Charles Cobb

Civil Rights Era

Charles Cobb was born in 1943. At age eighteen he became active in the Civil Rights Movement. As a member of the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), a subgroup of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he participated in sit-ins in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Cobb traveled to Mississippi to participate in the movement with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). There, he began working to expose the flaws of the Mississippi school system. He proposed setting up "Freedom Schools," in 1964 during Freedom Summer, which would help educate African-American students in Mississippi by teaching methods of leadership and potential modes of action to young people. He also contributed time while in Mississippi's Delta counties to the voter registration drives of 1962. He is still very much dedicated to racial justice and civil rights as a free-lance writer.

Bibliography

Information for this biography was gathered from the following source:

Rachal, John. "An Oral History with Mr. Charles Cobb." University of Southern Mississippi: MI, 1996. <http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/oh/cobb.htm>

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