SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: Interpretive Booklet

The “SNCC and Grassroots Organizing” series is focused on six distinct yet overlapping humanities themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building. This series seeks to expand knowledge of SNCC’s grassroots community organizing and its relevance to ongoing efforts to build a “more just, inclusive, and sustainable society.” (NEH, A More Perfect Union Initiative) At its core, SNCC helped community members feel empowered to make choices and act on the issues that most impacted their lives and their communities. By engaging in discussions about SNCC’s organizing, we hope participants will be able to connect contemporary issues in their own lives and communities to central themes in SNCC’s history and the broader Black Freedom Struggle, while deepening their knowledge of the long and ongoing struggle for a more just and inclusive society.

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