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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. Volume 12, Southwest Georgia : "do you want to be free".
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). 50th Anniversary Conference (2010 : Raleigh, N.C.)
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- SNCC legacy video ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.).
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--History--20th century.
- Civil rights demonstrations.
- Civil rights movements--Georgia--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Youth--Political activity--Georgia.
- Youth.
- Youth--Political activity--United States.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 min.).
- Other Title:
- Southwest Georgia : "do you want to be free"
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference Volume 12 - Southwest Georgia: "Do You Want to be Free" FEATURED SPEAKERS: Donald Harris (SNCC Field Secretary), Penny Patch (SNCC Field Secretary), Charles Sherrod (SNCC Project Director), Rutha Harris (SNCC Field Secretary), Sam Mahone (SNCC Field Secretary), John Perdew (SNCC Field Secretary). This panel discusses the Southwest Georgia Project, one of SNCC's earliest and most significant campaigns. Project Director, Charles Sherrod, one of the first of the college students to leave school to work full-time for SNCC, points out that this project "was a Southwest Georgia project not just an Albany, Georgia project" and gives a vivid description of dealing with fear in rural terrain that was as vicious and violent as any place in Mississippi. This session opens with a lively rendition of "This Little Light of Mine" sung by Rutha Harris, in homage to the rich music from the region, and ends with an appearance from Shirley Sherrod who recounts her recent victorious effort to win compensation for black farmers long discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 20, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 840838364
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