#sncc — Public Fediverse posts
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April 17, 1960 - Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in of four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly 150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as overturning segregation in the South.
They also considered it important to give young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement, as many had participated in sit-ins that had proliferated to dozens of cities over the previous three months.
At the Raleigh conference Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” an adaptation of an old labor song. This song would become the national anthem of the civil rights movement.
People joined hands and gently swayed in time singing “black and white together,” repeating over and over, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day.”
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"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."
"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.
"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...
"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
#sncc #BernardLaFayette #selma #ushistory #obit -
"The many dangers LaFayette faced included an assassination attempt on the same night Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi, in what the FBI said was a conspiracy to kill civil rights workers. LaFayette was beaten outside his home before his assailant pointed a gun at him..."
"LaFayette grew up in Tampa, Florida, where he recalled trying to board a trolley with his grandmother when he was 7 years old. Black passengers had to pay at the front, then walk to the back to climb on. But the conductor began to pull away before they could board, and his grandmother fell. He was too little to help.
"He was beaten in Montgomery, Alabama, and arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, becoming one of more than 300 Freedom Riders sent to Parchman Prison...
"Several of King’s marches were attacked by white mobs..."
https://apnews.com/article/bernard-lafayette-voting-rights-organizer-dies-f2f526a1a0b911edb9ef3c219cee77e8
#sncc #BernardLaFayette #selma #ushistory #obit -
"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience"
- #StokelyCarmichael aka #KwameTure
https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/
#BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee
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On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
10 september, 1962: fannie lou hamer survives an assassination attempt by shite supremacists. you can't kill a legend like fannie lou, dumbfucks.
#fannieLouHamer #SNCC #civilRights #mississippi #womensRights #blackVoices #racism #feminism #art #illustration -
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
#RobertMoses #SNCC -
April 17, 1960 - Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in of four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly 150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as overturning segregation in the South.
They also considered it important to give young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement, as many had participated in sit-ins that had proliferated to dozens of cities over the previous three months.
At the Raleigh conference Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” an adaptation of an old labor song. This song would become the national anthem of the civil rights movement.
People joined hands and gently swayed in time singing “black and white together,” repeating over and over, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day.”
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“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
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When white women assume that they represent all women, and presume to communicate or act based on that deeply mistaken position:
#link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UedZpCj8k
Nothing About Us Without Us
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August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
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"Hamer was raised in cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta and became a sharecropper. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize Freedom Summer, a campaign to educate and register Black voters. With Mississippi conducting whites-only primaries, activists formed the racially integrated #Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to confront leading Democrats on a national stage."
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New #research article coming out this year showing that US Southern counties with #CivilRights organizations during the movement era (1954-65) now enjoy less #RacialInequality than those lacked any orgs. This diagram shows the prevalence of these CR organizations by county. Lots of #NAACP chapters, relatively few CORE orgs or #SNCC projects. Most counties had just one of the "Big 4" (NAACP, CORE, SNCC, or #SCLC), 44% had 0. Counties containing #Atlanta and #Jackson, MS had all four. #Juneteenth
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In the early 1960s, Historian #HowardZinn was asked by a book publisher to write a history about the NAACP. He responded that the real dynamic force in the #movement for Black freedom of that era was #SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). He preceded to write an amazing #history of that organization and it's still essential #reading. He wasn't just a passive author, either, but an advisor to his #activist students at Spelman College and he walked the picket-lines with them.
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Sellers describes in heavy detail the experiences of violence and fear the members of SNCC went through.
These descriptions convey the hardship of this fight in a sense that cannot be grasped through a lecture or textbook.
After he declares the movement as his first priority (over school or social life), Sellers leans wholeheartedly into his dangerous work, noting an SNCC leader who claimed they were now on "🔸the river of no return🔸".
#sncc #civilrightsmovement
https://notevenpast.org/review-of-the-river-of-no-return-the-autobiography-of-a-black-militant-and-the-life-and-death-of-sncc-by-cleveland-sellers-with-robert-terrell-1990/ -
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The young #BerniceJohnsonReagon of the #SNCC #FreedomSingers sings “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” cc @riverrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfFkbzjrc
#PeteSeeger #RainbowQuest #CivilRightsMovement #music #BlackMusic