Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC – w/ Courtland Cox, Kaia Woodford, Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the <a href= "http://www.sncclegacyproject.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee</a> and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till generation. We join Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell to tour the resources available through <a href="https://snccdigital.org/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">SNCC Digital Gateway</a>. And we hear from <a href="https://bexleyarp.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">student organizer</a> Kaia Woodford about the lessons from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements that inform her activism today.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our</span> <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/57jvr1FiXG6oRfrECjq8mi?si=9a876a0c022e4299" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">latest Spotify playlist</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">has even more Movement Music inspired by this episode. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New For Educators:</span> <a href="http://learningforjustice.org/podcastpd" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Get a professional development certificate</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for listening to this episode—issued by Learning for Justice. Listen for the special code word, then visit tolerance.org/podcastpd.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And visit the</span> <a href= "http://www.learningforjustice.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/civil-rights-movement/community-organizing-youth-leadership-and-sncc" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">enhanced episode transcript</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for additional classroom resources about Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.</span></p>