Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Tribute: Children Who Fought for Freedom In America
Little Sheyann Webb. Photo-wikipedia.org One eight year old freedom fighter was suspended from school I wrote recently about a few of the brave children ...
From The Archives: Student Power At forefront of U.S. Social Justice Movements
William Strickland at the 2013 Left Forum [From The Archives] ...
NAACP To Honor Julian Bond And Legacy Tonight
The late Julian Bond The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Board of Directors will honor the legacy ...
50 Years Later: Freedom Summers And Robert Williams Black Self-Defense, 1964 And 2014
Robert and Mabel Williams Fifty years ago, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), two of the most ...
We, The People: Remembering Freedom Summer
Bob Moses Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ...
Inspiring Initiative: John Lewis Urges Youth To Get in ‘Necessary Trouble’
Rep. John Lewis Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s part of ...
Ella Baker Was My Civil Rights Generation’s “Fundi”
Ella Baker [Women’s History Month Tribute: Ella Baker] This is how Ella Baker put it: Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, ...
50 Years Later: Great March – But No Marching Orders
[Law Of The Land] Dr. King must be wondering: Where’s the plan? There were inspiring words; but no marching orders. Thousands gathered to ...