Conference on Chicago SNCC Oct 21-22

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Tell the Story: The Chicago SNCC History Project, 1960 -1965

Chicago Area Friends of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and
the Chicago Civil Rights Movement, c. 1960 -1965

October 21-22, 2005

Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois

This is a Call for a three-part project consisting of a national conference,
archive, documentation and resource center on the origins and the
development of the Chicago Area Friends of the Student Non- Violent
Coordinating Committee (CAFSNCC) and its pivotal role in the Chicago civil
rights movement between 1960-1965.

The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC was originally founded as a support
organization for the southern student sit in movement. However, injustices
such as discrimination in employment, segregation in housing and schools, an
antiquated, bureaucratic school system unresponsive to the educational needs
of Blacks and other minorities and disenfranchisement of Black voters by an
exclusionary political machine soon transformed the organization into an
activist one.

CAFSNCC worked to make Black politicians more responsive to their
communities, encouraged and supported independent Black candidates for
office and perhaps most importantly orchestrated the campaign against the
then Superintendent of Schools, Ben Willis, and his segregationist policies.
The Chicago Civil Rights Movement had its origins in Black struggles for
equality dating back to the 19th century. From 1960-1965, as a result of its
programs, alliances with local community groups and organizing, CAFSNCC was
catapulted into the leadership of this movement.

This important Chicago story has not been told. Yet, this history laid the
basis for later events such as the election of Chicago's first Black mayor,
Harold Washington, and many other people's victories. Many of those
victories are being eroded and the social justice goals of the movement
subverted. One of the primary goals of this project is to provide current
and future generations with the knowledge of the significance of the
contemporary Civil Rights Movement in building democracy in Chicago, and
throughout the United States and in the international struggle for social
justice.

If you were a part of or want to know more about this important period in
the history of this country, please contact us. The Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee was unique in its commitment to participatory
democracy within the organization and to identifying and working with local
people already engaged in local struggles. CAFSNCC operated from these same
principles. Therefore, this is not a project about leaders. It is a project
designed to tell your stories that should be known and must be preserved so
that future generations will know the true power of the people in making
social change.

For more and continuing information, go to chicagosncc.org
<http://chicagosncc.org>.

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