Bob mants biography
- Robert "Bob" Mants, Jr. (April 25, 1943 – December 7, 2011) was an.
- Robert "Bob" Mants, Jr. was an American civil rights activist, serving as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- He was born on April 25, 1943 and raised in Georgia and was a 1961 graduate of East Point/South Fulton High School.
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Bob Mants
American civil rights activist (1943–2011)
Bob Mants | |
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| Born | Robert Mants (1943-04-25)April 25, 1943 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Died | December 7, 2011(2011-12-07) (aged 68) Atlanta, Georgia |
| Occupation(s) | Civil rights activist; politician |
| Years active | 1964–2011 |
| Known for | Field secretary for SNCC |
| Spouse | Joann Christian |
| Children | 3 |
Robert "Bob" Mants, Jr. (April 25, 1943 – December 7, 2011) was an American civil rights activist, serving as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Mants moved to Lowndes County, working for civil rights for the remainder of his life. Lowndes County contained the majority of the distance covered by the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, and was then notorious for its racist violence.
Early life
Mants was born in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] He graduated in 1961 from East Point/South Fulton High School,[1] a segregated black high school. While he was attending high school, Mants was a member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (which
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‘Celebration of life’ service planned for Bob Mants
Published 11:23 am Thursday, December 15, 2011
Bob Mants, a longtime civil rights leader, is pictured in an undated photo.
By Fred Guarino
The Lowndes Signal
A celebration of Life Get-Together will be held for Civil Rights icon Robert “Bob” Mants Jr., 68, of White Hall at the Jackson-Steele Community Center in White Hall on Saturday, Dec. 17 at 11 a.m.
Mants died Wednesday, Dec. 7 in Atlanta, Ga.
He was born on April 25, 1943 and raised in Georgia and was a 1961 graduate of East Point/South Fulton High School.
At the age of 16, he was the youngest member on the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (The Atlanta Student Movement).
In the 11th grade, he volunteered at the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also attended Morehouse College.
In 1964 Mants was working for the SNCC in Americus, Ga. He met his wife, Joann, while working with the SNCC Southwest Georgia Project and went to work in Lowndes County in 1965.
He was instrumental in planning the Selma to Montgomery March in March o
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Ruby Nell Sales is a nationally-recognized human-rights activist, public theologian, and social critic, whose articles and work appear in many journals, online sites, and books. Under the tutelage of Professor Jean Wiley, Sales joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960’s as a teenager at Tuskegee University and went to work as a student freedom fighter in Lowndes County, Alabama. There, she worked with Bob Mants, Gloria Larry, Janet Moses, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Vaughn, and local people that included Clara Maul and John Huelett.
In August 1965, Sales, along with other SNCC workers, joined young people from Fort Deposit, Alabama, who organized a demonstration to protest the actions of the local White grocery store owners who had cheated their parents. The group was arrested and held in jail and then suddenly released. Jonathan Daniels, a White seminarian and freedom worker from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts was assassinated as he pulled Sales out of the line of fire, when they attempted to enter Cash Grocery Store to buy s
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