The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a civil rights organization in the United States during the 1960s. It was founded in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and originally consisted of African American and white college students. In the early 1960s, SNCC organized peaceful protests and demonstrations to speed desegregation in the South. In 1964, SNCC sponsored the Mississippi Project, in which about 800 volunteers helped thousands of African Americans register to vote. In 1966, SNCC's new leader, Stokely Carmichael, expressed the frustration and impatience of many young African Americans with the slow progress being made through nonviolent protests. He called for a campaign to achieve Black Power and to fight the white power that had oppressed African Americans. Carmichael urged African Americans to gain political and economic control of their own communities. He rejected much of SNCC's white support. In 1966, SNCC was the first civil rights organization to oppose United States involvement in the Vietnam War (1957-1975). Carmichael and other SNCC leaders said that the United States was interfering in the struggle of nonwhite people to become independent. Carmichael resigned in 1967, and H. Rap Brown replaced him. SNCC changed its name to Student National Coordinating Committee in 1969, but disbanded soon after that.
From the description of Records, 1960-1965. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 55532816
