Bennett Johnson
Bennett Johnson
Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
In 2005 Chicago Area Friends of SNCC organized the "Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project, 1960-1965" Chicago Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Chicago Civil Rights Movement, c. 1960-1965. The event was held October 21-22, 2005 Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
The Organizing Committee consisted of:
- Fannie Theresa Rushing, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Benedictine University, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Sylvia Fischer, Co Chairperson CAFSNCC
- Lorne Cress-Love, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Ron Dorfmann, CAFSNCC
- Bennett Johnson, Vice President, Third World Press, CAFSNCC
- Don Rose
- Marcia Rothenberg
- Mimi Shaw - Hayes, CAFSNCC, SNCC.[1]
CCDBR board
The Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights board as of 2009 was[2];
President: Robert H. Clarke
Vice Presidents: Brenetta Howell Barrett, Mike Giocondo; Treasurer: Don Goldhamer;
Secretary: Anna Nessy Perlberg;
Directors: Timuel Black, Mabel Brail, Luster Jackson, Carol Heise, Milton Herst, Bennett Johnson, Lillian Margolis, William Martin, Nancy Mikelsons, Lewis Myers Jr., Odie Payne III, Ruth Tregay Siegel, Robert Starks, Oscar Worrill