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Continued leader of the Nashville Student Movement, sang with with sang Movement, Student Nashville the of leader grantee in 1967 who died just this year. Matt was a a was Matt year. this just died who 1967 in grantee Allen Silverstone, Rachel L. Stocking. L. Rachel Silverstone, Allen Matthew Jones, Matthew a a was students those of One Clarence Lang, Laura McSpedon, Walter L. Putter, Putter, L. Walter McSpedon, Laura Lang, Clarence Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Committee Coordinating Giardina, Allison Guttu, Sora Han, Carol J. Kraemer, Kraemer, J. Carol Han, Sora Guttu, Allison Giardina, 2011/12 Non-Violent Student the and Party Democratic James A. Donaldson, Monica Enriquez, Carol Carol Enriquez, Monica Donaldson, A. James Davarian Baldwin, Lisa Brock, Simone Weil Davis, Davis, Weil Simone Brock, Lisa Baldwin, Davarian Education Fund (SCEF), Mississippi Freedom Freedom Mississippi (SCEF), Fund Education Trustees of activists involved with Southern Conference Conference Southern with involved activists of 1961/62 1961/62 scores supported Fund the years, early the In Pete Seeger, Andres Torres, Mary Helen Washington. Helen Mary Torres, Andres Seeger, Pete and became a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics. and Physiology of Professor a became and Putter, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Paul Schachter, Schachter, Paul Reagon, Johnson Bernice Putter, Communist Party member. Ed finished his degree degree his finished Ed member. Party Communist C. Lewontin, Lee Lorch, Jill Nelson, Jan Phillips, Ruth Ruth Phillips, Jan Nelson, Jill Lorch, Lee Lewontin, C. he had been a steelworker, labor organizer and and organizer labor steelworker, a been had he Ruth Hubbard, Robin D. G. Kelley, Mel King, Richard Richard King, Mel Kelley, G. D. Robin Hubbard, Ruth Davis, Ed Dubinsky, Lennox S. Hinds, Nancy J. Hodes, Hodes, J. Nancy Hinds, S. Lennox Dubinsky, Ed Davis, Foundation grant was revoked when they learned learned they when revoked was grant Foundation Angela Y. Davis, Chandler Davis, Terry Davis, Quentin Quentin Davis, Terry Davis, Chandler Davis, Y. Angela at the University of Illinois whose National Science Science National whose Illinois of University the at D. Caulfield, Noam Chomsky, Johnnetta B. Cole, Cole, B. Johnnetta Chomsky, Noam Caulfield, D. Ed Yellin, Yellin, Ed an engineering student student engineering an be would grantee Huwaida Arraf, Julian Bond, Margaret Burnham, Mina Mina Burnham, Margaret Bond, Julian Arraf, Huwaida under McCarthyism, so it was natural that the next next the that natural was it so McCarthyism, under Sponsors founders of the Fund had been persecuted by attacks attacks by persecuted been had Fund the of founders Racial Equality (CORE). The Davis’ as well as other other as well as Davis’ The (CORE). Equality Racial [email protected] Newcomb College and a leader in the Congress of of Congress the in leader a and College Newcomb New York, NY 10116-7307 NY York, New Connie Bradford Connie a student at Sophie Sophie at student a and student Post Office Box 7307 Box Office Post a civil rights activist and Columbia University University Columbia and activist rights civil a Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund Scholarship Davis-Putter Glenford Mitchell, Glenford to grants first the award and were joined by friends who helped raise money money raise helped who friends by joined were www.davisputter.org who was a fierce activist and beloved teacher. They They teacher. beloved and activist fierce a was who Make an online contribution at contribution online an Make to create a fund in memory of their wife and mother, mother, and wife their of memory in fund a create to Barbara would also become trustees) came together together came trustees) become also would Barbara including the Fund in your will. your in Fund the including his children, Chan, Terry and Quentin (Mina and and (Mina Quentin and Terry Chan, children, his Plan for the future of student activism by by activism student of future the for Plan Sandwich, MA. Horace B. (Hockey) Davis along with with along Davis (Hockey) B. Horace MA. Sandwich, convened on August 26, 1961 at the Davis home in in home Davis the at 1961 26, August on convened and must be postmarked by April 1. April by postmarked be must and meeting of the Marian Davis Scholarship Fund was was Fund Scholarship Davis Marian the of meeting Fund–applications are available on the website website the on available are Fund–applications one of a kind scholarship fund was created. The first first The created. was fund scholarship kind a of one Connect the student activists in your life to the the to life your in activists student the Connect growing student movement, and that same year, a a year, same that and movement, student growing journey Scholarship Fund. Fund. Scholarship south, putting their lives on the line, building an ever ever an building line, the on lives their putting south, Invite your friends to support the Davis-Putter Davis-Putter the support to friends your Invite boarded buses with hopes of desegregating the the desegregating of hopes with buses boarded In 1961, veterans of the student sit-in movement movement sit-in student the of veterans 1961, In much we can award. can we much on the on on the journey the on endowment, your contributions determine how how determine contributions your endowment, Give a generous donation – there is no no is there – donation generous a Give 50 years and still still and years 50 for the next 50 years: 50 next the for Still — — Fund the About Keep the Fund strong strong Fund the Keep About the fund Continued 50 years and still on the journey the SNCC Freedom Singers, and was arrested 29 times, writing many of his 500 - Fullerton and Rural Development from Antioch College. She has worked as an freedom songs while in jail. Matt’s songs have been featured in many films and prize organizer with the United Farmworkers and assisted in building countless networks winning documentaries including Eyes On The Prize and The Road To Mississippi: of farmworker women, including Mujeres Mexicanas and Líderes Campesinas and Freedom On My Mind. is now collecting their oral histories. Memorial scholarship funds, especially those without large endowments, tend to Davis-Putter grantees entered the new millennium, inspired by WTO protests last no more than 5 years, so it was not surprising that in 1966, the trustees discussed in Seattle and a commitment to the creation of a mass movement, intersecting the availability of other funding sources for Civil Rights workers and considered issues of class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Building on decades of student disbanding. Ever forward thinking, they decided to continue, “to support new activism, campus organizing flourished with newly formed Students United Against emergencies, for example, students actively opposing the Vietnam War”. They Sweatshops campaigns and revived National Lawyers Guild and SDS chapters. As would continue on with the goal of finding and awarding scholarships to those wars escalated, so did anti-war coalitions as well as solidarity campaigns with the students leading movements for social change especially those who were politically people of Palestine, Colombia and the Philippines. Students were challenging the repressed and needing financial support to continue their academic work. institutionalized racism of the Prison Industrial Complex, creating strategies to stop Throughout the 70’s student activism exploded with protests to end the Vietnam police brutality and organizing against gentrification. Immigrant students came out war. “Hell no, we won’t go”, rang from college campuses and the Fund awarded as Undocumented and Unafraid, working for passage of the DREAM Act and the scholarships to anti-war activists, war resisters, women’s rights and anti-nuclear movement to save public education expanded. activists like Anton Wagner who organized Vietnam War resisters in Canada Understanding what connects all of these movements is essential and Davis-Putter and received a grant in 1971. Anton has edited 10 books on Canadian theatre has had a longtime commitment to funding activist scholars who become activist and drama and has produced and directed a dozen documentaries including In professors, writing our histories, teaching theories and encouraging students to Exile, Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives and Our Hiroshima. He teaches make change. in the YorkU MFA Program and continues as a peace and anti-nuclear activist, One grantee on this path is Tiffany-Lethabo King who worked with the Black coordinating the Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition. Radical Congress in Philadelphia to build support for another Davis-Putter grantee, The 80’s brought much change to student activism and to the Fund. To honor Mumia Abu-Jamal. She was granted in 2006 and 2007, to study at the University the commitment of time and resources brought by trustee Norton S. Putter, a civil of Toronto, was a contributor to the INCITE! reader, The Revolution Will Not Be rights and peace activist, the name of the Fund was officially changed to the Davis- Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and is completing a PhD in Putter Scholarship Fund in 1986. Many of the activists granted were leaders in American Studies at the University of Maryland where she researches Black women’s divestment campaigns to end South African apartheid, struggles for sovereignty for activism and feminism, transnational feminism and state theory. Puerto Rico and Native Americans, but all committed to resistance of growing US Davis-Putter grantees have been at the forefront of virtually every major militarization and corporatization. There were also many students who were active progressive social movement. They are artists, scholars, people’s lawyers, political in multiple movements concurrently. prisoners and organizers on the frontlines. Student driven movements have been One such grantee was Ruth Gallo who worked for civil rights, women’s rights, at the center of social change and our grantees have been integral to this work for union organizing and the peace movement and received a grant in 1986 to study peace and justice.