... activism in the 1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, popularly called Sni...
The 2007 Honorees are: Lupe Anguiano (b. 1929), protector of the earth and activist for the Poor; Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999), civil rights activist and author; Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898), women's rights activist, theorist, and historian; Martha Wright Griffiths (1912-2003), congresswoman; Rebecca S. Halstead (b. 1959), Commanding General, 3rd Corps Support Command; Barbara Haney Irvine (b. 1944) founding president of the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation, Inc.; Brownie Ledbetter (b. 1932), civil rights advocate and activist; Suzanne Lewis (b.1956) first woman superintendent of Yellowstone National Park; Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005); first Black woman appointed to the Federal Judiciary; Monique Mehta (b. 1973); executive director of the Third Wave Foundation; Toshi Reagon...
... and called before a Congressional committee chaired by Sen. Jim Eastland, who believed everyon... to SNCC's (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) The Freedom Singers, a folk group that ...
Recently, James Paschal, one of the founders of Paschal's Restaurant, died in Atlanta due to the complications of heart surgery. He was 88 years old. Paschal's Restaurant was an unofficial headquarters for the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. Many of the organizing meetings to plan now historic civil rights actions, like the March on Washington and the Selma-to-Montgomery March, were held at Paschal's. At a time when public accommodations were racially segregated by law throughout the South, Paschal's was considered an oasis where civil rights activists could congregate, relax, nourish themselves, and in the comfort of that environment fuel their minds to plan major movement actions. Rep. John Lewis, the last remaining member of the Big Six civil rights leaders and former chairman of t...
... chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), made this comment about the pass...
Mrs. [Fannie Lou Hamer] comes into self-conscious being and begins her journey on the road to world recognition when she decides to walk away from the plantation that imprisoned her. She says, "In 1962 nobody knew I existed. . .and I hadn't heard of them either. Then one day, the thirty-first of August, I walked off the plantation". This is her first lesson then-that the will to be free must come from within and that to be free we must walk off the plantation, that is to say, away from the physical and psychological sites that imprison and oppress us. SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, had come to launch a campaign for voter registration and Mrs. Hamer had gone to a meeting to hear them speak of freedom. But no matter what they said or did, she had to embrace the idea...
He understood the seemingly inevitable switch made by his former protégé, Stokely Carmichael, who moved from a leadership role in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. King understood the cry for "Black Power," even if he didn't agree with all of its tenets. The quest to desegregate a lunch counter was always "bigger than a hamburger," but challenging himself and the nation, he stated, "It is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to eradicate a slum. It is much easier to guarantee the right to vote than to create jobs or guarantee an annual income. These things cannot be done without a radical redistribution of political and economic power. Scholar Cornel West calls this era "the ice age" because "it is the age of indi...
Former vice president Al Gore, who already has a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award, will take home an International Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum on Tuesday. Gore will join Diane Nash, co-founder in 1960 of the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee, and legendary bluesman B.B. King as 2008 freedom award winners.
... to two years in prison for teaching nonviolent tactics to Jackson, Miss., children. On appeal, sh...
American filmmakers - Interview Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford won the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary for their film, 'Freedom on My Mind.' The filmmakers wanted to tell the story of how the Mississippi Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee eventually led to the 1964 National Democratic Convention. At the center of the film is the complicity of white liberal administration with the South's discrimination against blacks. Interesting to note is the difference in perspective between African Americans and Caucasian Americans interviewed in the film.
... project - Mississippi SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) staffers and volunteers, m...
As an adult and a product of the "deep" South, Hamer was always looking for ways to express her outrage over the conditions under which Blacks were forced to live* not only in her rural community, but even in the more "enlightened" parts of urban American-" "up" South and "down" South. Hamer believed that Blacks had to change their own conditions politically, socially and economically. The political climate would only improve when Blacks were properly informed and participated in electoral politics, free from fear and intimidation. In doing so, social and economic improvements would follow. She set about to rectify some of the political inconsistencies that were disenfranchising the Black masses and systematically denying them of their constitutional right to vote. One day in 1954, as s...
..., Mississippi, a Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sign caught her attention; Hamer ...
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