#OTD in 1960, four Black university students sat down at a lunch counter in a segregated F. W. Woolworth Company store and refused to leave until they were served. They were denied service, but they came back every day for weeks with more and more people, eventually forcing desegregation in the service industry and leading to the formation of the SNCC.

Today’s art is by Naquee White: https://www.embracingourdifferences.org/gallery/2019-gallery/the-greensboro-sit-in/1836/?class0=race&class0_0=10

#history #BlackHistoryMonth #SNCC #BlackHistory #art #desegregation #ToWeRi #Feb1

#OTD Frances M. Beal was born in 1940. She began organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; due to gender biases she experienced within the organization she co-founded the Black Women's Liberation Committee of SNCC in 1968, which evolved into the Third World Women's Alliance. There, she edited the newspaper Triple Jeopardy, the 1st issue of which is today's work, which was sourced here:
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/at-the-intersections-of-race-gender-and-class-honoring-the-revolutionary-feminist-legacy-of-the-third-world-womens-alliance
#history #SNCC #BlackHistory #ToWeRi #Jan13

#OTD Frances M. Beal was born in 1940. She began organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; due to gender biases she experienced within the organization she co-founded the Black Women's Liberation Committee of SNCC in 1968, which evolved into the Third World Women's Alliance. There, she edited the newspaper Triple Jeopardy, the 1st issue of which is today's work, which was sourced here:
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/at-the-intersections-of-race-gender-and-class-honoring-the-revolutionary-feminist-legacy-of-the-third-world-womens-alliance
#history #SNCC #BlackHistory #ToWeRi #Jan13

RT @griffinblvd
niche civil rights history tweet:

Literally backing @JennMcClellanVA is @dromegawilson (blue sign), daughter of #SNCC cofounder Rev. J. Samuel Williams Jr. Rev. Sammy was also a #Moton1951 student striker & succeeded Rev. L. Francis Griffin (Va Civil Rights Memorial) as pastor.

https://archive.org/details/usa-political-prisoners

U.S.A.: political prisoners, by any other name by Peter Biskind

Topics
#politicalprisoners, #politicalrepression, #unitedstatesofamerika, #prisons, #incarceration, #SNCC, #antiwar, #antiblackness, #FTP, #Wilmington10, #AmericanIndianMovement, #PuertoRicanindependencemovement, #antiimperialism

Seven Days, May 23 1977, pages 23-25.