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Chokwe Lumumba (; August 2, 1947 – February 25, 2014) was an attorney and politician, affiliated with the Republic of New Afrika and serving as its second vice president. He served as a human rights lawyer in Michigan and Mississippi. In 2013, after serving on the City Council, he was elected as Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, and was raised there, attending local schools.〔("Elect Chokwe Lumumba Mayor of Jackson" ). Retrieved May 12, 2013.〕 He changed his name in 1969 after joining the Republic of New Afrika.〔 ==Early life and education== He was born in Detroit, Michigan, as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, the second of eight children of Lucien Taliaferro, from Kansas, and Priscilla, from Alabama. Some of his forebears were said to be Cherokee. His parents had each moved to Detroit in the Great Migration of the early 20th century. Taliaferro attended local Catholic schools. He graduated from St. Theresa High School in Detroit, where he served as president of the student council and captain of the football team. As a young man he witnessed police brutality. His mother would stand with her children on corners collecting money for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and she impressed on her son the important role of political activism and civil rights. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, had a deep effect on young Taliaferro. The day following King's assassination, he took part in the occupation of a university building at Western Michigan University. The students protested the lack of African-American faculty among other academic demands.〔(Chokwe Lumumba profile ), frontlinedefenders.org; retrieved May 12, 2013.〕 He majored in political science and graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1969, where he formed the Black United Front to advocate for African-American studies in Midwestern higher educational institutions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chokwe Lumumba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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