The SNCC Legacy Project is offering a SNCC and Grassroots Organizing: Building a More Perfect Union discussion series on SNCC’s grassroots community organizing and its relevance to ongoing efforts to build a more just, inclusive, and sustainable society.
The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.
Schedule
December 9, 2024: Virtual Freedom Teaching Community Conversation (online)
- 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement conversation with SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Zoharah Simmons, and movement historian Emilye Crosby about SNCC and voting rights and how those lessons might be relevant today. This conversation will be moderated by educator and PhD student, Jessica Rucker. (Register here).
December 14, 2024: International Civil Rights Center & Museum (Greensboro, North Carolina)
- 2:00 – 4:00 pm ET: Freedom Teaching Learning Toolkit Workshop & Discussion with movement scholars Wesley Hogan and Danita Mason-Hogans. Participants will dig into documents and audiovisual materials, learn about Freedom Teaching in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explore how those lessons might be relevant today. (Register here.)
February 7 – 8, 2025: Tougaloo College (Jackson, Mississippi)
March 2025: Museum of Mississippi History & Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Jackson, Mississippi)
April 2025: Claflin University (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
May 2025: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Alabama)
Past Events
Morehouse College Community Gathering in Atlanta, Nov. 15 – 16
- Nov. 15, 5:00 – 6:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion with SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Charlie Cobb, and Movement scholars Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Emilye Crosby (in-person and livestreamed).
- Nov. 16, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ET: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion Workshop with SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Charlie Cobb, and Movement scholars Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Emilye Crosby (in-person only).
- Nov. 16, 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET: Freedom Teaching Learning Toolkit Workshop (in-person only). Participants analyzed exciting SNCC documents and audiovisual materials, learned about freedom teaching in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explored how those lessons are relevant today.
Voting Rights Learning Toolkit Workshop, Oct. 19
October 19, 2024
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- In-person only, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm ET, at the National Center for Civil & Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, with SNCC veteran and film producer, Judy Richardson, and movement historian, Emilye Crosby.
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SNCC & Voting Rights, Sept. 30
September 30, 2024
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- Virtual Community Conversation 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET: SNCC & Voting Rights with SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Jennifer Lawson, and movement historian Emilye Crosby.
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Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept. 12 – 13 (Prairie View, Texas)
September 12, 2024
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- 12:00 – 1:30 pm CT: Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion.
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September 13, 2024
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- 10:00 am – 12:00 pm CT: Women and Gender Roundtable Discussion.
- 1:00 – 2:30 pm CT: Voting Rights Toolkit Workshop.
- Presenters included Judy Richardson, Courtland Cox, and Irving Joyner.
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