Angie Dickerson was a New York-based American tenants' rights organizer[1] involved in the Communist Party who was under surveillance by the FBI.
[2] She was one of the members of Sojourners for Truth and Justice, a leftist, black feminist organization formed in 1951.
[3] Dickerson was a member of the World Peace Council and advocated for US withdrawal from Vietnam and Korea.
[5] 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.
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.