SNCC 1960-1966 : Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Traces Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from its beginnings in the Greensboro-inspired sit-ins in February 1960 through 1966 when Stokely Carmichael took over leadership from John Lewis.
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Contributor to Resource
ibiblio.org
Publisher
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Date of Original
1960/1966
Subject
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Civil rights movements--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights workers--United States
African American civil rights workers
College students--United States
African American college students
Student movements--United States
African American civic leaders
Civic leaders--United States
African American clergy
Clergy--United States
African American political activists
Nonviolence--United States
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
United States--Race relations--History--20th century
Feminism--United States
Black power--United States
Sit-ins--Southern States
Voting--United States
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
People
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Bond, Julian, 1940-
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Moses, Robert Parris
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
Medium
instructional materials
black-and-white photographs
sound recordings
timelines (chronologies)
biographies
Type
Text
Description
Web site with information about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from its beginnings in the Greensboro-inspired sit-ins in February 1960 to its official organization in April 1960 at Raleigh, North Carolina's Shaw University through 1966 when Stokely Carmichael took over leadership from John Lewis. The site includes background information about issues important to SNCC including nonviolence, the Vietnam War, white liberalism, feminism, and black power; brief biographies of John Lewis, Julian Bond, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, Ella Baker, and Stokely Carmichael; descriptions of major events including sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Ballot, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; a timeline; audio files of movement leaders speaking about their experience and Freedom Singers singing movement songs; and links to other online resources., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Contributing Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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