SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference - sncc50thanniversaryconference

Photos from the SNCC Conference

Welcome!  I have posted many of the photographs I took at the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, April 14-18, 2010. Click the "Pictures and Video" tab above to take a look.  And, please let me know what you think by writing a comment in the Guestbook below or in the comment space after individual images...

You are also welcome to add any photos you took at the conference to this site.

And, last but not least, I have posted some interesting links to SNCC-related websites/web-resources below.  Lots of great stuff there.

Thanks for stopping by,
Patrick Jones

UPDATE:  Some other folks have added a whole bunch of new photos to the website in a new folder.  Thanks so much for contributing. 

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Guestbook

6/9/2010 7:15:04 PM - 000065772717

MANY THANKS to all the SNCC Veterans.  We can't ever thank  you enough for all you've done for more than 50 years.  What an inspiring experience to share in your 50th Anniversary celebration! Wonderful photos, too. Cheers from Asian Americans United http://aaunited.org

With much appreciation and respect, ~Joanie

5/2/2010 9:20:34 AM - 003030952921
WOW, It's so fantastic to see so many folks I remember seeing s a kid. My mom, Julia Poussaint, ran the NY office and many people crashed on our sofa over the years! Great pics.
4/28/2010 5:42:17 PM - 000036596100
these are amazing! Thanks!
4/23/2010 12:49:46 PM - 003029610223
Amazing! Inspirational............J, Taylor

a few SNCC links

"A high moral enterprise": Philadelphian Ed Nakawatase reflects on SNCC and 50 years of progress
Julian Bond, "SNCC: What We Did"
"Focus on Modern Injustice, Belafonte Tells SNCC Reunion
Tom Hayden, "The Tribe of SNCC" (The Nation Magazine)
Charile Cobb on SNCC at 50
Sue Thrasher's Reflections on SNCC's 50th Anniversary Conference
A Combined Report on the SNCC 50th by James Campbell, Carl Davidson, Ira Grupper, and Zach Robinson
The Guardian: "The Inspiring 'Freedom Movement' That Paved the Way for Obama"
George Curry, "SNCC’s 50th Reunion Underscores Need for a Similar Organization"
SNCC Founding Statement
SNCC Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power
SNCC Position Paper: On VIetnam
SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement
Casey Hayden and Mary King, "Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo"
Jack White on the Women of SNCC
Freedom Summer Digital Archive
Freedom School Curriculum
Historian John Dittmer on MFDP
Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony at 1964 Democratic Convention
Stokely Carmichael, "We Must Destroy the Capitalist System that Enslaves Us"
H. Rap Brown, "The Third World and the Ghetto" (1967)
Julian Bond's Vietnam War comic book
1967 Harvard Crimson article on SNCC's shift toward Black Power
Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website Document Archive
Highlander Folk School Website
Bernice Johnson Reagon's website
The Gathering for Justice
The Young People's Project

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