And civil rights organizer James Forman has died at the age of 76. In the early 1960s he served as executive secretary of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was seen as a major strategist within the civil rights movement. In 1964 he helped organize Freedom Summer and helped plan the 1963 March on Washington. After leaving SNCC, Forman became one of the first to call for the US government to pay reparations to African Americans. Julian Bond said of Forman, “He was indefatigable. It was said that on his death bed, Frederick Douglass’s last words were 'Organize! Organize!' That’s what Forman did every day of his life.”