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[wd_asp id=1]SNCC: The Struggle Continues
The Struggle Continues
A Dialogue with SNCC Veterans
Please join us for a conversation with three veterans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they discuss their work after SNCC and the southern freedom movement. Charles Cobb, journalist (founder of National Association of Black Journalists) and author (This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible), Judy Richardson, filmmaker (Eyes on the Prize) and author (Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC) and Maria Varela, photographer, community organizer and MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow, will reflect on how their experiences in SNCC impacted the choices they made with the rest of their lives. From opening the Drum and Spear bookstore and the Center for Black Education in Washington, D.C. to organizing with Latino and native resistance groups in the Southwest, the panel will look at how the worldview and approach they learned in SNCC infused itself into their later work and continues to do so today. The discussion will be moderated by John Gartrell of the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke's Rubenstein Library.
This program is presented in partnership with the SNCC Digital Gateway Project. The SNCC Digital Gateway is a collaborative project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Legacy Project (SLP) and Duke University that tells the story of SNCC from the perspective of the activists, themselves. It is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and builds off of the pilot website of the SLP-Duke collaboration, One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights. The forthcoming website, SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn From the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work, tells the story of how young SNCC activists united with local communities in the Deep South during the 1960s to take control of their political and economic lives. In it, SNCC veterans, historians of the Movement, archivists, and students weave together grassroots stories, digitized primary source materials held at repositories across the country, and new multi-media productions to bring this history to life for a new generation. Event co-sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Libraries, and the Forum for Scholars and Publics.
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"To ask, “How did it resonate with you?” is to welcome the personal reflection and to acknowledge the fact that each person brings their own expertise, experience, and emotions into the room." —Margaret "Lou" Brown, In Gratitude: A Conversation with SNCC Veterans, Forum Online
Speakers
Charles E. “Charlie” Cobb
Charles E. "Charlie" Cobb, Jr. is a journalist, author, and veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Currently he is a senior analyst at allAfrica.com and author of the recent book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible. Since 2014 Charlie has…...
Read MoreJudy Richardson
Judy Richardson is a filmmaker, author, and veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As a documentary producer, she worked on the fourteen-hour PBS series Eyes on the Prize and co-edited the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Judy has been a Visiting…...
Read MoreMaria Varela
Maria Varela is a community activist, photographer, and veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After working as a SNCC photographer, Maria organized rural communities in New Mexico and the Southwest to create culturally sustainable economic enterprises to help reduce poverty and loss of ancestral lands. She was awarded…...
Read MoreJohn Gartrell
Duke University
John Gartrell is the director of the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Rubenstein Library. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the SNCC Digital Gateway Project and One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights....
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