BLACK YOUTH AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT: EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO YOUTH CONGRESS (SNYC)
- Revue internationale de linguistique appliquée, de littérature et d’éducation RILALE , 8 (2) : 24-36
Résumé
The Black Freedom Movement has seen the contributions of all the segments of the blackcommunity. Young, adults and children have shown up to demand the end of racism anddiscrimination. Even before the 1950s and 1960s with the establishment of the StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the black youth has always been a decisive factor in the battle for equality and social justice. The Southern Negro Youth Congress(SNYC), for example, was one of the pioneer organizations, which contributed to theburgeoning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Seeking to unearth thepioneering contributions of this civil rights organization, this essay uses a content analysisapproach to uncover the decisive contributions of black youth to the Black FreedomMovement with three set objectives: (1) to show how these young African Americans ofthe SNYC successfully drove black churches and their ministers to join the fight againstracism and discrimination; (2) to show how they organized Southern black workers bycreating the Tobacco Stemmers and Laborers Industrial Union (TSLIU) to fight for betterworking conditions; and (3) to highlight how their pioneering activism inspired themovement afterward.
Mots-clés
Black youth, pioneer, black churches, black freedom movement