SNCC and Grassroots Organizing, NEH Discussion Series, NCCHR

Join us in-person at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, GA) on Saturday, October 19th from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. for the SNCC Learning Toolkit Workshop: Exploring Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Movement. This event is part of the discussion series, generously supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more & register here: https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/teacher-workshop

Voting Rights were central to how the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”) engaged with communities during the Civil Rights Movement. Voting rights were at the heart of the modern Civil Rights Movement, something that SNCC and others could organize around. SNCC field secretaries were deeply committed to living and working with local people. They went door-to-door, day after day, visiting with and encouraging people to overcome their fears around trying to register. SNCC continued to work on voter registration and political organizing after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and voting and voting rights remain critically important to meaningful citizenship today. 

Join SNCC veteran and film producer, Judy Richardson, and movement historian, Emilye Crosby, for this interactive Learning Toolkit workshop. Participants will dig into documents and audiovisual materials, learn about Voting Rights in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explore how those lessons might be relevant today. This workshop is geared toward educators, civic organizations, community or activist groups, librarians, youth—or anyone who wants to learn more.

Also, please join us in person and virtually next month on November 15 & 16 at Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) for our discussion series on Freedom Teaching and the Organizing Tradition! Visit the SNCC Legacy Project website for details and registration: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/ 

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