SNCC 60th

and so many others, guided the young people of SNCC in developing their informational wealth: grassroots organizing skills based on experience and an understanding of the need for systemic, structural change.

SNCC’s leadership – together with older local organizers – provided leadership during this country’s most historic social justice events: sit-ins; Freedom Rides; voter registration drives in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas; Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” campaign;

She wanted the young activists to understand that the goals of their movement had to be much broader than what they could envision at that moment...

...reminding them that segregated lunch counters were just the most visible examples of the larger, systemic web of racial, political and economic inequality.

This was the informational wealth that she passed on and that continues to live within SNCC veterans today.

We, too, feel a deep responsibility to share our own informational wealth. And, like Ms. Baker, we recognize that this must be done by working collaboratively with young people, understanding - and learning from - their issues and organizing concerns.