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Apr 15 • 3 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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 Los Angeles-Houston Freedom...
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 ImageImageImageImage

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#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. Image
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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.
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Jul 9, 2021
Open Letter from Civil Rights Movement Veterans to Teachers:

We’ve Seen This Before and We Stand With You
We who fought and struggled to win voting rights for all Americans during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s stand now to fight against the new wave of
voting-rights suppression and voter nullification laws that are being promulgated across the land. And we who marched for equality and endured jail for Freedom rise now to fight against this new wave of teacher-intimidation and thought-suppression laws being enacted in
Republican-controlled states to distort and deny the violent realities of racism and white-supremacy in American life and history.
We who resisted the laws of segregation by sitting at "White Only" lunch counters, and organized voter registration campaigns among those
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Oct 17, 2020
We are deeply saddened by the recent loss of Elizabeth “Betty” Garman Robinson (1939-2020), former SNCC veteran and ally 🕊
Betty Garman Robinson was a superb organizer. It was a role she totally enjoyed, and one for which she was ideally suited.
She understood, early on, the importance of building relationships, not just as a tool of organizing, but because she genuinely liked getting to know people and their stories. She was an amazingly caring human being.
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Aug 3, 2020
The recent attempt to make a distinction between John Lewis and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) misunderstands the legacy and meaning of Black Power.
As a political project, Black Power was a response to white supremacy and its violent manifestations in the Jim Crow south. This was violence that both John and Kwame knew intimately.
But it was the people in the communities we organized who knew it. They also knew that they were not the problem. Black Power allowed us to articulate their and our belief in their dignity. It countered the negative images that depicted Black life as less than.
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Our Convening will be a multi-generational gathering, including 1960s Movement veterans, activists from the 1970s and 1980s, and today’s organizers. We will look back at the organizing principles that guided SNCC veterans as they expanded democracy in the Deep South.
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