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Students for a Democratic Society & SNCC: Currents & Cross Currents
Date: 3/7/1969Call Number: KP 002Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Bernardine Dohrn discusses SDS’s organizational struggle with class, how they plan to move out of “ruling class schools” and insure that racism and imperialism are not abstract terms. Phil Hutchins discusses broadening the base of SNCC, particularly in the South and government repression.
Staughton Lynd - Part 1
Call Number: CE 499Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Staughton Lynd discusses the origins of SNCC, the formation of Freedom Schools in the South and the continued fight for Civil Rights under the new Black Power Movement.
Staughton Lynd - Part 2
Call Number: CE 500Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Lynd discusses what the shift in Black Power meant for SNCC’s administrative organization and the New Left in relation to Civil Rights. Additionally, Lynd discusses Black education further in terms of the creation of Free Schools and the value and productivity of Teach-Ins.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Robert and Dorothy Zellner - Part 1
Robert Zellner, the first white staff member of SNCC and wife Dorothy Zellner discuss their motivations behind their involvement with SNCC as well as social and political atmosphere of the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Additionally, the Zellners discuss the power of sit-ins and protest and the necessity of the consciousness generated to inspire and renew the drive towards social change.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Robert and Dorothy Zellner - Part 2
Robert and Dorothy Zellner continue their discussion on their involvement with SNCC in the South as well as the guiding pathology of a majority of white Southerners. Also discussed are the involvement of other minorities in the movement (Jewish and Japanese), as well as the impact of the Freedom Rides and the expansion of SNCC branches in the South.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Robert and Dorothy Zellner - Part 3
Robert and Dorothy Zellner further discuss the venue for Black resistance and education such as the sit-ins, the army, and the formation of third political parties.
Collin Edwards - interview with Elizabeth Sutherland
Elizabeth Sutherland discusses the Voter Register Campaign in Mississippi, SNCC and the involvement of white students as well as the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Party.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Elizabeth Sutherland and Sally Belfrage
Elizabeth Sutherland, editor of “Letter from Mississippi,” and Sally Belfrage. Author of “Freedom Summer.” Both discuss their involvement with SNCC, the atmosphere of the South in relation to the Civil Rights Movement and SNCC, as well as the power of protest.
Collin Edwards - Interview with Elizabeth Sutherland and Sally Belfrage - Part 2
Sutherland and Belfrage continue in their discussion of race in the South, as well as the task of making the events in Mississippi, viewed as contradictions to democracy, public to the United States as a whole.
Interview with Paul Saltzman - Part 1
Paul Saltzman, a college student from Toronto Canada, discusses his involvement with SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Saltzman discusses his upbringing as well as opinions on the current state of youth during the height of the civil rights movement.
