Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
SNCC was formed to help support peaceful protests during the Greensboro Sit-In, the start of the sit-in movement.
"...a meeting held on April 16th-18th of 1960, at Shaw University, an all black college in Raleigh, North Carolina, agreed to form a new interracial organization to promote and support peaceful direct action against segregation."
- Iwan Morgan, From Sit-Ins to SNCC
- Iwan Morgan, From Sit-Ins to SNCC
"...originally called Temporary Coordinating Committee, it was renamed Temporary Student Coordinating Committee in May 1960. At its Atlanta conference in October, the organization dropped 'Temporary' from its title to become Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in recognition that the struggle to overthrow racial inequalities would be long and difficult." - Iwan Morgan, From Sit-Ins to SNCC |
Posters for S.N.C.C.
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"SNCC's founding was an important step in the transformation of a limited student movement to desegregate lunch counters into a broad movement to achieve major social reforms." -Clayborne Carson, historian |
"The formation of SNCC, howsoever called, confirmed the emergence of a fresh element in the struggle for African American civil rights in the South. It was significant that after Greensboro, sit-in participants habitually spoke of being involved in the movement."
-Iwan Morgan, From Sit Ins to SNCC
-Iwan Morgan, From Sit Ins to SNCC