Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Freedom Summer in the segregationist heart of the Deep South.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.

The Friends of the SNCC published the story of the struggle for freedom in the 1960s.

SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon recounts his experiences in the early days of the civil rights movement.

In 1966, Atlanta Project members wrote a paper on the future of white liberals in the civil rights movement.

A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.

This 1994 documentary brings the passions and agonies of Mississippi’s voter-registration drive into the present tense.

The civil-rights mastermind was sidelined by his own movement. Now he’s back in the spotlight. What can we learn from his strategies of resistance?

Much of what's happening in American race relations traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed.

Georgia’s own history highlights what out-organizing voter suppression really entails.

Charles Sherrod wasn’t a big name, but his life has a lot to tell us about the civil rights movement.

By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.

An online roundtable on a new biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

What my father saw in Mississippi.

The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.

Stokely Carmichael and the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement.

Lessons about organizing from the SNCC co-founder.