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

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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 Subject files, 1963-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476675

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creatorOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Washington Office. Subject files, 1963-1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Center
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Southern States
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African Americans
African Americans
Civil rights
Civil rights movement
College students
Police
School integration
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Voter registration
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Active 1963

Active 1968

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