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.
Sessions Descriptions and Registration
February 7–8, 2025: Tougaloo College (Jackson, Mississippi) (register here)
Featuring SNCC veterans, Jennifer Lawson and Charles McLaurin, and humanities scholars, Emilye Crosby and Robert Greene
Feb. 7, 10:00 am–12:00 pm CT: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion (in-person & livestreamed)
Feb. 8, 10:00 am–12:00 pm CT: Black Power Roundtable Discussion & Workshop (in-person only)
Feb. 8, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm CT: Organizing Tradition Learning Toolkit Workshop (in-person only)
February 24, 2025: Community Conversation (online)
Featuring SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Zoharah Simmons, and movement historian Emilye Crosby; moderated by educator and PhD student Jessica Rucker
7:00–8:30 pm ET: Organizing Tradition (register here)
March 15, 2025: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Alabama)
Featuring SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and movement scholar Emilye Crosby
10:00 am–2:00 pm CT: Women & Gender in SNCC Learning Toolkit Workshop & Discussion (register here – in-person only)
April 4–5, 2025: Claflin University (Orangeburg, South Carolina) (register here)
Apr. 4, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm ET: Women & Gender in SNCC Roundtable Discussion (in-person & livestreamed)
Apr. 5, 10:00 am–12:00 pm ET: Freedom Teaching Roundtable Discussion & Workshop (in-person only)
Apr. 5, 1:00 pm–1:30 pm ET: Women & Gender Learning Toolkit Workshop (in-person only)
April 21, 2025: Community Conversation
Featuring SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and Dorothy Zellner, and movement historian Emilye Crosby; moderated by educator and PhD student Jessica Rucker
7:00–8:30 pm ET: Women & Gender in SNCC (register here)
April 26, 2025: Museum of Mississippi History & Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Jackson, Mississippi)
Featuring SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and movement scholar Emilye Crosby
10:00 am–2:00pm CT Black Power Learning Toolkit Workshop & Discussion (register here – in-person only)
Past Events
Freedom Teaching Learning Toolkit Workshop & Discussion at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dec. 14
Movement scholars Wesley Hogan and Danita Mason-Hogans aided participants as they explored documents and audiovisual materials, learned about Freedom Teaching in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explored how those lessons might be relevant today.
Virtual Freedom Teaching Community Conversation, Dec. 9
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 are be relevant today. This conversation was moderated by educator and PhD student, Jessica Rucker.
Morehouse College Community Gathering in Atlanta, Nov. 15 – 16
November 15, 2024
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- 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).
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November 16, 2024
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- 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).
- 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.
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Voting Rights Learning Toolkit Workshop, Oct. 19
October 19, 2024 In-person only, at the National Center for Civil & Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, with SNCC veteran and film producer, Judy Richardson, and movement historian, Emilye Crosby.
SNCC & Voting Rights, Sept. 30
September 30, 2024 Virtual Community Conversation: SNCC & Voting Rights with SNCC veterans Judy Richardson and Jennifer Lawson, and movement historian Emilye Crosby.
Prairie View A&M University Gathering in Prairie View, Texas, Sept. 12 – 13
September 12, 2024
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- Voting Rights Roundtable Discussion.
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September 13, 2024
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- Women and Gender Roundtable Discussion.
- Voting Rights Toolkit Workshop.
- Presenters included Judy Richardson, Courtland Cox, and Irving Joyner.
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