About the Program
Historian Andrew Lewis presents a history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the group's centrality in the advancement of civil rights and profiles several of its key members, including Julian Bond, John Lewis, Marion Barry, and Diane Nash. Mr. Lewis follows many of SNCC's members from their early activist efforts to their later careers in politics. Andrew Lewis discusses his book at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.