SJL Multicultural Day

Protest Song Woke up this Morningwith My Mind on Freedom  (2.39 min)

VIDEO   Rev. Lawson Interview (3:18 min)  - Lunch Counter Sit-In during Civil Rights Movement                            

1.   Introduction

Sit-Ins were peaceful protests used by the Students for Nonviolent Coordination Committee to counter the long existing inequality and prejudice that was considered normal practice, especially in the South.

Black students were going to Black colleges and wanted things to change. They were from a new generation inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King (MLK) and Gandhi and sought out social change by reading and researching other peaceful, non-violent ways. They did not want to live like their parents and grandparents in their struggle with segregation, discrimination and oppression. Black students formed the Students for Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and were influenced by activist Ella Baker who advocated beyond just integration for more social and political change, such as voter registration drives (What was SNCC, 2018).

2.    Background footage of the Greensboro, ,N.C. Sit Ins

                         SNCC History (Activist Diane Nash)

    ·       Sit-Ins started in Greensboro, North Carolina (1:55 min

    ·       John Lewis: The Nashville Sit Ins  (PBS)  (3:36 min)

4. American Indian Movement Civil Rights included Sovereignty issues

1974 March in Farmington protesting murder of two Navajo men. Broken Circle (R. Barker, 1993) recounts the story.