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Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 18, 2018
After leading a sit-in at a local diner, McDew and other student leaders — including Julian Bond and John Lewis — formed SNCC in 1960. ... Bond, a legendary civil rights figure, told the Star Tribune in 1993 that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was “a direct result of SNCC action, and it's a tribute to the work thatÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
April 16, 2018
SNCC helped coordinate sit-ins and other direct action. SNCC workers who played important roles in the civil rights movement included Diane Nash, future U.S. Rep. John Lewis, longtime NAACP leader Julian Bond and Stokely Carmichael, who left SNCC to become a leader for the Black Panthers.
Massillon Independent
April 15, 2018
John Lewis, the late Julian Bond and Andrew Young among his friends. He was arrested 43 times while picketing and protesting segregation in the Deep South. It would be naive to think they weren't afraid. People died for trying to vote and drink out of a water fountain. SNCC conducted “workshops”Ãâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
... he was the organization's second chairman, serving between Marion Barry, who went on to become the mayor of Washington, D.C., and John Lewis, ... In the early 1960s, a growing number of audacious adolescents and young adults gravitated to S.N.C.C. (or Snick, as it was popularly called) becauseÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 4, 2018
on a “great man” version of history—King, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael, John Lewis. Coretta Scott King illuminates the .... At sncc, Diane Nash helped keep the Freedom Rides going, and Fannie Lou Hamer and other women led the fight to register voters in Mississippi. “Women have been theÃâà...
charlestonchronicle.net
April 3, 2018
One of those marchers in 1963 was John Lewis, a young man from Alabama and organizer of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). John Lewis went on to serve on Atlanta's City Council and now serves the state of Georgia as a U. S. Congressman. Congressman Lewis is perhaps theÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
As president of the National Council of Negro Women, she was part of an elite group of organization presidents — including Dr. King; John Lewis, then the president of SNCC; and Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League — called “The Big Six.” But photographers would often cropÃâà...
Study Breaks
April 1, 2018
Led by John Lewis and later by Stokely Carmichael, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was essentially the student arm of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1961, the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) organized the Freedom Rides, testing a 1960 Supreme Court decision that outlawedÃâà...
Keypennews
April 1, 2018
John Lewis is a year younger than I am, and I thought I had followed his career fairly closely, but this book gave me a greater appreciation for his role in the ... Until reading “March,” I didn't know the stand-in was a model adopted by Lewis and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one ofÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
March 5, 2018
In March of 1965 young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, led by now-Congressman John Lewis, faced down state troopers in Selma, Alabama to march and raise ... Jesse Douglas, join SNCC executive director James Forman and John Lewis in a show of support for the students.
Southern Poverty Law Center
March 4, 2018
John Lewis led a gathering of congressional and civil rights leaders in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, ... also the 53rd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day that Lewis, who was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was at the front ofÃâà...
San Diego Free Press
February 27, 2018
Despite his incredible influence on the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Bayard Rustin lived in the shadows. An openly gay man, he'd been arrested for engaging in public homosexuality, and, before his activist involvement, had identified as a member of the Communist Party — both of which offendedÃâà...
Canton Repository
February 25, 2018
John Lewis was 18 when he jumped feet first in the civil rights movement, eventually chairing SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Action Coordination Committee, and became one of hundreds assaulted on Bloody Sunday in 1963. Carl Bernstein was 28 in 1972, when his reporting on the Watergate break-inÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
February 25, 2018
Indeed, it was the dedicated organizing of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that helped dramatize the ills of Jim Crow segregation. ... Jackson's death in Selma prompted John Lewis and 600 other brave foot soldiers to set out on a march from Selma to Montgomery, beaten by stateÃâà...
Publishers Weekly
February 16, 2018
Abrams ComicArts will publish Run: Book One, a sequel to Congressman John Lewis's acclaimed National Book Award-winning civil rights graphic ... The forthcoming multiple-volume graphic memoir will focus on the years that Lewis led The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of theÃâà...
TIME
February 15, 2018
The March trilogy used the framing of the inauguration of President Barack Obama to look back on Lewis' life, from his childhood and his introduction to activism, up through his role as leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Selma-to-Montgomery, Ala., marches of 1965Ãâà...
JSTOR Daily
February 14, 2018
Under the influence of the African National Congress in South Africa, SNCC chairman John Lewis even said, at the March on Washington in 1963, that, “One man, one vote is the African cry. It must be ours!” The SNCC fought for civil rights in America, but it saw its fight as part of a global fight for black dignityÃâà...
Oprah.com
January 17, 2018
On March 7, 1965, 25-year-old John Lewis—then the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a former Freedom Rider—and the Rev. Hosea Williams set out to lead a 54-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery to protest the discriminatory practicesÃâà...
The Southern
October 7, 2017
Lewis recalled spending that 1962 summer working alongside other SNCC workers to help organize students and local community and religious leaders. “There was this recreational center that didn't allow African-Americans to come in and so we had a kneel-in there,” Lewis recalled specifically of theÃâà...
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