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Gwen Green

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Left Image: Gwen Green and Tom Bradley, Los Angeles (From the collection of Gwen Green)
Right Image: Gwen Green, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Claudia Green (Mrs. Green's daughter) and Marlon Brando, three weeks before Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. (From the collection of Gwen Green)
Gwen Green is a civil rights activist and former executive secretary for the Western Christian Leadership Conference (WCLC) and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). She organized and oversaw many demonstrations and protests. She helped organize the celebrities who traveled from L.A. to the1963 March on Washington and was assistant director to the SCLC’s SCOPE voter’s rights project.
 


About Mrs. Green

Listen to excerpts from her oral history conducted by the Bradley Center
 

Yvonne ‪Brathwaite Burke‬ talks about Mrs. Green's role in the Civil Rights Movement

Listen to excerpts from Brathwaite Burke's oral history conducted by the Bradley Center
 

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