SNCC

=Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)= Needs to talk more about SNCC - founding, who, achievements etc. BT

October 1960 - May 1966
//Started with Sit-ins, but with coordination and courage became a great force that fought white oppression.//

After the Montgomery Boycott's success, Martin Luther King, its leader wrote a book about their success and about their non-violence movements and tactics and his own views on it.

Ella Baker a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organised a meeting in which student fans of King's Book, started the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In February 1960, their first "Sit-in"at a local Woolworth's store in Nashville, Tennessee, organised by ). The store's policy stated not to serve black people, their intention was to be intergrated into the store, to be able to eat with white people with no segregation. More and more students joined this movement as the days passed, -and although they were physically assulted, following King's teachings, they did not hit back- until every seat was taken by a black person, causing the store to close down. Although by the month of May, hundreds of these students had been arrested, Nashville's food counters had began to intergrate.



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