Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Contents
Summary
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed originally by four African-American college students. Although originally thought to be formed by just African-Americans, many white college students as well joined the cause. This committee was greatly successful because of the white involvement[1]; SNCC was able to appeal to some whites simply because of the founders expression of religious and moral values. The goal of SNCC was to eradicate Jim Crow separation in the South[2]. Not only did SNCC work with white Americans, it also was able to work along the side of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (one of its great participants was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and had an affiliation with the NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)[3]. In 1964 SNCC was responsible for some of the creation of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party [4]. Although the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was committed to using nonviolence to make statements regarding civil rights, after the Selma riots militancy within the group became prominent. With the help of Stokely Carmichael and Reverend H. Rap Brown, violence began to substitute the nonviolent sit-ins [5]. Freedom Schools, however, were also brought into the SNCC community as a result to the Freedom Summer in 1965 [6].
Origin:
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina [7]
Chronology:
- Significant events & actions
- watershed moments
- turning points and phases of the organization
Significant People:
- individuals both inside the organization and out who impacted it’s course
Outcomes/Long Term Effects on U.S. Culture:
References:
- ↑ "Civil Rights and the Churches (1960s)." American Decades CD-ROM. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
- ↑ Wilkins, Fanon Che. "The making of black internationalists: SNCC and Africa before the launching of Black Power, 1960-1965.(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)." The Journal of African American History 92.4 (Fall 2007): 468(24). General OneFile. Gale. ST JOHNS SCHOOL. 2 Sept. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.
- ↑ "Civil Rights and the Churches (1960s)." American Decades CD-ROM. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
- ↑ "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
- ↑ "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
- ↑ "Freedom Summer." Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 5 vols. Macmillan, 1996. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
- ↑ Wilkins, Fanon Che. "The making of black internationalists: SNCC and Africa before the launching of Black Power, 1960-1965.(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)." The Journal of African American History 92.4 (Fall 2007): 468(24). General OneFile. Gale. ST JOHNS SCHOOL. 2 Sept. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.
