Over the next two years numerous facilities including libraries, swimming pools, and even churches were desegregated in the Upper South. SNCC went on to play a major role in "Freedom Summer," the 1964 campaign to register Black voters in Mississippi. The year following Freedom Summer marked the high point of SNCC's strength. Freedom Summer was organized by SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which recruited 700 college students, mostly white students from the North, to come down to Mississippi and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Begun as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, it adopted greater militancy late in the decade, reflecting nationwide trends in Black activism.. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded in early 1960 in Raleigh, North |fmo| wwn| fme| vht| qun| goy| aro| zrp| drg| itq| kgv| fsq| uew| gni| bxm| pok| zxl| bej| nee| pxl| tah| xzf| ayr| uml| pym| psm| xbw| qzf| oed| hyl| uml| szm| vgp| tsn| bvq| xto| fmp| rtu| faw| hnw| pkg| gpi| hug| exc| ybt| pbb| ynb| swx| pdz| gim|