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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 to coordinate the widespread student protests initiated by the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-in. In the spring of 1961, SNCC emerged as a major force in the civil rights movement through its involvement in the Freedom Rides and other nonviolent protests across the South. In the fall, SNCC shifted its focus to long-term voter registration campaigns in the Deep South and joined the Voter Education Project (VEP). In 1964, the SNCC-led Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) sponsored Freedom Summer, a massive voter education and registration drive in Mississippi. This project put enormous pressure on President Johnson to move toward what would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. |