S tudent N onviolent C oordinating C ommittee ( SNCC )

Always at the cutting edge of the black freedom struggle, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee underwent a profound metamorphosis from 1960 until about 1970. Initially dedicated to nonviolent direct action and the pursuit of racial integration, from mid‐1961 the SNCC shifted emphasis toward confronting African American disfranchisement and organizing for independent black political power in the Jim Crow South—an early step on the road to Black Power. SNCC's later rejection of nonviolent and integrationist principles and its turn to Black Power resulted from the stresses of organizing under the threat of white racial terrorism in the Deep South and from SNCC's disillusionment with the limited gains secured by civil rights protests. The SNCC was increasingly radical and outspoken during the 1960s. Its subsequent demise by the end of the decade was precipitated by internal factionalism, the erosion of their funding base, and the deleterious impact of state‐sponsored repression.

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  Clayborne Carson•In struggle•1995

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