SNCC - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Archives

Jan. 3, 1966: Sammy Younge Jr. Murdered

Samuel Younge Jr., Navy vet, Tuskegee student, activist was killed in Alabama for using "whites-only" bathroom. SNCC issued a powerful statement about his murder and in opposition to the Vietnam War.

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

Teaching Activity. By Adam Sanchez. 24 pages. A series of role plays that explore the history and evolution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Teaching Activity by Adam Sanchez

Challenging Ourselves: Martin Luther King, the Movement, and Its Lessons for Today

Article. Charles E. Cobb Jr. discusses the Civil Rights Movement and its lessons, and how they apply to current movements. 2017.

Teaching Activity by Charles Cobb

Dec. 13, 1903: Civil Rights and Human Rights Activist Ella Baker Born

Ella Baker was a civil rights and human rights activist beginning in the 1930s whose career spanned more than five decades.

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Book - Non-fiction. By Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Ekua Holmes. 2015. Illustrated biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, an unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement.

Making of Black Revolutionaries

Book - Non-fiction. By James Forman. 1997. Detailed description of the Civil Rights Movement by one of the central leaders.

Candidates from the Lowndes County Freedom Organization | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

Lowndes County and the Voting Rights Act

Article. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. History and significance of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization.

To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale. 2015. A collection and examination of the creative literary work of students published during 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Profile. Key Civil Rights Movement organization of the 1960s.

Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

Book - Non-fiction. Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer. 1991. Oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement spanning three decades.

On the Road to Voting Rights: Freedom Day in Selma, 1963

Article. By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from Chapter 5 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Howard Zinn’s first-hand account of Selma’s Freedom Day in 1963.

Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

Book - Non-fiction. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 2010. History of the role that activists in Lowndes County played in spurring Black activists nationwide to fight for civil and human rights in new and more radical ways.

This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Book - Non-fiction. By Charles E. Cobb Jr. 2015. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.

Teaching Activity by Charles Cobb

Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Teaching Activity. By Julian Hipkins III, Deborah Menkart, Sara Evers, and Jenice View. Role play on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) that introduces students to a vital example of small “d” democracy in action. For grades 7+.

Teaching Activity by Deborah Menkart

Freedom Summer

Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2014. 120 minutes. Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

Book - Non-fiction. Edited by Michael Edmonds. 2014. Anthology of first hand accounts and primary documents from the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

Book - Non-fiction. By Kay Mills. 2007. First-hand accounts of Fannie Lou Hamer's emergence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Freedom Summer 1964

Profile. Prospectus for summer initiative to register African American voters in Mississippi.

Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Article. By Howard Zinn. From Chapter 6 of You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Zinn describes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voting rights campaign called Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Miss.

Freedom Summer 1964 Collection

Website. Extensive collection on the Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964.

Freedom on My Mind

Film. Directed Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford. Written by Michael Chandler. 1994. 110 min. The story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s.

Ella Baker Painting | Zinn Education Project

Baker, Ella Josephine

Profile. Brief biography of Ella Josephine Baker, 1903–1986, activist and civil rights organizer.

SNCC’s Speech by John Lewis: “Original Text to be Delivered at the Lincoln Memorial”

Film clip. Voices of People's History. SNCC's "Original Text of Speech to be Delivered at the Lincoln Memorial by John Lewis" (1963) read by Brian Jones.

Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson

Book - Non-fiction. By Cynthia Griggs Fleming. 1998. Biography of Civil Rights Movement activist Ruby Doris Smith Robinson.

Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book

Book - Non-fiction. By Julian Bond and illustrated by T. G. Lewis. 1967. 19 pages. This "graphic novel" from the 1960s was written to provide a critical analysis of the Vietnam War in an easy to read format.