Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Black Panther Party (BPP) are two of the most influential organizational groups. They both fought for desegregation and stood for justice. They fought day in and day out to get equal social, economic and political rights for African Americans. During this time of desegregation, lynching, organized hate crimes organization such as the KKK and police brutality caused African Americans to protested and stand up for what they deserved. The SCLC was created in 1957 and believed that they could get their voices heard without violence. Bayard Rustin and Ella Baker along with Martian Luther King organized the protest in Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They also joined local movements

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

John Lewis was one of the most notably influential leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC. SNCC was founded in the 1960s in Releigh, North Carolina and initially consisted of black students as its members (Murphree 2006:11). The first members of this organization made use of nonviolent ways of protests such as sitting in and occupation of certain public places. The organization was successful in making other people aware of the injustices that black people were usually exposed to. Moreover, SNCC supported more nonviolent protests such as the Freedom Rides in 1961 and the March on Washington in 1963 which paved the way for the amendment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

SNCC strategy was to organize mass demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins and freedom rides. They used the newspaper to reach the homes of the people, went to their houses and traveled state to state to publicize and raise money for the organization. One of their focuses was to get blacks to vote. The committee organized non-violent mass demonstrations to provoke the government so they would eventually intercede. They based their beliefs off the beliefs of the SCLC whose leader was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Eventually, they saw no progress and began to aggressively protest under a new “Leader.” Since the original goal of the group began to fade away many of its members lost interest and drew away from

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 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, was created in the 1960s by the NACCP’s very own Ella Baker. She was from Littleton and an alumnus to Shaw University. She helped mentor and guide student leaders to stand up against situations that are beyond the authority of the law or not regulated by the law.

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

Black and white liberal reformers struggled to ameliorate these oppressive practices, forming groups like the NAACP in 1909 and the National Urban League in 1911. South Carolina’s Septima Clark established Citizenship Schools for civil rights across the South, and North Carolina’s Ella Baker worked to improve conditions in the South. Their efforts remind us that civil rights activism has a considerable history predating the

John Lewis, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael each had different opinions on violence. Lewis believed nonviolent protest was the best strategy to get equal rights. At the 1962 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) 2nd anniversary Lewis read a paper by Jim Lawson declaring, “We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose…” (Lewis and Aydin 118), Lewis agreed, stating, “Everyone knew

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

“April 1960. Over the next few years, SNCC served as one of the leading forces in the civil rights movement, organizing so-called “Freedom Rides” through the South in 1961 and the historic March on Washington in 1963, at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his seminal “I Have a Dream”

The SNCC of Chicago was a movement that was fighting for civil right which they called “Black Power.” However, some of their doctrine that were nonviolence seemed self-defeating and dangerous. The movement would be led by a black man in the ghetto because he has advantage that most of them didn’t; he has learned to survive on his own, he has training in the streets and jail therefore he is ready for anything that he has to face. “This is why the Black Power Movement is a true revolutionary movement with the power to change men’s mind and unmask the tricks the white man has used to keep black men enslaved in modern society.” Malcom X taught them how to embrace their culture and take pride from where they come from They had to learn how to become

Firstly, many civil rights activists were not well received by local Blacks. Many Blacks in Mississippi were afraid of losing their jobs if they were suspected of joining civil rights organization. It is important to understand in Mississippi the State government was highly involved in enforcing Jim Crowe laws and segregation of the races. Blacks who joined were beaten and killed and their homes were vandalized. It was a real challenge for SNCC/COFO staff to get local Black residents involved, but eventually, they succeeded. Eventually, the civil rights organizations grew in Mississippi and in the Summer of 1963 the leaders of COFO organized one of the largest registration drives ever attempted. Their goal was to empower local Blacks to vote and show the state of Mississippi that Blacks had the desire to vote, contrary to popular belief. COFO succeeded in making a point. Soon there was major National media coverage on account of the White college students who had come from up

The student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC) was the main organizer of the sit-in movements and boycotting in Albany, Georgia trying to desegregate the entire city at once. The Albany movement was a failure due to many reasons. The plan of the civil rights activist was to protest nonviolently and gain the attention of the media and support through physical confrontation from the Albany police. Nonviolence works when there is a physical confrontation. However, the police chief