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Hell No! We Won't Go!: 50 Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
A visual survey of 50 years of struggle in the civil rights movement.
Features posters from the archives of CSPG.
October 1 - December 18, 2010
Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Events in conjunction with exhibition listed below.
The William Grant Still Arts Center
2520 S. Westview St.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
323.734.1165
ami.motevalli@lacity.org
The exhibit features photographs, posters, magazines, memos and other archival material of the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (/'snik/). Includes documentation of activities of SNCC in Los Angeles, including a focus on Imam Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown. PROGRAM EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES
Panel Discussion:
Saturday November 6, 2010
2 pm
From Freedom Rides to Black Power; SNCC's Radicalization of the Movement
Panel and discussion featuring local members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
The panelists include Shaka Bogolani, Ayuko Babu, Bobbie Hodges-Betts
Moderated by Lamont Yakey.
Film Screening:
November 10, 2010 - 6 - 8:30
Footage of H Rap Brown / Imam Jamil, James Forman, Willie "Mukasa" Ricks, Kwame Ture, and excerpts from Eyes on the Prize etc...
(Imam Jamil Al-Amin Screenings)
November 17, 2010 - 6-8:30
Discussion on the movement today
December 1, 2010
lead by Byron Perez
All events are free and open to the public. SNCC , was a seminal civil rights organization, started in 1960. Initially lead by Ella Baker in student meetings at Shaw University, SNCC grew in to a large organization and movement who staged sit-ins, voter registration drives and "Freedom Rides". One of the principal organizers for SNCC, Willie Ricks coined the term "Black Power" which was popularized in a speech by SNCC chairman Stokely Charmichael. Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins. In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression.
Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as Angela Davis, former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Congressman John Lewis, Bernice Reagan and Sweet Honey and the Rock and NAACP chairman Julian Bond.
Historian Howard Zinn was also once a member of SNCC. Together with hundreds of other students, they left a lasting impact on American history. School tours and study guides available upon request.
For additional information call (323) 734-1165 or email ami.motevalli@lacity.org .
The William Grant Still Arts Center is a facility of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs |
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