Useful Links
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) – Entry from the King Encyclopediahttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee-sncc
The Story of SNCC https://snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/the-story-of-sncc/where-do-we-go-from-here/ Here are a few key lessons, articles, books, and films on the history, philosophy, and legacy of SNCC. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sncc/ SNCC: The Importance of its Work, the Value of its Legacy https://www.sncclegacyproject.org/about/legacy The SNCC Project: A Year by Year History 1960-1970 https://depts.washington.edu/moves/SNCC_project.shtml Biography: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/educate/lunch.html |
Primary Sources
The Student Voice (1960)- What is SNCC?
https://snccdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/digitalcollections/sv6006.pdf Youth Leadership Meeting Shaw University Raleigh, N.C- April 15-17 1960 https://snccdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/digitalcollections/6004_sncc_call.pdf STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE 197~ Auburn Avenue, N.E. Atlanta 3, Georgia STAFF MEETING -- October 8•10, 1961 https://snccdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/digitalcollections/6110_sncc_staff_min.pdf A SNCC Activist Describes Police Intimidation in the Voter Registration Campaign https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/982 |
People Involved in SNCC
Ella Baker
Report on Mississippi voter registration, clippings about the southside youth leadership meeting on nonviolent resistance to segregation etc.
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/17982
Oral History Interview with Ella Baker, September 4, 1974.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0007/menu.html
This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross tells the story of Ella Baker, the unsung hero of the civil rights movement who founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mr13.socst.us.ellabaker/ella-baker-and-the-sncc/
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic VisionBook — Non-fiction. By Barbara Ransby. 2005. 495 pages.
This biography chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
https://bookshop.org/books/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement-a-radical-democratic-vision/9780807856161
Brief biography of Ella Josephine Baker, 1903–1986, activist and civil rights organizer.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baker-ella/
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll2/id/17982
Oral History Interview with Ella Baker, September 4, 1974.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0007/menu.html
This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross tells the story of Ella Baker, the unsung hero of the civil rights movement who founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/mr13.socst.us.ellabaker/ella-baker-and-the-sncc/
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic VisionBook — Non-fiction. By Barbara Ransby. 2005. 495 pages.
This biography chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
https://bookshop.org/books/ella-baker-and-the-black-freedom-movement-a-radical-democratic-vision/9780807856161
Brief biography of Ella Josephine Baker, 1903–1986, activist and civil rights organizer.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/baker-ella/
Diane Nash
How Freedom Rider Diane Nash Risked Her Life to Desegregate the South
Now an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Nash was arrested dozens of times for non-violent protests—including while six months pregnant.
https://www.history.com/news/diane-nash-freedom-rider-civil-rights-movement
SNCC BIO: Diane Nash
https://snccdigital.org/people/diane-nash-bevel/
Diane Nash: 'Non-violent protest was the most important invention of the 20th century'
She led the lunch counter protests and organized the Freedom Riders in the 60s. What does civil rights veteran Diane Nash think of today’s campaigners?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/apr/06/diane-nash-non-violent-protest-civil-rights-gandhi-martin-luther-king
In this interview, civil-rights leader Diane Nash recalls her role in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the 1961 Freedom Rides, and the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama. As one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Nash mobilized her fellow college students to confront segregation and discrimination with nonviolent direct action
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.nash/diane-nash-and-the-sit-ins/
Meet Diane Nash, the Civil Rights Icon Awarded the U.S.’ Highest Civilian Honor
The 84-year-old activist received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her leadership during the 1960s fight against segregation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diane-nash-presidential-medal-freedom-civil-rights-180980380/
Bob Moses
Bob Moses- involvement with SNCC
https://snccdigital.org/people/bob-moses/ https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/moses-robert-parris Entry from the King Encyclopedia https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/moses-robert-parris Remembering the most important civil rights hero most Americans have never heard ofhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/opinions/bob-moses-freedom-summer-legacy-joseph/index.html The Algebra Project https://algebra.org/wp/bob-moses/ "Speech on Freedom Summer at Stanford University" Palo Alto, California - April 24, 1964 http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/bmoses.html |
SNCC & Freedom Summer
Freedom summer (1964)
SNCC Outlines a "Citizenship Curriculum" for MississippiThis curriculum was created by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for their Freedom Schools, part of the Freedom Summer organizing effort that brought hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi in the summer of 1964.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1159
This plan, written by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) member Charles Cobb, proposed that SNCC include Freedom Schools as part of the massive organizing effort it was planning for the summer of 1964. SNCC was creating Freedom Summer to bring hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi, and Cobb believed that some of these students could be put to good use helping African-American youth develop their own organizing and leadership capacity.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1158
Student Writing from Freedom School Newspapers
These short pieces, written by young people, appeared in newspapers published by Freedom Schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964. These Freedom Schools were part of a larger effort that summer, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that brought hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi to register African-American voters and help black Mississippians gain their civil rights.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/901
SNCC Outlines a "Citizenship Curriculum" for MississippiThis curriculum was created by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for their Freedom Schools, part of the Freedom Summer organizing effort that brought hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi in the summer of 1964.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1159
This plan, written by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) member Charles Cobb, proposed that SNCC include Freedom Schools as part of the massive organizing effort it was planning for the summer of 1964. SNCC was creating Freedom Summer to bring hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi, and Cobb believed that some of these students could be put to good use helping African-American youth develop their own organizing and leadership capacity.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1158
Student Writing from Freedom School Newspapers
These short pieces, written by young people, appeared in newspapers published by Freedom Schools in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964. These Freedom Schools were part of a larger effort that summer, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that brought hundreds of college students from around the country to Mississippi to register African-American voters and help black Mississippians gain their civil rights.
https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/901