Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi.

The chairman of SNCC was elected annually by the Committee and served as chairman of the organization and of the Executive Committee.

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