Malika Sanders's Bio

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Org: 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement
Location: Selma
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Malika was 16 when she organized 200 students to shut down Selma High School for four days in an ultimately victorious protest of the school’s racist “tracking” system. She is President of 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement, an organization created in 1985 by civil rights movement veterans to help youth (primarily in the African-American community) to be skilled community leaders, empowering themselves and their communities for positive change. She also helped to organize the "Joe Gotta Go" campaign that recently unseated the 36-year reign of racist Selma mayor Joe Smitherman, the same man who presided over the "Bloody Sunday" violence in the voting rights march of 1965. She won the 2001 Reebok Human Rights Award.