Activists

[Drewsky1211 4,754]

Joseph Lowery, co-founder and 3rd president of the SCLC, dead at 98.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Nora Illi, swiss pro-full body veil activist, dead at 35:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/nora-illi-dead.html

[drol 11,954]

18 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

Nora Illi, swiss pro-full body veil activist, dead at 35:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/nora-illi-dead.html

Yeah, that's quite old news if I remember well.

[Ulitzer95 12,649]

Gayraud Wilmore, historian, minister and civil rights activist reportedly dead at 98. 

[gcreptile 10,978]

Anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg has died at 87:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52483924

 

He lasted quite long with lung cancer.

[YoungWillz 21,053]

3 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg has died at 87:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52483924

 

He lasted quite long with lung cancer.

Right, the BBC are reporting that he died just before midnight on Wednesday, so in my opinion that is going to make him a Tuesday 28 April death.

 

Unless of course that is midnight local time in South Africa.

 

Important for the Hare's Pool here, anyone want to join the acclaim for an extra day? Everywhere else has him as 29th April death. Let me hear the roar of the crowd.

[YoungWillz 21,053]

Actually, have I misdirected myself here? Is it he died on Wednesday, just before the turn into the 30th, or midnight on Wednesday which I take to be the turn into Wednesday?

 

Fuck it, I'll make it the 29th.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Bobby Lee Verdugo, one of the leaders of the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkout to protest discrimination and dropout rates among Mexican American students, has died. He was 69.

 

https://apnews.com/ffcb528ee8474a01e2a058d122752327?utm_medium=APWestRegion&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter

[Ulitzer95 12,649]

Gloria Richardson, leader of the Cambridge Movement during the civil rights era, turns 98 today. 

[gcreptile 10,978]

African-American MOVE activist Delbert Africa dead at 73 after 41 years in prison:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/delbert-africa-move-member-dead-20200616.html

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Jane Morrison, who was an urban environmentalist before anyone knew what that meant and a central part of the progressive movement in this city for more than half a century, has died at 101.
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[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

C.T. Vivian, a lieutenant forDr. Martin Luther King jr. during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, died at 95 years:

https://www.ajc.com/news/ct-vivian-civil-rights-hero-and-intellectual-dead-at-95/2GOB7SU7MZDHJADH63LIKYHK6M/?outputType=amp/

He is also the author of Black Power and the American Myth, and founder of the C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute.

[gcreptile 10,978]

Last Rivonia trialist Andrew Mlangeni in hospital:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2020-07-21-anc-veteran-andrew-mlangeni-95-in-hospital/

 

I guess there was a interesting poll option once, Civil Rights Big Six vs. Rivonia trialists.

[Banana 859]

3 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Last Rivonia trialist Andrew Mlangeni in hospital:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2020-07-21-anc-veteran-andrew-mlangeni-95-in-hospital/

 

I guess there was a interesting poll option once, Civil Rights Big Six vs. Rivonia trialists.

 

Should be noted he's in critical condition.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

32 minutes ago, Banana said:

 

Should be noted he's in critical condition.

He's 95 which seems to be a bad age for elderly African politicians.Mandela, Daniel arap Moi and Robert Mugabe all went at that age . 

 

PS could this be the reason he's been hospitalised...https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-06-07-anc-stalwart-andrew-mlangenis-tips-for-a-happy-marriage-sex-three-times-a-week/ 

[drol 11,954]

10 hours ago, gcreptile said:

Last Rivonia trialist Andrew Mlangeni in hospital:

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2020-07-21-anc-veteran-andrew-mlangeni-95-in-hospital/

 

I guess there was a interesting poll option once, Civil Rights Big Six vs. Rivonia trialists.

This was quick. Mlangeni joins other Rivonia trialists.

[drol 11,954]

So, George Bizos is the last living figure linked to Rivonia Trials, right? Will turn 93 in November.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

39 minutes ago, drol said:

So, George Bizos is the last living figure linked to Rivonia Trials, right? Will turn 93 in November.

I think Andrew Mlengeni was the last one

 

Incidentally Mlengenis death confirms that Nelson Mandela was the longest lived of all the Rivonia Trial defendants by a few months. Mlengeni was the 2nd longest lived.

[drol 11,954]

7 minutes ago, CoffinLodger said:

I think Andrew Mlengeni was the last one

 

Incidentally Mlengenis death confirms that Nelson Mandela was the longest lived of all the Rivonia Trial defendants by a few months. Mlengeni was the 2nd longest lived.

Mlangeni was the last defendant. Bizos is the last defence lawyer.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Just now, drol said:

Mlangeni was the last defendant. Bizos is the last defence lawyer.

That's right. Anyway it's the end of an era.R.I.P

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Civil rights activist and politician Charles Evers, who became the first African-American mayor in the state of Mississippi since the Reconstruction era in 1969, died at 97 years:

https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/22/civil-rights-leader-and-political-figure-charles-evers-passes-away-at-97/

He was named the Man of the Year by the NAACP in 1969 and spread the slogan, 'Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.'

[Whitehouse 872]

41 minutes ago, TomTomTelekom said:

Civil rights activist and politician Charles Evers, who became the first African-American mayor in the state of Mississippi since the Reconstruction era in 1969, died at 97 years:

https://yallpolitics.com/2020/07/22/civil-rights-leader-and-political-figure-charles-evers-passes-away-at-97/

He was named the Man of the Year by the NAACP in 1969 and spread the slogan, 'Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.'

Brother of Medgar Evers, slain in 1963. Another icon lost a week after John Lewis.

[drol 11,954]

2 minutes ago, Whitehouse said:

Brother of Medgar Evers, slain in 1963. Another icon lost a week after John Lewis.

Before every one here starts mourning, Evers was an avid Trump supporter.

[Whitehouse 872]

2 minutes ago, drol said:

Before every one here starts mourning, Evers was an avid Trump supporter.

Just read his bio. Though he spoke warmly about Obama, he had-em all, Independent, Democratic and Weasel-party.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Paulette Wilson a Windrush campaigner who faced deportation, has died. She was 64. Wilson had come to the UK from Jamaica in 1968, but her benefits were cut off in 2015. The Windrush scandal broke in 2018, when it emerged many children of Commonwealth citizens had been threatened with deportation.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53521408