Adams-Johnson, Frankye
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Frankye Adams-Johnson was born in Pocahontas, Mississippi to a sharecropper family. When she was seventeen years old, she became involved in the NAACP Youth Council after learning of civil rights protests occurring in nearby Jackson, Mississippi, which included lunch counter sit-ins. She participated in numerous civil rights events and marches, including a walk-out of her high school to support the sit-ins that she helped organize. In the summer of 1964, she was selected to attend the pre-freshman program at Tougaloo College where she became involved in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1967, she left Mississippi for New York City, where she met and joined the Black Panthers. She became the founder of the Black Panthers chapter of White Plains, New York, while also obtaining two degrees and teaching as a college professor. She later moved back to Mississippi to continue teaching, speaking and writing, and eventually became the Chair for the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.
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contributorOf | Civil Rights History Project collection | Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.) | |
referencedIn | New York, [New York] - 157-12681-v.1 [Classification - Civil Unrest] -- Frankye Mae Adams | National Archives at College Park |
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creatorOf | Oral history interview with Frankye Adams-Johnson, 2001 | University of Mississippi |
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memberOf | Black Panthers |
memberOf | Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee |
associatedWith | University of Mississippi |
associatedWith | University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. |
associatedWith | University of Mississippi. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education. |
associatedWith | University of Mississippi. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation. |
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