Making the Way: The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC

AHA Session 69
Friday, January 5, 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Mission II (Parc 55, Fourth)
Panelists:
James Garrett, retired
Gwendolyn Simmons, University of Florida
Officials:
Robert Starks, Northeastern Illinois University and Indigo Newspaper
Dorothy Dewberry Aldridge, Detroit Human Rights Commission
Theodore Foster, Benedictine University
Catherine Murphy, The Literacy Project

Session Abstract

The three proposed sessions are designed to explore the intertwined histories of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) in three phases, the early days of organizing North and South, the height of civil rights organizing exemplified by the Mississippi Summer Project/Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Chicago School Boycott, and the impact of SNCC beyond the 1960s.They are multi-media interactive sessions encompassing multi-generational group interviews of movement veterans by today's social justice advocates, clips of already recorded interviews, and the actual filming of a documentary being produced on the Chicago SNCC History Project both the archive and already filmed interviews and events.

The audience for these sessions is, historians, educators, archivist, students and all those interested in public history, people who see the future of the discipline being offered in non traditional places and for historically underserved and marginal communities.

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