Angie Dickerson

Angie Dickerson was a New York-based tenants' rights organizer[1] involved in the Communist Party, and was under surveillance by the FBI.[2] She was one of the members of Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a leftist, black feminist organization formed in 1951.[3]

She was a member of the World Peace Council and advocated for US withdrawal from Vietnam and Korea.[4] For the conference held in East Berlin of the World Peace Council from 21-23 June, 1969 to convince the US to recognize the German Democratic Republic, Dickerson was sent 20 tickets for Aeroflot passage from New York City for conference attendees.[5]

In 1970, Dickerson chaired, along with Ossie Davis, Dick Gregory and others, a National Emergency Conference to defend the right of the Black Panther Party to existence. Believing that the US Attorney was attempting to destroy the party, a wide group of church leaders, civil rights groups, labor groups and colleges sponsored the conference. The sponsors included: Ralph David Abernathy head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.); Roy Innis, Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.); Irving Sarnoff of the Los Angeles Peace Action Council; and Rev. Quincy Cooper, of Black Methodists for Church Renewal.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ McDuffie, Erik (2008). "A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women": Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War". Radical History Review (101): 81–106.
  2. ↑ FBI (14 January 1955). "Angie Dickerson". New York Bureau File.
  3. ↑ McDuffie, Erik S. (2011). Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-8223-5033-0. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Congressional Record House #11189". Congressional Record. Volume 117 (92nd Congress, Session 1, Parts 8-9): 869. 21 April 1971. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  5. ↑ Huston, Tom Charles. ""Foreign Communist Support of the Revolutionary Protest Movement in the United States"". Internet Archive. US Government Declassified Internet Archive. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Groups To Rally In Chicago To Defend Black Panthers". The Carolina Times. 7 February 1970. Retrieved 4 April 2015.


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