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Article: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE
STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE
(SNCC) was founded in April 1960 to coordinate southern black college students in nonviolent protests against lunch counter segregation. As many chain and department store dining facilities in Texas and the Upper South dropped the color bar, this phase of the southern black protest movement subsided toward the end of the year. SNCC changed from a committee coordinating campus-based groups to a staffed organization that initiated its own projects in local communities. It played a central role in the desegregation and voter registration campaigns that followed in the Deep South. Operating in the most ...
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