Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
largest student-led civil rights organization during the American Civil Rights Movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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; 64 years ago (1960) |
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Founder | Ella Baker |
Extinction | 1976; 48 years ago (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 |
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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.