Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) was one of the most important organizations of the black civil rights movement in the United States. It was during a meeting initiated by Martin Luther King in Raleigh, North Carolina ( USA) founded in 1960 by black and white students. The dominant role of Martin Luther King, was placed ( the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC ) controlled by the he directed the bus boycott in Montgomery was towards the end of the 1950s, the undisputed leading figure in the U.S. civil rights movement constructively in question.

Significant members were, among others, Ella Baker, Angela Davis, James Lawson, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis ( later a congressman from Georgia), Robert Parris Moses, Clayborne Carson, Stokely Carmichael, Hubert Rap Brown, Marion Barry (later mayor of Washington, DC ), Julian Bond (later Senator in Georgia), Howard Zinn

SNCC organized non-violent protests, sit- ins and freedom rides (some in collaboration with the Congress of Racial Equality [ CORE ] ), encouraged blacks to be entered in the electoral roll, and participation in elections, founded cooperatives and health centers and attended to the literacy of the black rural population.

From the mid- 1960s, the SNCC is radicalized and said goodbye to his principles of non-violence. The tendency was towards a militant separatist black nationalism. Carmichael called for Black Power and threw the white members of the SNCC. He was succeeded by Hubert Rap Brown, SNCC by amending the name to Student National Coordinating Committee in 1969. These developments ran parallel to the heated domestic political events in the U.S. in the 60s and 70s, with particular terms such as, inter alia, McCarthyism and COINTELPRO are important representative of this period.

1970 solved the SNCC up., 2010, the City Council of Atlanta, the Atlanta City Council to rename his Raymond Street in " SNCC Way ".