On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced snick ), was created on the campus of Shaw University in ...
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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE African-American women activists played a major role in the founding and development of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Ella Baker (1903-86), director of the Atlanta headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), organized the April 1960 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, that resulted in the formation of ...
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We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella J. Baker ( Miss Baker ) and the Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The conference was a wonderful success! Check back here soon for additional information arising from the participants A Conference April 13-16, 2000 Hosted by Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in cooperation with NC State University & other institutions ...
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