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10 GU I D E to Y E L L OW S P R I NG S | 2O22 – 2O23 The T-shirts and buttons of the once and future human rights organization, Help Us Make a Nation, or H.U.M.A.N., state the local group’s goal: “End Racism.” Started by villagers and Antioch College professors Jim Dunn and Bill Chappelle, and villager Glynna Garrett in the late 1970s, members of H.U.M.A.N. organized, marched, protested and edu - cated in order to fight institu - tionalized racism and sexism, locally and nationally. “There’s only one way to bring about the kind of change we want, and that’s through community organization,” Dunn told the Yellow Springs News in 1979. At the time, H.U.M.A.N. had recently hosted a discussion on nuclear power following a nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, had just joined local families in protesting cuts in day care programs in the area, and would soon plan a “Moratorium on Racism” con- ference at Antioch, the News reported. Dunn went on to share the meaning behind the name, H.U.M.A.N. “You can’t be human without talking about racism, sexism, poverty and war,” he told the News. “Everyone is born with Organizing an end to racism— THE HISTORY OF H.U.M.A.N. By BOMANI MOYENDA and MEGAN BACHMAN From September 2019 ▲ The progressive legacy of H.U.M.A.N., aka “Help Us Make A Nation,” persists today. Villager Shonda Sneed wore a H.U.M.A.N. mask at a 2020 demonstration in downtown Yellow Springs following the murder of George Floyd. P H O T O : K A T H L E E N G A L A R Z A