Mar 22
20150
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Rockefeller Foundation
Ava DuVernay’s Selma Ella Baker Lyndon Baines Johnson Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Nelson Rockefeller Oprah Winfrey Rosa Parks SCLC SNCC the Selma campaign
When Ella Baker left to help found SNCC in 1960, she warned the students about the phenomenon of the “charismatic leader…It usually means the media made him, and the media may undo him…such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.”
Jan 16
20130
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Disobedience Idle No More NAACP Resistance SCLC SNCC Urban League
"In James Forman's 1997 book The Making of Black Revolutionaries, the former organizer of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- that led the sit-ins against American apartheid, and risked their lives in support of Black communities in Mississippi Freedom Summer -- recalled the challenges of working with the established Black elites of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) who wanted to control the activists.'