SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Series

Throughout 2024, Historically Black Colleges & Universities and museums will host a public discussion series examining the history and legacy of the civil rights group made up mostly of young Black college students that protested segregation and inequality in the 1960s through sit-ins and other nonviolent, direct action tactics.  

The series, "SNCC and Grassroots Organizing: Building a More Perfect Union," focuses on six themes at the heart of The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building. The discussion series, led by SNCC veterans and humanities scholars, foregrounds how grassroots organizing is crucial to building and maintaining a stable, equitable, and inclusive society. Participants are able to attend the discussions both in person and virtually.