Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office.

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi.

From the description of Research Dept. records, 1959-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476661

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creatorOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.). Atlanta Office. Research Dept. records, 1959-1969. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Center
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associatedWith American Civil Liberties Union. corporateBody
associatedWith American Friends Service Committee. corporateBody
associatedWith Black Panthers Party. corporateBody
associatedWith Congress of Racial Equality. corporateBody
associatedWith Coordinating Council of Community Organizations. corporateBody
associatedWith Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) corporateBody
associatedWith Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) corporateBody
associatedWith United States. corporateBody
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Southern States
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African Americans
African Americans
Agricultural laborers
Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights movement
College students
Labor unions
Social integration
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Active 1959

Active 1969

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