SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 34 - Plenary: In Remembrance of Ella Baker, Howard Zinn, and James Forman
About this title: SNCC and the Southern Movement have lost a lot of important people over the years both from political assassinations and natural causes. Charles Sherrod's moving version of "One more time" incorporates the names and photos of heroe...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 15 - What Was SNCC? How Did It Evolve Over the Years? Why Did It Cease to Exist?
About this title: This panel probes the complex evolution of SNCC: the radicalizing effect of its style of grassroots organizing, its disillusionment with establishment politics, the attacks on SNCC by former liberal allies and more conservative bla...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 16 - Political Impact of SNCC 1964 to 1984
About this title: SNCC's impact on elections across the nation is still little known, but the changes unfolding in the South helped accelerate an emerging black electoral surge in America. Ivanhoe Donaldson explains how Julian Bond's successful camp...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 26 - Plenary: Joyce Ladner
About this title: Joyce and Dorie Ladner’s parents were like many African American parents in that they understood how to survive under Jim Crow and who constantly worried about the welfare of their children. Nevertheless, the Ladners taught their...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 36 - Freedom Concert
About this title: This session is full of the sound and power of movement song. Bernice Johnson Reagon explains the origin of the SNCC Freedom Singers. She introduces a brief video of Cordell Reagon who organized the singers with Charles Sherrod. Ma...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 4 - SNCC Builds an Organization
About this title: This session presents a behind-the-scenes look at the people and elements that kept SNCC running as an organization. The panelists, former SNCC staffers (many of whom also worked “in the field” as well), represent some of the g...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 33 - Special Program: Dick Gregory, "They're Asking Different Questions Today"
About this title: "When you finally get a Black President you get a nice, polite, well-behaved educated one who ain't mad." Gregory was one of a handful of prominent entertainers who consistently supported SNCC. And he was one of the very few of thi...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 19 - Depictions of the Movement in Popular Culture
About this title: Over the years, the popular media has had a troubled relationship with organizations like SNCC. Hollywood film director Phil Alden Robinson maintains that a big challenge to producing freedom movement films for theatrical distribut...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 35 - Dinner Keynote: Danny Glover, "The Real Costs Lie Ahead"
About this title: Actor Danny Glover was 13-years-old in 1960. As a college student at San Francisco State in 1968 "SNCC articulated my own rebelliousness." He recounts the campus struggle for an ethnic studies department and explains that SNCC "tau...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 9 - More Than a Hamburger
About this title: At SNCC's 1960 founding conference, Ella Baker encouraged the students to recognize that their struggle was "bigger than a hamburger" in reference to the original narrow goals of desegregating lunch counters. As the students’ con...