Still Young, Gifted, Black: The Fifty-Five Year Old Legacy of SNCC
I grew up in the colorful chromatic 90’s. From bold color block button down blouses, to overalls with crop tops, and loud track suits with thick gold chains. My generation invaded all your senses with color. It was a time when hip-hop made you think of yellow and sunshine and grunge sung the blues as good as Ms. Holiday. Television portrayed different shades of white, brown, red, black, and yellow that fed you laughter and lessons from sitcoms to cartoons. I did not have to look very far to see decent representation of my African American heritage. However, while I grew up in such a colorful era, it never once occurred to me to thank my elders. Those that fought for my rights. …show more content…
As SNCC continued to play its part in the civil rights movement, SNCC began to disagree with King on how to make progress in the civil rights movement. Member of SNCC felt that King’s nonviolence approach was not working as fast as they would have liked. According to an article from the New York Times “The first SNCC project to promote the slogan “black power” was the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) an African-American electoral organization which registered over 2,500 black voters between 1965 and 1969” (Kaufman, 1998) In 1966, SNCC elected Stokely Carmichael as chairman and head of SNCC. During Carmichael’s leadership, SNCC changed its philosophy from nonviolent confrontation to the famous Black Power. According to …show more content…
As time went on SNCC along with the Civil Rights Movement lost its leaders, momentum, and dissolved. Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as Congressman John Lewis, NAACP chairman Julian Bond, and former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry, just to name a few. In April of 2010, a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of SNCC was held at Shaw University. According to the conference website, more than 1100 people attended (Save the date, 2009). The conference lasted four days and consisted of formal addresses and panel discussions about the efforts of SNCC and how the founders carried on when SNCC ended. In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University formed a partnership collect and share the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive nation in the 21st century. The kick off of this project included launching a documentary website aimed to be a “digital gateway” (2015). The website is full of media such as documents, photographs, audio, videos, and other forms of media relating to the work SNCC did during the Civil Rights
I grew up in the colorful chromatic 90’s. From bold color block button down blouses, to overalls with crop tops, and loud track suits with thick gold chains. My generation invaded all your senses with color. It was a time when hip-hop made you think of yellow and sunshine and grunge sung the blues as good as Ms. Holiday. Television portrayed different shades of white, brown, red, black, and yellow that fed you laughter and lessons from sitcoms to cartoons. I did not have to look very far to see decent representation of my African American heritage. However, while I grew up in such a colorful era, it never once occurred to me to thank my elders. Those that fought for my rights. …show more content…
As SNCC continued to play its part in the civil rights movement, SNCC began to disagree with King on how to make progress in the civil rights movement. Member of SNCC felt that King’s nonviolence approach was not working as fast as they would have liked. According to an article from the New York Times “The first SNCC project to promote the slogan “black power” was the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) an African-American electoral organization which registered over 2,500 black voters between 1965 and 1969” (Kaufman, 1998) In 1966, SNCC elected Stokely Carmichael as chairman and head of SNCC. During Carmichael’s leadership, SNCC changed its philosophy from nonviolent confrontation to the famous Black Power. According to …show more content…
As time went on SNCC along with the Civil Rights Movement lost its leaders, momentum, and dissolved. Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as Congressman John Lewis, NAACP chairman Julian Bond, and former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry, just to name a few. In April of 2010, a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of SNCC was held at Shaw University. According to the conference website, more than 1100 people attended (Save the date, 2009). The conference lasted four days and consisted of formal addresses and panel discussions about the efforts of SNCC and how the founders carried on when SNCC ended. In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University formed a partnership collect and share the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive nation in the 21st century. The kick off of this project included launching a documentary website aimed to be a “digital gateway” (2015). The website is full of media such as documents, photographs, audio, videos, and other forms of media relating to the work SNCC did during the Civil Rights