SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference
Now Available on DVD!
On April 15, 1960, student activists involved in the sit-ins across the South gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to coordinate their struggles and build a social movement to end Jim Crow segregation. That fateful meeting resulted in the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. SNCC became a proving ground for many of their ideas and leaders who galvanized African Americans over the next half-century.
In April 2010, hundreds of SNCC veterans and supporters gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this pioneering youth-led organization. These 38 DVDs cover the full 50+ hours of eloquent and incisive plenary sessions, panel discussions and cultural programs at the conference, including presentations by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Cong. John Lewis, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Bernice Johnson Reagan and many other SNCC veterans and supporters. The collective experience of the participants, the close examination of this crucial period in U.S. history and its continuing relevance for contemporary youth activists make this collection an invaluable scholarly resource on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, not just of the past but the future.
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For more resources on 1960's social protest movements please consider the following titles from the African American Perspectives collection:
February One
This film tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example for student militancy of the coming decade.
Freedom on My Mind
Nominated for an Academy Award, winner of both the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians awards for best documentary, this landmark film tells the story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s led by Bob Moses and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
July ‘64
This film tells the story of the violent uprising that altered the course of history in Rochester, NY and predicted urban unrest throughout the American North.
Revolution ’67
Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J. outbreak in July 1967, the film reveals how the disturbance began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice.
Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968
The hidden story of the 1968 police killings of black college civil rights protesters at South Carolina State College.
At the River I Stand
The documentary chronicles the tumultuous events that unfolded over two fateful months in 1968. The strike eventually captured national attention and drew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis, along with the assassin who would kill him.
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