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Black Community Survival Conference – Sickle Cell Anemia Testing

Bob Fitch via Stanford University Libraries.

A Black volunteer pricks a Black child's finger as other children and adults stand nearby. A sign behind the volunteers reads — Volunteers test community members for Sickle Cell Anemia, 1972.

Source: Bob Fitch, Stanford University Libraries.

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Private: “What Do We Want? Black Power” – SNCC and the Black Panther Party [Part One]

In this lesson, students will examine what factors influenced the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party and what impact the two organizations had on the movement for Black liberation.
Lesson Plan

Private: “What Do We Want? Black Power” – SNCC and the Black Panther Party [Part Two]

In this lesson, students will examine what factors influenced the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party and what impact the two organizations had on the movement for Black liberation.