On February 1st, 1960, four Black college students in Greensboro NC sat down at a white-only lunch counter and refused to leave when they were denied service. Their action sparked a youth-led mass movement against segregation and for voting rights.
Now, six decades later, we who were once young activists in that movement commemorate the student sit-ins of 1960 by reflecting on the lessons we learned.
[If you are a Freedom Movement veteran listed on our Roll Call, you are encouraged to contribute thoughts that you wish to pass on to the younger hands who are carrying the struggle forward into the future. Your contribution can be written or video, long or short, essay, remembrance, story, poem, quotes, aphorisms, maxims, whatever. (See Submissions for further information.]
| Chude Allen | Lessons Learned in the Southern Freedom Movement, 2024 |
| Heather Booth | The Freedom Movement Changed So Many Lives — Including Mine, 2024 |
| Charlie Cobb | An Introduction to John O'Neal's Work and SNCC, 2023 |
| Courtland Cox | Mr. Say Ain't Nothing, Mr. Do's the Man, 2021 (five short videos) |
| Fatima Cortez | What I Learned from the Freedom Movement, 2024 |
| Bruce Hartford | Mass Movements & Social Revolution, 2024 |
| Marion Kwan | Lessons Learned, 2024 |
| Jennifer Lawson | Moving From Freedom to Black Power and Beyond, 2024 |
| Mike Miller | Bob Moses: Neither Victim Nor Executioner, 2016 |
| Judy Richardson | SNCC Changed Me... Forever, 2024 |
| Karen Haberman Trusty | What I Learned from the Freedom Movement, 2024 |
| Dorothy Zellner | What I learned from SNCC Was: Everything, 2023 |
| Group Discussion | Lessons Learned in the Freedom Movement, 2015 |
| Howard Zinn | Against Discouragement, 2005 |
| Howard Zinn | What the Civil Rights Movement Proved, 1994 |
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