SNCC & Grassroots Organizing,NEH Discussion Series,Two Mississippi Museums

SNCC & Grassroots Organizing,NEH Discussion Series,Two Mississippi Museums

Join us Saturday, April 26th, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson, MS for our Black Power Toolkit Workshop

By SNCC & Grassroots Organizing NEH Discussion Series

Date and time

Saturday, April 26 · 10am - 2pm CDT

Location

Two Mississippi Museums

222 North Street #1206 Jackson, MS 39201 United States

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 4 hours

Join us in-person at the Two Mississippi Museums (Jackson, MS) on Saturday, April 26th from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. for the SNCC Learning Toolkit Workshop: Exploring Voting Rights in the Civil Rights Movement. This event is part of the SNCC & Grassroots Organizing discussion series, generously supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Black Power is often associated with SNCC's Stokely Carmichael, who publicized the phrase in June 1966 during the Meredith March, and it is often misunderstood as angry, anti-white rhetoric. These stereotypes miss Black Power's true meaning and deep roots in SNCC's work and thinking. For too many people, Black Power remains misperceived as violent and anti-white. These stereotypes interfere with a complex and nuanced understanding of the full range of tactics and thinking that made up the Black Freedom Movement. At its heart, Black Power was about valuing African Americans and maximizing collective action on behalf of Black well-being—concepts that remain critically important today. 

Join SNCC veteran and film producer, Judy Richardson (most well known for her work on Eyes on the Prize), and movement historian, Emilye Crosby, for this interactive Learning Toolkit workshop. Participants will dig into documents and audiovisual materials, learn about Black Power in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explore how those lessons might be relevant today. This workshop is geared toward educators, civic organizations, community or activist groups, librarians, youth—or anyone who wants to learn more.

The workshop works best with laptops or tablets, but smart phones can work.

For more information about the discussion series, visit the SNCC Legacy Project website for details: https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassroots-organizing/

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SNCC & Grassroots Organizing NEH Discussion Series

In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Duke University Libraries, and humanities scholars formed a partnership—now called the Movement History Initiative (MHI)—to tell SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing with activists’ voices at the center and to pass movement knowledge on to subsequent generations. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, SNCC and Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series is a collaborative project of the MHI, six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and six civil rights and African American museums. It’s based at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, another core MHI partner.

HBCU Partners: Claflin University (Orangeburg, South Carolina); Howard University (Washington, D.C.); Morehouse College (Atlanta, Georgia); North Carolina Central University (Durham, North Carolina); Prairie View A&M University (Prairie View, Texas); Tougaloo College (Jackson, Mississippi)

Museum Partners: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, (Birmingham, Alabama); International Civil Rights Center and Museum (Greensboro, North Carolina); Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Jackson, Mississippi); National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, Georgia; National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee); National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington, D.C)

Our Collaborators: Catherine Adams; Marcus Board, Jr.; Electra Bolotas; Sheila Bonner; Daphne Chamberlain; Charles Cobb, Jr.; Courtland Cox; Vicki Crawford; Emilye Crosby; Deirdre Cross; Kaley Deal; Karlyn Forner; John Gartrell; Robert Greene II; Jarvis Hall; Will Harris; Wesley Hogan; Hasan Kwame Jeffries; Irving Joyner; Jennifer Lawson; Dory Lerner; Monet Lewis-Timmons Pamela Montgomery; Nicole Moore; Michael Morris; Josh Myers; Naomi Nelson; Nathalie Frédéric Pierre; Derecka Purnell; Judy Richardson; Marco Robinson; Jessica Rucker; John Swaine; DeJuana Thompson; Maria Varela