Utilizing digital mapping technologies, The Tree of Protest visualizes the geopolitical reach and influence of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s. This digital project provides interested students, scholars, and teachers a contextual frame to examine the political geography of SNCC in the 1960s, explore digital archives of SNCC’s national and international network, and consider the historiographical and analytical potential of using new digital technologies to study modern social movements and protest.
Project news:
The Tree of Protest is an ongoing project.
Fall 2021: Reconstructed SNCC Dashboard (Draft). Digital Archives and Socio-Economic Maps under construction.
Summer 2021 : Presented early findings of spatial analysis on newspaper reporting and narrative at the 2021 HOTCUS Annual Conference
2019-2020: With generous support from The History Makers, the second iteration was expanded to include new maps and the first essay (published in Current Research in Digital History, Volume 3).
2016-2018: With a digital humanities grant from the AW Mellon Foundation in 2016, the first iteration was developed, titled “Mapping the Freedom Summer,” and presented aspects of the project at Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing, and Social Justice.