Colia Clark

Clark was a student at Tougaloo College, an historically black college in Tougaloo, Mississippi, when she became involved with the civil rights movement. An activist with the NAACP, she was involved with voter registration efforts. Under the guidance of Medgar Evers and John Salter, Clark founded the NAACP Youth Council in North Jackson, Mississippi. While working with the NAACP, she became special assistant to Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP. In 1962 Clark resigned from the NAACP and joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to do voter registration work alongside her then husband, Bernard Lafayette, in Alabama. This project laid essential groundwork for the Selma voting rights campaign of 1965. She was eventually named executive secretary of SNCC. She was an organizer in the Black Power movement, including the Republic of New Afrika. By early 1973, she returned to Mississippi and worked on a number of other projects including the editorship of the Jackson Advocate. ==Green Party==

Clark was co-chair of the New York delegation to the Green Party of the United States presidential nominating convention, where Cynthia McKinney was nominated as the Green Party presidential candidate. In her final years Clark focused on writing, activism and advocacy about Haiti. ==Education==

Clark attended Tougaloo College and earned a M.A. from Albany State University in Albany, GA, where she later worked as a professor. She was also a professor at SUNY Albany, Albany, NY ==Personal life and death==

Clark died on November 4, 2022, at the age of 82. ==References==