[act-ma] ROGER SHEPPARD - PRESENTE!

[Charlie Welch]

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*By Linda Thompson
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Roger Sheppard born August 6, 1941 died this morning August 18, 2022
peacefully at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. I cannot list all his
contributions but will just mention a brief history.

Roger formed the Fair Play for Cuba committee in 1960 after joining the
Young Socialist Alliance and the Socialist Workers Party while an art
student in Providence RI. After transfering to the MD. Institute of Art,
Roger went to jail in the Cambridge civil rights struggle on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and participated in the fight to desegregate Baltimore.
After moving to Boston MA he helped to build the anti war movement and
became an electrician and joined the IBEW. He interviewed Malcolm X at the
march on Washington for the militant newspaper. He interviewed John Lewis
and got the exclusive copy of Lewis’s unedited speech for the massive civil
rights rally which was printed in the Militant. The speech which Lewis gave
to Roger exposed the Democratic Party before Lewis’s speech was censored
for the rally by the liberals.

After moving to Chicago he worked with Cha Cha Jimenez and the Young Lords
and worked tirelessly to defend them. He put together a student coalition
which built the Chicago demonstration of 70,000 against the war in Vietnam
protesting the Kent and Jackson State killings. After moving back to Boston
he organized his union and Boston unions in support of the Greyhound
strikes and led a fight to defend unemployment compensation in the state of
Massachusetts. Like so many unsung heroes of the movement he stayed true to
the cause of socialism and world revolution. Many may not know that Roger
was a gifted artist and sculptor although he did not pursue a career in art
he did many beautiful sculptures of which one of his devoted friend Deta
Galloway is below.

ROGER SHEPPARD - PRESENTE!


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