Gwendolyn Zoharah, Michael Simmons and Dan Berger discuss how the struggle for justice is a lifetime commitment.
: I was born in 1944, I grew up in Jim Crow — back of the bus, no place to have a meal inside, unless in some Black-owned cafe, the whole thing. Memphis, Tennessee, where I was born and raised, was a segregated city. And I was brought up to know my place. I mean, not that anybody was teaching me that it was right, but they would teach me it as survival. My grandmother would say, “.” I grew up with that.
But to experience Mississippi Freedom Summer, the organizing of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the violence that we were subjected to, moved me toward understanding that, beyond breaking down the Jim Crow laws and securing the right to vote for Black people, we needed power. There’s nothing unique about Black Power when you think about it in terms of oppressed people controlling their destinies. At the time, I saw it in a Black context. But the work I’ve done over the past 20, 25 years, I see that it’s as significant in Eastern Europe, working in Yugoslavia with oppressed women, with Roma, as it is in Jackson, Mississippi, or Little Rock, Arkansas. It’s a question of oppressed people controlling their lives.
Then I looked at the civil rights scholarship — this was 20 years ago — and see the Atlanta Project described as this super sectarian group of northerners who invaded the SNCC and destroyed the organization.
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