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 ..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 17 - Luncheon Keynote: Harry Belafonte, "Why Can't Our Children Find Us?"
About this title: Rev. David Forbes, one of Raleigh's student sit-in leaders in 1960 opens this luncheon with a short political prayer. In formally welcoming attendees, Shaw University Interim President Dr. Dorothy Yancy..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 18 - Ella Baker's Roots: "Give People Light and They Will Find a Way"
About this title: This panel examines the legacy of Ella Baker, the inspiration behind the original SNNC founding conference. Ella Baker was more than 30 years older than virtually everyone participating in SNCC's foundi..
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 f..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 2 - Early Student Movement Philosophy and Activism
About this title: While deep dissatisfaction was a major factor mobilizing the young people who would engage in direct action protests, often the first steps into activism led to a greater-than-anticipated commitment. Da..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 20 - Black Power, Black Education and Pan Africanism
About this title: Throughout the ten years of its formal organizational existence, SNCC did a variety of things it felt necessary: sit-ins, freedom rides, campaigns aimed at the desegregation of public facilities, voter ..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 21 - The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: "A Real Democratic Process"
About this title: This session looks at what made SNCC "radical" by focusing on the people who worked with SNCC. The session also addresses the emergence of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Although 96 pe..
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
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: "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..