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redqueen

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Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:04 PM Apr 2013

Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson, first woman elected executive secretary of the SNCC.

From Ms. Magazine's facebook feed:

Born on this date in 1942 and dying way too young in 1967, Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson was a legendary civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). A Freedom Rider, she was beaten in Montgomery, Ala., and arrested in Jackson, Miss., serving 45 days in prison under the "jail, no bail" policy she herself had instituted. She was the first woman elected executive secretary of SNCC.

In this 1966 photo, she's seen with other SNCC officers--left to right, James Forman, Cleveland Sellers and Stokely Carmichael.




You may not remember the NSCC, but you no doubt remember their actions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee
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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson, first woman elected executive secretary of the SNCC. (Original Post) redqueen Apr 2013 OP
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