Records, 1960-1965.

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Records, 1960-1965.

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The collection consists of the records of the Chicago SNCC Freedom Center, a local branch which was developed in order to establish programs attacking poverty and poor housing conditions, and to create community action projects and youth council programs. It includes mimeographed correspondence, statements, reports, articles, memoranda, press releases, minutes, programs, newsletters, bulletins, and speeches pertaining to the purposes, objectives, and activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of Chicago, Illinois, Georgia, Mississippi, California, and Arkansas including reports on voter registration and living conditions of African Americans in the North and South, racial segregation and low income housing projects, and civil rights activities in Mississippi and Georgia, statements on Vietnam, United States imperialism, freedom schools for black children, the development of black power in American politics since 1900, employment discrimination, and the purpose of the African-American Heritage Association.

1 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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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....

Chicago SNCC Freedom Center.

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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,...