Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced /snɪk/ SNIK) was the main channel of student activity to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Formation	1960; 65 years ago (1960)
Founder	Ella Baker
Extinction	1976; 49 years ago (1976)
Purpose	Pacifism Civil Rights Movement Anti-racism Participatory democracy Black power
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia
Region	Deep South and Mid-Atlantic states
Main organ	The Student Voice (1960–1965) The Movement (1966–1970)
Subsidiaries	Friends of SNCC Poor People's Corporation
Affiliations	Southern Christian Leadership Conference Council of Federated Organizations Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Lowndes County Freedom Organization Black Panther Party Third World Women's Alliance

They were a group of students who wanted to show segregation was wrong. They would sit in white only shops and cafes and refuse to move even if they were attacked.

It was created in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. The group was mainly founded and headed by Ella Baker.

Other websites

• The SNCC Digital Gateway
• The SNCC Project: A Year by Year History 1960–1970
• SNCC Actions 1960–1970 (map)
• SNCC 1960 – 1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Retrieved May 2, 2005.
• Stokely Carmichael – Leader of SNCC's militant branch Archived 2010-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans
• SNCC Documents Online collection of original SNCC documents ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans.
• Americus Movement Archived 2014-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, Civil Rights Digital Library.
• The Story of SNCC Archived 2017-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, One Person, One Vote Project