Tag: SNCC
We are re-posting this moving editorial by Shirley Sherrod with the hopes it will be widely read and lead more people to the polls. We also also encourage everyone to check out the work of the SNCC Legacy Project to learn about the history and ongoing activism referenced in the article. By Shirley Miller Sherrod …
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veteran and chairperson of the SNCC Legacy Project Courtland Cox shared with Teaching for Change why we can be hopeful in these political times. Cox said, “A divided America is a good thing.” Listen to this seven minute video clip to hear why. Here are more quotes by Cox …
Students from Harvest Collegiate High School in New York City came to D.C. for a field experience. And what an experience it was since it coincided with the Presidential Inauguration, protests, and Women’s March. Teaching for Change facilitated an opportunity for the students from New York to meet fellow teenagers along with veterans of the …
SNCC veteran Timothy L. Jenkins wrote an open letter about the far right, published in the Mississippi Free Press on August 18, 1962. The letter was written to combat the rising neo-fascist youth movement, “Young American For Freedom” against the sixties’ student voting rights mobilization known as “Mississippi Summer.” Jenkins notes, “It came on the heels …
History may have forgotten, but we must not, that before Dr. King gave his now much-remembered Riverside Church declaration, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had already uniquely and notoriously condemned the international hypocrisy of the United States in Vietnam, Africa, and the Caribbean in the face of the parallel Black liberation movement throughout …
The Teaching for Change board and staff wish a happy December 30 birthday to Timothy L. Jenkins. Below is an interview and here are other articles and commentaries by Jenkins. “The river that forgets its origin dries up,” said Teaching for Change board member Timothy Lionel Jenkins in his interview on the Rock Newman show on October 7, …
Long time activist, professor, politician, and writer Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) where he served as director of communications. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center; was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later …
The Confederate flag, best known as a symbol of white supremacy during the Civil War, was also a symbol of state resistance to human rights and democracy during the modern Civil Rights Movement. As Civil Rights Movement photographer Matt Herron explains, Southerners who believed in racial segregation displayed Confederate flags instead of the American flag. …
SNCC activist Dorie Ladner carried the U.S. flag as an act of resistance at the memorial for the four girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. In a 2015 interview with Teaching for Change, Ladner explained, I am not a fan of the wars that have been waged in the name of the …
Teaching for Change board member and SNCC veteran Timothy Jenkins wrote this personal tribute to award winning journalist Claude Sitton (December 4, 1925 – March 10, 2015). It was altogether fitting and proper that Claude Sitton, the fearless Pulitzer Prize winning journalist of the Sixties civil rights revolution, waited to die on March 10th of this year, …
Tag: SNCC
More Than Condolences, My Late Husband Needs You To Vote
Posted: November 2, 2022 by Deborah
We are re-posting this moving editorial by Shirley Sherrod with the hopes it will be widely read and lead more people to the polls. We also also encourage everyone to check out the work of the SNCC Legacy Project to learn about the history and ongoing activism referenced in the article. By Shirley Miller Sherrod …
Category: 2022, News, News Articles Tags: civil rights movement, SNCC
Why We Can Be Hopeful
Posted: March 2, 2017 by Deborah
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veteran and chairperson of the SNCC Legacy Project Courtland Cox shared with Teaching for Change why we can be hopeful in these political times. Cox said, “A divided America is a good thing.” Listen to this seven minute video clip to hear why. Here are more quotes by Cox …
Category: 2017, News, News Articles Tags: SNCC
SNCC Veterans Meet Students from NY and DC
Posted: January 30, 2017 by Deborah
Students from Harvest Collegiate High School in New York City came to D.C. for a field experience. And what an experience it was since it coincided with the Presidential Inauguration, protests, and Women’s March. Teaching for Change facilitated an opportunity for the students from New York to meet fellow teenagers along with veterans of the …
Category: 2017, News, News Articles Tags: dorie ladner, SNCC
Cautionary Words about Far Right from 1962
Posted: January 17, 2017 by Mykella
SNCC veteran Timothy L. Jenkins wrote an open letter about the far right, published in the Mississippi Free Press on August 18, 1962. The letter was written to combat the rising neo-fascist youth movement, “Young American For Freedom” against the sixties’ student voting rights mobilization known as “Mississippi Summer.” Jenkins notes, “It came on the heels …
Category: 2017, News, News Articles Tags: SNCC, TimothyLJenkins
Who Killed Sammy Younge Jr.? SNCC, Vietnam, and the Fight for Racial Justice
Posted: January 5, 2016 by Allison Acosta
History may have forgotten, but we must not, that before Dr. King gave his now much-remembered Riverside Church declaration, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) had already uniquely and notoriously condemned the international hypocrisy of the United States in Vietnam, Africa, and the Caribbean in the face of the parallel Black liberation movement throughout …
Category: 2016, News Tags: anti-war movement, Black History Month, civil rights movement, SNCC, TimothyLJenkins
Preserving and Teaching Black History
Posted: October 13, 2015 by Allison Acosta
The Teaching for Change board and staff wish a happy December 30 birthday to Timothy L. Jenkins. Below is an interview and here are other articles and commentaries by Jenkins. “The river that forgets its origin dries up,” said Teaching for Change board member Timothy Lionel Jenkins in his interview on the Rock Newman show on October 7, …
Category: 2015, News Tags: Black History Month, SNCC, TimothyLJenkins
Julian Bond, ¡Presente!
Posted: August 18, 2015 by Deborah
Long time activist, professor, politician, and writer Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) where he served as director of communications. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center; was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later …
Category: 2015, News Tags: SNCC
The Confederate Flag: Symbol of Opposition to Civil Rights
Posted: June 25, 2015 by Deborah
The Confederate flag, best known as a symbol of white supremacy during the Civil War, was also a symbol of state resistance to human rights and democracy during the modern Civil Rights Movement. As Civil Rights Movement photographer Matt Herron explains, Southerners who believed in racial segregation displayed Confederate flags instead of the American flag. …
Category: News, News Articles Tags: Black History Month, SNCC
Dorie Ladner and the American Flag
Posted: June 24, 2015 by Deborah
SNCC activist Dorie Ladner carried the U.S. flag as an act of resistance at the memorial for the four girls killed at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. In a 2015 interview with Teaching for Change, Ladner explained, I am not a fan of the wars that have been waged in the name of the …
Category: News, Uncategorized Tags: civil rights movement, dorie ladner, SNCC
In Memory of Claude Sitton, From an Admiring Beneficiary
Posted: March 12, 2015 by Deborah
Teaching for Change board member and SNCC veteran Timothy Jenkins wrote this personal tribute to award winning journalist Claude Sitton (December 4, 1925 – March 10, 2015). It was altogether fitting and proper that Claude Sitton, the fearless Pulitzer Prize winning journalist of the Sixties civil rights revolution, waited to die on March 10th of this year, …
Category: 2015, News Tags: Black History Month, SNCC, TimothyLJenkins