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.
From the description of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party files, 1960-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476667
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creatorOf | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party files, 1960-1967. | Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Center |
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associatedWith | Coleman, J. P. 1914-1991. | person |
associatedWith | Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | United States. Congress | corporateBody |
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African Americans |
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Civil rights |
Civil rights movement |
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Active 1960
Active 1967