SNCC & Grassroots Organizing, NEH Discussion Series, Morehouse College

Please join us at Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) on November 15 & 16, 2024 (or via livestream on September 13) for the SNCC and Grassroots Organizing: Building A More Perfect Union events. This will be an exciting conversation between those who actually made Movement history, together with those who are grounded in that history. This event is part of a series generously supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Friday evening’s event will be livestreamed.

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) veteran Charlie Cobb will join Movement scholar Hasan Kwame Jefferies for a two-day community gathering focused on SNCC’s grassroots community organizing and its relevance to ongoing efforts to build a more just society. Founded by students at HBCUs, SNCC was the only national youth-led organization in the southern movement of the 1960’s.

Join us Friday (in person and livestream) and Saturday (in person only) to learn about SNCC's involvement in Freedom Teaching and the role of the Organizing Tradition in the Movement.

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Friday, November 15 (in person and livestream)

Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion

5:00 p.m. (ET), Morehouse College, Walter E. Massey Leadership Center

Freedom Teaching

SNCC Legacy Project. Join SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb, and Movement historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries to learn more about SNCC’s work for freedom teaching then and now. Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream!

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Saturday, November 16 (in person only)

Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion & Workshop

10:00 a.m. (ET), Morehouse College, Walter E. Massey Leadership Center

Join SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb, and Movement scholar Hasan Kwame Jeffries for a discussion of the Organizing Tradition.

Saturday,November 16 (in person only)

Freedom Teaching Learning Toolkit Workshop

1:00 p.m. (ET), Morehouse College, Walter E. Massey Leadership Center

Join us for this interactive Learning Toolkit workshop. Participants will dig into exciting SNCC documents and audiovisual materials, learn about freedom teaching in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explore how those lessons are relevant today. This workshop is geared toward educators, civic organizations, community or activist groups, librarians, youth – or anyone who wants to learn more about this exciting Movement history.

Visit the SNCC Legacy Project website for details and to learn more: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/

Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the SNCC and Grassroots Organizing discussion series is a collaborative project of the Movement History Initiative (a collaboration among the SNCC Legacy Project, Duke University Libraries, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke, and Civil Rights Movement scholars), six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and six civil rights and African American history museums.

Contact Email

[email protected]

URL

https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/

Can’t make it in person? Join the livestream on Friday night!

Also, save the date for our virtual community conversation on Voting Rights on Monday, December 9 at 7pm (ET)!

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