SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 30 - The Young People's Project: "Come Let Us Build a New World"
About this title: In 1988 Bob Moses founded the Algebra Project, a legacy of SNCC. The mission of the Legacy project is to spread math literacy and encourage teenagers to organize and make demands on their school system. In turn, an outgrowth of the...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 38 - Closing Program: Bernice Johnson Reagon, "Solidarity of Past, Present and Future"
About this title: "What you hear in Bernice's songs is the essence of struggle," says Judy Richardson introducing Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. And Reagon declares that "I am standing on ground plowed by people before I came into being." She describes...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 1 - Opening Plenary
About this title: SNCC Advisor, Timothy Jenkins opens the conference explaining that this is not simply a gathering of reminiscence, but a coming together to provide "missing chapters in history" to a new generation of freedom fighters. Following Je...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 14 - The Impact and Influence of SNCC on American Society 1960 to 1968
About this title: This panel, says Vincent Harding, is a "beautiful combination of scholars with the warm, warm blood of social activism running through their lives." The panelists present insights on SNCC drawn from their years of careful study of ...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 37 - Plenary: Bob Moses, "We the People"
About this title: David Dennis introduces CORE’s former Mississippi Project Director, David Dennis, by recalling a 2005 meeting in New Orleans. This was before Katrina, says Dennis, and there were 120 schools in the city. "Now we're lucky if there...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 22 - Women Leaders and Organizers: "You Can Do This"
About this title: "I considered myself more second-class than SNCC did," says a panelist. This panel looks critically at the challenges that women overcame to perform a range of work done for SNCC. Women stepped forward as never before in the ranks ...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 3 - From Student Activists to Field Organizers
About this title: The most remarkable aspect of the civil disobedience and sit-ins of the 1960s was the leadership of young people. More than any other organization, SNCC best reflected this youthful engagement. Importantly, young activists were cha...