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gamedesignerben.bsky.social
This is history repeating. During the ‘68 Columbia protests, CUNY students also held similar protests, with demands that paralleled Columbia’s Black student demands as opposed to SNCC’s. Their punishments and physical abuse by police were generally harsher.
May 3, 2024 at 2:31 PM
obsofdeviance.bsky.social
Rest In Power

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SNCC's Rap album, vinyl front
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
jedgeco.bsky.social
I happen to have SNCC’s contact list right here:
www.crmvet.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
You’re comparing apples and oranges here. SNCC’s “front lines” were metaphoric and domestic.

If you want a 60s counterpart to Gaza, it’s Vietnam. And the vast majority of student protests against *that* foreign war took place domestically, not on the literal front lines.
April 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
rhutabhayga.bsky.social
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) was an American civil rights and voting rights activist whose grassroots leadership transformed Mississippi’s racial politics and inspired national reform.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#BlackHistoryMonth
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) was an American civil rights and voting rights activist whose grassroots leadership transformed Mississippi’s racial politics and inspired national reform. Her searing testimony and organizing work made her one of the most influential voices of the mid-20th-century freedom struggle. Hamer became SNCC’s field secretary in 1963 and quickly gained national prominence for her courage and faith-driven oratory. She co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge segregation within the state’s Democratic Party. Her televised testimony before the 1964 Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, recounting her beating in a Mississippi jail, exposed northern audiences to the brutal realities of Jim Crow and forced reforms in delegate inclusion. She co-organized Freedom Summer and later established the Freedom Farm Cooperative and a “pig bank” to combat rural poverty through Black landownership and food security. Working with groups such as the National Council of Negro Women, she also advanced early childhood education and housing in Sunflower County.
February 20, 2026 at 4:08 PM
revjss.bsky.social
Today is the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

In this election year, let us who live in the USA remember how important the right to vote is. And let us exercise that right.
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Alabama state troopers beat SNCC’s John Lewis on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, Library of Congress photo.
March 7, 2024 at 10:10 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1890, Mississippi adopted new constitution with poll tax and arbitrary literacy tests to end Reconstruction progress 💔 for African Americans.

Precedent for other states.

See SNCC's 1964 Mississippi: Subversion of Right to Vote ⬇️🧵#TeachReconstruction
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Nov. 1, 1890: Mississippi Constitution
Mississippi adopted a state constitution with poll tax and literacy tests to roll back the gains of the Reconstruction era.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
sailormichael.bsky.social
Let me put it another way. This is one of the images that was powerful and eventually would change the country. He wasn't violent by the way.
Alabama state troopers beat SNCC's John Lewis on Bloody Sunday
June 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
covingtonedu.bsky.social
I went down a rabbit hole about democratic listening and found myself reading about SNCC's Freedom Schools. Education and Democracy has the full curriculum & correspondence including recommended methods, texts, & resources:

ttp://educationanddemocracy.org/FSCfiles/A_05_PDFs.htm
Freedom school curriculum excerpt 1 Freedom school curriculum excerpt 2 Freedom school curriculum excerpt 3 Freedom school curriculum excerpt 4
May 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
bambooshooti.bsky.social
In 1962, LaFayette became the director of SNCC’s Alabama Voter Registration Project. In early 1963, he and his wife, fellow activist Colia Liddell, moved to Selma, Ala. — a territory considered by many in the movement to be too hostile and dangerous for effective organizing. /6
Young activists hold signs urging people to register to vote during SNCC’s Alabama Voter Registration Project. When national civil rights organizations wrote off Selma as too dangerous and impossible to organize, LaFayette volunteered to go, engineering an organizational model that laid the direct groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In 1962, SNCC was looking to expand its voter registration efforts into the Black Belt of Alabama. Selma (Dallas County) was notorious for its brutal white supremacy, enforced by the violently racist Sheriff Jim Clark. Applying his Lawson workshop training, LaFayette argued that the most resistant areas were precisely where the movement needed to strike. He declared that if segregation could be broken in Selma, it could be broken anywhere. He and his wife, Colia Liddell LaFayette, moved into Selma in February 1963 with a total monthly SNCC budget of just $10.
July 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
waleedshahid.bsky.social
New: We should treat civil rights leaders as the Founding Fathers and Mothers of a new republic. Today’s liberalism debates (over identity, the state, and capitalism) are their unfinished quarrels.

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SNCC’s Ghosts, the Fourth Republic, and the Crisis of Liberalism
Liberalism versus nationalism, social democracy versus identity politics: the Fourth Republic’s buried quarrels and the search for a new American order.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This reminds me of John Doar's meeting with Freedom Summer volunteers before they went down to Mississippi.

He sympathized with the work but told them, accurately, that the federal government couldn't protect them and they were on their own. Some were furious; others appreciated the straight talk.
Paragraph from my draft manuscript on Doar and the Civil Rights Division: It was John Doar’s duty to deliver this unwelcome message to the students in Oxford. The Civil Rights Division leader had long expressed his admiration for the “heroes” in SNCC who were fighting to bring democracy to Mississippi. Privately, he was a bit thrown by their determination to confront white supremacy in the darkest corners of the Deep South. SNCC’s fiery field secretaries reminded him of “young people who, when asked to go out and get some firewood, immediately sink their ax into the biggest tree in the forest.” Still, he was impressed. “I hope they don’t get discouraged,” he noted in a 1963 interview. “I hope they stick it out and keep working. After all, they’re only trying to urge people to register.” Nevertheless, he cautioned, it was “very difficult” for federal officials like him to protect them during that work. “I can’t keep a crime from being committed,” he shrugged apologetically. Speaking at the Freedom Summer orientation, he repeated this stance. The student volunteers were “real heroes,” he stressed again, praising their courage and their convictions. But when he noted that the federal government lacked any power to protect them, the room grew restless. A black activist in overalls challenged him point blank: “What are you going to do to enable us to see the fall?” Doar could only answer, “Nothing. There is no federal police force. The responsibility for protection is that of the local police. We can only investigate.” “You could feel a sudden, palpable deflation in the room,” remembered SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael. “Then anger and disappointment.” As boos and shouts filled the hall, Bob Moses rose to defend his friend Doar and chided the students for the outburst: “We don’t do that.” Doar wasn’t responsible for the federal policy, Moses noted, and he deserved thanks for traveling there and telling it to them straight.
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
Don't miss this incredible series.

Next online class is Monday, Dec. 9 with SNCC vets, scholars, educators Judy Richardson, Zoharah Simmons, Emilye Crosby, and Jessica Rucker.

Free, engaging, eye-opening, inspiring, educational.

Hope to see you there. RSVP ⬇️
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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing
Join the SNCC Legacy Project at an in-person or virtual event to learn more about SNCC’s organizing work from SNCC veterans and humanities scholars and to explore connections to your life and communit...
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December 7, 2024 at 4:35 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
Textbook stories on CRM focus on segregation. But a bigger issue was daily, random, brutal violence against all African Americans and white allies.

Students need to learn that history -- to see the 🧵& learn how to organize for change.

One example is from SNCC ⬇️
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SNCC: The Importance of its Work, the Value of its Legacy
SNCC Staff singing a Freedom Song in SNCC’s National office (Atlanta,1963). They are wearing coats because there was no heat. L-R: Mike Sayer, MacArthur Cotton, James Forman, Rick Manning, Marion Barr...
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June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
aicphotography.bsky.social
Willie Ricks was one of SNCC’s great stump speakers, capable of getting great emotional responses from a crowd. During the Meredith March in Mississippi, where King and Stokely Carmichael marched side by side, it was Ricks who first... https://www.artic.edu/artworks/234095/
Gift of Dr. Daveed D. Frazier
October 3, 2026 at 10:03 AM
tamaranopper.bsky.social
For Sociology of Money, situating efforts to uncover private equity with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s research department.

As SNCC’s Julian Bond said, “‘Power structure’ was no abstract phrase... but a real list with real people’s names and addresses and descriptions of assets.”
July 27, 2026 at 2:41 PM
bambooshooti.bsky.social
As a student at Yale Law School, Norton served as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped run SNCC’s New York office. In the summer of 1963, she worked directly under Bayard Rustin, serving as a primary staff organizer for the historic March on Washington. /5
Eleanor Holmes Norton's early civil rights work brought her into the orbit of Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph, cementing the mentorship that would later lead to her role in the 1963 March on Washington. She also worked alongside Medgar Evers and helped civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer build a legal case when she was severely beaten by police.
June 14, 2026 at 12:44 AM
aclunc.bsky.social
On this day in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded, becoming a driving force in the Civil Rights Movement. SNCC’s young activists took bold action for justice, from sit-ins to voter registration drives. #OnThisDay
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
grantlorrell.blacksky.app
I was recently reading a history text which looked at the SNCC's influence on the passage of the Civil Rights Act. And, yeah, the instinct to tone police & scold the most vulnerable groups seems to be an unshakable tendency of centrists and far too many liberals.
February 4, 2024 at 5:53 PM
sncclegacy.bsky.social
Today we honor Lorraine Hansberry.

Whether raising funds, rallying support, or writing to educate Northern audiences about SNCC’s mission, she was constantly in solidarity with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

#OurHistoryOurHumanity
May 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
Yes! And here is a short bio and some interviews/primary documents about Judy Richardson at the @sncclegacy.bsky.social SNCC Digital Gateway.

(Warning -- once you visit the site, it is hard to leave. So many powerful stories.)

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Judy Richardson - SNCC Digital Gateway
Working in SNCC’s National Office as Jim Forman’s secretary gave Judy Richardson a birds-eye view of the organization. She communicated with pro-bono....
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April 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
bambooshooti.bsky.social
LaFayette quietly built a sustainable infrastructure for local leadership. His bravery was tested on June 12, 1963 — the night Medgar Evers was assassinated — when he was brutally beaten outside his home. He went to work the next day wearing his bloodied clothes to show his lack of fear. /7
Bernard LaFayette after he was beaten in Selma, Ala., on June 12, 1963. The brutal beating was not a random act of racial violence, but a calculated assassination attempt. The FBI later uncovered that the attack was part of a coordinated, multi-state Ku Klux Klan conspiracy targeting prominent civil rights workers. LaFayette was targeted for his relentless work directing SNCC’s voter registration project in Selma. Photo credit: cmvet.org.
July 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
ansleyquiros.bsky.social
and unlawful assembly. But the leaders--Ralph Allen (snccdigital.org/people/ralph...), Don Harris (snccdigital.org/people/don-h...), and John Perdew (snccdigital.org/people/john-...) who worked with SNCC were additionally charged with insurrection. Zev Aelony (CORE) was too a week later.
Ralph Allen - SNCC Digital Gateway
Ralph Allen joined SNCC’s Southwest Georgia project in the summer of 1962. He was among a handful of whites working with the project, which was unique for..
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June 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
clancyny.bsky.social
I'm a big admirer of Tanisha Ford's work. And, I love to refer people to her 2013 journal article, "SNCC Women, Denim, and the Politics of Dress." It's hosted on JSTOR which should be accessible through most public libraries or by registering (for free) with JSTOR.
www.jstor.org/stable/23795...
626 THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY were wearing denim skirts and jeans.”2 Moody’s realization that she was overdressed compared with her denim-clad peers speaks to an understudied aspect of SNCC’s history. In the short time between SNCC’s formation in 1960 and the 1963 March on Washington, a style aesthetic that celebrated the clothing of African American share-croppers had clearly emerged among SNCC women.3 This article explores why young black women activists abandoned their “respectable” clothes and processed hairstyles in order to adopt jeans, denim skirts, bib-and-brace overalls, and “natural” hair—hair that had not undergone heat or chemical treatments. Why did they make these choices, and what does their journey reveal about SNCC’s radical brand of activism, intraracial class politics, and youth culture more broadly? Examining the experiences of several SNCC women, including Anne Moody, Debbie Amis Bell, and Judy Richardson, I argue that women’s modification of clothing
January 6, 2024 at 2:31 AM
carceralabolition.bsky.social
SNCC’s convergence with politically-experienced adults like Ella Baker & WW II vets was crucial to the foundation on which SNCC stood & began developing its work. SNCC learned they could embed themselves in a community & organize, especially around voter registration snccdigital.org/resources/th...
Organizing Tradition - SNCC Digital Gateway
SNCC’s convergence with politically-experienced adults like Ella Baker and World War II veterans like Amzie Moore was crucial to the foundation on which SNCC stood and began developing its work.... Re...
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July 20, 2026 at 5:20 AM