The Disappearing of Sister Koko with Prof. D. Boose - Howard’s Doorway to Activism

How did Dorothy Jean McQueen become Sister Koko? Explore her memories with Prof. D. Boose as she reflects on being a student at Howard University amidst the March on Washington and organizing for Freedom Summer.

They’ll talk about 1960s era racism and segregation and new community efforts to fight it, especially in protests against discrimination in travel. Hear how these developments encouraged Sister Koko to join the Nonviolent Action Group of Howard University (NAG) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) alongside Stokely Carmichael, and to reinvent herself as Sister Koko.

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