2016-03-22

Chuck Fager - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chuck Fager

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Chuck Fager
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Chuck Fager in Fayetteville, North Carolina
BornCharles Eugene Fager
1942
Birmingham, Kansas, U.S.
Alma materColorado State University
OccupationAuthor, Editor, Publisher, Activist
OrganizationReligious Society of Friends
MovementCivil Rights Movement,Peace movement

Charles Eugene Fager (born 1942), known as Chuck Fager, is an American activist, an author, an editor, a publisher and an outspoken and prominent member of theReligious Society of Friends or Quakers. He is known for his work in both the Civil Rights Movement and in the Peace movement. His written works include religious and political essays, humor, adult fiction, and juvenile fiction, and he is best known for Selma 1965: The March That Changed the South, his in-depth history of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement which led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Fager served as Director of Quaker House in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a peace project founded in 1969 near Fort Bragg, a major US Army base from 2002 to 2012.[1][2]

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