JULY 7, Nonviolence
and Direct Action: Its Power and
its Limitations
Morning: Documentary Film: A Force More Powerful (30min; Disciplined and strictly nonviolent, black college students
in Nashville, Tennessee, successfully desegregated the downtown lunch counters
in five months, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.)
Morning and Afternoon Guest Speaker:
Civil Rights Movement
veteran Bruce Hartford
(CORE, SCLC 1963-67, Alabama, Mississippi). Bruce
will present and discuss the key concepts of nonviolent direct action in the
morning and conduct and activity in the afternoon that applies the concepts
to current issues.
JULY 14, Local
Leadership: Building People Power
Morning: Activity: Leadership Training with Mike
Miller, ORGANIZE! Training Center
(SNCC, Mississippi and California;
Saul Alinsky, Kansas City, MO)
Afternoon Activity: Applying leadership training principles to social
action today (SFFS planning committee)
JULY 21, Power
Structures: Institutionalized Inequality
and Socially-Sanctioned Repression
Morning: Documentary Film: Excerpts from Eyes on the Prized - White Power Structures (60
min)
Guest Speaker:
Commissioner Mark Sanchez (SFUSD School Board)
Afternoon Activity: Power Structures: How to analyze and understand them,
Kathy Emery (SFFS)
JULY 28,Arts
and Protest: How Does Art Foster Protest?
Morning: Interactive theater performance about the women and
teen activists in the1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott by Awele
Makeba (award winning and internationally known actor, emerging
playwright, storyteller, recording artist and educator)
Afternoon: Documentary Film and Discussion:
excerpts from We
Shall Overcome (documentary film about the history and significance
of this famous song)
AUGUST 4, Mississippi
Freedom Schools: Education and Social
Protest
Morning: Documentary Film: TBD
Guest Speakers:
Wazir Peacock (Civil Rights Movement Veteran, SNCC, Mississippi & Alabama)
and Allean Richter (1964 Freedom School
participant).
Afternoon: Documentary Film and Discussion:
excerpts from You Got to Move (film by about Myles Horton and
the Highlander Research and Education Center and their influence on different
protest movements.)
AUGUST 11, Contradictions
Within The Movement: Dealing with
Race, Gender and Class within the Context of Movement Building.
Morning: Panel discussion by Civil Rights Veterans including
Phil Hutchings (last chair
of SNCC), Jean Wiley
(SNCC 1960-67 Maryland, Alabama) and Chude Allen
(Freedom School Teacher, Mississippi, 1964).
Afternoon Film and Discussion:
Freedom on My Mind, excerpts ( documentary film about Freedom
Summer) Guest Speakers, Chude Allen
and Hardy Frye(SNCC 1964-67, Mississippi)
AUGUST 18,
Did The Movement End? What Was Accomplished,
what Continued, what Needs to Be Done?
Morning: Discussion moderated by Chude
Allen (Civil Rights Movement veteran
and Mississippi Freedom School Teacher) and Cathy Cade(Civil
Rights Veteran, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana).
Afternoon: Summary discussion (We will
be inviting current activists to this discussion.) and evaluation of
summer curriculum.