This ongoing collaboration between Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Libraries, and the SNCC Legacy Project is an outgrowth of the HWL Emerging Network One Person, One Voice. It centers on the living memory of members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a leading force in the fight for minority voting rights in the 1960s. The project's main focus is the SNCC Digital Gateway, a documentary website. Using documentary footage, audio recordings, photographs, and documents, the site portrays how SNCC organizers, alongside thousands of local Black residents, worked so that Black people could take control of their lives. It unveils the inner workings of SNCC as an organization, examining how it coordinated sit-ins and freedom schools, voter registration and economic cooperatives, anti-draft protests and international solidarity struggles. It is a story of unsung heroes: domestic workers and sharecroppers, young organizers and seasoned mentors, World War II veterans and high school students.

The SNCC Digital Gateway is an unprecedented and valuable window onto past civil rights struggles as well as a valuable tool for anyone interested in social change in all of its present-day forms. It is also a work in progress—the content continues to be filled out and stories added. It is the organizers' hope that this digital resource will help sustain the SNCC’s legacy of self-determination and democracy for the generations to come.