sncc, i was a teenager when i was in sncc. look at the birmingham movement. we call it the children's movement. it's the children and the young folks that helped make it happen. now they have the support of the adults, okay, and adults made sure that they were there for them. so what we have to do is get the young people involved? i'll talk real fast now. one of the things you do is create a simulated legislature, ages 12 to 17. get those people together and get them to elect officials to replicate the very state elections that we have. they can vote on the same day. you get what you call a youth party. they'll turn 18 the next day, the next month, the next year, okay? so what happened is that by having a meeting once a month with all these young people and you have a party and you have something good to eat, all that stuff, you help the economy, black folks, you know, but also you bring a representative in and have that representative talk about the bills that they are considering in the legislature. and, by the way, did you hear what i said? bills. that's w

we decided to give our time now to sncc since we helped to form sncc. but we desegregated our lunch counters in nashville before sncc was formed. when we went to raleigh we had already desegregated the lunch counters. that's why marion berry became the first leader of it. but we decided we'd give just like the peace corps and vista volunteers that we'd take off from school now and spend two years giving our time as field secretaries. so when i went down to get my job, my assignment, james foreman, okay, who was our executive secretary then for sncc said that what was needed more than anything else was somebody to go raise some money to get dionne diamond out of jail in louisiana because they had put him in jail and would only accept $10,000 cash bond. that was like $100,000 now, right? okay. and we always made a pledge to each other, you know, in the movement. nobody would suffer alone. so either we would help get you out of jail or either we'll come and join you. so you didn't have to worry about being left alone, all right? we were with you. so i said

we desegregated our lunch counters in nashville before sncc was formed. when we went to raleigh, we already desegregated our lunch counters. that's why barry was the first chairman of sncc. he was a graduate student in chemistry. we decided we would take off from school now and spend two years giving our time as field secretaries. when i went down to get my job, my assignment, james foreman, ok, who was our executive , saidary then for sncc that what was needed more than anything else was somebody to go raise some money to get deion diamond out of jail in louisiana because they put him in jail and would only accept $10,000 cash bond. that's like $100,000 now, right? we always made a pledge to each other in the movement that nobody would suffer alone. either we would help get you out of jail or we'll come and join you. so you didn't have to worry about, you know, being left alone, all right? we were with you. i said, ok, if fund-raising is what you need, i'll do it. they sent me to detroit. when i was in detroit, john conyers was there and some others who

so the black panthers were -- i was supposed to join the black panthers in the sncc office. it was summer of 1968. all of us were there, about a hundred of us were this. bobby seal never showed up. then people showed -- so it depended on which group you came in. but i think what we need to understand is our community has a long tradition of these self-help programs. like the food program. free breakfast, stuff like that. father divine, right? let's not have amnesia about these. so what we were doing was reinventing what our ancestors had laid out and there's a lot of different tools so that each group, the black women's united front, you know, said, you guys don't speak for us. we have a black women's agenda. the national rights organization is a very important statement because here the largest group of women, period, 100,000 women nationwide, they don't usually appeal on the feminist history thing and they don't appear in the black power thing, right? so we have -- we are just beginning to map out all of these different groups. the black student unions probably are the mos

my colleague, john lewis, and i were both in sncc at the same time. so, it gives me great joy to see students even younger than we were, taking the initiative on a major issue in our country. and i must say, given their age, high school students, the first time i have ever seen high school students essentially start a national movement. we in sncc were part of an overall movement. there was the naacp, any number of organizations. we had the march on washington that was led by adults. what happened in parkland, florida, is very different. these students came to washington and had a big demonstration. they were in charge. they have stimulated one of the toughest issues to get the congress to focus on. in fact, if i may say so, i can think of no tougher issue. and yet if you had a pin and you pricked it, you really ought to be able to do something about it. for example, and there are very few statistics like this, about 97% of the american people are for background checks for guns. that's -- that's not hard. it says something about the way our country wa

the director of sncc did press releases. i modeled myself on julian but called myself secretary because there is a minister of information, chair man, that was my title. >> from dallas, texas, charles is on the line for those between 30 and 60. good morning. >> good morning, c-span. thank you for taking my call. it is an honor to speak to one of the mothers of the movement, mrs. cleaver and professor. joseph from texas. i am up at the street in dallas but grew up in sacramento, california where the latest example of heartbreak and police violence is happening part i want to say how amazing how the panthers were and dr. king as describing america as an immaculate rolls-royce. but socially the car was a lemon. i would like to respond to. >> i think it is brilliant, i have never heard of that before, there's a huge difference in america between what the people experience and desire and what in fact is actually happening in the country. i think in the 60s we saw a waking up among black people, latino people, exploited people and

judy richardson, right there representing the young people of sncc.ody remember this line? it was a lifeline for the civil rights workers because what they did, people would go in the rural areas so people that need to know that they are still alive. these are dangerous times. judy's job was to take the reports and sometimes through tears contact the fbi. she talks about her frustration being in places where there was terror going on and the fbi agents with not intercede because they didn't want to blow their cover. she's very frustrated about that. this is judy last year and the year before receiving an award from the city of boston. later she started on the she cofounded a black bookstore at the time the largest black owned bookstore in the country from washington, d.c.. then she became the associate producer for eyes on the prize and is partially responsible for that name because henry hampton wanted to say america i love you madly and she said no so she brought forth a title that evolved into the title that we know. she like many of the women were

we've got groups like the student nonviolent coordinating committee, sncc, which professor cleaver was also a part of, who are talking about s.n.i.c., whi professor was also a part of, who are talking about anti-war activism and anti-imperialism. we have the national welfare rights organization that's talking about poverty. in that way, by 1968, king is talking about a poor people's campaign and an antipoverty campaign, at the same time that you've got young black political radicals who are talking about everything from, you know, educational activism and the creation of black student unions, to anti-imperialist strategies and anticapitalist critiques. certainly the black panthers and the black panther party for self-defense really understands what's happening at the local level in a place like oakland, california, and really, in an era before black lives matter, they are talking about everything from community control and free breakfast programs, but also they're questioning the legitimacy of state sanctioned violence. they're questioning the high rates of incarceration then, 1967, 19

story of this young philosopher, mathematician who went south and created the freedom summer with sncc and now has gone back again to teach math literacy which he thinks his new civil rights struggle so that it has access to math and science and technology in this century. almost done. this is a great book that my daughter gave me. it's called this is an uprising compound nonviolent revolt is shaping the 21st century. it's a fascinating book because it attempts to develop a taxonomy of protests, and political organizing. so it basically sets out to kinds of models for progressive political organizing in american history. one model is the saul alinsky model of organizers who embed themselves in communities and build strong organizational structures that are able to go out and fight for specific material things, whether it's a stoplight or stopping a highway from wrecking a community, or health services or what have you. and then he contrasts that with another model of organizing which might be typified by dr. king and the broader civil rights movement which was about mass organizing and

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