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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 3712 Includes: Background and Early Leadership. | Tensions between SNCC and the SCLC. | Breakdown of the SNCC–SCLC Alliance. | Militancy and Black Power. | BibliographyThe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a civil rights organization founded in 1960 by African American students at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. The group pioneered the use of the sit-in as a tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience, and it was instrumental in momentous civil rights events such as Freedom Summer and the founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, both in 1964. High-profile leaders of the civil rights movement like the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. initially supported SNCC and shared resources with the young group. But SNCC grew more and more radical in its outlook and eventually broke with King's group, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). SNCC leaders believed the tactics of nonviolence and accommodation of whites to be ineffective, ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Civil rights organization that played a major role in the 1960s campaign to end segregation in the Southern United States. On February 1, 1960, four black college students attracted national attention when they refused to leave a whites-only lunch counter in an F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Sit-In continued for several weeks and inspired dozens of similar actions across the South. Although not the first time students had taken part in civil rights protests, the sit-in movement was one of the largest and most spontaneous. Reacting to the protests, Ella Baker, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), held a conference for student activists in April at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Baker believed that larger, more cautious civil rights groups, such as the ...
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Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 438(SNCC). This organization was founded at a 1960 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, to give students a voice in the civil rights movement. Ella Baker, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and James Lawson, a divinity student, played key roles. Initially formed to bring student leaders together, to share experiences and discuss future goals and strategies, SNCC quickly evolved into an organization of full-time organizers and protesters. Committed at first to nonviolent direct action, group-centered leadership, and multiracial democracy, SNCC's increasing militancy was mainly shaped by members' direct experiences.SNCC members reorganized the Freedom Rides in 1961, after the Congress of Racial Equality(CORE) encountered bus-burnings and beatings. They also organized local ...
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