Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a major youth-led civil rights organization in the United States, best known for organizing sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter registration drives in the 1960s.

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instanceOf civil rights organization
nonprofit organization
student organization
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1970s
focus desegregation
racial equality
voting rights
foundedAt Shaw University
hasPart SNCC Freedom Singers
headquartersLocation Atlanta
surface form: Atlanta, Georgia
ideology nonviolence
inception 1960
keyPerson Bernard Lafayette
Bob Moses
Diane Nash
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
James Forman
John Lewis
Julian Bond
Stokely Carmichael
language English
method boycotts
community organizing
freedom rides
nonviolent direct action
sit-ins
voter registration campaigns
movement American civil rights movement
surface form: Civil Rights Movement
notableCampaign Lowndes County Freedom Organization
notableFor Freedom Rides
Freedom Summer
organizing youth in the Civil Rights Movement
sit-ins
voter registration drives
opposedTo Jim Crow laws
racial segregation
participatedIn Birmingham campaign
Freedom Rides
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Freedom Summer
surface form: Mississippi Freedom Summer

Selma to Montgomery marches
positionHeld James Forman
surface form: James Forman was executive secretary of SNCC

John Lewis
surface form: John Lewis was chairman of SNCC

Stokely Carmichael
surface form: Stokely Carmichael was chairman of SNCC
regionServed Southern United States
surface form: American South
shortName Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee self-linksurface differs
surface form: SNCC
slogan "One man, one vote"

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American civil rights movement keyOrganization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom organizedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Selma to Montgomery marches organizer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
American South (mid-20th century civil rights era) associatedWithOrganization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Black Power movement hasKeyOrganization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee shortName Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: SNCC
Congress of Racial Equality collaboratedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Freedom Summer hasOrganizer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Freedom Rides coOrganizedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Freedom Rides coOrganizedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
this entity surface form: SNCC
Albany Movement foundedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Albany Movement participant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
this entity surface form: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activists
John Lewis memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Bayard Rustin influenced Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Ella Baker memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Fannie Lou Hamer employer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Fannie Lou Hamer memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Diane Nash coFounded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Diane Nash memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Stokely Carmichael memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Turnaround Tuesday organizedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Dallas County Voters League collaboratedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
James Bevel influenced Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
this entity surface form: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activists
New Left hasKeyOrganization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Julian Bond coFounded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Julian Bond memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
St. Augustine movement supportedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Murder of Emmett Till influenced Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
this entity surface form: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activism
1966 Meredith March Against Fear continuedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
James Forman memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
James Forman influenced Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC Freedom Singers affiliatedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC Freedom Singers supportedOrganization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
H. Rap Brown memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
H. Rap Brown associatedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
this entity surface form: SNCC
Lowndes County Freedom Organization inspiredBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Bob Moses employer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Bob Moses memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
CORE collaboratedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
subject surface form: Congress of Racial Equality
Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965) organizedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Bernard Lafayette memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party alliedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Jackson Movement (1960s civil rights campaign) hasParticipant Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
subject surface form: Jackson Movement
Council of Federated Organizations foundedBy Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Council of Federated Organizations hasMember Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Charles Person wasMemberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Jim Zwerg affiliatedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Freedom Riders National Monument associatedWith Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Catherine Burks-Brooks partOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
African-American history hasKeyInstitution Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee