The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: A Brief History Of A Grass-Roots Organization

Abstract

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized to advance and coordinate the “sit-in” movement, a protest technique that became prominent in1960, when four young black men sat at a segregated “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave when ordered to do so.