Muriel Tillinghast

SNCC, Nonviolent Action Group, 1961-68, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Washington, D.C.
Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Email: harrisonrows@gmail.com

Remembering the Mailman's March of 1963
Bernie Sanders

The Movement continues in every aspect of life. I have carried my understanding of its principles into the classroom, to work, into prisons and jails and in my daily walk through life. It is a vital to me as the air I breathe.

A Short Biography of Movement Work

• Youth organizer, Maryland Synod Luther League, junior high school to high school period
• Non-violent Action Group ("NAG"), Washington, D.C., college period
  • Served as a NAG president
  • Participated in de-segregation issues in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Delaware
  • Part of the group instrumental in the change of judicial decision making toward tenant concerns; participated in rent strikes, City of Washington, D.C.
  • Worked with Jeanie Bell, operations, March on Washington
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("SNCC" pronounced "SNICK")
  • Headed projects in three-river counties: Washington, Issaquena and Sharkey, summer of 1964
  • Held down state operations during the Mississippi Challenge, Greenwood, MS, late summer-fall, 1964
  • Headed statewide operations, Jackson, MS, fall of 1964 — spring 1965
  • Worked with Cleve Sellers, head of SNCC Personnel and Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, head of SNCC Operations, 1965-1967
• Office operations for the up-south program of Mississippians coming to Washington, D.C. to voice their opinion and to raise a public cry against the war in Vietnam, summer 1966
• Worked in NYC SNCC Office until the debacle with the Black Panther Party, 1968-1969
• Tenant rights supporter/the movement headed by Jesse Gray, late 1960s
• Tenant support work, NYC; local community housing company; 7-A Administration work in rehabbing off-roll housing, returning the property to the City"s rent rolls, early 1980s
• Pro bono advocacy work: medical intervention — AIDs, immigration challenge, medical experimentation, murder/false accusation, alternative sentencing, intermittent, late 1970s -1990s; housing issues and advocacy for 18 years
• Prison education: motivation and information, late 1990s
• Green Party candidate for Vice President in NYS, 1996
• Institutional work within the Lutheran Church (ELCA).

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