Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC (literally “nonviolent coordination committee of the students”) was one of the principal organizations of the Mouvement Afro-American of the civic rights in the Années 1960. It was born in 1960 at the time of assemblies coeds carried out by Ella Baker to the Shaw University of Raleigh, in North Carolina. Before contributing to the formation of the SNCC, Ella Baker had been the director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, however, that did not want to say that the SNCC was an association dependant on the SCLC. On the contrary, instead of being very close to other organizations like the SCLC or NAACP, the objective of the SNCC was to function independently. Two hundred students Afro-américain S were present at the time of the first meeting, among which Stokely Carmichael of the Howard University. This one directed the militant branch of the group at the time of its scission at the end of the years 1960. The members of the SNCC were made call the “shock troops of the revolution”.

The SNCC played a leading role in the Freedom wrinkles S , the revolt of Washington in 1963 or the Freedom Summer of the the Mississippi. At the end of the Years 1960, under the impulse of leaders like Stokely Carmichael, the SNCC concentrated on the Black Power and the fight against the Guerre of Vietnam. Like other organizations of the time, the SNCC also played a big role in the district of Harlem where the populations Afro-américain were victims of Racial segregation. Into 1969 the SNCC officially changed name for Student National Coordinating Committee in order to reflect the widening of its strategies. However, the movement disappeared in the Années 1970.

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