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Fikes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bettie Mae Fikes Bettie Mae Fikes (born 1948), also known as The Voice of Selma, is an American singer and civil rights activist. Life Born in Selma, Alabama in 1948, she began singing at the age of four. Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordina ... (born 1948), American singer and activist * Deborah Fikes, American evangelical leader * Richard Fikes (born 1942), American computer scientist See also * Fike {{surname Americanized surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettie Mae Fikes
Bettie Mae Fikes (born 1948), also known as The Voice of Selma, is an American singer and civil rights activist. Life Born in Selma, Alabama in 1948, she began singing at the age of four. Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, and became known as "the Voice of Selma". She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965. Her new lyrics for "This Little Light of Mine" and other songs became particularly known. She performed at both the 1964 Democratic National Convention and the 2004 Democratic National Convention The 2004 Democratic National Convention convened from July 26 to 29, 2004 at the FleetCenter (now the TD Garden) in Boston, Massachusetts, and nominated Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts for president and Senator John Edwards from North .... In 2020, she sang at the funeral services for John Lewis, which she indicated might be her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Fikes
Deborah Fikes is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. She is a co-president of Religions for Peace, the world’s largest and most representative multi-religious coalition, with offices in New York. Fikes serves as an executive advisor to the World Evangelical Alliance, which represents a constituency of 650 million with alliance offices in 129 countries, and was the WEA's permanent representative to the United Nations from 2009-2016. She served for three consecutive terms as a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), which represents 45,000 churches in the United States. Peace-making Initiatives Fikes served as the director the Midland, Texas, Ministerial Alliance during President George W. Bush's administrations and was actively involved with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement negotiations between North and South Sudan. She was personal friends with the late vice president Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |