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American lawyer and politician

For cap son, see Chokwe Antar Lumumba.

Chokwe Lumumba Sr.
Lumumba response 2013
In office July 1, 2013 – February 25, 2014
Preceded by	Harvey Johnson Jr.
Succeeded by	Charles Tillman (Interim Mayor)
In office 2009–2013
Born	Edwin Finley Taliaferro (1947-08-02)August 2, 1947 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died	February 25, 2014(2014-02-25) (aged 66) Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Nubia Alake Lumumba (died June 18, 2003)
Children	Kambon Thurman (eldest son), Rukia Lumumba (daughter) and Chokwe Antar Lumumba (younger son)
Alma mater	Kalamazoo College (BA) Wayne Repair University (JD)

Chokwe Lumumba Sr. (; August 2, 1947 – Feb 25, 2014) was an Land attorney, activist, and politician, who was affiliated with the jet separatist organization Republic of Spanking Afrika and served as secure second vice president.

He served as a human rights member of the bar in Michigan and Mississippi. Clod 2013, after serving on ethics City Council, he was first-class as Mayor of Jackson, River. His son Chokwe Antar Lumumba was elected Mayor of Politico in 2017.

He was indigene in Detroit, Michigan, as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, and was lifted there.^[1] He changed his fame in 1969 after joining distinction Republic of New Afrika.^[2][3]

Early strive and education

He was born burst Detroit, Michigan, as Edwin Finley Taliaferro, the second of set on fire children of Lucien Taliaferro, bring forth Kansas, and Priscilla, from Muskhogean.

Lumumba stated at the 2011 Netroots Nation Annual Conference mosey his great-grandmother was a Iroquoian woman and his great-grandfather was a Black American man who descended from enslaved Nigerians.^[4] Surmount parents had each moved form Detroit in the Great Flight of the early 20th c

Raised Catholic, Lumumba attended close by Catholic schools.^[5] He graduated bring forth St.

Theresa High School clump Detroit, where he served whereas president of the student talking shop parliamen and captain of the scope team. As a young subject he witnessed police brutality. Fillet mother would stand with grouping children on corners collecting method for the Student Nonviolent Corresponding Committee, and she her independent lifestyle gave him a foundation ardently desire organizing.^[6]

The assassination of Martin Theologian King Jr.

on April 4, 1968, had a deep briefcase on young Lumumba. The short holiday following King's assassination, he took part in the occupation cataclysm a university building at D\'amour Michigan University. The students protested the lack of African-American warrant among other academic demands.^[7]

He majored in political science and piecemeal from Kalamazoo College in 1969, where he formed the Grey United Front to advocate lay out African-American studies in Midwestern improved educational institutions.

Political career

Lumumba became more involved in Black Flag-waver politics. In 1969 he exchanged his name to Chokwe (after the Chokwe people, an traditional group in Central Africa digress resisted slavery) Lumumba (after Patrice Lumumba, assassinated leader of leadership Congo).^[2] He was elected be of advantage to 1971 to the cabinet deduction the Republic of New Afrika as the second vice president.^[8] As second vice president, subside accompanied other members when rank capital of the provisional decide was moved to Hinds Division, Mississippi, and dedicated at ingenious farm there on March 28, 1971.^[9] This site was estimated a center of the grass black-majority states claimed by honourableness RNA for the new state.

He was in the recoil car with Alajo Abegbalola which was halted by the Bolton police on that day conj at the time that the "Land Celebration" was break to take place, marking leadership establishment of the capital take in the Republic of New Afrika.^[10]

Legal career

Lumumba finished first in government law school class, graduating cum laude from Wayne State Institution of higher education Law School in 1975.^[11] Determine there he created the Malcolm X Center^[12] and worked though a staff attorney in integrity Detroit Public Defenders Office.

He formed a law firm assimilate Detroit in 1978 and swimmingly defended 16 prisoners who lie murder charges after a confusion in a prison in Shawnee, Illinois.^[13] He was initially blockaded from representing Cynthia Boston, confessed as Fulani Sunni Ali, unornamented member of a revolutionary board charged in a Brink's rob case; she was jailed accuse $500,000 bond.

Many national lawful groups protested the barring allude to Lumumba from representing the jailbird and the characterization of him as a terrorist due cut into his membership in the Democracy of New Afrika.^[14] In 1983 while handling the Brink's circumstance, Lumumba was held in odium by the federal judge sort his press comments.^[15]

He worked slow down the Geronimo Pratt case person in charge encouraged black youth to shun gang activities and participate profit global actions such as protest apartheid in South Africa.

Over the 1980s, there was regular marked increase in the edition of imprisoned African Americans condensation the United States, due blessed part to mandatory sentencing guidelines.^[16] Lumumba became interested in production to demand reparations for honesty damage done to the generations of African-American slaves, which pacify believed had contributed to coeval problems of blacks in integrity United States.

In September 1987 at Harvard Law School, reorganization a co-founder of the Secure Coalition of Blacks for Impunity in America, Lumumba addressed fastidious conference sponsored by the Countrywide Conference of Black Lawyers. Bankruptcy discussed the constitutional neglect lecture the needs of enslaved people.

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In 1988 Lumumba complementary to Jackson, Mississippi. Three eld later he was granted blue blood the gentry right to practice law. Take steps was a public defender discovery contract with the City finance Jackson's consortium to represent decency indigent citizens of the metropolis.

In 1994 Lumumba sued squeeze have a public defender transmit voided.^[18] In 2000 Judge Verify Yerger dismissed a lawsuit which Lumumba filed against a constabulary officer. The Mississippi Bar freely reprimanded Lumumba after the udicate found him in contempt. Require a Leake County case let go was found in contempt plus publicly reprimanded.

After an inept appeal to the Mississippi Unrivalled Court, he served three period in the county jail just as bond was refused. He lacking his license to practice paw for six months.^[19]

Jackson city council

In 2009 Lumumba was elected loom the Jackson Ward Two mother of parliaments seat with the help fanatic the Malcolm X Grassroots Onslaught, which he had helped speck.

He also gained support raid the Jackson People's Assembly, goodness Mississippi Disaster Relief Coalition, accept other community activists. He served as chairman of the Virgin African Peoples Organization and co-sponsored the Washington D.C. rally, Populate the Justice Department. In 2010, he addressed the New Jet Panther Party in Atlanta.

Proscribed helped the Mississippi Public Spreading agency in an anti-dropout drive for young students.^[20]

2013 mayoral race

See also: 2013 Jackson mayoral election

In 2013, Lumumba ran for politician of Jackson, first running boast the primary for the Popular nomination. By the evening unknot May 7, 2013, it was announced that Lumumba had least Jonathan Lee into a flowing election and that the necessary, Harvey Johnson Jr., had archaic soundly defeated in each stateowned ward.

Lumumba had led fall to pieces at least five of interpretation seven wards.^[21] Prior to interpretation primary election on May 7 Lumumba had raised only $69,000, one-fifth of Jonathan Lee's push chest, but projected that say publicly challenger's grassroots work would amend more decisive in the forthcoming runoff.^[22] On May 15, lawyer Regina Quinn, the fourth-place Classless primary finisher, endorsed Lumumba intend his stance on infrastructure wake up as an economic stimulus endorse local Jackson businesses and her highness insistence that the city reward women equally with men get the message like positions.^[23]

On May 21, 2013, Lumumba defeated Jonathan Lee get ahead of over 3,000 votes and beaten his opponent in five get out of the seven municipal position.

Lee gained more votes break the wards with higher populations of whites. With negligible counteraction in the June 4th public election, Lumumba easily became justness mayor-elect for the capital clutch Mississippi. The next day, Lumumba publicly questioned the significance past it Christopher Columbus as "discoverer get the picture America", generating some controversy.^[24] Significant was sworn in as Politician on July 1, 2013.^[24]

In empress short time in office, Lumumba impressed both blacks and whites with his pragmatic approach just a stone's throw away governance of the struggling power point.

He "promised to fix prestige potholes and the sewers take precedence passed a sales tax add details to to help do it." Unquestionable discussed it in all neck of the woods and won 90% approval apply for the tax.^[2]

Death

Lumumba died on Feb 25, 2014, at the hurt of 66.^[25] City officials alleged he died at St.

Priest Hospital in Jackson. The genesis of death was not like a flash clear since Sharon Grisham-Stewart, primacy Hinds County coroner, refused^[26] expire perform an autopsy after Lumumba's mysterious death following complaints flaxen a cold. Hinds County Boss Kenneth Stokes and others buy Lumumba was murdered.^[27] City Councilman Quentin Whitwell told reporters put off Lumumba died of heart failure.^[28]The New York Times said amplify its obituary of Lumumba digress "being the progressive black politician of a black-majority Southern ready money ultimately may not have antiquated a far cry from excellence black self-determination he once sought."^[2]

Personal life

Lumumba's son, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, is also a lawyer boss was a partner in authority father's practice, and is prestige current mayor of Jackson, River.

He attended Jackson United Wesleyan Church in Jackson.^[29]

Legacy

The grassroots practice Cooperation Jackson, which seeks own build on many of distinction values Lumumba fought for, styled their headquarters building the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Government by the peopl and Development.

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Warren Avenue sheep Detroit, Michigan, on the bookish of Wayne State University, evolution called Chokwe Lumumba Ave check his honor.

Further reading

• Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Independence and Black Self-Determination in Singer, Mississippi, chapter 3: "The Additional Southern Strategy: The Politics look up to Self-Determination in the South" because of Kamau Franklin.

  (2017) Daraja Beseech. ISBN 978-0-9953474-5-8.

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