Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Founded | Shaw University |
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Raleigh | |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Headquarters | Atlanta |
Georgia | |
United States | |
Extinction | 1976 |
Founders | Ella Baker |
Julian Bond | |
Diane Nash | |
Bernard Lafayette | |
Charles Sherrod | |
Purposes | Pacifism |
Civil rights movement | |
Anti-racism | |
Participatory democracy | |
Black Power | |
Affiliations | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1411343 |
About Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University.