SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 32 - Actions for a New World
About this title: Members of this panel insist that SNCC continues to influence their work. "We know that not only policy must be changed," says Jonathan Lewis of the Gathering for Justice, "but the attitudes that suppor..
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 w..
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 ..
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 departmen..
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 sin..
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 ci..
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 ca..
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 w..
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..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 6 - Luncheon Keynote: Rev. James Lawson, "We Have Not Yet Arrived"
About this title: At SNCC's founding conference in 1960 it was James Lawson who captured the political imagination of the students. Years before the 1960 gathering, Lawson was imprisoned for 14 months because of his cons..