The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was created in April 1960 by Ella Baker, then-director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, with an $800 grant from the SCLC. Also in attendance at the first conference were Marion Berry, James Bevel, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, J. Charles Jones, Bernard Lafayette, James Lawson, John Lewis, Charles F. McDew and Diane Nash. [foregoing from Wikipedia.org]
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SNCC was formed to enable students to
SNCC was started February 1, 1960 by four black students from NC A&T University. The students refused to leave a white only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. This started thousands of "sit-ins". SNCC was created at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC.
The SNCC prefered more direct tactics unlike the SCLC
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