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Check out this article by with excerpts from his Biography of Michael Simmons & @GZoharahSimmons on his book, . Black Power Meets Police Power - Dan Berger - Inquest
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Florida students sue state for rejecting AP African American studies fox35orlando.com/news/florida-s
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Happy bday SNCC veteran Joyce Ladner! About 1963📷, Dr. Ladner said: "I had literally gotten out of jail a couple of hours earlier. At Tougaloo College, the chapel bells tolled when students got out of jail. Everyone ran to the chapel. . ." 🧵
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Charles Sherrod, ¡Presente! "Sherrod smiles boyishly when he speaks [at a mass meeting], his voice is softly resonant, & he lowers it to a vibrant whisper when he wants to emphasize a point." -- H. Zinn SNCC: The New Abolitionists, 1964 See ⬇️
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“To tell the story of the civil rights movement through song that was the purpose of the group,’’ Rutha Mae Harris, 81, one of the original Freedom Singers told me. “It worked.’’ , @SNCC60th, #BlackHistoryMonth
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Freedom songs performed by 's Freedom Singers gave momentum to the civil rights movement. “Freedom songs were messages that gave hope,'' Tougaloo College professor said. @SNCC60th
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"The Greensboro sit-ins inspired mass movement across the South. By April 1960, 70 southern cities had sit-ins of their own. Direct-action sit-ins made public what Jim Crow wanted to hide – Black resistance to segregation." via youth-led ⬇️
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Young Black leaders who set the model for activism worldwide ever since: SNCC is born #tdih 1960. We are grateful, civil rights veterans, for your light! crmvet.org/docs/60_core_s
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Traditional Civil Rights Movement narratives ignore that fight for civil, voting, and human rights was often met with terrorist violence, as exemplified by story of Louis Allen and countless others. #TeachOutsideTextbook 3/6
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SNCC organizer Worth Long has contributed this post, "Red Sky, Black Fire" in tribute to his friend and comrade in the struggle, Bob Moses. Words authored by Worth Long, Image owned by the estate of Posy Lombard.
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SNCC organizer Worth Long has contributed this post, "Red Sky, Black Fire" in tribute to his friend and comrade in the struggle, Bob Moses. Words authored by Worth Long, Image owned by the estate of Posy Lombard.
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Loved this conversation w/ about people power + elections. I secretly hoped that if I worked the phrase “academic freedom” or “free expression” into my remarks three times would show up.
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We're honoured to have @nseufot from @NewGAProject and @Ryan_M_Doyle speak to our @canstudyus Fellows about political mobilization & grassroot organizing. Thank you for sharing your passion and for the work you are doing to build leadership in your communities. #CanStudyUS2021
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Celebrating Bettie Mae Fikes on the 56th anniversary of what became #BloodySunday, the first voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Born in Selma, she was member of SNCC and a Freedom Singer known as "The Voice of Selma.” #ThisLittleLightOfMine #WomensHistoryMonth
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Today we sent flowers to Bob Moses, and this is what his family wrote back:
Friends - You all brought a smile to his face and joy to his heart. ❤️❤️❤️please share this picture with SNCC Legacy Project. He's begun to feel better
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, the Co-Executive Director for the knows firsthand the threat that #WhiteSupremacy is no match for the unstoppable force of organized #BlackLed, #Multiracial, #WorkingClass #Coalitions.
Sunday at 11:30am ET: bit.ly/3swncIu
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Teach about SNCC with free lesson ⬇️ by HS teacher Adam Sanchez and register for @SNCC60th conference in Washington, DC. (June 3-5, 2021).
(Not a teacher? Donate so we can reach more classrooms with people's history lessons: zinnedproject.org/donate/.)
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WATCH: When media outlets attempted to incite conflicts across movements, Dr. King effortlessly re-centered the conversation toward the root causes of social unrest, committing himself to a tradition much deeper than any individual. Lineage.
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MLK Day read aloud for the Littles today!
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Watch a special King Day "Small But Mighty Storytime" edition at 2pm or 4pm CT. Museum Educator Dory Lerner reads My Uncle Martin's Big Heart by Angela Farris Watkins @Livestream: livestream.com/accounts/14054
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Grateful to for centering young people's political vision + collective wisdom in Ella Baker's nod to Dr. King, "the movement made Martin." Proud our sister archive @mlk_institute cited. , pls link to living activists + @SNCC60th directly
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"Despite his youth, or perhaps because of it, Dr. King understood the long view of history," writes @IAmRichBenjamin. nyti.ms/2XP2MMR
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#tbt I’m a joyful warrior in ’ March to the sea. (Unlike Sherman’s March from Atlanta to Savannah, this army seeks to end the Confederacy by BUILDING infrastructure not BURNING it.)
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Check out this inspiring conversation on “Music & The Movement,”moderated by Charlie Cobb and featuring Worth Long, Candie Carawan, Bettie Mae Fikes, Hollis Watkins, and Charles Neblett:
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Learn about long history of voting rights campaigns in Georgia via short profiles with primary docs on website -- Julian Bond, Bertha Gober, Charles Sherrod, and many more below.
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Thinking about the @SNCC60th and fam and how much folks (inside and outside of SNCC, before, during and after the 60s) have given...
So. Freaking. Grateful. ❤️✊🏾😭
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Organizer Aaron Henry () and other Black leaders were arrested & convicted for “Conspiring to withhold trade.”
Henry’s business was attacked and Noelle Michael Henry was fired from teaching. (Whose side was local gov't. on?)
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The new American majority has a voice with the . We hear you, we see you and we will help make sure your voices are heard.
I spoke with last week about the #SenateRunOff and what the is doing for the voting culture in Georgia.
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Read about Ella Baker and many more people involved with SNCC at the invaluable SNCC Digital website with profiles, primary docs, and interviews.
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The short film '#EllaBaker: Bigger than a Hamburger' pays tribute to the legacy of Ella Jo Baker featuring Bob Moses, Joyce Ladner, Anne Braden and others.
newblackmaninexile.net/2015/03/ella-b
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#BornOnThisDay #CiteBlackWomenSunday
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Listennnnnn — I’m seeing a lot of new faces and @NewGeorgiaProject is getting tons of love and flowers these days, so ... 👉🏿Read my full post: bit.ly/36TmZ8y
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SNCC LEGACY PROJECT STATEMENT ON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
“Black people did not vote to save American democracy. They voted to save their lives and the lives of their children.”
– Junebug Jabbo Jones
November 4, 2020
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So many deserve credit for 10yrs to new Georgia: Helen Butler DuBose Porter @DPGChair. Always John Lewis. Charge any omissions to my head. My heart is full.💙
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Post Election: Don’t Neglect Those Emotions
Read Dr. ' post-election tips for practicing the skills of emotional intelligence.
The first recommendation:
Check in with yourself.
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