California Newsreel – SNCC 50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE (THE 38 DVD COLLECTION)

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Now Available on DVD!

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Now Available on DVD!

Important document of the organization that started the Student Youth movement for which all student organizations owe a debt.

This complete collection of DVDs present formal addresses, panel discussions and programs that took place at a conference and reunion unfolding over four days at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC).

SNCC emerged from student protests that erupted on February 1, 1960 when four college students from North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro launched a sit-in at a Woolworth department store lunch counter. This daring action sparked a wave of similar challenges to segregation by thousands of students across the South. On the weekend of April 15 1960, student leaders from the sit-ins gathered at Shaw University and SNCC was born. Soon students in the newly formed SNCC began leaving school to commit themselves to the organization.

via California Newsreel.