One of my earliest influences was my grandmother, she told me many stories about slaves, including her own experience being one. In 1927 I graduated from Shaw University Raleigh, North Carolina as the valedictorian
Then when I moved to New York City looking for work I met people suffering from poverty caused by the Great Depression, I was introduced to radical political activism which became my life's work.
I joined the staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), first as field secretary and then rose to national director of the various branches, I resigned as director in 1946. Although I work in the branch of New York helping to integrate local schools and improve the quality of education for black children
Inspired by the historic bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, he co-founded the organization In Friendship to raise funds for the civil rights movement in the South In 1957, he met with a group of black southern ministers
In 1960 I help student leaders of university activist groups to organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). With my guidance and encouragement, SNCC became one of the leading human rights advocates in the country.
After so much effort we were able to make the United States a more equal place, I did not become as well known as other civil rights leaders. But in fact this was what I preferred.
You didn't see me on TV, you didn't see the news about me. The kind of role I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put pieces together that I hoped the organization could come from.
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