SNCC 60th

If you are unable to join our Zoom call tonight, we will be live tweeting highlights from the discussion using the hashtag #SNCC60th. Starting momentarily!

Thank you Courtland Cox of the SNCC Legacy Project for introducing the topic of discussion tonight and announcing the rescheduled dates for the #SNCC60th convening (June 3-5, 2021)

Hasan Kwame Jeffries asks Charlie Cobb what freedom meant to him as an organizer in Mississippi. “We had to dig into Black communities... we had to learn how to do that in the churches, in the streets, on the plantations, in the juke joints.”

Makani Themba discusses the rise of neoliberalism in Black politics throughout the 1970-1980s #SNCC60th

Ash-Lee Henderson on the importance of environemental justice, “we have an opportunity to not create false dichotomies in our work... it means centering the issues that are targeting Black people, and that’s all the issues, every single one.” #SNCC60th

“Freedom for the many is about living and extending life... beyond the blueprints we’ve been given as normal, because we’ve never accepted them... Life as we know it in this world has to end, and we have to make a new world so we can all win.” @ddhewty of #SNCC60th

“A lot of it is about personal transformation... I don’t remember talking a lot about political philosophy... the talking is fine, but it’s through the work.” - Judy Richardson #SNCC60th

“What made SNCC radical was the people it worked with... the people at the bottom. There’s still a great need for that... and that’s what Miss Baker taught us from the start.” - Charlie Cobb #SNCC60th