# Nonviolent Action Group

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{{Short description|Student organization campaigning for civil rights}}
The '''Nonviolent Action Group''' ('''NAG''') was a student-run campus organization at [Howard University](/source/Howard_University) that campaigned against racial segregation and other civil rights causes in the areas of Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C.  during the 1960s<ref>{{cite book|last1=Carmichael|first1=Stokely|last2=Thelwell|first2=Ekwueme Michael|title=Ready for Revolution|url=https://archive.org/details/readyforrevoluti00carm|url-access=registration|publisher=Scribner|location=New York, NY|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/readyforrevoluti00carm/page/112 112]|isbn=9780684850030 }}</ref>

[Civil Rights Movement](/source/Civil_Rights_Movement) activist [Stokely Carmichael](/source/Stokely_Carmichael) was a member of NAG while a student at Howard.

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