PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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School Nurse Care Committee
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Southern Nonviolent Coordination Committee
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Student Nonviolent Cooperation Committee
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the early 1960s, young Black college students conducted sit-ins around America to protest the segregation of restaurants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their objectives were to run 30 Freedom Schools throughout the state in order to register African Americans to vote and to form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party as an alternative to the white-led state Democratic Party at the 1964 national convention. The strategy of voter registration grew in other states.
Detailed explanation-3: -Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), also called (after 1969) Student National Coordinating Committee, American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement.