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Author/Creator:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). 50th Anniversary Conference (2010 : Raleigh, N.C.)
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Title:SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. Volume 6, Luncheon keynote: Rev. James Lawson, "We have not yet arrived" / producer, Natalie Bullock Brown/Ascension Productions.
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Publication:San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011.
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Physical Description:1 streaming video (41 min.) : sound, color.
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Links:Streaming video
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Notes:This edition in English.
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Summary:Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement.
Volume 6: At SNCC's founding conference in 1960 it was James Lawson who captured the political imagination of the students. Years before the 1960 gathering, Lawson was imprisoned for 14 months because of his conscientious objection to the Korean War. In 1958 Lawson became the second black student admitted to the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Soon he began mentoring a group of students in nearby HBCUs. These students launched a movement in Nashville that was arguably the most disciplined and committed to non-violence in the South; and it produced some of SNCC's most notable figures: Diane Nash, John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel, and Marion Barry. Fifty years later, Rev. Lawson demonstrates that he has lost none of his fire, describing "plantation capitalism" as "the root cause of our problems." He denounces a nearly one trillion dollar military budget existing "for the sole purpose of protecting U.S. capital" and argues that Barack Obama's election does not mean that justice has arrived. "The power and energy of the 1960s movement is needed for the 21st century," he argues. In this address Lawson outlines his belief in the continuing value and necessity of non-violent struggle for social change and justice.
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Variant and related titles:Luncheon keynote : Rev. James Lawson, "We have not yet arrived"
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
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Other formats:Videodisc (DVD) version: SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. Volume 6, Luncheon keynote: Rev. James Lawson, "We have not yet arrived". San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011
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Series:SNCC legacy video ; 6
SNCC legacy video ; 6.
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Credits:Executive producer: SNCC Legacy Project, Inc. ; series editor: Joseph Brandon Johnson.
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Performers:Featured speaker, Rev. James Lawson ; moderator, Chuck McDew ; introductions, Angella Dunston, Chuck McDew.
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Audience:For College; Adult audiences.
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Contents:Chuck McDew -- Angella Dunston -- Rev. James Lawson.
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Subjects:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.
Civil rights workers--Southern States--Biography.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
Youth--Political activity--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Youth--Political activity.
Southern States.
United States.
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Genre/Form:Biographies.
History.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
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Also listed under:Brown, Natalie Bullock, producer.
Johnson, Joseph Brandon, editor of moving image work.
Lawson, James M., 1928- speaker.
McDew, Charles, moderator.
Dunston, Angella, speaker.
SNCC Legacy Project, Inc, sponsoring body.
Ascension Productions, production company.
California Newsreel (Firm)
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14646792