Word: sncc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
John Lewis, SNCC's 24-year-old chairman, who has been arrested once for every year of this life, delivered the closing address of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Spring Conference (March 27-29): Roughly 200 Negroes and 100 whites, mainly students, listened to his words in the chapel of the Gammon Theological Seminary, in Atlanta...
...SNCC'S Philosophy...
Since its start in 1960, SNCC's philosophy and approach have changed a great deal. When the group began it hoped merely to coordinate the numerous student action organizations that were springing up throughout the South. Few people thought that Studet Nonviolent Coordinating Committee would become a movement in its own right, initiating action and carrying out programs with an army of field workers...
...fall of 1961 SNCC began the effort which has made it one of the most important groups in the freedom movement. Staff workers moved into the Black Belt areas and started voter egistation dives...
...trip was organized by the United Ministry at Cornell University and is sponsored by the Lendership Conference on Civil Rights, the Northern Student Movement, SNCC, and other civil rights groups...