Editing Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (section)

{{Short description|Activist organization during the US civil rights movement}}
{{redirect|SNCC}}
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| name = Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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| abbreviation = SNCC
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| formation = {{start date and age|1960}}
| founder = [[Ella Baker]]        <!-- or: | founders = -->
| dissolved = <!-- or: | dissolved = --> {{end date and age|1970}}
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| purpose = [[Civil rights movement]]<br/>[[Participatory democracy]]<br/>[[Pacifism]]<br/>[[Black Power]]
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| headquarters = [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
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| subsidiaries = Friends of SNCC<br/>Poor People's Corporation
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| affiliations = {{Plainlist|
* [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]]
* [[Council of Federated Organizations]]
* [[Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party]]
* [[Lowndes County Freedom Organization]]
* [[Black Panther Party]]
* [[Third World Women's Alliance]]
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The '''Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee''', and later, the '''Student National Coordinating Committee'''  ('''SNCC''', pronounced {{IPAc-en|s|n|ɪ|k}} {{respell|SNIK}}) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the [[civil rights movement]] during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led [[Sit-in movement|sit-ins]] at segregated lunch counters in [[Greensboro sit-ins|Greensboro, North Carolina]], and [[Nashville Student Movement|Nashville, Tennessee]], the Committee sought to coordinate and assist direct-action challenges to the civic [[Racial segregation|segregation]] and political exclusion of [[African Americans]]. From 1962, with the support of the [[Voter Education Project]], SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the [[Deep South]]. Affiliates such as the [[Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party]] and the [[Lowndes County Freedom Organization]] in Alabama also worked to increase the pressure on federal and state government to enforce constitutional protections.

By the mid-1960s the measured nature of the gains made, and the violence with which they were resisted, were generating dissent from the group's principles of [[nonviolence]], of white participation in the movement, and of field-driven, as opposed to national-office, leadership and direction. By this time many of SNCC's original organizers were working with the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]] (SCLC), and others were being lost to a de-segregating [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and to federally-funded anti-poverty programs. At the same time, the Committee took positions on international affairs that alientated establishment supporters: opposition to the [[Vietnam War]] and, in the wake of the [[Six-Day War|Six Day War]], criticism of Israel. Following an aborted merger with the [[Black Panther Party]] in 1968, SNCC effectively dissolved.

Because of the successes of its early years, SNCC is credited with breaking down barriers, both institutional and psychological, to the empowerment of African-American communities.