Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
SNCC (pronounced "snick")
SNCC members are attacked during a sit-in at a racially segregated lunch counter.
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An Appeal for Human Rights
By: Atlanta Student Movement; Statement authored by Roslyn Pope, Spelman College Student An ad placed in the Atlanta newspaper signed by students from the city’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU’s). The ad calls on people everywhere to support their demands for equality in education, jobs, housing, voting, hospitals, entertainment venues, and policing. |
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Don’t Shut Me Out!
By: James Forman, SNCC Some thoughts on how to get a group of people to change their ideology, and basic steps to become a good political organizer. |
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Flyer to Fundraise for SNCC
By: SNCC Flyer to raise money after SNCC protesters were arrested. The flyer explains how students are putting their lives at risk for the entire community and describes individual SNCC members' arrests. |
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I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
By: Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech delivered at a political rally to support her organization the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The speech detail her life struggles as a Black woman attempting to vote in Mississippi. Hamer began her activism as a member of SNCC.
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Interview: Por qué Luchamos los Negros/What the Black Power Struggle is About, Stokely Carmichael, Havana, 1967
By: Editors, The Black Agenda Review Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Toure) discusses the origins and purpose of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the politics and ethics of violence, guerilla warfare, nuclear proliferation, Third World solidarity and Puerto Rican independence, the Cuban Revolution, and the US war in Vietnam. |
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Introduction to THE MOVEMENT (essay)
By: Terrence Cannon & Joseph A. Blum Details of SNCC’s underground newspaper to maintain country-wide support for the southern-based organization. |
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Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
By: Bruce Hartford SNCC forms a two pronged approach to ending segregation: direct actions (sit-ins, protests) and voter registration. Their goal is to demonstrate to the entire world that the U.S. is not the beacon of freedom it claims to be. |
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Proposal for a Cultural Arm of SNCC
By: Barbara Simon, SNCC Because of the systematic cutting off of Afro-Americans from their African heritage by whites, we have become a nation without a country both mentally and physically. In order to try to compensate for this a large number of Black people have tried to integrate into the alien European culture. Needless to say, this has not succeeded. Now is the time for Black people to know that we have a separate culture. We hope to show through education that "culture" is not synonymous with European culture, but that culture is the expression of life as it is lived by the people. |
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Proposal for a Freedom Information Center
By: SNCC A proposal to create workshops and a library that encourages the local community to participate in organizing for their rights. |
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Prospectus for “SNCC Store” in Cambridge, Massachusetts
By: Boston SNCC Proposal to create a SNCC store to supplement fundraising. |
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Rebellious to Revolutionary: SNCC and its Transformative Activism
By: Saskia Staimpel This article examines SNCC’s activism from its inception in 1960 to its peak in 1966, demonstrating how its grassroots activism in the face of extreme racial violence and lack of government protection and support transformed what its members believed Black liberation should look like and how it could be achieved. |
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Rise, Radicalization, Fall and Legacy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (lecture notes)
By: Dr. Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson A timeline of SNCC’s creation, expansion, and targeting by the FBI’s counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) |
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Role Playing : A Guide for Its Use by SNCC Representatives
By: SNCC SNCC suggests how to use role-playing scenarios to rehearse their approach to 1) complacent politicians in their own community, 2) training SNCC volunteers, and 3) learning how to deal with opposition groups. |
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SNCC in Organizing Black America
By: Clayborne Carson The author discusses how SNCC was formed at a historically Black college and expanded throughout the south. |
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SNCC Newsletter, June – July 1967
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Articles about police attacks on college students at Texas Southern University (a historically Black college), a police riot in Atlanta, and an article titled “The Palestine Problem” written by Ethel Minor |
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SNCC Statement of Purpose
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Constitution of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Originally adopted spring 1960, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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SNCC Structure and Leadership
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC is not a membership organization, but rather an agency attempting to stimulate and foster the growth of local protest movements. |
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The Los Angeles Rebellion of 1965
By: John Perdew, SNCC SNCC responds to criticism of Black people participating in riots. |
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The Role of the Community Organizer
By: Howard Romaine, SNCC This paper explains how organizers should interact with the local community, in a way that shows respect for their needs, rather than imposing the organizer’s goals on the community. |
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The Story of SNCC
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC’s purpose, goals, and affiliation with other self-help organizations. |
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What is an Organizer
By: Mike Miller, SNCC Notes on the personality traits of an organizer and how to effectively engage in conversations with the community. |
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Why People Become Corrupt
By: Barbara Brandt, SNCC A guide to help community organizers stay focused on what they are fighting for, and avoid the temptations that come with money or political power. |
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