The #CivilRights #SitIns that began in #Greensboro spread throughout the year. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1960 they reached #Raleigh. About 150 Black youth, trained in #NonViolent tactics (later creating #SNCC) occupied lunch counters at #Walgreens, #Woolworths, and other locations.
#SNCC
"In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience"
- #StokelyCarmichael aka #KwameTure
https://snccdigital.org/people/stokely-carmichael/
#BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee
The #GreensboroFour staged the first of the #GreensboroSitIns on #ThisDayInHistory in 1960. First target was the "Whites Only" lunch counter in a #Woolworths department store. Sit-ins lasted until 25 July, forced #desegregation at the store chain, & catalyzed formation of #SNCC.
On November 23rd 2025 Jamil Al-Amin made his transition. Giving the ultimate sacrifice to liberate black/African people within the domestic colonis of the #USA A reminder that Western imperialism is the biggest enemy of the people and the planet and must be overthrown and uprooted.
Rest in Power: Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as Rap H. Brown) #RIP #Revolutionary
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, #BlackPower Activist Known as #HRapBrown, Dies at 82
A charismatic orator in the 1960s & Civil Rights movement leader, he called for an armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of a murder in 2000 which he denied committing & died in detention on 23 November 2025.
#SNCC #FBI #CivilRights #VotingRights #AntiRiotAct #KernerReport #law #COINTELPRO
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/h-rap-brown-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
10 september, 1962: fannie lou hamer survives an assassination attempt by shite supremacists. you can't kill a legend like fannie lou, dumbfucks.
#fannieLouHamer #SNCC #civilRights #mississippi #womensRights #blackVoices #racism #feminism #art #illustration
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
#RobertMoses #SNCC
Today in Labor History August 24, 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, teacher and activist was born on this day. Zinn has written over 20 books, including his most well-known book, “A People's History of the United States” (1980). He has described himself as an anarchist and as a democratic socialist. He was initially opposed to U.S. involvement in WWII, but later enlisted to help fight fascism. However, after napalm-bombing a town in France, he later learned that over 1,000 civilians had been killed. This experience reinforced the anti-war stance he would maintain for the rest of his life. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in the SNCC and Freedom Summer. Zinn has mentored many famous activists and writers, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. In 2008, the Zinn Education Project launched to support teachers using “A People’s History” in their curriculum. He died in 2010 from an apparent heart attack.
Be sure to come to the annual Howard Zinn Book fair this December 7, 2025, (10am-6pm) at San Francisco City College, Mission Campus. There will be lots of great writers and workshops. This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism.” I will be hosting a working-class writers panel with San Francisco Poet Laureate and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin, poet Daphne Gottlieb, educator and author Jenny Worley, and possibly more tbd.
https://www.zinnbookfair.org/2025
#workingclass #LaborHistory #howardzinn #peopleshistory #anarchism #socialism #sncc #historian #civilrights #antiwar #author #writer #books #poet @bookstadon
Public Assemblies Strengthen Community Resistance to Rising Authoritarianism
Assemblies are “a unique opportunity for people to build a democracy that has yet to be born,” says Denzel Caldwell.
Today In Labor History June 29, 1941: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was a key figure in the Black Power movement, becoming honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and, later, as the leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. The FBI attempted to destroy him through COINTELLPRO, and succeeded in convincing Huey Newton that he was a CIA agent. This, and the Panthers’ embracing of white activists into their movement, led him to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1968, he married the famous South African singer Miriam Makeba and moved to Africa, changing his name to Kwame Ture and campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #stokelycarmichael #blackpanthers #sncc #fbi #racism #CivilRights #cointellpro #africa #panafricanism #BlackMastadon
April 17, 1960 - Inspired by the Greensboro sit-in of four black college students at an all-white lunch counter, nearly 150 black students from nine states formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Ella Baker, James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr., the founders set SNCC’s initial goals as overturning segregation in the South.
They also considered it important to give young blacks a stronger voice in the civil rights movement, as many had participated in sit-ins that had proliferated to dozens of cities over the previous three months.
At the Raleigh conference Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” an adaptation of an old labor song. This song would become the national anthem of the civil rights movement.
People joined hands and gently swayed in time singing “black and white together,” repeating over and over, “Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome some day.”
Today in Labor History March 20, 2000: Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, was arrested for murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy. Al-Amin had been a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers. He once said that “violence is as American as cherry pie.” Al-Amin denied shooting the deputy. His fingerprints were not found on the murder weapon. He had no gunshot wounds, though officers who were present at the shootout claimed that the suspect had been hit and wounded. Another man, Otis Jackson, later confessed to being the shooter, but the authorities have repeatedly denied Al-Amin’s requests for a retrial. He is now serving a life sentence. He had been at Florence supermax, under a gag order preventing interviews with journalists. In 2014, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. He is now at the U.S. Penitentiary, Tucson. In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal from al-Amin.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackpanthers #sncc #HRapBrown #prison #cancer #journalism #incarceration #SuperMax #wrongfulconviction #racism #BlackMastadon
“Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, Cambridge, Maryland,” 1964.
Photographer Danny Lyon was born #otd in 1942. While an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Lyon became the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after seeing a speech by John Lewis.
#civilrights #sncc #nonviolence #dannylyon #photography #democracy
When white women assume that they represent all women, and presume to communicate or act based on that deeply mistaken position:
#link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UedZpCj8k
Nothing About Us Without Us
Do you wantto know more about the murder of Herbert Lee. This event sparked protests in McComb, Mississippi in 1961. Read the article below. #HerbertLee #NonviolentHigh #SNCC #BrendaTravis
See our latest post on the Student protests in McComb, Mississippi following the death of Herbert Lee and suspension of Brenda Travis, who spent a year in jail for attempting to integrate a lunch counter. #NonviolentHigh #McComb #HerbertLee #BrendaTravis #SNCC #BobMoses
https://zurl.co/Pdgy
August 29, 1961 - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was pursuing its voter registration drive in Amite County, Mississippi. Of 5000 eligible Negro voters in the county, just one was registered to vote. SNCC leader Robert Moses was attacked and beaten this day outside the registrar’s office while trying to sign up two voters. Nine stitches were required but the three white assailants were acquitted.
#RobertMoses #SNCC
Today in Labor History August 24, 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, teacher and activist was born on this day. Zinn has written over 20 books, including his most well-known book, “A People's History of the United States” (1980). He has described himself as an anarchist and as a democratic socialist. He was initially opposed to U.S. involvement in WWII, but later enlisted to help fight fascism. However, after napalm-bombing a town in France, he later learned that over 1,000 civilians had been killed. This experience reinforced the anti-war stance he would maintain for the rest of his life. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in the SNCC and Freedom Summer. Zinn has mentored many famous activists and writers, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. In 2008, the Zinn Education Project launched to support teachers using “A People’s History” in their curriculum. He died in 2010 from an apparent heart attack.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #howardzinn #peopleshistory #anarchism #socialism #sncc #historian #civilrights #antiwar #author #writer #books @bookstadon
"Hamer was raised in cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta and became a sharecropper. She joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and helped organize Freedom Summer, a campaign to educate and register Black voters. With Mississippi conducting whites-only primaries, activists formed the racially integrated #Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to confront leading Democrats on a national stage."
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#SNCC
#NowSpinning #SweetHoneyInTheRock #Vinyl LP #DrBerniceJohnsonReagon RIP #Legend #Gospel #Music #Acapella #Soul #Folk #African #Spiritual #CivilRights #SNCC #FreedomSingers Spinning some Sweet Honey on vinyl to remember and honor the life and legacy of the powerhouse vocalist and civil rights activist Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon. Thank you Dr Reagon for sharing your incredible gift and soul with this world. #FeelSomethingDrawingMeOn
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