Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office.
Biographical notes:
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.
From the description of Other organizations files, 1959-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476668
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Subjects:
- African Americans
- Civil rights
- Civil rights movement
- College students
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- Southern States (as recorded)
