SNCC 60th

Today, we continue to demand freedom for all political prisoners, such as former SNCC chairman Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown), who currently serves a life sentence.

A core tenet of #BlackAugust is to remember, honor, and study the legacies all those who have struggled for our liberation.

1. This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed — As noted in 1964 by Robert P. “Bob” Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC):

“It’s not contradictory for a farmer to say he’s nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder’s head off.” In this riveting account, Charles “Charlie” Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival + liberation of black communities in America.

2.Hands on the Freedom Plow In this collection of personal narratives, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, Black, white, and Latinx--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

3.I’ve Got the Light of Freedom This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants...

Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the #freedom struggle.

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