SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 5 - The Raleigh Civil Rights Movement
About this title: Just 12 days after the Greensboro, North Carolina sit-in of February 1, 1960, students attending Shaw University and Saint Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina began sitting in at lunch counters. This panel of local leaders...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 11 - Alabama: "Turning to Ourselves"
About this title: Black power as articulated by SNCC emerged directly from the work of its field organizers; and Lowndes County, Alabama, where SNCC consciously organized an independent Black political party in 1966, played an especially important r...
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 29 - Luncheon Keynote: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, "The Nation's in Your Debt"
About this title: According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the first Black Attorney General of the United States, There is a "direct line" from the 1960 lunch counter sit-in that took place in Greensboro, North Carolina to the election of Pre...
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...
Tales of Ordinary People - La petite vendeuse de Soleil
In La petite vendeuse de Soleil (The Little Girl who Sold the Sun)-by the iconoclastic Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety, Mambety brings us the feisty Sili Lam, a twelve year old paraplegic who becomes the first girl to sell a daily newspape...
Alice Walker
"Being black, being a woman, and being a writer is just the most wonderful challenge. It's like having three eyes, three hearts, rather than one," says the author of The Color Purple in this profile, as she relives her journey from an impoverished c...
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...