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..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 7 - The Societal Response to SNCC
About this title: This panel and sudience discussion considers the complex response to SNCC by the general public and specific sections of society. The Kennedy Administration was deeply suspicious of SNCC but panelist Jo..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 8 - Up South: "We Raised Money, We Raised Hell"
About this title: This panel explores the evolution of SNCC organizing that took place above the Mason-Dixon line. Panelists discuss how support groups originally formed to provide money and other assistance for the Sout..
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 9 - More Than a Hamburger
About this title: At SNCC's 1960 founding conference, Ella Baker encouraged the students to recognize that their struggle was "bigger than a hamburger" in reference to the original narrow goals of desegregating lunch cou..