The SCLC and the SNCC

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The SCLC and the SNCC

• Abby Genrich
• Lauren Shope
• Nadine Najjar
• Patrick Carrigan

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The SCLC

• The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Main Goal Move towards civil rights through
  peaceful demonstrations
• Created by MLK in Atlanta in 1957
• MLK remained leader until his assassination (1968)

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The SCLC

• 1963-Marched on Washington, D.C Worked towards
  desegregation of Birmingham, AL
• 1965-African American voter registration drive
  (gained national recognition)
• Fell from view as militant African American
  groups rose and after MLKs assassination

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The SNCC

• The Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee
• 1960- The SNCC is founded by Ella Baker and John
  Lewis to help African American students with
  their struggles against segregation in the South.
• The organization was created because of the sit
  in in Greensboro, Alabama.
• Replaced CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

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The SNCC

• 1964- The SNCC helps sponsor the Mississippi
  Project, a program run by over 800 volunteers
  that helped African Americans register to vote.
• 1966- Stokely Carmichael takes authority over the
  SNCC, bringing his militant and violent ways with
  him. This caused many of the white portion of the
  SNCCs followers to withdraw from the program.
• 1967- Because of his growing unpopularity,
  Carmichael hands the SNCC over to H. Rap Brown,
  who reinstated the groups nonviolent ways.
• 1969- The SNCC changes its name to The Student
  National Coordinating Committee
• 1970- The SNCC breaks up

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