SNCC

 **Began In Northcarolina, April 1960.**
 * Student Nonviolent Coordinate Committee, SNCC **

//SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, and Mississippi Freedom Summer over the next few years.//



SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was one of the principal organizations of the ACRM in the 1960s.It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw university in Raleigh North Carolina in April 1960.

SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, and a leading role in 1963 March on Washington, Mississippi freedom summer, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party over the next few years.

In the later 1960s, led by fiery leaders such as Stokely Carmichael, SNCC focused on "black power" and then protesting against the Vietnam War. As early as 1965, James Forman said he didn't know "how much longer we can stay non-violent" and in 1969, SNCC officially changed its name to the Student ​National Coordinating Committee to reflect the broadening of its strategies. It passed out of existence in the 1970s. =Early Years = ​Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, independent student-led groups began direct-action protests aginst segregation in dozens of southern communities.The most common action of these groups was organizing sit-ins at racially segregated lunch counters to protest the pervasiveness of Jim Crow and other forms of racism. In addition to sitting in at lunch counters, the groups also organized and carried out protests at segregated public libraries, public parks and public swimming pools. SNCC's first chirman was Marion Barry, who later becae the mayor of Washington DC. Barry served as chairman for one year. The second chairman was Charles F.McDew, who served as the chairman from 1961 to 1963, when he was succeeded by John Lewis.SNCC members were called "shock troops of the revolution"

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