SNCC Digital Gateway
The SNCC Digital Gateway is a documentary website that tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement for change that empowered the Black community and transformed the nation. The SNCC Digital Gateway portrays how SNCC, alongside thousands of local Black residents, worked for Black people to take control of their political and economic lives. It also unveils the inner workings of SNCC as an organization, examining how it coordinated sit-ins and freedom schools, voter registration and economic cooperatives, anti-draft protests and international solidarity struggles.
SNCC organizers themselves shaped the vision and framework of the SNCC Digital Gateway website. They worked collaboratively with historians of the Movement, archivists, and students to weave together grassroots stories, digitized primary source materials held at repositories across the country, and new multi-media productions to bring this history to life for a new generation.
In the SNCC Digital Gateway, you’ll find:
– Historic materials including documents, photographs, and oral history interviews
– Profiles revealing the individual contributions to the Movement of local organizers and SNCC workers
– Events tracing the evolution of SNCC’s organizing
– Inside SNCC pages unveiling the inner working of SNCC as an organization
– Our Voices sections presenting aspects of SNCC’s history through the voices of the activists themselves
– Map showing SNCC’s many projects and the organizers and key events related to each site
– Today videos connecting SNCC’s organizing legacy to the experiences of today’s young activists
