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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. "We had to be strong" / Volume 10, Moving on Mississippi :

Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). 50th Anniversary Conference, SNCC Legacy Project, Inc (sponsoring body.), California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors: Brown, Natalie Bullock (Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011.
Series:SNCC legacy video ; 10.
Subjects:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations > Mississippi.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Youth > Political activity > Mississippi.
Youth > Political activity > United States.
Noirs américains > Droits > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Manifestations pour les droits de l'homme > Mississippi.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Biographies.
Jeunesse > Activité politique > Mississippi.
Jeunesse > Activité politique > États-Unis.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Civil rights demonstrations.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Youth > Political activity.
Mississippi.
Southern States.
United States.
1900-1999
Streaming videos.
Biographies.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Streaming video.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement.
Volume 10: Not unexpectedly, some of the Southern Movement's most vivid stories are found in Mississippi. Panelist Lawrence Guyot, former Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), insists that Mississippi is the state that "made the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee." This panel features the first-person accounts of some of the Movement's most unsung heroes and heroines: Hollis Watkins, one of the first two students to sit in and be arrested in McComb, Mississippi, a town that in the 1960s had more Klan bombings than any town in the state; Brenda Travis, also from McComb, a 17-year-old high school student who sat-in, was expelled from school, and served six months of a sentence that would have kept her incarcerated until she was 21 if she had not managed to flee; and Rev. Willie Blue, a 22-year-old Navy veteran who returned home to Tallahatchie County where Emmett Till was murdered, with "a serious bad attitude." The significance and impact of the MFDP forms an important part of the discussion.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (79 min.)) : sound, color.
Playing Time:01:19:12
Audience:For College; Adult audiences.
Production Credits:Executive producer: SNCC Legacy Project, Inc. ; series editor: Joseph Brandon Johnson ; volume editor, Darrell Pryor.