LibGuides: Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Web Resources

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SNCC Digital Gateway
Young activists and organizers with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced “SNICK”), represented a radical, new unanticipated force whose work continues to have great relevance today. For the first time, young people decisively entered the ranks of civil rights movement leadership.
Say it Plain, Say it Proud: American Radioworks
Public speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.
Civil Rights Digital Library
Who Speaks for the Negro?
The Who Speaks for the Negro? website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965.

Written in response to the assissination of Medgar Evers.

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