Angie Dickerson

{{Short description|American activist}}

{{About|the American activist|the American actress|Angie Dickinson}}

Angie Dickerson was a New York-based American tenants' rights organizer{{cite journal|last1=McDuffie|first1=Erik|title=A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women": Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War|journal=Radical History Review|date=2008|volume=2008|issue=101|pages=81–106|doi=10.1215/01636545-2007-039}} involved in the Communist Party who was under surveillance by the FBI.{{cite journal|last1=FBI|title=Angie Dickerson|journal=New York Bureau File|date=14 January 1955}} She was one of the members of Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a leftist, black feminist organization formed in 1951.{{cite book|last1=McDuffie|first1=Erik S.|title=Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism|date=2011|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham [NC]|isbn=978-0-8223-5033-0|page=160|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFDmC4g5NjYC&pg=PA160|accessdate=4 April 2015}}

Dickerson was a member of the World Peace Council and advocated for US withdrawal from Vietnam and Korea.{{cite journal|title=Congressional Record House #11189|journal=Congressional Record|date=21 April 1971|volume= 117|issue=92nd Congress, Session 1, Parts 8-9|page=869|url=https://archive.org/stream/congressionalrec117eunit#page/n868/mode/1up|accessdate=4 April 2015}} For the conference held in East Berlin of the World Peace Council from 21–23 June 1969 to convince the US to recognize the German Democratic Republic, Dickerson was sent 20 tickets for Aeroflot passage from New York City

for conference attendees.{{cite web|last1=Huston|first1=Tom Charles|title=Foreign Communist Support of the Revolutionary Protest Movement in the United States|url=https://archive.org/stream/Huston-Foreign-Support-Communist/Huston-ForeignSupport_djvu.txt|website=Internet Archive|year=1969 |publisher=US Government Declassified Internet Archive|accessdate=4 April 2015}}

In 1970, Dickerson chaired, along with Ossie Davis, Dick Gregory and others, a National Emergency Conference to defend the Black Panther Party's right to existence. Believing that the US Attorney was attempting to destroy the party, a wide group of church leaders, civil rights groups, labor groups and colleges sponsored the conference. The sponsors included: Ralph Abernathy head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Irving Sarnoff of the Los Angeles Peace Action Council; and Rev. Quincy Cooper, of Black Methodists for Church Renewal.{{cite news|title=Groups To Rally In Chicago To Defend Black Panthers|url=http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1970-02-07/ed-1/seq-16/ocr.txt|accessdate=4 April 2015|publisher=The Carolina Times|date=7 February 1970}}