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The SNCC Legacy Project
@SNCCLegacy
The official account of The SNCC Legacy Project, organized by veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Aug 29, 2022 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
#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.
Aug 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Jul 9, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
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
Oct 17, 2020 • 31 tweets • 5 min read
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.
Aug 3, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jan 8, 2020 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
The SNCC 60th Anniversary Convening: a thread This SNCC 60th Anniversary Convening comes during a critical time, when the gains so many of us fought -- and died -- for are under assault from all sides. But, as we understood then: “Don’t mourn or complain; organize!”