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.
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in April of 1960, Ella Baker organized a meeting at Shaw University. From that meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded.
SNCC was formed to enable students to
The SNCC prefered more direct tactics unlike the SCLC
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