SNCC 50th Anniversary
Friday, April 16 2010
by Frank Stasio and Lindsay Thomas
sncc50thanniversary.org
In 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee changed the face of the Civil Rights Movement in the Southeast. The majority of SNCC's members were young, educated and displeased with traditional methods used to battle Jim Crow segregation. Women and students in the organization were encouraged to stage peaceful sit-in protests, register voters, remain in jail without bail and collaborate across state lines to achieve racial equality.
SNCC was founded in North Carolina on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh and to honor its 50th anniversary, founders and former members have been invited to attend a commemorative conference. Host Frank Stasio speaks with two former SNCC members and a young justice activist live from the conference at Shaw University. Joining the conversation are Frances Beal, co-founder of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee; Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former SNCC field secretary; and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, a student at East Tennessee State University and a leader in a new generation of civil rights activists.
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