The Story of SNCC

Julian Bond's History of SNCC, Volume 1, "Opening Plenary Session", SNCC 50th Anniversary Meeting, 2010, California News

Young activists and organizers of the Student Nonviolence Coordination Committee or SNCC (pronounced "SNICK") represent radical, new and unexpected forces whose activities are still important today. For the first time, youth definitely entered the civil rights movement class. They are devoted to bottom-up to full-time organization, and use this approach to make old change efforts and promote the emergence of powerful new grassroots voices. Prior to SNCC, there were only a few exceptions at the Southern Black Youth Conference (SNYC) in the 1930s and 1940s, especially when civil rights leaders were targeting adults.

Racial Equality Meeting (CORE) was founded in 1942 and has grown as a result of the young leadership entering the position in the 1960s, but in the 10 years the secretary of the full-time SNCC field at the southern community is It was more than the civil rights organization. More around. On February 16, 1960, Pastor Martin Luther King acknowledged the importance of youth appearance at the White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. The fact of student feeding and support. "

Recording, Mississippi Greenwood story, Bob Moses and SNCC staff, large conference by citizens of Fanny · Ruhammer and Greenwood, hymns, prayers, free songs, Medgar Evers and Dick Gregory, 2004 Smithsonian · Folkways · Recording / 1965 Fawkes Records # 5593

Moses, a New Yorker educated at Harvard University, came to the state of Mississippi in 1961 and has registered voters for the Student Nonviolence Coordination Committee (known as SNCC). According to the document of SNCC, Greenwood is the "core resistance band". Moses has set up SNCC headquarters in Greenwood - their headquarters are bombed, burned and crashed - and Blue's top priority is to receive Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier that provide their support . Yet green activist Blue arrived at the airport only to meet members of the armed clan. The delegation of the two cars picked their Hollywood guests, drove the blue car of the second car and soon found themselves chasing them with the cranes. When the party entered the black part of Greenwood, the clan retreated. Today I laughed very happily and he said that Poitier and Belafonte did not find till they found tens of thousands of dollars in cash to help voting until he discovered it later.

In 1966, at Meredith March in Mississippi State, the secretary of SNCC called Willie Ricks screamed Black Power. Indeed, he merely shortened the phrase "black power" and has become a target of SNCC since 1961. Since entering the rural area for the first time, SNCC has focused on black forces to build a position opposing negative voting rights. . This vitality peaked in 1964 with the efforts of the Liberal Party of Mississippi, founded by the SNCC to challenge the so-called 'representative' of Mississippi's racist white racist at the National Democratic General Assembly in 1964 . Party In 1966, this momentum reached another peak in a new, quite black political effort to win Longs County Regional Office in Alabama. In short, the power of black means the power of the black people, this is not a new idea.