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Affiliation | Green |
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Name | Colia Clark |
Address | , New York , United States |
Email | None |
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July 21, 1940
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Died | November 04, 2022
(82 years)
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Contributor | Zeus the Moose |
Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur Dec 10, 2022 09:59pm |
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Info | Colia Clark is a veteran of the civil rights movement. Her work has included activism in the fields of women’s rights and workers’ rights, as well as activism and advocacy for homeless people and youth. Most recently, she has worked with the Cynthia McKinney for President campaign with “Power to the People”. Clark is a chair of Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu Jamal.
During the Civil Rights era, Colia Clark was a Special Assistant to Medgar W. Evers, field Secretary for the NAACP. Clark later joined the Mississippi Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) doing voter registration work. In the 1990s Clark was a professor at the University of Albany as well as Director of the Social Justice Center.
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