Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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Dates:
Establishment 1960
Active 1959
Active 1972
Americans

History 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.

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Subjects:

  • African Americans
  • Afro
  • Civil rights
  • Civil rights demonstrations
  • Civil rights movements
  • Civil rights workers
  • College students
  • Housing
  • Mississippi Summer Project, 1964
  • Police
  • Political activists
  • Poverty
  • Social integration
  • Student movements
  • Voter registration
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movement

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  • 00, US
  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Chicago (Ill.) (as recorded)
  • Mississippi (as recorded)

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