SNCC

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is an organizations associated with the Civil Rights Movement. It was founded in April of 1960 after Ella Baker, a student at Shaw University began holding student meetings.

Ella Baker

Sign at Shaw University

 Within a few years SNCC's numbers grew and it was especially supported by volunteers from the North who helped to raise funds and volunteered their time to help the Southern efforts. 

SNCC played a major role in several well-known events of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the sit ins, the March on Washington,  and the Mississippi Freedom Summer

Crowd at the 1963 March on Washington

SNCC was largely known for its efforts to register blacks to vote and they held voter registration drives throughout the South to encourage and help African Americans to do so.

Voter registration drive organized by SNCC

In 1966 Stokely Carmichael became the chairman of SNCC. Under his leadership SNCC began to advocate for the idea of black power and organizing protests against the Vietnam War.

Carmichael in 1966

Carmichael giving a speech at the University of California

In 1969 SNCC officially changed its name to reflect their changing beliefs and idea. It's acronym and nickname remained "SNCC" but the official name became the Student National Coordinating Committee. The group continued into the 1970's, when it eventually came to an end.