Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the most prominent organizations of the black civil rights movement in the United States . It was in 1960 during one of Martin Luther King initiated meeting in Raleigh ( North Carolina founded, USA) of black and white students. The dominant role of Martin Luther King (the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference = SCLC), who was the undisputed leader of the US civil rights movement towards the end of the 1950s due to the bus boycott of Montgomery, which he led , was constructively questioned.
Notable members included Ella Baker , Angela Davis , James Lawson , Fannie Lou Hamer , John Lewis (later Georgia Congressman ), Robert Parris Moses , Clayborne Carson , Stokely Carmichael , Hubert Rap Brown , Marion Barry (later Mayor of Washington, DC ), Julian Bond (later Senator in Georgia), and Howard Zinn .
The SNCC organized nonviolent protests, sit-ins (eg. T. in collaboration with and freedom rides Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]), the blacks encouraged to be included in the voter lists and voting in elections, founded cooperatives and health centers and cared about the literacy of the black rural population.
From the mid- 1960s onwards, the SNCC became radicalized and abandoned its principles of non-violence. The tendency was towards militant, separatist, black nationalism. Carmichael called for Black Power and kicked the white members out of the SNCC. He was succeeded by Hubert Rap Brown, who in 1969 changed the name SNCC to Student National Coordinating Committee . In 1970 the SNCC dissolved.
In 2010, Atlanta City Council , Atlanta City Council , decided to rename its Raymond Street to SNCC Way .
literature
- Clayborne Carson: Times of Struggle. ISBN 3-9806353-6-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from July 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )