Efia Nwangaza (born 1951) is an American activist and attorney from

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. Nwangaza was the

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's nominee in the

2004 United States Senate election The 2004 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2004, with all Class 3 Senate seats being contested. They coincided with the re-election of George W. Bush as president and the United States House election, as well as many state ...

Early life, education and career

Nwangaza was raised in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a graduate of

Spelman College Spelman College is a private, historically black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman re ...

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

and

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. She has served as a staff attorney for the Greenville Legal Services Program, and is an independent attorney.

Activism

Nwangaza founded and directs Greenville's Afrikan American Institute for Policy Studies, the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, and WMXP-LP community radio station. She has participated in numerous local, state and national protests, including the protest in the aftermath of the

killing of Michael Brown On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Brown was accompanied by his 22-year-old male friend Dorian Johnson, who later stated that Brow ...

. Nwangaza is the past national co-chair of the Jericho Movement for Amnesty and Freedom of U.S. Political Prisoners, a member of the

SNCC The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segrega ...

-Atlanta Project, the

National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA) is an organization that advocates for financial compensation for the descendants of former slaves in the United States. History The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparatio ...

, and the Coalition to Stop

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Project and

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. Nwangaza worked on the campaign for a global demand for reparations at the United Nations

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2004 Senatorial campaign

References

External links

Nwangaza Senate Campaign page
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Appearances
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Efia Nwangaza testimony at SC Judiciary Committee - Ad Hoc Committee 7/7/2022
on

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{{s-end Living people South Carolina Greens Candidates in the 2004 United States elections Activists South Carolina lawyers African-American lawyers Spelman College alumni Temple University alumni Golden Gate University School of Law alumni People from Greenville, South Carolina Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1951 births

Early life, education and career

Activism

2004 Senatorial campaign

See also

References

External links