Northern Student Movement Collection

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Northern Student Movement Collection

1962-1966

https://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2020-063

Collection of materials related to the Northern Student Movement, a twentieth-century American civil rights group. Includes papers about the organization, conference working papers, and publications.

2 Linear Feet (2 containers)

eng, Latn

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11674298

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The Northern Student Movement (NSM) was a twentieth-century American civil rights group. Their mission was to support the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and to challenge racial discrimination in the North. Peter Countryman, a white Yale undergraduate, founded the NSM in the fall of 1961. Community projects and tutoring in segregated and impoverished areas in northern cities were a strong focus of the group. These efforts provided Black students with bet...