Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Moving on Mississippi : "We had to be strong"
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| Other authors / contributors: | Brown, Natalie Bullock, producer.
Johnson, Joseph Brandon, editor of moving image work.
Brooks, Owen H., moderator.
Travis, Brenda, panelist.
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012, panelist.
Watkins, Hollis, 1941- panelist.
Sistrom, Michael Paul, panelist.
Blue, Willie, panelist.
Thomas, Regina L., panelist.
Ascension Productions, production company.
SNCC Legacy Project, Inc, sponsoring body.
California Newsreel (Firm)
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| Notes: | Executive producer: SNCC Legacy Project, Inc. ; series editor: Joseph Brandon Johnson ; volume editor, Darrell Pryor.
Moderator: Owen Brooks (Delta Ministry, Mississippi) ; panelists: Brenda Travis (Pike County Non-Violent Movement), Hollis Watkins (SNCC Field Secretary), Lawrence Guyot (Chair, MFDP), Willie Blue (SNCC Field Secretary), Michael Sistrom (historian), Regina L. Thomas (Secretary of State, New Jersey).
This edition in English.
Videodisc (DVD) version record.
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| Summary: | Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement.
Volume 10: Not unexpectedly, some of the Southern Movement's most vivid stories are found in Mississippi. Panelist Lawrence Guyot, former Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), insists that Mississippi is the state that "made the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee." This panel features the first-person accounts of some of the Movement's most unsung heroes and heroines: Hollis Watkins, one of the first two students to sit in and be arrested in McComb, Mississippi, a town that in the 1960s had more Klan bombings than any town in the state; Brenda Travis, also from McComb, a 17-year-old high school student who sat-in, was expelled from school, and served six months of a sentence that would have kept her incarcerated until she was 21 if she had not managed to flee; and Rev. Willie Blue, a 22-year-old Navy veteran who returned home to Tallahatchie County where Emmett Till was murdered, with "a serious bad attitude." The significance and impact of the MFDP forms an important part of the discussion.
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| Target Audience: | For College; Adult audiences.
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| Other form: | Videodisc (DVD) version: SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. Volume 10, Moving on Mississippi : "We had to be strong". San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2011
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