1982 photograph of Stamps speaking at a Chicago city forum
Born
M. Marion Adams
May 28, 1945
Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Died
August 28, 1996(1996-08-28) (aged 51)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other names
Queen Nzinga Sister Marion Mother Marion Queen of Cabrini Mother of Cabrini
Citizenship
United States
Occupation(s)
Activist Member of Illinois chapter Black Panther Party
Organization
Chicago Housing Tenants Organization
Known for
Activism against the displacement and treatment of Cabrini-Green housing project residents in Chicago.
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public housing residents in the Cabrini-Green housing project on the Near-North Side of Chicago, Illinois. She helped to elect Chicago's first African-American mayor, Harold Washington, by organizing a massive voter registration drive in 1983. She was aggressive in her fights to make sure that residents of housing developments had voices regarding their violent and harsh living conditions in public housing. In 1993, Stamps began working with many gang leaders throughout Chicago to help end growing violence. In 1994 she and others successfully navigated what remains the only citywide gang truce in Chicago's history.
Marion Nzinga Stamps (born M. Marion Adams; May 28, 1945 – August 28, 1996) was an African-American community activist who fought for equal rights of public...
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49 years in prison for the murder of a Philadelphia police officer. MarionStamps, member of Chicago chapter. Michael Tabor, New York activist and one...
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to buy orange stamps equal to their normal food expenditures; for every $1 of orange stamps purchased, 50 cents' worth of blue stamps were received....
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topless woman. According to Paul Sayce, writing in Tattoo News, the model was Marion Hollier, who was extensively tattooed at the Les Skuse Tattoo Studio in...
was written in 1932 by Marion Sinclair. A six-pence stamp was issued in 1914. A three-pence commemorative Australian stamp was issued for the 1928 Melbourne...
hand-crafted postage stamps of which became collectors' items around the world. The Egyptian postal authority recognized the stamps, allowing their use...
the Colnect Worldwide Stamp Catalog, and the US Stamp Gallery. For a list of persons portrayed on U.S. stamps see People on stamps of the United States...
Song for Marion is a 2012 British-German comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams and starring Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Christopher...
featured on the postage stamps of Colombia and its states. Note that many of these people have been featured on multiple stamps. The following entries...
Marion Merklein (born 1973) is a German metallurgist who studies metal forming, including stamping and additive manufacturing. She is a professor of mechanical...
favorite songs) was released as well as her biography "Minä ja Marion" ("Me and Marion"). She also played the leading role in the musical Annie get your...
Confederate issues, these stamps were imperforate, and single stamps had to be cut from the sheet with razors or scissors. This stamp was reprinted in blue...
1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was the youngest child of Ethel Marion Gumm (née Milne; 1896–1953) and Francis "Frank" Avent Gumm (1886–1935)....
production and historically used for private writings, legal acts, and revenue stamps. Other renowned local products are a particular kind of anchovy (local Italian:...
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