Rare behind-the-scenes photos of civil rights activists training to endure the harassment and violence they would face.

In the early 1960s, young Black college students conducted sit-ins around America to protest the segregation of restaurants. Ella Baker, a Civil Rights activist and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official, invited some of those young Black activists (including Diane Nash, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and James Bevel) to a meeting at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April of 1960. From that meeting, the group formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It was made up mostly of Black college students, who practiced peaceful, direct action protests.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent four volunteers to Rock Hill, South Carolina to sit-in.

This product, by Counselor Clique, is the Student Ambassadors Program. This comprehensive student ambassador program curriculum includes everything you need to build a thriving student ambassador program in your high school. Use this resource to start and develop a student leadership program in your school. Support your students using activities, conversation questions, and ideas that build their confidence in their leadership abilities. Use this resource to start a student ambassadors program from the group up without reinventing the wheel and doing it yourself! Though the curriculum is not fully editable itself, there are many opportunities to add your own dates and deadlines with editable text boxes. Everything you need is part of the download including a sample timeline, digital and paper applications, teacher references, and more. Over 28 pages of PDFs, 2 Powerpoint presentations with editable text boxes (plus two Google™ Slides for the same presentations), all applications in paper and digital formats. *This resource does NOT include the Leadership Small Group curriculum. Purchase these together as a discounted bundle HERE. What Does This Resource Include? Terms of Use + What's Included 1- Sample Timeline 2- Student Ambassadors Application Packet 3- Welcome Invitations 4- Student Ambassadors Welcome (PPT and Google™ Slides presentation formats included) 5- Student Ambassadors Training (PPT and Google™ Slides presentation formats included) 6- Student Ambassador Station Check Out 7- Tour Guide Ring (unique takeaway offered in black and white and color for ambassadors to use while giving tours and give to new student when finished) 8- Student Ambassador Instructions 9- New Student Survey (paper and digital versions included) 10- Student Ambassador Survey (paper and digital versions included) How Can I Use This? created for high school students, but would work well with 8th grade student ambassadors for middle school if you have some flexibility (the paper forms don't have middle school grades on them, but the Google Forms™ are equivalent to these that are included are editable). If I Liked This Resource, What Else Might I Like? You will want to run the Leadership Small Group as a part of this program, so snag that also. OR buy them together discounted in a bundle! Check out my other high school small group curriculum resources here! What If I Have a Question? Email me, and I'd love to answer any questions you have! How do I stay updated on new products, sales, and freebies? Join my EMAIL LIST to get more tips, freebies, and resource updates! **Follow Me** by clicking the green star by my store name. This is the best way to keep up with what’s happening at Counselor Clique on Teachers Pay Teachers! Rate for Free TpT! Come back and rate your purchase to earn FREE TpT credits to spend in any TpT store! How Should I Follow Counselor Clique on Other Platforms? Check out my blog, podcast, Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram. Terms: Copyright © Counselor Clique (Lauren Tingle). All rights are reserved by author. Your purchase is for one school only. Please purchase multiple user licenses if you plan to use in different settings; these are available at a discounted rate. Clip art and other elements in this product are copyrighted and cannot be used without a license.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new "forever" stamp at the Newseum Aug. 23. The stamp completes a series of three that honor the struggle for civil rights in the United States. The latest stamp is an impressionistic depiction of a diverse group of protesters bearing signs calling for equal rights and jobs with the Washington Monument in the background. The program, hosted by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr., featured Rep. John Lewis and deputy postmaster general Ronald Stroman, who jointly dedicated the stamp. In 1963, Lewis was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and an organizer of the march. Actress Gabrielle Union was on hand and Joe Coleman of the Platters performed. View our photos of the ceremony at the Newseum by clicking on the photo icons below. [gallery ids="101435,154289,154294,154299,154303,154306,154310,154314,154319,154285,154281,154265,154260,154328,154335,154333,154268,154272,154277,154323" nav="thumbs"]

In this slideshow, meet 10 of the most important female civil rights leaders in America, including Rosa Parks, Ella Baker and Coretta Scott King.

From David Lowery on The Trichordist. The Freedom Singers were a landmark Civil Rights church singing group from Albany, Georgia. They toured the country 1962-63 performing at hundreds of civil rights. Continue reading

Acknowledging links between the intergenerational fight for civil rights and racial justice, former members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Fannie Lou Hamer {1917-1977} was born in Mississippi, the twentieth child of sharecroppers. She became a civil rights activist working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), vigilantly working to expand voter registration. She survived brutal treatment, from forced sterilization to a vicious beating after being arrested for sitting in a “whites only” section at a bus station restaurant. Hamer co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964 in response to the Democratic Party’s efforts to block Black participation. She worked tirelessly for civil rights, women’s rights, and voters’ rights. • blank inside and measures 4.25”x5.5” folded • original linocut illustration • folded card is letterpress printed in reflex blue ink on 100% cotton paper • accompanied by an A2 steel blue envelope Please choose if you’d like this shipped packaged in a cello sleeve or no cello sleeve. We’re trying to cut our plastic use, but we know sometimes you need it. :)

Highlights In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. About the Author: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) began working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and became chairman in 1966. 256 Pages Social Science, Ethnic Studies Description About the Book Originally published: New York: Random House, 1971. Book Synopsis In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist white brainwashing and redefine themselves. He was concerned not only with racism and exploitation, but with cultural integrity and the colonization of Africans in America. In these essays on racism, Black Power, the pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and solidarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds, Carmichael addresses questions that still confront the black world and points to a need for an ideology of black and African liberation, unification, and transformation. Review Quotes "Replete with insights of brilliance." --Julius Lester, The New York Times Book Review About the Author Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) began working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 and became chairman in 1966. His "Black Power" speech reignited the movement of that name, and in 1967 he and Charles Hamilton wrote the book Black Power. In 1968 and 1969, he served as the honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and also became a student of, and aide to, presidents Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure of Guinea, helping to organize the All-African People's Revolutionary Party. In 1978 he changed his name to Kwame Ture. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a jailed journalist and political activist, is the author of five books, including Live from Death Row, and is a frequent radio commentator. The campaign to free him from a Pennsylvania prison since he was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a police officer has garnered international attention.

Exhibition dates: 17th June – 25th September 2016 Curator: Julian Cox Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942) Self-portrait, Chicago 1965/1995 Gelatin silver print montage Image: 31.2 x …