Watch: SNCC veteran Judy Richardson speaks at the One Person, One Vote launch event at the Durham Public Library, Durham, North Carolina, March 3, 2015. Video courtesy of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Transcript: “Charlie really gave a sense of how amazing this is for us. I mean both Wes and Charlie have talked about how—even within the SNCC Legacy Project, we were not uniform. As a matter of fact, there were a lot of people who did not want to go forward. It’s the general institution part. It is also the role of a southern white university like Duke, and some of our board members lived in North Carolina back in the day. And so what you were working against were some preconceived notions. I just have to say it has been a joy working with the group that is here, and it’s been a particular joy because they waited for us. I mean there were times when this project slowed down because we did not respond quickly enough, because they would do nothing until we had said what we had to say, commented on it, direct it, do whatever we had to do. When they said we were scholar activists, they meant that in the fullest sense of the word, and that’s really what’s been amazing to us, I think. It has been at every step of the way—I mean even the people who didn’t really support this on our SNCC Legacy Board before are like, “Whoa! What else can we do with them?!”