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10/15/2023

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04/26/2023

Friend of SNCC, entertainer, humanitarian Harry Belafonte died today at age 96. The SNCC Legacy Project mourns the passing of this great American. Mr. B. last sang in public at the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in 2010. Our condolences to his wife, children and extended family.

Read the BBC obituary here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11811290

Read the New York Times obituary here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html?searchResultPosition=3

Read the Washington Post obituary here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies/

Read more on SNCC Digital:
https://snccdigital.org/people/harry-belafonte/

04/09/2022

Doris Derby, 82, noted civil rights activist and photographer dies

02/02/2022

Ella Cope presented The Changemakers of Oxford mural on June 14, 2019.

01/11/2022

The SNCC Legacy Project joins the world in mourning Sidney Poitier, who, at the height of his movie career, risked his life in 1964 to travel with his friend Harry Belafonte to Greenwood, Mississippi, to deliver support to SNCC in its brave fight for voting rights. We will never forget his commitment and courage.

01/08/2022

Just opened the 2022 Butler County Insider Guide and saw our very own University Archivist Jacky Johnson highlighted on page 12!

Get your guide at
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09/21/2021

04/23/2021

On behalf of the Algebra Project, we want to share with you the wonderful news we received yesterday about SNCC Veteran Bob Moses' election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. This is a great honor for Bob and his work these many years to raise the floor of math literacy for young people in the country!

You can see more info on the AAAS website here: https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2021 and scroll to 2021 Class III Social and Behavioral Sciences, Section 7 - Education.

09/11/2020

Check out today's Laptop Lecture, by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University Associate Professor of Theatre. In this quick lecture, Dr. Amstrong considers ...

07/24/2020

Bob Moses remembers John Lewis:

'He Was Like a Pit Bull': Bob Moses on John Lewis' Fighting Spirit

BY BOB MOSES JULY 23, 2020 8:00 AM EDT
Moses is an activist and educator who, in the early 1960s, led SNCC’s Mississippi Project
In the early 1960s, SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] had decided it would just do voter registration in Mississippi. I had gone down to work on that program, and my work was very confined to that. But John, in those years, was focused on direct action. He was the person who was going to jail. Whatever actions happened, he was right there.

When he was [elected chair of SNCC in 1963], you had sophisticated Howard students very much involved, and John was the candidate from the rural South. His persistence and moral clarity prevailed in the vote. You were sure you had someone who wasn’t going to somehow dilute the message. John was just straight as an arrow.

Then came the March on Washington, with the whole brouhaha about his speech and the part that got ­deleted—about marching the way Sherman did—that was really typical John. He was like a pit bull: I’m going to go on, and I’m going to grab this, and I’m not turning this loose, and it doesn’t matter what you do.

But the reason John’s direct actions had the impact they did was because he was immersed in a larger movement with a structure. No one knew how to create the sit-in movement, but after Ella Baker helped give it structure, John emerged from within this structure. He went through the training, which involved a commitment to nonviolence as a way of life. John exuded nonviolence. He talked about it until the day he died. And what we got out of [this activism] was the Congressional Black Caucus.

What John accomplished was the elevation of the young person at the bottom of society. You weren’t going to get more rural, more Southern, more inundated in Black rural culture than this son of Alabama sharecroppers. He rose up and reached a point where, at the March on Washington, the powers that be have to try to shape what he’s going to say, because what he’s going to say counts. —As told to Olivia B. Waxman

This story will appear in the Aug. 3, 2020, issue of TIME