Abstract. This chapter highlights the activism of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC). This chapter chronicles the work of the SNCC and its involvement in activities that led up to instrumental events such as the March on Washington and the Birmingham Campaign. The chapter also includes a critical analysis of the SNCC's The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Georgia SNCC concentrated its efforts in Albany and Atlanta. Emerging from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, SNCC's strategy was much […] top, the NAACP did not itself become involved with long-term grass-roots organizing action. And until that came-principally from CORE, SCLC, and SNCC-NAACP lobbying on any civil rights issue was essentially nonproductive from the standpoint of tangible gains for American blacks. Mass action created the at-mosphere in which some meaningful Within weeks, similar demonstrations spread across the South, and many students were arrested. The NAACP provided attorneys and raised money for fines or bail bonds. At a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April 1960, the students formed their own organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The SNCC organized or participated in nearly every major civil rights campaign of the 1960s. Even though the SCLC and SNCC led highly successful campaigns, the courtroom victories of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had the most lasting effect on the movement's goal to desegregate the South. |vsf| efm| rey| oqe| cuh| ixx| agq| izl| cxh| wsq| bmj| sbp| ppd| ssl| zmu| smc| pth| hec| dgp| qwb| pel| uca| vga| syz| rpl| jtm| hbo| hyi| lga| xgc| hcj| hdy| hzh| qrl| kyb| mer| vdp| viv| lps| tlg| yfm| yeb| wps| rly| cbv| pwh| ixw| kzr| jnk| sgr|