It would be thirty-eight years before another Black man held that same award.
Four months after that Oscar, in August 1964, the phone rang. James Forman from SNCC told Harry Belafonte that Freedom Summer was running out of money in Mississippi within seventy-two hours.
Four months after that Oscar, in August 1964, the phone rang. James Forman from SNCC told Harry Belafonte that Freedom Summer was running out of money in Mississippi within seventy-two hours.
October 29, 2026 at 4:32 PM
It would be thirty-eight years before another Black man held that same award.
Four months after that Oscar, in August 1964, the phone rang. James Forman from SNCC told Harry Belafonte that Freedom Summer was running out of money in Mississippi within seventy-two hours.
Four months after that Oscar, in August 1964, the phone rang. James Forman from SNCC told Harry Belafonte that Freedom Summer was running out of money in Mississippi within seventy-two hours.
A line of SNCC cars appeared on the road ahead, and the trucks fell back.
Poitier and Belafonte arrived at an Elks hall in the Black section of Greenwood, where hundreds of young volunteers were waiting. Poitier stood up to speak, and he did not give a movie star's speech.
Poitier and Belafonte arrived at an Elks hall in the Black section of Greenwood, where hundreds of young volunteers were waiting. Poitier stood up to speak, and he did not give a movie star's speech.
October 29, 2026 at 4:32 PM
A line of SNCC cars appeared on the road ahead, and the trucks fell back.
Poitier and Belafonte arrived at an Elks hall in the Black section of Greenwood, where hundreds of young volunteers were waiting. Poitier stood up to speak, and he did not give a movie star's speech.
Poitier and Belafonte arrived at an Elks hall in the Black section of Greenwood, where hundreds of young volunteers were waiting. Poitier stood up to speak, and he did not give a movie star's speech.
"It'll be harder for them to knock off two Black stars than one."
They stuffed the cash into doctors' bags and flew from Newark to Jackson. SNCC field secretary Willie Blue picked them up in a station wagon at the tiny Greenwood airstrip and drove them toward town.
They stuffed the cash into doctors' bags and flew from Newark to Jackson. SNCC field secretary Willie Blue picked them up in a station wagon at the tiny Greenwood airstrip and drove them toward town.
October 29, 2026 at 4:32 PM
"It'll be harder for them to knock off two Black stars than one."
They stuffed the cash into doctors' bags and flew from Newark to Jackson. SNCC field secretary Willie Blue picked them up in a station wagon at the tiny Greenwood airstrip and drove them toward town.
They stuffed the cash into doctors' bags and flew from Newark to Jackson. SNCC field secretary Willie Blue picked them up in a station wagon at the tiny Greenwood airstrip and drove them toward town.
“This country was a DEMOCRATIC PARADISE before 2016!” (J. Edgar Hoover & the United Fruit Company howl in glee, every member of SNCC & NAACP reaches for the gin)
October 28, 2026 at 2:42 PM
“This country was a DEMOCRATIC PARADISE before 2016!” (J. Edgar Hoover & the United Fruit Company howl in glee, every member of SNCC & NAACP reaches for the gin)
SNCC did both, protest & organize
Ella Baker invited the students to Shaw and got them started
Ella Baker invited the students to Shaw and got them started
October 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
SNCC did both, protest & organize
Ella Baker invited the students to Shaw and got them started
Ella Baker invited the students to Shaw and got them started
Happy Birthday to Casey Hayden, a SNCC organizer, educator, & writer who helped shape the Civil Rights and women's movements.
From Texas sit-ins to Mississippi organizing and Freedom Summer, Hayden dedicated her life to grassroots change.
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#SNCCLegacy #CivilRights
From Texas sit-ins to Mississippi organizing and Freedom Summer, Hayden dedicated her life to grassroots change.
snccdigital.org/people/casey...
#SNCCLegacy #CivilRights
October 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Happy Birthday to Casey Hayden, a SNCC organizer, educator, & writer who helped shape the Civil Rights and women's movements.
From Texas sit-ins to Mississippi organizing and Freedom Summer, Hayden dedicated her life to grassroots change.
snccdigital.org/people/casey...
#SNCCLegacy #CivilRights
From Texas sit-ins to Mississippi organizing and Freedom Summer, Hayden dedicated her life to grassroots change.
snccdigital.org/people/casey...
#SNCCLegacy #CivilRights
Hard to imagine who in 61 would have been tweeting MORE than the SNCC.
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets."
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
October 22, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Hard to imagine who in 61 would have been tweeting MORE than the SNCC.
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October 29, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I say this because Trump is a Racist and they know this, MLK Medgar Evers SCLC NAACP SNCC The Poverty Law Center and Others didn't fight the fight for nothing!
This may get me removed but.....
Black people that support Trump ain't nothing more than House N*ggers!
I'm not sorry, I'm pissed off!
Black people that support Trump ain't nothing more than House N*ggers!
I'm not sorry, I'm pissed off!
October 23, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I say this because Trump is a Racist and they know this, MLK Medgar Evers SCLC NAACP SNCC The Poverty Law Center and Others didn't fight the fight for nothing!
SNCC photographer Danny Lyon is literally Jewish! He’s only 84 and still around
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October 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
SNCC photographer Danny Lyon is literally Jewish! He’s only 84 and still around
A number of Jim Crow assholes recognized this!
The reason Bull Connor became a national name is the NAACP and SNCC realized he was a giant dick who could not *not* respond with gratuitous violence and cruelty.
The reason Bull Connor became a national name is the NAACP and SNCC realized he was a giant dick who could not *not* respond with gratuitous violence and cruelty.
October 22, 2026 at 1:49 PM
A number of Jim Crow assholes recognized this!
The reason Bull Connor became a national name is the NAACP and SNCC realized he was a giant dick who could not *not* respond with gratuitous violence and cruelty.
The reason Bull Connor became a national name is the NAACP and SNCC realized he was a giant dick who could not *not* respond with gratuitous violence and cruelty.
It is not lost on me how early Twitter -> late Twitter -> X recapitulates the SNCC -> SDS -> Nixon trajectory pretty cleanly
October 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
It is not lost on me how early Twitter -> late Twitter -> X recapitulates the SNCC -> SDS -> Nixon trajectory pretty cleanly
Would SNCC be more or less disfunctional if they had discord chats
October 23, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Would SNCC be more or less disfunctional if they had discord chats
The SNCC would've had a strong TikTok game.
"Pioneers of nonviolent resistance had no use for performative stunts" I'm not sure I agree a hundred percent with your police work there Lou
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets."
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
October 22, 2026 at 2:25 PM
The SNCC would've had a strong TikTok game.
My mother in law Cathy Cade was a SNCC member and freedom rider who later became a movement photographer specifically because visual representation is important and powerful. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/a...
Cathy Cade, Groundbreaking Lesbian Photographer, Dies at 82 (Gift Article)
She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.
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October 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
My mother in law Cathy Cade was a SNCC member and freedom rider who later became a movement photographer specifically because visual representation is important and powerful. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/a...
The racists used violence against the non-violent protesters. MLK, a great admirer of Gandhi,preached non-violence. SNCC led those protests. The Highlander School in Tennessee taught non-violent techniques. MLK understood how powerful it was.
October 25, 2026 at 3:09 PM
The racists used violence against the non-violent protesters. MLK, a great admirer of Gandhi,preached non-violence. SNCC led those protests. The Highlander School in Tennessee taught non-violent techniques. MLK understood how powerful it was.
SNCC would have *killed* for a New York City congressman-in-waiting to take part in the Freedom Summer Project, and they would have been absolutely right to want that publicity.
October 22, 2026 at 4:38 PM
SNCC would have *killed* for a New York City congressman-in-waiting to take part in the Freedom Summer Project, and they would have been absolutely right to want that publicity.
Folks do know that there are plenty of student activists from the Civil Rights Era who are still alive, right? One can simply talk to them rather than declaring that they would have disavowed modern protest tactics.
My mother's entire highschool friend group was in SNCC. She is 80.
My mother's entire highschool friend group was in SNCC. She is 80.
October 22, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Folks do know that there are plenty of student activists from the Civil Rights Era who are still alive, right? One can simply talk to them rather than declaring that they would have disavowed modern protest tactics.
My mother's entire highschool friend group was in SNCC. She is 80.
My mother's entire highschool friend group was in SNCC. She is 80.
The idea that if social media had existed that sophisticated organizers like SNCC wouldn't have had a social media strategy and the Freedom Riders wouldn't have used smartphones to document Freedom Summer is actually kind of racist, like, those Black organizers used every tool they had.
October 23, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The idea that if social media had existed that sophisticated organizers like SNCC wouldn't have had a social media strategy and the Freedom Riders wouldn't have used smartphones to document Freedom Summer is actually kind of racist, like, those Black organizers used every tool they had.
This is just moral cowardice.
This is like saying MLK and Malcolm X and SNCC and all the other civil rights leaders shouldn't have fought against Jim Crow bc it would help Republicans win.
This is just an elaborate justification for complicity.
This is like saying MLK and Malcolm X and SNCC and all the other civil rights leaders shouldn't have fought against Jim Crow bc it would help Republicans win.
This is just an elaborate justification for complicity.
A helpfully clear exchange here
Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028."
Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028."
Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"
October 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
This is just moral cowardice.
This is like saying MLK and Malcolm X and SNCC and all the other civil rights leaders shouldn't have fought against Jim Crow bc it would help Republicans win.
This is just an elaborate justification for complicity.
This is like saying MLK and Malcolm X and SNCC and all the other civil rights leaders shouldn't have fought against Jim Crow bc it would help Republicans win.
This is just an elaborate justification for complicity.
Facts.
There are a lot of parts of King’s strategy with SCLC and SNCC that absolutely cannot work in modernity in part due to legislative changes that make some tactics unsound and others downright dangerous.
There are a lot of parts of King’s strategy with SCLC and SNCC that absolutely cannot work in modernity in part due to legislative changes that make some tactics unsound and others downright dangerous.
When I was reading about SCLC for my dissertation in the 00s, it struck me how often a key tactic in various towns was to “fill the jail” so that the town in question would have to make some concession.
I was like, “Well, that’s sure not a repeatable tactic now.”
I was like, “Well, that’s sure not a repeatable tactic now.”
October 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Facts.
There are a lot of parts of King’s strategy with SCLC and SNCC that absolutely cannot work in modernity in part due to legislative changes that make some tactics unsound and others downright dangerous.
There are a lot of parts of King’s strategy with SCLC and SNCC that absolutely cannot work in modernity in part due to legislative changes that make some tactics unsound and others downright dangerous.
OK if SNCC had TikTok we'd be in Wakanda by now
I cannot assign David Halberstam's history of the civil rights movement under JFK/LBJ, 'The Children', to Twitter. But can people watch a movie? Oprah spent her money producing 'Selma' so you don't have to read a whole book or stay ignorant.
I cannot assign David Halberstam's history of the civil rights movement under JFK/LBJ, 'The Children', to Twitter. But can people watch a movie? Oprah spent her money producing 'Selma' so you don't have to read a whole book or stay ignorant.
"The Jews who went to Mississippi didn't take selfies and post tweets."
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
Okay, but honestly, if tweets had been a thing in 1961, many of them probably would have done.
October 22, 2026 at 4:06 PM
OK if SNCC had TikTok we'd be in Wakanda by now
I cannot assign David Halberstam's history of the civil rights movement under JFK/LBJ, 'The Children', to Twitter. But can people watch a movie? Oprah spent her money producing 'Selma' so you don't have to read a whole book or stay ignorant.
I cannot assign David Halberstam's history of the civil rights movement under JFK/LBJ, 'The Children', to Twitter. But can people watch a movie? Oprah spent her money producing 'Selma' so you don't have to read a whole book or stay ignorant.
Danny Lyon, Cambridge, Maryland, Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC Photographer is Arrested, 1964, printed 1994, gelatin silver print, 21.9 x 32.9cm (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.) © Danny Lyon
October 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Danny Lyon, Cambridge, Maryland, Clifford Vaughs, a SNCC Photographer is Arrested, 1964, printed 1994, gelatin silver print, 21.9 x 32.9cm (National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.) © Danny Lyon
I assumed that the reason you don't seem to have your timeline right or know the organizational history of SNCC and the SCLC is because you're not american and didn't spend as much time learning about it in school, rather than simple ignorance.
October 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I assumed that the reason you don't seem to have your timeline right or know the organizational history of SNCC and the SCLC is because you're not american and didn't spend as much time learning about it in school, rather than simple ignorance.