Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Southern Negro Youth Congress in Columbia

Many of the sessions so moved me that tears of joy and satisfaction well-up into my eyes; at times breath became only short-winded gasps. It was great, great, great!” – Rose Mae Withers Catchings to Louis E. Burnham, November 1946, describing the recent All-Southern Youth Conference held by the Southern Negro Youth Congress in Columbia, … [Read more…]