Gloster B. Current
American activist
About Gloster B. Current
Lived 1913 – 1997 (aged 83–84).
Gloster B. Current (1913 – July 3, 1997) was deputy executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Director of Branches and Field Administration of the NAACP during the Civil Rights Movement. It was a period of major expansion and activism for the NAACP. He also wrote a book, was an accomplished jazz musician, and was an ordained Methodist minister.
Current came to New York City from Detroit in 1946 at the behest of Walter Francis White. Cecilia Suyat Marshall was his private secretary at the NAACP. His papers were given to Wayne State University.
He died on July 3, 1997, of leukemia and pneumonia.
Roscoe Lee Browne portrayed Current in For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983), a film about Medgar Evers. Current claimed to have been the last person to speak with Evers.
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Who was Gloster B. Current?
American activist (1913–1997)
When was Gloster B. Current born?
Gloster B. Current was born in 1913.
When did Gloster B. Current die?
Gloster B. Current died on 3 July 1997.
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