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'''James Forman''' died January 10, 2005 - James Foreman dies. Forman was a key leader in the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC), the student & youth organization that worked boldly in the face of great danger to end racist discrimination in the Deep South in the early 1960s, through sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter registration, and other tactics. He later helped engineer a short-lived merger between SNCC and the [[Black Panther Party]], and was also part of the Detroit-based [[League of Revolutionary Black Workers]] and then the [[Black Workers Congress]]. He wrote several books, including an important history of SNCC, “The Making of Black Revolutionaries."<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/FreedomRoadSocialistOrg/photos/pb.145261140805.-2207520000.1436324269./10152466497465806/?type=1&theaterFB FRSO Jan 10\</ref> | '''James Forman''' died January 10, 2005 - James Foreman dies. Forman was a key leader in the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]] (SNCC), the student & youth organization that worked boldly in the face of great danger to end racist discrimination in the Deep South in the early 1960s, through sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter registration, and other tactics. He later helped engineer a short-lived merger between SNCC and the [[Black Panther Party]], and was also part of the Detroit-based [[League of Revolutionary Black Workers]] and then the [[Black Workers Congress]]. He wrote several books, including an important history of SNCC, “The Making of Black Revolutionaries."<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/FreedomRoadSocialistOrg/photos/pb.145261140805.-2207520000.1436324269./10152466497465806/?type=1&theaterFB FRSO Jan 10\</ref> | ||
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| + | The 1963 [[March on Washington]] was designed to put pressure on the Kennedy administration and Congress to enact a civil rights bill and an anti-poverty bill, including a public works plan to generate jobs and an increase in the minimum wage. In drafting his speech for the event, [[John Lewis]] got input from many [[SNCC]] activists, including [[Julian Bond]], [[Eleanor Holmes Norton|Eleanor Holmes]], [[James Forman]] and others. They viewed it as a collective SNCC statement, not simply Lewis' own views, which is why Lewis was careful not to water down the talk's powerful condemnation of racism and politicians' complicity.<ref>[http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18178-50-years-after-the-march-on-washington-john-lewis-is-still-marching-for-justice Truthout, 50 Years After the March on Washington, John Lewis Is Still Marching for Justice Tuesday, 20 August 2013 10:30By Peter Dreier, Truthout | News]</ref> | ||
==National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee== | ==National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee== | ||
Revision as of 15:12, 30 July 2015
James Forman died January 10, 2005 - James Foreman dies. Forman was a key leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the student & youth organization that worked boldly in the face of great danger to end racist discrimination in the Deep South in the early 1960s, through sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter registration, and other tactics. He later helped engineer a short-lived merger between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, and was also part of the Detroit-based League of Revolutionary Black Workers and then the Black Workers Congress. He wrote several books, including an important history of SNCC, “The Making of Black Revolutionaries."[1]
John Lewis' speech
The 1963 March on Washington was designed to put pressure on the Kennedy administration and Congress to enact a civil rights bill and an anti-poverty bill, including a public works plan to generate jobs and an increase in the minimum wage. In drafting his speech for the event, John Lewis got input from many SNCC activists, including Julian Bond, Eleanor Holmes, James Forman and others. They viewed it as a collective SNCC statement, not simply Lewis' own views, which is why Lewis was careful not to water down the talk's powerful condemnation of racism and politicians' complicity.[2]
National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee
As of May 1964, James Forman, Director, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was listed as a sponsor of the Communist Party USA front, National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Revolutionary Union Movement followers
In 1968 and 1969, former Wayne State students such as General Baker, Marian Kramer, Ken Cockrel, Ken Hamblin, Luke Tripp, Charles Johnson, and others organized the Revolutionary Union Movement in Detroit’s auto plants, which culminated in the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Some of the organizers who split from the League joined former SNCC leader James Forman and founded the Black Workers Congress.[3]
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 committee listed several people in "memoriam" including James Forman.[4]
References
- ↑ [https://www.facebook.com/FreedomRoadSocialistOrg/photos/pb.145261140805.-2207520000.1436324269./10152466497465806/?type=1&theaterFB FRSO Jan 10\
- ↑ Truthout, 50 Years After the March on Washington, John Lewis Is Still Marching for Justice Tuesday, 20 August 2013 10:30By Peter Dreier, Truthout | News
- ↑ [New Politics, vol. 6, no. 2 (new series), whole no. 22, Winter 1997]
- ↑ http://www.ben.edu/programs/cafsncc/