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The Nonviolent Action Group (NAG) was a student-run campus organization at Howard University that campaigned against racial segregation and other civil rights causes in the areas of Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. during the 1960s[1]

Civil Rights Movement activist Stokely Carmichael was a member of NAG while a student at Howard.

  1. ^ Carmichael, Stokely; Thelwell, Ekwueme Michael (2003). Ready for Revolution. New York, NY: Scribner. p. 112. ISBN 9780684850030.

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