Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s that came to be after several student meetings led by Ella Baker at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April 1960.
Later in the 1960s, leaders like Stokely Carmichael led SNCC to focus on "black power" and protest against the Vietnam War.
In 1965, James Forman said he didn’t know "how much longer we can stay nonviolent." In 1969, SNCC officially became the Student National Coordinating Committee, but dissolved in the 1970s.
Prominent leaders and members include: Ella Baker, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, James Forman, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Robert Parris Moses, Diane Nash, Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson, Cleveland Sellers, Marzette Watts, and Charles McDew.[1]
External links
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement
- SNCC: What We Did - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, by Julian Bond