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.”

#StudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommittee #SNCC

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

#whiteFeminisim #SNCC #CivilRights #WomensRights

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

https://zurl.co/W4RO

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

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

New #research article coming out this year showing that US Southern counties with #CivilRights organizations during the movement era (1954-65) now enjoy less #RacialInequality than those lacked any orgs. This diagram shows the prevalence of these CR organizations by county. Lots of #NAACP chapters, relatively few CORE orgs or #SNCC projects. Most counties had just one of the "Big 4" (NAACP, CORE, SNCC, or #SCLC), 44% had 0. Counties containing #Atlanta and #Jackson, MS had all four. #Juneteenth

In the early 1960s, Historian #HowardZinn was asked by a book publisher to write a history about the NAACP. He responded that the real dynamic force in the #movement for Black freedom of that era was #SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). He preceded to write an amazing #history of that organization and it's still essential #reading. He wasn't just a passive author, either, but an advisor to his #activist students at Spelman College and he walked the picket-lines with them.

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

Sellers describes in heavy detail the experiences of violence and fear the members of SNCC went through.

These descriptions convey the hardship of this fight in a sense that cannot be grasped through a lecture or textbook.

After he declares the movement as his first priority (over school or social life), Sellers leans wholeheartedly into his dangerous work, noting an SNCC leader who claimed they were now on "🔸the river of no return🔸".

#sncc #civilrightsmovement
https://notevenpast.org/review-of-the-river-of-no-return-the-autobiography-of-a-black-militant-and-the-life-and-death-of-sncc-by-cleveland-sellers-with-robert-terrell-1990/

Song of the Day October 4 2023

In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown

H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)

https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Interview #Justice #Politics #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Economics #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied

Song of the Day October 4 2023

In honor of the 80th Birthday of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin fka H. Rap Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown

H. Rap Brown - "Violence Is As Ameican as Cherry Pie" (compilation)

https://youtu.be/8WFFDm-Wyvw?si=-_hG7g90Hv1FSSin

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #October4 #JamilAbdullaAlAmin #HRapBrown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #GilNoble #LikeItIs #Justice #Politics #Oppression #SNCC #Education #Freedom #Activism #BlackHistory #History #1950s #1960s #1970s #JusticeDelayed #JusticeDenied

🧵This type of education about SNCC and other grassroots movements of the mid-20th century is needed by adults as well as young people not only to reinvigorate and expand the Civil Rights Movement but also to fight the powerful fascist forces threatening the nation today. 1/

#CommunityOrganizing #CivilRightsMovement #AgainstFascism

Teaching #SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution | Portside

https://portside.org/2023-09-08/teaching-sncc-organization-heart-civil-rights-revolution

"There are hundreds more responses like these ones. There are also teachers and librarians bravely teaching truthfully in the face of this repression. Our session with SNCC veterans on Monday, September 11 will provide ideas and inspiration. Join us." #Bookbans #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory #SavePublicSchools #RespectOurTeachers #FightFascism #SNCC

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/repression-of-freedom-to-learn/

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 #CivilRights #BlackPower #fbi #racism #cointellpro #africa #PanAfricanism #BlackMastadon