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Editor, Urban Cartographer Online
THE POWER OFPOSITIVE YOUTHCopyright © 1994-2008 Intercity Sports Review www.icasports.org Reprinted with permission
Thanks to irresponsible and greedy elements of the information and entertainment media, many people have an inaccurate and distorted picture of many of today's young people. Outstanding academic, artistic, humanitarian and athletic achievements and contributions by our youths are often ignored or buried deep in print and electronic news reports somewhere between the obituaries, department store sales and classified ads. Meanwhile aberrant (and often abhorrent) sensational acts by a few confused and misguided products of a society that has been unable and/or unwilling to properly educate them grab the banner headlines.
Public policies in many localities, disconcerted by this mentality, annually flush billions of dollars into feeble attempts to treat the effects (rather than deal with the causes) of our predictable and preventable tragic social failures. Meanwhile, in many families, religious, educational and social institutions and communities, the positive people quietly stayed focused on building and preparing for a better future. This publication is a record that resulted from the efforts of a few of them. It is the tip of an iceberg from a glacier of concerned people who are building for a better tomorrow.
The power, potential and influence of positive young people should never be underestimated. (Just think back to the Human Rights movement in the United States during the 1960's.) The achievements outlined on this Web site, and many of those with which it is linked, are a testimony of that fact.
The ball is now in YOUR court.
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History of SNCC
History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), United States political organization formed in 1960 by black college students dedicated to overturning
segregation in the South and giving young Blacks a stronger voice in the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/sncchist.html
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
After the successful outcome of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, its leader, Martin Luther King wrote Stride Toward Freedom (1958).
The book described what happened at Montgomery and explained King's views on non-violence and direct action.
Stride Toward Freedom was to have a considerable influence on the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsncc.htm
Women in the Freedom Movement
African-American women activists played a major role in the founding and development of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_the_project/ccarson/articles/black_women_3.htm
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCC
SNCC and SCLC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 by young people dedicated to non-violent, direct-action tactics.
While Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders had hoped that SNCC would serve as the youth-wing of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the students remained fiercely independent of King and the SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies.
Although ideological differences eventually caused SNCC and SCLC to be at odds, the two organizations worked side-by-side throughout the early years of the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/enc_SNCC.htm
The Basis of Black Power
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Position Paper: The Basis of Black Power
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/SNCC_black_power.html
Development of SNCC
Created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 15, 1960, SNCC's activities initially included coordinating student-led sit-ins
in Greensboro and later throughout the Deep South, supporting these activists, and helping to publicize their activities.
With leaders like Stokely Carmichael, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, and Julian Bond, among others, the group eventually led the charge against segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
Its efforts during Freedom Summer led to the registration of thousands of voters as well as the creation of the MFDP.
http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/sncc.htm
The Sit-Ins Energize Freedom Movement
On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North
Carolina where they had been denied service.
This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.
Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins.
In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression.
Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as former Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry, Congressman John Lewis and NAACP chairman Julian Bond.
Together with hundreds of other students, they left a lasting impact on American history.
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.html
Remembering the Beginning
"I have always thought what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others."
Ella J. Baker
A conference to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the founding of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), to remember and honor SNCC’s founder, Miss Ella J. Baker, and to offer an opportunity for those who knew her best to share their experiences for the benefit of our historical present.
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/ellahome.html
Even Some Athletes Dared
to Stand up for Human Rights!
Please read
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith.
http://www.tommiesmith.com/
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
"We who believe in freedom cannot rest,."
Ella J. Baker
Civil Rights Movement Veterans - CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC.
http://www.crmvet.org/
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
"This website was created by students in honor of the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement - they were ordinary people who played extraordinary roles in the cause of social justice, equality, and freedom."
Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
http://flightline.highline.edu/cjaja/Civilright/civilrghtshome.htm
"Freedom School Curriculum"
In the summer of 1964, more than forty "Freedom Schools" opened in Mississippi.
These schools
were part of "Freedom Summer," a project of the Southern Human Rights Movement, with the goal to empower African
Americans in Mississippi to become active citizens and agents of social change.
If we review the lessons of the
"Freedom Schools" we can apply the relevant elements to our 21st Century circumstances. We certainly have many more
technological tools and resources available today.
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/ED_FSC.html
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize"
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965) is a documentary series about the American
Civil Rights Movement.
It originally aired on PBS in early 1987 with six initial parts; eight more parts were
broadcast in 1990 as Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads (1965-1985), for a total of fourteen episodes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_on_the_Prize
Then came "COINTELPRO"
and other destructive elements!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
You Also Need to Know This
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This civil rights group was founded in1960.
It was devoted to voter registration campaigns in the South.
The FBI investigated this group in 1964.
Freedom of Information/Privacy Act Section
2,887 pages
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/sncc.htm
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