Maggie Nolan Donovan. While editing Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, we searched high and low for meaningful, age appropriate lessons for early childhood. When we were introduced to SNCC veteran and first grade teacher Maggie Nolan Donovan, we found what we were looking for. In fact, we were so impressed by the unique quality of her work that we published nine of her classroom stories and created a short film documentary in her classroom, Teaching About the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Sadly, Marguerite Nolan Donovan died on July 10, 2010 after a long battle with cancer. (More info.)  We are honored to have worked with her and very glad that her teaching can continue to impact classrooms for years to come.

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC will be released in October, 2010. As the editors write in the introduction, "Though the voices are different, they all tell the same story--of women bursting out of constraints, leaving school, leaving their hometowns, meeting new people, talking into the night, laughing, going to jail, being afraid, teaching in Freedom Schools, working in the field, dancing at the Elks Hall, working the WATS line to relay horror story after horror story, telling the press, telling the story, telling the word. And making a difference in this world." "This amazing book rethreads the needle of memory with a stronger cord woven of the testimonies of sisters who never gave up or in." -- Darlene Clark Hine, coauthor of The African American Odyssey

The SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference commemorated the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C.

California Newsreel released Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre, 1968 is a documentary film that brings to light one of the bloodiest tragedies of the Civil Rights era, the dramatic account of the three black students killed in 1968 at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. The film was produced and directed by Bestor Cram and SNCC veteran Judy Richardson. "The truth-telling power of history is made manifest in this profoundly moving and healing documentary." - Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University

Students from McComb High School in McComb, Mississippi are interviewing veterans of the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. These high quality, student conducted interviews can be viewed online.

Peniel E. Joseph's new book, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama, shows how the 60s — particularly the tumultuous period after the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act — came to be the catalyst of a movement that culminated in the inauguration of Barack Obama.