A GRACIOUS GOOD DAY SNCC FAMILY
JANUARY 20, 2003
FROM J CHARLES JONES
I wanted to announce and invite you to our SIT-IN renunion here in Charlotte, NC on January 31-February 1, 2003. We are combining this renunion with the Rock Hill, SC. Sit-ins. This RENUNION is the first we have done and I am very excited about seeing old school mates from Johnson C. Smith University, Friendship College and old SNCC family and friends.
The Agenda is as follows:
Featured speakers:
Diane Nash, key national leader of SNCC (Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee), jailed in Rock Hill, important organizer in 1961 Freedom Ride through the South.
TOM GAITHER, led Rock Hill's "Jail, No Bail" protest, field organizer for the Freedom Ride protest against bus segregation, active in CORE(Congress Of Racial Equality).
J. CHARLES JONES, led Charlotte's sit-ins, became one of SNCC's main leaders, jailed in Rock Hill, jailed in Montgomery, Alabama during Freedom Rides, organizer of the Albany Movement, jailed in Albany , Ga.
CHARLES SHERROD, SNCC jailed in rock Hill jailed in Rock Hill, went on to lead the famed "fill-the-jails" protests in Albany, Georgia.
Charles Payne, Duke University, author of I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizinq Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.
Pamela Grundy, Davidson College. historian of the desegregation era in Charlotte
Heyward Davenport and B.B. De Lame, co-organizers of Charlotte's sit-ins.
Dub Massey and Willie McCleod, jailed in Rock Hill's 1961 sit-ins,
Elsie White Springs. Edith Strickland De Lame, Betty Houchins Lundy. Thelma Johnson, activists in the Charlotte and Rock Hill protests.
Abe Plummer. leader of Rock Hills 1960 sit-ins
FRIDAY January 31, Withers Hall, Winthrop University, Rock Hill
3:00 - 4:30pm Round-table Discussion with Diane Nash.
SATURDAY February 1 - Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte
9:am Welcome, Dr. Charles Payne, Duke University
Dr. Pamela Grundy, Davidson College
9:30am Charlotte's Sit-In Leaders,
oral history interview
11:am Rock Hill's "Jail, No Bail,"
oral history interview
Informal Luncheon with Sit-In Participants, downtown restaurants
2:00pm Women in the Sit-ins,
oral history interview
3:30pm "Outside Agitators:" SNCC & CORE, discussion of the national impact of the Charlotte and Rock Hill sit-ins
4:30pm Summing up,
Dr. Payne and Dr. Grundy
Events are free and open to the public.
Contact Kemuel Murray at Levine Museum of the New South
200 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
(704) 333 - 1887 x222
Email: kmurray@museumofthenewsouth.org
PEACE AND LOVE
J CHARLES JONES
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