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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 22 - Women Leaders and Organizers:
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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 ..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 23 - The Black Church and Black Struggle
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 23 - The Black Church and Black Struggle

About this title: The Black church was born in struggle in the midst of slavery, and despite laws and vigilante actions targeting it for destruction the church has not only survived, but has played a sustained and centra..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 24 - Highlander, SSOC and Organizing in the White Community:
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 24 - Highlander, SSOC and Organizing in the White Community: "We Knew That We Were Not Free"

About this title: Though Black-led and powered by the energy of the Black population, Whites have always been part of the Southern Freedom Movement. Indeed, as all the panelists note, in its largest sense the southern st..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 26 - Plenary: Joyce Ladner
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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. Neverthel..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 27 - SNCC Children Speak
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 27 - SNCC Children Speak

About this title: Children of SNCC veterans presented their memories of SNCC and the lessons they learned from a young age. About the series: This series provides a complete record of every panel and plenary session at ..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 28 - Luncheon Keynote: Congressman John Lewis,
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 28 - Luncheon Keynote: Congressman John Lewis, "Stand Up and Make Some Noise"

About this title: John Lewis, Chair of SNCC from 1963 to 1966, has been a member of Congress for 24 years. Jailed 40 times and badly beaten several times during civil rights protests, his congressional colleagues refer t..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 29 - Luncheon Keynote: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder,
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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 Ca..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 3 - From Student Activists to Field Organizers
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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. Importan..

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 30 - The Young People's Project:
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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...

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 31 - The Cradle to Prison Pipeline
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 31 - The Cradle to Prison Pipeline

About this title: "The one and only thing this nation guarantees our children is a prison bed if they get into trouble," says Crystal Mattison of the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School Program who can hardly hold bac..

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