Case Study: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Young African American’s had to take an active role because many older adults were set in their ways, too afraid to do anything. Previously learning in school, The NAACP was the primary group focusing on civil rights. Further reading has shown that this is not completely accurate. Per Cleveland sellers, the NAACP was widely known but had setback from certain events. Many students who were involved in sit-ins before the freedom writers were believed to be under the SCLC or NAACP. As in the book, many African Americans only know of the NAACP. The SNCC group was a small student led group that also planned and participated in demonstrations. The SNCC formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement because they felt that the SCLC was out of touch for them. With support from Ella Barker the SNCC worked their way into the movement. The SNCC evolved over time, from being a small unknown student organization, to a very known

On Easter weekend in 1960, as a college student, Bond wound up as a pioneering member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The committee which grasped on all the

Through these organizations, Anne had become actively involved in the civil rights movement. She soon realized, though, that there were a lot of preconditions that were needed to achieve significant social change in the black community. Many of the projects Anne worked on, lacked support from the black community. She did not realize how much she would be harassed by the white people because she was fighting the rights of black people. The main preconditions for social change in the 1950s and 1960s, was getting the black community to support the various projects SNCC and the NAACP were working on. The black people they were fighting for did not always like the projects that Anne, and the other young people in SNCC, had been doing. Many black people tended to ignore the efforts of the SNCC because they were afraid of change. It took a lot of work to convince the black community to support the various projects the young people of SNCC were doing. An example of a project that the black community supported extensively, was Freedom Summer. This project would not have been successful if the black community did not support this. The Freedom Summer project proved to be a success because the black community went out and voted. This proved to the federal government, that black people were interested in gaining voting rights. Anne Moody had thought about joining the National Association for the

Ella Baker was passionate about creating change in the world she lived in and was willing to put herself in danger for what she believed in. She worked as an assistant field secretary, traveling all over the south to organize new NAACP chapters (“Baker, Ella Jo”). While Baker was in the south with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which she founded, they worked hard to organize protests known as the Freedom Rides of 1961 ("Boynton v. Virginia 1960"). The freedom rides of 1961 were bus trips throughout the South in protest of the segregated bus terminals. While they had to go through hardships along the way, they received international attention for their actions and the cruel way they were treated (“Freedom Riders”).

The sit-in movement acted as a major protest and turning point for the Civil Rights Movement. The sit-ins highlighted the main moral issue that was being fought: racial discrimination and segregation. Blacks utilized the strategies of nonviolence and student involvement in order to combat the moral issue of racial segregation (“Ain’t Scared of Your Jails”).

One thing that I learned about that I didn’t know about was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In the course book on 940, it mentions that they embraced civil disobedience and the nonviolence principles of Martin Luther King Jr. They would not respond with violence if they were attacked. In an article titled, “SNCC”, written by the History.com staff, it mentions that in 1966, when Stokely Carmichael was elected head of the SNCC he had new tactics one of which was the use of violence as a legitimate means of self-defense. It goes on to mentions that his successor, H. Rap Brown, went further, saying, “Violence is as American as cherry pie.” This is what made it interesting, they group started of with not responding to the

In 1960 Ella Baker delivered a speech entitled “Bigger than a Hamburger” to what would come to be the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In this speech she argued to students who had been involved in the sit-ins that what they were fighting for was bigger than a hamburger and desegregating a lunch counter, but struggling for equality in all its forms. In a similar way, so too has the fight for quality education been bigger than a classroom. Ella Baker also argued that, “through the process of education, black people would be accepted in the American culture and they would be accorded their rights in proportion to the degree to which they qualified as being persons of learning and culture.” This is a testament to the over 200 year tradition within the black community of viewing education as inseparable with the concepts of freedom and citizenship. During slavery anyone found to be assembling in an effort to teach slaves to read and write received corporal punishment. Consequently, throughout Reconstruction education was pursued with a vengeance. Freedmen’s Bureau agents reported, “Colored men have paid their own money to prepare and furnish a room for a school.” The Rosenwald Fund, a charity organization headed by the president of the Sears Roebuck Company, donated funds to build black schools, but the funds had to be matched by those from the local school system. So black residents’ double taxed themselves in order to pay for these schools. Nearly every

The U.S. Civil Rights Movement occurred during the 1900s. This movement allowed the discrimination of African Americans to be known to the public and viewed as a national crisis. The four biggest organizations during this time that gave rise to the restoration of universal suffrage and the outlaw of legal segregation were CORE (Congress of Racial Equality ), SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference ), SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), and NAACP( National Association for the Advancement of Colored

The SNCC helped shed light on the southern civil rights movement first through student involvement in the 1961 Freedom Rides to protest segregation in interstate travel facilities in the south. The 1960 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel facilities unconstitutional but racist fanatics brutally attacked black bus riders traveling throughout Alabama. (Jeffries) So African American Freedom Riders sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality, began riding buses and trains challenging the segregation of “whites only” bathrooms and other facilities forcing the Interstate Commerce Commission to begin

The Civil Rights Movement, which turned ten in 1964, grew worse as the 1960s neared the halfway mark. It was at this time where rivalries were mad, only to be pushed aside so groups can work together to get to one goal: gaining civil rights African-Americans have been fighting for since the Black Codes were put into place in the 1870s. With this, Student Nonviolent Coordinate Committee (SNCC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and many other organizations created under one of these group’s members worked together to pave way for African-American civil rights during these times. While they did have the nonviolent strategy through and through, the only

Almost 100 years had passed since the Civil War, but segregation was still the way of living in the South. Changes were coming but they were slow (Perlman). Brian Daugherity says that the Freedom Riders were “A key step in a whole chain of events that led to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Bill,”(Perlman). With the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the equality movement in Little Rock the Freedom Riders became a very well known group. They started the world publicity of the racial struggles and discrimination endured by African Americans, and brought forth the changes that are in place today (Spartacus). The freedom rides were inspired by the Congress Of Racial Equality, or CORE. CORE was a Civil Rights group that would go to areas for whites only and ask for services. If they were served they considered the business to be following the Federal law. If they were arrested they would comply, not resist (Perlman). The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People became involved in ending the issues of segregation on public transportation (Gourley). In 1952 the segregation of interstate railroads was declared illegal and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. This was just before a similar judgement about interstate buses (Gourley). The Freedom Riders contributed greatly to the Civil Rights movement, court cases, and how we live

Haughton was one of many black church leaders that played an important role in the movement. As respected leaders of their communities, church leaders often became the main force motivating the their parishioners to stand up and challenge segregation and the status quo. However none of these organized protests would existed much less achieved there goals had it not been for overarching groups, like SNCC, which coordinated protests and negotiated on behalf of the protestors with local authorities and the state.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee claims that America is being irresponsible both in and out of America. They claimed that in the South murderers are not being prosecuted for killing Civil Rights activist and in Vietnam America is murdering the Vietnamese. They claim that there were no regulatory forces that are opposing America that are trying to stop them in Vietnam. They question if the government is being effective, they claim that civil rights acts are not being enforced to their full potential. This organization wants America to be peaceful, they don’t want racism or war they want what they think is best for America. They want Americans to show that they do not want war in the polls and vote for more liberal candidates. Why

I learned a lot form the long interesting video. This video is very helpful to understand Civil Rights and Freedom Rides. As I learned NAACP is “National Association for the advancement of colored people to abolish segregation and discrimination to oppose racism” and Freedom Rides is “civil rights campaign of the congress of racial equality in which protesters traveled by bus through the south to desegregate bus stations. White violence against them prompted the Kennedy administration to protect them and become more involved in civil rights.” Martin Luther King is a national and international leader that “I have a dream” is his famous phrase which his dream changed into reality. The nonviolence movement effect in the United States civil Rights

One of the most elements of the book is the evolution of the organization called SNCC. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was founded in conjunction with the lunch counter sit0ins that originated in Greensboro, North Carolina in February 1960. SNCC activists were known to practice slow, tedious and patient voter registration drives in the most dangerous parts of the South. However, they seldom received credit for their efforts on a national level. Despite their lack of national attention, SNCC activists often managed to annoy white federal officials and black civil rights leaders. SNCC attracted radicals from the Revolutionary Action Movement, black nationalists from the North and a host of other mavericks. From its humble beginnings, SNCC was a peaceful group that used nonviolent methods to seek racial equality. Over the course of time, SNCC became more assertive in their methods of demanding racial equality and