SNCC

1. SNCC Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee By: Heather Britt

2. Prelude: • On February 1, 1960 • A group of 4 black college students (Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair, Franklin McCain and David Richmond) from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro where they had been denied service • This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South.

3. SNCC FOUNDED • April 15, 1960 • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh to help coordinate sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities. • SNCC became an organization of grassroots organizers.

4. Statement of Purpose • Nonviolence as the driving philosophy behind the organization. • To rally support from whites and blacks to help support the movement. • Against the Vietnam War in the beginning of 1966 • Opened the door for the feminist movement. • Black Power

5. Timeline

6. John Lewis • John Lewis was an influential SNCC leader and is recognized by most as one of the important leaders of the civil rights movement as a whole. • He was born on February 21, 1940, in Troy, Alabama. His family were sharecroppers. • He was a hard-working young man who overcame poverty and political disenfranchisement to educate himself. • He graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville and then received a bachelor's degree in Religion and Philosophy from Fisk University. • In 1961, Lewis joined SNCC in the Freedom Rides. Riders traveled the South challenging segregation at interstate bus terminals. Lewis and others received death threats and were severely beaten by angry mobs. • In 1986, he was elected to Congress

7. Horace Julian Bond • Born in January 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee. • Bond was one of the several hundred students who formed SNCC. • He is currently the chairman of the NAACP. • He is also a Distinguished Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor in history at the University of Virginia.

8. Fannie Lou Hamer • Known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired,“ • Born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi. • SNCC Field Secretary and traveled around the country speaking and registering people to vote. • Co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). • She died on March 14, 1977, at the age of 59.

9. Robert Moses • Born in 1935 in Harlem. • Moses was visiting his uncle in Hampton, Virginia. He witnessed a sit-in in progress in Newport News and slipped into the middle of it. • Moses made a trip to Mississippi to gather people to come to Atlanta in October for a SNCC conference. • Moses was later involved in education reform.

10. Ella Baker • Born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia. • Baker studied at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. • She graduated in 1927 as class valedictorian and then moved to New York City. • She wanted to help the new student activists and organized a meeting at Shaw University for the student leaders of the sit-ins in April 1960. • Ella Baker died on December 13, 1986, in New York City.

11. Stokeley Carmichael • Born on November 15, 1941, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. • Studied philosophy at Howard University. • Was the leader of the Non-Violent Action Group (NAG).Brought NAG into affiliation with SNCC. • Took part in the SNCC Freedom Rides of 1961 • In 1966, he was elected chairman of SNCC and soon after raised the cry of "black power.“ • He changed his name to Kwame Ture and later moved to Africa, adopting the cause of pan-Africanism. • Carmichael died in Guinea on November 16, 1998 of prostate cancer. He was 57 years old.