SNCC Digital Gateway Project Files, 2002-2018 (bulk 2010-2018)

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University Libraries and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
Abstract:
Project files from the multi-year SNCC Digital Gateway Project. Made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the SNCC Digital Gateway: Learn from the Past, Organize for the Future, Make Democracy Work is a collaborative project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC—pronounced "Snick") Legacy Project, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke University Libraries.
Extent:
689 Gigabytes
0.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11654

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of physical and digital project files from the production of the SNCC Digital Gateway (SDG) and its subsequent promotion and events. Includes release forms, user interaction studies, content files from the SDG, digitized and born-digital primary source material from SNCC activists, promotional materials, and press.

Biographical / historical:

In 2013, the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University formed a partnership to chronicle the historic struggles for voting rights and to develop ongoing programs that contribute to a more civil and inclusive democracy in the 21st century.

In March 2015, the SNCC Legacy Project, Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, and Duke Libraries launched its pilot website, One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights, which uses documents, photographs, and audiovisual material to chronicle SNCC's historic struggle for voting rights. Throughout the One Person, One Vote Project, SNCC veterans came to Duke's campus as Visiting Activist Scholars, working with students, archivists, and project staff to engage SNCC's documentary legacy and contextualize its history of organizing for self-determination and democracy.

The long-term SLP and Duke collaboration is building on that effort with the creation of the SNCC Digital Gateway (https://snccdigital.org/). SNCC veterans have continued serving as Visiting Activist Scholars during the SNCC Digital Gateway Project. The partnership has also conducted critical oral history sessions with SNCC veterans that highlight SNCC's experience around building democracy from the ground up and the inside out—informational wealth that will help activate people to have a say in their own lives at the local and national levels. A K–12 educational component of the partnership will draw on the SNCC Digital Gateway as a learning tool.

Acquisition information:
The SNCC Digital Gateway Project Files were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a transfer in 2018.
Processing information:

Processed by RL staff, August 2018

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2018-0111

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Contents

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Collection is open for research.

Collection contains electronic records that must be requested through the collection guide and accessed in our reading room. Contact Research Services with questions.

Terms of access:

The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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[Identification of item], SNCC Digital Gateway Project Files, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.