The Atlanta Invitation

In 1967, Marie Nahikian, a college newspaper editor, accepts an invitation to to attend a Higher Education Conference in Atlanta that turns into a life changing experience after an encounter with Kathleen Cleaver at a SNCC organizing session, unfolding to a rare interview with Coretta Scott King and meeting Dr. Martin Luther King.

Show Notes

An invitation and plane ticket to the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro  to attend a "higher education" conference that was actually a SNCC organizing conference in 1967 produced was accepted by the author and resulted an one of the few interviews ever done with Coretta Scott King and meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. More at www.theusablepast.com

What is The Usable Past with Marie Nahikian?

Veteran community organizer Marie Nahikian hosts The Usable Past, where activists share their stories of past and present organizing for better housing, food, banks, jobs, environmental and social justice. A Brooklyn resident, Marie most recently worked with U.S. Housing & Urban Development under President Obama and has participated in building 5,000 affordable homes in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Marie has been a neighborhood, civil rights, housing and labor organizer, a community journalist, and in 1977 was a founder of WPFW-FM Pacifica radio in Washington, DC.