From SNCC’s archive, a legacy of student civic engagement. Left: Martha Prescod, Mike Miller, and Robert Parris Moses do voter registration work in the countryside. Mississippi, 1963. Photo: Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos

Martha Prescod, Mike Miller, and Robert Parris Moses do voter registration work in the countryside

I think I feel better and more prepared in this moment to lead and care for other leaders because of my relationship with the folks in SNCC Legacy Project.

Intergenerational organizing is part of the SNCC Legacy Project. Organized Jonah Bryson; SLP Chair Courtland Cox; Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of NAACP; and Eris Sims, Johnson’s chief of staff, to get the vote out for the 2022 midterm elections at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Leah Madison

Jonah Bryson, Courtland Cox, Derrick Johnson, and Eris Sims at Morehouse College for the 2022 Georgia Runoff Election

The Work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

James Forman (left with head bowed) leads singing at the SNCC Office on Raymond Street in Atlanta, Georgia, a common practice at SNCC meetings and protests. Photo: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos 

In a black and white image, a group of 12 student activists of mixed ethnicities, stand together in an office. 

The headquarters of the Holmes County Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, founded in 1964 to challenge the all-white “Dixiecrats.” Photo: Maria Varela  

In a black and white image, a small building with a porch. A sign on the exterior reads, ”Freedom Democratic Party (FDP)”. 

Charles Sherrod (right) and Randy Battle (sitting) visit a supporter in rural Georgia during a door-to-door voter registration campaign in 1963. Photo: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos

In black and white, four Black people on a porch: two activists are standing on right and speaking with elder people on left.

Judy Richardson (center) participates in a sit-in to protest segregation at a diner in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos 

In black and white, Black activists are seated at a counter in a diner.   

SNCC held nonviolent resistance trainings to prepare members for encounters with law enforcement. Albany police carry Eddie Brown in 1962. Photo: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos 

In black and white, five uniformed police officers carry a Black demonstrator. 

SNCC staff and friends gather to sing as the March on Washington, in which they played a crucial role, comes to a close (1963). Photo: Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos 

In black and white, a group of student activists stand with their arms crossed, holding hands to form a chain. In the distance, the Washington Monument stands showing that the group is in Washington, DC, on the National Mall. .

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Our Story, Our Terms: Documenting Movement Building from the Inside Out

A historical photo of a SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) demonstration at the Cairo pool. USA. Cairo, Illinois. 1962. Photo: Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos

In black and white, three demonstrators from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stand together, holding hands

Living History From One Generation to the Next with the SNCC Legacy Project

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 

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