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...undisputed leader of the black political community has been the “civil-rights era urban crusader.” From former presidential candidates Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to veteran congressmen John Conyers (D-Mich.), Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), and SNCC Founder John Lewis (D-Ga.), there is a proud tradition of civil-rights era politicians emerging from majority-black areas to positions of great power. For them, being black is what defines their identity, and—more importantly—their politics...
...Once in the South, Coles got involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
...leading some to jokingly refer to him as "SNCC's resident shrink." Coles also marched with Martin Luther King...
During the Civil Rights movement, Lewis served as president of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, demonstrated alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and is the only surviving speaker from the 1965 March on Washington...
With that belief, Bond reached back to 1965, when, as an activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he first began to struggle for "the just spoils of a virtuous and victorious war [the Civil Rights movement]", majority black voting districts and affirmative action...