Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
largest student-led civil rights organization during the American Civil Rights Movement
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was the main channel of student activity to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
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| Formation | 1960 |
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| Founder | Ella Baker |
| Extinction | 1976 |
| Purpose | Pacifism Civil Rights Movement Anti-racism Participatory democracy Black power |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
Region | Deep South and Mid-Atlantic states |
Main organ | The Student Voice (1960–1965) The Movement (1966–1970) |
| Subsidiaries | Friends of SNCC Poor People's Corporation |
| Affiliations | |
They were a group of students who wanted to show segregation was wrong. They would sit in white only shops and cafes and refuse to move even if they were attacked.
It was created in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. The group was mainly founded and headed by Ella Baker.
Other websites
change- The SNCC Digital Gateway
- The SNCC Project: A Year by Year History 1960–1970
- SNCC Actions 1960–1970 (map)
- SNCC 1960 – 1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Retrieved May 2, 2005.
- Stokely Carmichael – Leader of SNCC's militant branch Archived 2010-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- SNCC Documents Online collection of original SNCC documents ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans.
- Americus Movement Archived 2014-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, Civil Rights Digital Library.
- The Story of SNCC Archived 2017-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, One Person, One Vote Project
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