Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Oct 28, 2026
Ro KhannaGUEST
And one more point on this before I get to my story.
Ro KhannaGUEST
You know, at Shaw, where SNCC started, Mr. Lewis used to talk about Gandhi and principles.
Ro KhannaGUEST
Anyway, if it weren't for the Civil Rights Movement, my parents wouldn't have been able to come to America.
Ro KhannaGUEST
1965 Immigration Reform Act.
Andrew AydinGUEST
I think about it in regards to student loan debt.
Andrew AydinGUEST
John Lowe's made $110 a week as chairman of SNCC.
Andrew AydinGUEST
How could he have afforded to pay student loan debt if he was only making that much money, right? But then you have to look at it in the big picture.
Andrew AydinGUEST
It's really a pernicious cycle where young people are being excluded from being able to wage protest movements because they're forced into this student loan debt trap that is effectively indentured servitude.
Arlene EisenGUEST
And by we, I mean at that point I was in Students for a Democratic Society, which was the leading white anti-imperialist organization at the time.
Arlene EisenGUEST
We were, and also I was one of the editors of the Movement newspaper, which was kind of a liaison between, had started as a liaison between SNCC, the Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and SD, or the New Left more generally.
Arlene EisenGUEST
And after SNCC kicked the white people out, they told us they didn't want their newsletter anymore and we could have it.
Arlene EisenGUEST
We became kind of a liaison between SDS and the Black Panther Party and worked very closely with them.
Arlene EisenGUEST
So, and our house became kind of a clearinghouse, a central place that when the national leaders of SDS came to town, they stayed there and that sort of thing.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they would be internal feuds with the Black Panthers.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They would pit the Black Panthers against other organizations like the U.S. organization or SNCC.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They would circulate these cartoons.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They would make anonymous calls.
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Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You don't know who's on the other side of the action, but you recognize the pattern, this amplification of personal scandals, this amplification of financial suspicion, this coordinated amplification.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It spreads these narratives, these forged narratives, and it takes these sort of out-of-context stories, and they pit these subgroups against one another.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just like the Forge letters once turned the Black Panthers against the SNCC.
Baron ColemanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is snitch jacketing.
Bakari SellersGUEST
My mom helped desegregate her class in Hamilton High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bakari SellersGUEST
My dad was... one of the founders of SNCC.
Bakari SellersGUEST
So it's a different vibe.
Bakari SellersGUEST
I'm a product of the proverb, it takes a village to raise a child.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
And I ended up, for a month, going around different places in the US, meeting up with old civil rights leaders.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
I met, amazingly, with one of the heads of the civil rights movement, a guy called Robert Moses, Bob Moses, the head of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
And I was investigating this phenomenon.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
that Jews were about 30 times more likely than average white people to be involved in the black civil rights movement.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
We were murdered by the KKK.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
And the phenomenon was at the end of the 60s, there was a sense that the black community had turned on the Jewish community, and it was a betrayal.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
It was also organizations like SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community, the Panthers, and so I wanted to look into that, and what I basically concluded from that was even though Jews were disproportionately involved, there was no, my argument was there was no black Jewish alliance because to be in an alliance, you have to know that you're in an alliance, and these Jews, they'd be in churches in Mississippi and in the South for the freedom rights, And what the evidence that I found was that the black activists had no idea that the white people amongst them were Jews.
Sacha Baron CohenGUEST
So I sat down with this guy, one of the heads of the Civil Rights Movement.
Walter TurnerHOST
Historians often mark the beginning of the modern civil rights movement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the return of African American soldiers from World War II, and the murder of Emmett Till.
Walter TurnerHOST
By the 1960s, there was a formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a new militant, youthful populace that began to define a broader face of the movement.
Walter TurnerHOST
The challenges to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the assassination of Malcolm X, and the urban rebellions of the mid-1960s became the basis for such organizations as the Republic of New Africa, the Revolutionary Action Movement, All African People's Party, and in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party.
Walter TurnerHOST
As much or more than any of these organizations, the Black Panther Party represent the largest and among the most militant of these urban-based black liberation-focused movement.
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Robyn C. SpencerGUEST
She was a red diaper baby.
Robyn C. SpencerGUEST
He was someone who'd been very influenced by the civil rights movement in the South.
Robyn C. SpencerGUEST
He traveled to the South several times, connecting himself to activists in Lowndes County, Alabama, in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Robyn C. SpencerGUEST
He's one of the first people to bring the image of the Black Panther in the Bay Area and to wear a beret.
Nick EstesGUEST
And, you know, side note, bracket that off.
Nick EstesGUEST
I was speaking to an elder from SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Nick EstesGUEST
And I asked him about if there were ever any indigenous members of SNCC.
Nick EstesGUEST
And he said, well, there were like, you know, he was like, I think there were like four or something about, you know, about the time and he was organizing.
Nick EstesGUEST
And he's like, well, you know, one was Buffy St. Marie and Native people really challenged her on her identity at that point in time, and she got really quiet.
Ro KhannaGUEST
And Lewis was in his 20s.
Ro KhannaGUEST
The SNCC, which started at Shaw University, was 17.
Derek WashingtonHOST
Didn't Mamdami just have a birthday? He's like 34 or something.
Derek WashingtonHOST
He's like
Ro KhannaGUEST
And he risked his entire life.
Ro KhannaGUEST
having grown up at a time with the sacrifices of people like my grandfather and John Lewis and the people who were beaten during civil riots and SNCC and DACA came, we had an opportunity to finally move beyond the colonizer's model of the world, to finally move beyond a world that has the oppression of folks and recognizing them as less than.
Ro KhannaGUEST
whether it was what's every Jim Crow inside America, but we could build something different that overcomes that.
Ro KhannaGUEST
And so I look like an Indian American of Hindu faith.
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