The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later, the Student National Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced / snɪk / SNIK) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.

Nov 12, 2009 · Building on its focus on direct action (sit-ins, protests, boycotts) SNCC began working to combat one of the most difficult issues of the civil rights movement: the disenfranchisement of Black...

Jun 17, 2022 · Members of SNCC rode buses through the South to uphold the Supreme Court ruling that interstate travel could not be segregated. They faced violent acts from the Ku Klux Klan and law enforcement, and many members were jailed.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American political organization that played a central role in the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s. Begun as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, it adopted greater militancy late in the decade, reflecting nationwide trends in …

By 1973, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ceased all operations. The impact of SNCC is still felt today. In 2010, a group of SNCC veterans founded the SNCC Legacy Project to document their lived experiences and to educate and assist today’s young activists for …

Jan 7, 2025 · SNCC’s primary goals were to: Emphasize nonviolent methods: SNCC advocated for nonviolent resistance, emphasizing the importance of peaceful protests, sit-ins, boycotts, and marches as effective means to bring about social change.

SNCC’s goals were set out in similar terms by Executive Secretary James Forman in 1961 as “working full-time against the whole value system of this country and by working toward revolution;” in 1963, as a “program of developing, building and strengthening indigenous leadership;” and by third SNCC Chair John Lewis, at the 1963 March on ...

SNCC made it their goal to educate people about their voting rights. Robert Moses, assistant director of SNCC, created the first voter registration schools in Mississippi in 1961.

Jul 14, 2006 · The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced “snick”), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta.

Jul 5, 2019 · The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an organization established during the Civil Rights Movement. Established in April 1960 at Shaw University, SNCC organizers worked throughout the South planning …