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Today is the 63rd anniversary of SNCC!
From organizing sit-ins to registering voters, SNCC's legacy is one of unwavering dedication to justice and equality. Join us in honoring their legacy and continuing the fight for a better tomorrow! #SNCC #CivilRights #Legacy #History
From organizing sit-ins to registering voters, SNCC's legacy is one of unwavering dedication to justice and equality. Join us in honoring their legacy and continuing the fight for a better tomorrow! #SNCC #CivilRights #Legacy #History
Interested in learning more about the intergenerational legacy of SNCC? Visit snccdigital.org, crmvet.org, blackpowerchronicles.org, and sncclegacyproject.org.
These resources offer valuable information on the courageous work of SNCC activists in the fight for civil rights and their continued impact on social justice movements today. #MovementPioneers #SNCC
#SNCC101: In McComb, MS, SNCC organizers were often subjected to brutal force, blatant racism, and various other forms of violence at the hands of police officers, white nationalists, and the local judicial systems.
Bob Moses was no stranger to these harsh conditions. He moved to McComb in 1961 after spending the summer as a field organizer throughout that region and discussing the potential for a mass voter registration with Amzie Moore, a prominent NAACP colleague.
He worked alongside a group of local adults, high school students, and youth who helped with canvassing and the voter registration campaign. On August 15, 1961, Moses and a group of hopeful registrants were pulled over by police after being denied the right to register.
Did You Know? Before Uber or Lyft, SNCC developed a system of shared rides for organizers in the South called the Sojourner Motor Fleet.
“When a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee field secretary began work in Marshall County, Mississippi in the summer of 1962, he had to ride a mule from settlement to settlement.” The same was true in Wilcox County, Alabama in 1965.
SNCC workers needed to traverse rutted, dusty back roads and long stretches of highway to organize in the rural areas of the Deep South. Cars were so important that SNCC formed its own transportation company, the Sojourner Motor Fleet, Inc., to keep its staff mobile.
This #BlackAugust, in partnership with @MXGMNational we're calling for the freedom of 5 #PoliticalPrisoners:
❤️ Dr. Mutulu Shakur
🖤Mumia Abu-Jamal
💚 Kamau Sadiki
💛Imam Jamil Al Amin
🤎Ed Poindexter
Join us today to send them love, support, & hope: m4bl.link/PoliticalPriso…
❤️ Dr. Mutulu Shakur
🖤Mumia Abu-Jamal
💚 Kamau Sadiki
💛Imam Jamil Al Amin
🤎Ed Poindexter
Join us today to send them love, support, & hope: m4bl.link/PoliticalPriso…
Dr. #MutuluShakur is a father, grandfather, healer, & human-rights activist who has been in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for more than 35 years. He was targeted and victimized by the Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) as early as 1968.
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@MumiaAbuJamal is an internationally celebrated Black writer & radio journalist, author, and organizer. He is a former leader of the Black Panther Party, and supporter of Philadelphia’s radical MOVE organization who has spent the last 40 years in prison.
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#tdih 1965 People began march from Selma to Montgomery in protest of police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and violation of const'l rights to vote. Attacked by state troopers.
Read long history of organizing & repression, incl. with HS students ⬇️ #SNCC zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bloo…
Read long history of organizing & repression, incl. with HS students ⬇️ #SNCC zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bloo…
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist & Baptist church deacon, was shot by state troopers in Marion, Ala. in Feb., during a voting rights march.
His murder was catalyst for Selma to Montgomery march, attacked by troopers on #BloodySunday. #tdih zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jimm…
His murder was catalyst for Selma to Montgomery march, attacked by troopers on #BloodySunday. #tdih zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jimm…
Textbooks focus on segregation with CRM -- but students should learn that demands were also for end to police violence. Incl. when African Americans exercising right to vote often brutally attacked by police.
Below is grades 7+ lesson. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/materials/riot…
Below is grades 7+ lesson. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/materials/riot…
#tdih 1965 People began march from Selma to Montgomery in protest of police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and violation of const'l rights to vote. Attacked by state troopers.
Read long history of organizing & repression, incl. with HS students ⬇️ #SNCC zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bloo…
Read long history of organizing & repression, incl. with HS students ⬇️ #SNCC zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bloo…
Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist & Baptist church deacon, was shot by state troopers in Marion, Ala. in Feb., during peaceful voting rights march. His murder was catalyst for Selma to Montgomery march, attacked by troopers on Bloody Sunday. #tdih zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jimm…
Textbooks focus on segregation with CRM -- but students should learn that demands were also for end to police violence. Incl. African Americans exercising right to vote often brutally attacked by police.
Below is a lesson for grades 7+. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/materials/riot…
Below is a lesson for grades 7+. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/materials/riot…
Today for Black History Month, we're honoring Julian Bond. He has an impeccable record of accomplishments, helping to found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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#SPLC
#BlackHistoryMonth
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He was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where his white colleagues refused to seat him. He would win a case in the Supreme Court and would serve in the Georgia House and Georgia Senate for decades.
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#government
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#Georgia
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#BlackHistoryMonth
He taught at many universities and wound up becoming chair of the NAACP. We should all strive to live a life as Julian, as he had such an impact and legacy devoted to helping his community.
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