One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a series of student meetings led by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April of 1960. It grew into a large organization with many supporters in the North who helped raise funds to support their work in the South, allowing full-time workers to have a $10 a week salary. Many unpaid volunteers also worked with this group on projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Maryland. They played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides, a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington, the Freedom Summer, and the MFDP. young people.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee has not been in existence since the 1970s. A couple of its past leaders were Stokely Carmichael and James Forman.

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