SNCC Black Power Toolkit

As people look for strategies to challenge fascism today, we can learn a lot from the work of the youth-led Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.

The SNCC Legacy Project has produced six toolkits that are free to download. Each one has primary documents, narrative history, photos, and discussion questions.

Topics include voting rights, women & gender, freedom teaching, art & culture, Black power, and the organizing tradition.

In the Black Power Toolkit you will find the following:

Defining and Demonstrating Black Power

Learning Directly from SNCC Organizers: Emergence of Black Power

Engage with the Sources: Stokely’s Speech Class

Lowndes County and Black Power

Learn Directly from SNCC Organizers: The Black Panther and Lowndes County

Engage with the Sources: “Us Colored People”

Engage with the Sources: “What We Want”

Explore the SNCC Digital Gateway: Primary Sources

Economic Organizing, Institution Building, and Internationalism

Engage with the Sources: Economic and Cooperative Organizing

Learn Directly from SNCC Organizers: Internationalism and Building Institutions

Explore the SNCC Digital Gateway: SNCC and Black Power

Making Connections, Learning More

Activist Insights Across Generations