The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC and the Chicago SNCC History Project, Part 1: Telling the Story

AHA Session 255
Sunday, January 11, 2026: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Marquette Room (Hilton Chicago, Third Floor)
Chair:
Fannie T. Rushing, Benedictine University
Panel:
Brenetta Howell Barrett, Chicago civil rights activist
Fannie T. Rushing, Benedictine University
Robert Starks, Northeastern Illinois University

Session Abstract

This roundtable is part of a three-part series exploring the intertwined histories of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in three phases, the early days of organizing North and South, the height of civil rights organizing exemplified by the Mississippi Summer Project/Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Chicago School Boycott, and the impact of SNCC beyond the 1960s.

They are multi-media interactive sessions encompassing multi-generational group interviews of movement veterans by today's social justice advocates, clips of already recorded interviews, and the actual filming of a documentary being produced on the Chicago SNCC History Project both the archive and already filmed interviews and events.

The audience for these sessions is historians, educators, archivists, students and all those interested in public history, people who see the future of the discipline being offered in non-traditional places and for historically underserved and marginal communities.

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