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Template:TOCnestleft Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
"Tell the Story" project
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.
Organizing Committee:
- Fannie Theresa Rushing, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Benedictine University, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Sylvia Fischer, Co Chairperson CAFSNCC
- Lorne Cress-Love, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Ron Dorfman, CAFSNCC
- Bennett Johnson, Vice President, Third World Press, CAFSNCC
- Don Rose
- Marcia Rothenberg
- Mimi Shaw - Hayes, CAFSNCC, SNCC.[1]
Co Sponsored by Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
Honorary Co Chairs:
- Honorable Abner Mikva
- Attorney James Montgomery
- Diane Nash
- Studs Terkel.[2]
Advisory Committee (In Formation):
- Bernice Bild
- Dr. Sydney Bild
- Heather Booth
- Paul Booth
- Professor Timuel D. Black
- Honorable Leon Despres
- Ivanhoe Donaldson
- Reverend A. I. Dunlap
- Earl Durham
- Barbara Fischer
- Kathy Fischer
- Attorney Aviva Futorian
- Roberta Galler
- Brenetta Howell Barrett
- Rose M. Jennings
- Attorney Lawrence Kennon
- Dr. Alfred Klinger
- Dr. Joyce Lashof
- Honorable John Lewis
- Lucy Jean Lewis
- Bob Lucas
- Father Daniel Mallette, Pastor, Saint Margaret of Scotland Church
- Attorney Richard Morrisroe
- Curtis Muhammad (Hayes)
- Hollis Muhammad (Watkins)
- Dr. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Dean, Columbia College
- Mildred Page
- State Senator Alice Palmer
- Dr. Charles Payne, Professor of Sociology, Director of African American Studies, Duke University
- Reverend Doctor Michael Pfleger, Pastor, Community of Saint Sabina
- Dr. Barbara Ransby, African American Studies & History, University of Illinois
- Dr. Christopher Reed, Professor, Chair Department of History, Roosevelt University
- Mary Rogers
- Don Rose
- Brother Wali Siddiq
- Rosie Simpson
- Phil Smith
- Professor Robert Starks, Northeastern University, Center for Inner City Studies
- James Wagner
- Bernice Weissbourd
- Reverend, Doctor Jeremiah Wright, Pastor, Trinity, United Church of Christ
- Dr. Quentin Young.[3]
Community Supporters
- Center for Cultural Understanding and Change/Field Museum
- Saint Pius V Catholic Church
Memoriam
- Wayne Yancy, CAFSNCC, Mississippi Summer Project
- Lawrence Landry, Executive Director, CAFSNCC
- Nahaz Rogers, CAFSNCC
- David Llorens, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- John Buffington, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Nancy Jefferson
- Faith Rich
- Irene Turner
- Charles Fischer, Executive Committee, CAFSNCC
- Lucy Montgomery, CAFSNCC
- Ralph Rapaport, CAFSNCC, SNCC
- Ida M. Cress
- Mildred Shaw. CAFSNCC
- State Senator, Richard Newhouse
- James Forman, CoFounder, CAFSNCC, Executive Secretary, SNCC.[4]