Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee

In the United States many social movements strive to bring change to the rules and regulations against the sovereign. One social Movement that stood out the most was The Student For The Democratic Society who wanted to change the way young people were being treated in the areas of: economics, race, and war. This movement lead over 100,000 young people to inspire change but alast these strong willed strong minded individuals never received their demands from the hostile and antagonistic government. Even though the student movement in 1968 had no effect on today's students society, it still pointed out how students nationally felt about how they want to be treated and how the government should serve the people.

After watching the documentary Freedom Summer, I find the part on how SNCC was using the Freedom Summer against white supremacy really appealing to me. In the movie, white supremacy brought both challenges and opportunities for SNCC to implement its movement.

Freedom summer was a 1964 voters act that civil rights movements held a convention for blacks to be able to vote. During the process three young civil rights movement activist were taken and beaten to death. 6 weeks later they were found dead in neshoba county. The Klu Klux Klan was the ones who laid waste to them. “Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention” Fannie Lou Hamer was the first black women to run for office. she was forced to leave the plantation she was a sharecropper at. She was also beat in jail by negros for running for

The Children’s March on Birmingham was not only important in the civil rights movement, but also in changing the perception of the importance of children in protest. The children were able to find their voices to speak out against injustice. This finding of their voice was a major theme of a quote by educator Bell Hooks, “Coming to voice... identify freely with other people.” This quotation is a representation of what the children involved in the march were able to do. Once the adults did not want to be involved in the movement, the children found the courage to connect with each other and conquer segregation in Birmingham. The Children’s March not only set the stage of the involvement of children in other conflicts, such as the protest against

The civil rights movement of the sixties is one of the most controversial times of the last century. Many, if not all, who lived through that time, and the generations following were enormously impacted. At the time passions ran so high that violence at peaceful

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

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was an American political party founded around the end of April of 1964. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, there goal was to contest the state's all white Democratic Party, during the civil rights movement. Black and white Mississippians organized with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Council of Federated Organizations, to challenge the legitimacy of the white only Democratic Party. For years, the blacks in Mississippi had been denied their rights to participate in the electoral process. The group wanted to run several candidates for the Senate and Congressional elections on June 2, 1964. The group began to protest the Democratic Party who wanted to seat an all-white delegation

The college students tried to get enough voters to put African Americans into the governing house of congress. They educated voters and formed a party for those people in Mississippi. “The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party waited in the wings. The MFDP’s bold challenge at the Democratic National Convention was still seven weeks away. To unseat Mississippi’s all-white delegation, Freedom Democrats would need as many registration forms as possible for their parallel party”(Watson

“The S.C.L.C is an African-American civil rights organization, joined the SNCC in a desegregated coalition called “the Albany Movement” in 1961-1962.”- Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (2017, March 06). Retrieved March 07, 2017. “This Movement was formed in Albany, Georgia on November 17, 1961 by many local activists, the S.N.C.C, and the N.A.A.C.P, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (an organization that protest black inequality and racial injustice, led by William G. Anderson, a local black Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and founded by black and white activists).”- Albany Movement. (2017, February 16). Retrieved March 07, 2017. “In 1962 the S.N.C.C, N.A.A.C.P and the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E) helped organize the Freedom Summer campaign which had a purpose of ending the political disenfranchisement of African Americans in the Deep South.”- Congress of Racial Equality. (2017, March 06). Retrieved March 07,

Another significant transformation took place in the Civil Rights Movement in terms of its strategies. In analyzing this facet of the movement, we notice a great shift from nonviolent demonstration to forward, forceful action. Specifically, at the start of the Civil Rights Movement, lunch counter sit-ins were evident throughout the nation, as were Freedom Riders. Starting in Greensboro, North Carolina at a luncheonette called Woolworths, young black citizens would seat

Victory was seen months later when the same four students that initiated the movement were served at the counter. Prior to the sit-ins, youth showed their strength during the movement. The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine black high school students, were the first to integrate into an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. These nine students, despite being blocked from attending the school by the governor, showed how serious the United States was about educational integration; President Eisenhower himself issued an order for federal troops and the National Guard to make sure that the students made it to school safely. In 1962, success came in the form of James Meredith when he became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Although he was also met with resistance, 5,000 governmental troops were sent by the president’s orders to dispel the chaos. SNCC or the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was formed in favor of youth and inspired by the SCLC. This organization gave young African Americans an important role to play in the movement and increased the peaceful, unified nature of the Civil Rights Movement. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee initiated events like “freedom rides” where student volunteers tested laws prohibiting segregation on public transportation and was not just for blacks, but other people with the same

The anti-war protests of the 1960s was a response of resentment by minorities and young educated college students against the nation’s desire to participate in war against Communism in Vietnam and conduct a military draft. The protests, originally began with peaceful public demonstrations by activists, who were nonviolent; however, the peaceful demonstrators were frequently attacked and victimized by the police and other citizens, who did not share their same opinion. Throughout the peaceful protests the activists suffered many beatings in the hands of the police and as a result, many of the activists claimed the right of self-defense and turned to taking offensive actions against their oppressors including the police and other citizens. Later, the scene of violence and mayhem quickly shifted to college campuses, to which college students began protesting the draft (Gurr, 1989, pp. 183-185). At the time the average age of an American soldier serving in Vietnam was 19 and students quickly rebelled after realizing that young Americans were legally old enough to be drafted to fight and die, but were not yet legally allowed to vote or drink alcohol (UShistory, nd.).

Besides discrimination in pay African Americans were always assigned to labourer works rather than combat assignments. African Americans had to face discrimination in fooding, clothing restrooms, bathrooms and even with the arms, their life is considered as less important than the life 's of whites. Even after death their families and their children 's were kept away from the compensation or other rehabilitating and readjustment policies.

There were sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience. It seemed as if the younger generations were trying to be heard by an uncaring government that was sending them overseas to be killed and maimed for a government policy. These young people wanted their share of the American dream too, and it did not involve going to fight in a war on foreign soil. They were revolting against the traditional government, with such slogans as" Don't trust anyone over thirty", coined by Jack Weinberg, an American student activist leader in the 1960s (Deis, 2009). This was construed to mean don't trust the government.

The group also busied themselves by protesting against the war in Vietnam, poverty, racism, nuclear power, and campus regulations. The SDS grew more and more and became a powerful group of college students (1). The youth movement made a huge impact on American lifestyle. The Youth Movement, being as broad as it was, encompassed many other movements, such as, counterculture, the anti war