Conference Overview

This conference focuses on using innovative research methods to study and teach student activism of the 1960s and 1970s freedom movements. Sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, Pennsylvania State University’s College of Education, College of Liberal Arts, and Center for Civil Rights History and Research Center, this conference will spotlight the uses of oral, public and digital history methodologies to study and teach the roles of student activists throughout the postwar period. The conference will feature public plenary sessions with student activists and interactive workshops on innovative methodology including oral history, digital history, and public history. The conference will also convene members of the historic Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to broaden knowledge of student activism and cultivate skills in innovative research methodologies.