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1938
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2018
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CHARLES MCDEW Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for CHARLES MCDEW
4 Entries
C Newton
April 22, 2018
Our deepest sympathy.
Greg and Connie Newton
Charles Brown
April 16, 2018
Family, love, and precius memories are forever.
Melvina (Bootsy) Danzy
April 14, 2018
McDew family you'll have our deepest sympathy. May your brother be remembered for the good he's done for man kind.Chucky was a great leader and had accomplished what he set out to do.
Rachel Harding
April 6, 2018
To the family of Chuck McDew -- I offer my deepest condolences and sympathies. Your father/brother/fiance/uncle was a MAGNIFICENT man whose light and courage has impacted generations of fighters for justice in this country. When I got the news, it saddened me. We have lost so many warriors in recent years... But then I thought about seeing Chuck in Boston a few years ago and I wrote the following memory on my Facebook page.
"Brilliant SNCC leader and lifelong human rights activist, Chuck McDew died earlier today. He was a wonderful man with a bold and large sense of humor, an amazing breadth of intellectual and creative interests and an indefatigable dedication to justice. My heart is heavy for our loss -- our people's loss and the nation's loss -- but I have some joyful memories of Chuck and I am holding onto those today.
The last time I saw Chuck was in Boston, MA a few years ago, when he was visiting with Bob and Janet Moses and their family. Marcia and Daniel Minter were with us too and we all had a ball laughing and being amazed at Chuck's endless wealth of stories (some a tad off-color, but that just made them more hilarious).
When I saw Chuck, it was not long after my father had died and it meant so much to me to be in the warm, embracing company of Freedom Movement family members who loved and remembered by daddy and mama. Chuck talked about being in North Carolina with my dad, on the set of the "Freedom Song" film that Danny Glover, Phil Robinson and others were making, loosely based on Freedom Summer. (It's a great film, by the way.) He had me dying laughing about my dad's insistence on going to the beach every day when they weren't on the set -- the beach that had lost its "whites only" signs but where Chuck and my Dad were the only Black people basking in the sun and where my dad seemed oblivious to the terse/tense stares from white folks passing the two elder black men stretched out on the sand.
We interviewed Chuck for the Veterans of Hope Project while my dad was living, and when he came to town, we housed him at the Lowes Giorgio hotel (the VOHP really believes in doing hospitality right for Freedom Movement veterans). My dad had requested a mountain view room from Chuck but he was told that there wasn't one available when they got to the front desk. Quietly, but insistently, my dad talked to the desk clerk, and then to the manager, until he got the hotel to give Chuck McDew not just a room with a mountain view but a whole SUITE of rooms that faced the mountains and Chuck invited all of his Denver-based family (a lot) to the hotel and they had a party with all the flair and joy that SNCC was famous for!
I'm so glad that as an adult, I had a chance to spend some time with Mr. Chuck McDew. May he rest in peace (after my daddy gives him a big hug and huge smile, welcoming his brother home)."
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