Nancy Shakir
Nancy Clark Shakir | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | August 29, 1939 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | February 5, 2017 (aged 77) Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Occupation | Politician, activist, educator |
Nancy Clark Shakir (born August 29, 1939) was an American politician and a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2010 for North Carolina's 8th congressional district, which stretches from Charlotte to Fayetteville. Shakir won 14,600 votes (37.30% of the total) but lost to Larry Kissell, who won 24,541 votes (62.70% of the total) in the 2010 primary election.
Personal life[edit]
Originally from Jersey City, Shakir spent a number of years in Montclair before retiring to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she quickly became a valued community activist, and resided happily up to the time of her death. She was the mother of two and the grandmother of three at the time of her death.
Education[edit]
Shakir graduated with a B.A. in History from Rutgers University and a M.A. in Education Administration from St. Peter’s Jesuit College. Her other studies include Organizational Behavior at Polytechnic in Brooklyn, New York. and graduate studies in History at Rutgers University and Fayetteville State University. Shakir was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society in Education.
Activism[edit]
A founding member and officer of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, she also served on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Council for the Social Studies and the New Jersey Center for Civic and Law Related Education. She was a Non-Governmental Agency delegate to the United Nations Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, and served as a staff member at a National Democratic Convention, as a delegate for the White House Conference on Families and as a Commissioner on the Montclair, New Jersey Civil Rights Commission. As an anti-racist trainer, she presented at various regional and national teacher conferences.
Shakir wrote editorials for the Fayetteville Observer where she served as a member of the Community Advisory Board. She was a volunteer with the Cumberland County Progressives, hosted a local Progressive cable show, was a member of the Fayetteville Peace with Justice Committee and the Carolina African American Writers Collective, a volunteer reader for the blind, and a reading buddy in Fayetteville schools.
Death[edit]
Shakir died on Sunday February 5, 2017 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Nancy Clark Shakir obituary". http://www.fayobserver.com. Retrieved March 8, 2017. External link in
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External links[edit]
- http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/15705/29325/en/summary.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101223121040/http://www.torchpoetry.org/08%20Spring/nancyshakir.htm
- http://www.charlotteobserver.com/.../kissell-faces-pressure-on-health.html[permanent dead link]
- http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house/north-carolina/8
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