJusticeAward #Artist #Activist #MarchOnWashington # MLK #FreedomRide #SNCC

Song of the Day March 1 2023

In honor of the 96th birthday of Harry Belafonte

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte

The National Equal Justice Award Honors Harry Belafonte

https://youtu.be/T7gd8ao4y1I

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #March1 #HarryBelafonte #NationalEqualJusticeAward #Artist #Activist #MarchOnWashington # MLK #FreedomRide #SNCC

From one of my #SNCC friends.♥️♥️♥️

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

I was very sad today to hear of the passing of Casey Hayden—Civil Rights Anti-Segregation Activist, s founder of #SDS and the connection between that org and #SNCC, a Women’s Lib activist, and a Texan. Here is her self-authored obituary w/ more information. RIP Ms. #CaseyHayden and Rock On. https://www.theragblog.com/remembering-casey-hayden-in-her-own-words/

Casey Hayden, rest in power.
#sncc #civilrights #womensrights

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/casey-hayden-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=iDe4b8bDEsVMklMATKMgJo1HZa-rqYetfZqxXXcOZX-J58UBP2IvKQl5V4x1C8sODMJqVcRGeFbemqdjLo7NDhXwnrEpzamVgpMSDg5wd4NgmUHDXzayG9SYGxZ5XCF6K88ec1GX0FprJw71H1yq_8A5Ea5Hc4j3We0wtOWw3Obo1u2W5sjYXtsBh0Dte_TUzjl5-5aVz1t83x4iF3Zk95rXtv0nTGDsvVIqZlp0vwMG1Lar4j0YzfsZUW3QC3zxEtuvMYIcjlvkCnFsQrg9p9z2Y-RcB1UwK1Rt8oAQ9FgqUKE25o0BiG_1aodZ-kMORpme&smid=share-url

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