Dorie Ladner (1942-2024) was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veteran, social worker and lifelong activist.. She was born in Hattiesburg, Mississppi. She received her BA degree in History. from Tougaloo College and a MSW from Howard University. As a social worker, she counseled patients in emergency rooms and rape crisis centers at the District of Columbia General Hospital and St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Bio/Obit
wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorie_Ladner
History Makers https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/dorie-ladner-41
Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2024/03/13/dorie-joyce-ladner-death-civil-rights/9ef52b98-e17b-11ee-95aa-7384336086f3_story.html
New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/dorie-ladner-dead.html
Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/14/metro/dorie-ladner-dauntless-civil-rights-activist-dies-81/
Pittsburgh Courier https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2024/03/21/remembering-the-life-of-civil-rights-activist-dorie-ladner/
Mississippi Today https://mississippitoday.org/2024/03/13/civil-rights-activist-dorie-ladner-dead-at-age-81/
Soutrhern Poverty Law Center https://www.einpresswire.com/article/696077240/splc-mourns-the-passing-of-civil-rights-activist-dorie-ladner
MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/american-trailblazers-honoring-the-legacy-of-two-civil-rights-giants-207170117985
Images
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Activism
Do or Die https://vimeo.com/468541161
PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBmm54DLd5M
SNCC https://snccdigital.org/people/dorie-ladner/
Civil Rights Movement Archive https://www.crmvet.org/search.htm#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=dorie%20ladner&gsc.sort=
Voter Intimidation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBSumOzK29Q
At Occupy Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYJ1xyJwDUo
Films
Danny Lyons https://vimeo.com/483738977
Standing on My Sister's Shoulders https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/standing-on-my-sisters-shoulders/
Interviews
With sister Joyce 2011 https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669153/
Zinn Education Project 2014 https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/interview-with-dorie-ladner/
Al Jazeera 2015 http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2015/2/25/dorie-ladner-erika-totten.html
On Chicago Defender Newspaper 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9wGlirC4os
Activist Archive 2018 https://activistvideoarchive.org/vietnam-interview-archive-1/2018/7/1/dorie-ladner
2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYl9Svhk498
Black Power 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14UlVrnVWs
Panelist
Re Fannie Lou Hamer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iShaevLriI0
Re Mississippi Freedom Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuU8LvrTCCA
Re Mississippi Summer Project https://www.c-span.org/video/?318903-2/1964-mississippi-summer-project&desktop=#!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuU8LvrTCCA
Re NAACP and the Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em_MRicFbT8
Her Sister Joyce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEbJGVSBe2Y https://vimeo.com/696644718 https://vimeo.com/712828567