General Discussion

Future Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry (far right) attends a planning and strategy conference on civil rights non-violent civil disobedience in Atlanta, Ga. In 1960 under the direction of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (center).

At the time, Barry was the first chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). While at Fisk University, he was arrested several times during lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville and helped organize the Freedom Riders attempting to desegregate interstate transit. He later led an organizing project in McComb, Mississippi and by the Spring of 1964 was a founding member of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). While lobbying Democratic Party activists around the country to support Fannie Lou Hamer’s Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, he was asked by James Foreman to take over the SNCC office in Washington, D.C.
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...unfortunately, even though Bayard traveled to India in '47, he did not get to meet with Gandhi who died shortly before he arrived, I believe, but met with other leaders there instead.



Bayard Rustin, Jawaharlal Nehru, India, 1948, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Gandhi, nonviolence, civil rights, All India Congress Party, international activism, independence movement.