By Sharlene Kranz, SLP Board member

For the SNCC Legacy Project I have created a roster of everyone who was ever on SNCC’s paid staff.

Methodology:

I first consulted the papers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The SNCC papers include the SNCC files from the Atlanta, New York City, and Washington, DC offices which are now at the King Center in Atlanta, and available on microfilm at many libraries across the country. There are no ‘payroll’ records as such, so I gleaned names from memoranda, minutes of staff meetings, correspondence, lists of those eligible to attend closed staff meetings, WATS reports, the Student Voice, and other documents. The papers cover the Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC SNCC offices from 1960-1971.
I then consulted Internet databases for more information, such as Ancestry.com, Facebook, Google, Civil Rights Movement Veterans, and the New York Times Death Index on-line.

I read through the Registration Forms for the SNCC 50th and SNCC 60th Anniversary Conferences for the answers to the question “Did you work for SNCC?” Finally, I called many former SNCC workers to search their memories and went through the staff roster with the members of the SLP Board.

As we go forward:

This list is still a work in progress. Our plan is to have on the SLP Digital Movement Platform a short bio and a photo of every former SNCC staff member.