SNCC

The SNCC is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and it was at its peak during the 1960s. It was the end result of a meeting of students organized by Ella Baker, and was held at Shaw University in April 1960. The SNCC's formation was inspired by the Greensboro and Nashville sit-ins, which were led by student-group.

Formation
The SNCC received its initial funding from the Southern Christian Leadership Committee, of an $800.00 grant, for a conference attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, along with delegates from 19 northern colleges, the SCLC, CORE, FOR, NSA, and SDS. The SNCC was formed by the combining of the above groups.

The first chairman of the SNCC was Marion Barry, who later became the mayor of Washington, D.C., and served as chairman for one year.

Activism
Robert Parris Moses played a central role in transforming SNCC from a group of students protesting into an official organization.

The SNCC was a major support in the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

In 1961 SNCC began to work with voter registration, with its first voter registration project in McComb, Mississippi.

Later Years
By early 1967, the SNCC was going bankrupt, and so it was losing its potency as an organization. It was on the verge of dissappearing. In 1968, H. Rap Brown, the then chairman, resigned due to his being indicted for inciting a riot in Cambridge, Maryland in 1967.

Though the SNCC was largely nonexistent, by this time, during the early 1970s chapters still survived in communities such as San Antonio, Texas for several more years, ending in 1976.

Work Cited
SNCC Wikipedia Page