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Donna Richards Role In The Civil Rights Movement

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As the United States filled with various (minority) rights movements, youth culture, and protests, many groups of people began voicing their different visions of the country’s future. One leader, Donna Richards, a graduate of the University of Chicago, became a field organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi from 1963 to 1966. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. For the first time, young people “entered the ranks of civil rights movement leadership”. In addition, her and other female leaders of the student movement, like Ella Baker, Ruby Doris Smith, Cynthia Washington, and Jean Wheeler often stressed the importance …show more content…

The impacts of World War II became the driving point for SNCC. More than a million Black men served in that war. When these soldiers returned home after having fought for democracy overseas, many were unwilling to accept an undemocratic and white supremacist America. During this divided time period, Donna Richards worked alongside other leaders of the SNCC in order to change the mentality of Black youth from an “inferiority complex” to the consciousness of their equality with other great people, to show the youth that their voices are the driving force for change Ella Baker played a key role in some of the most influential organizations of the time, including the NAACP, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. As a slave, her grandmother had been whipped for refusing to marry a man chosen for her by the slave owner. Her …show more content…

Moses was eventually sent by Ella Baker to find students to participate in a SNCC conference that October in Atlanta. Robert Moses eventually developed as one of the most influential black leaders of the civil rights struggle with his vision of grassroots and community-based leadership. In the late 1980s, Moses created the Algebra Project, a foundation devoted to improving minority education in math. The Algebra Project continues to improve math education in poor communities with the goal of sending more students to the workforce. Starting as a civil rights leader and transitioning into an advocate for the poor through his work with the Algebra Project, Moses has really been pushing to make equal opportunities for all a

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