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Efforts such as the SCLC's successful Birmingham Campaign of 1963, which curtailed segregation of public facilities in Bull Connor's Birmingham, AL and the SNCC and SCLC 1965 Selma to Montgomery ...
The 65th Anniversary of the birth of a historic civil rights movement organization was celebrated in April – the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). People often ...
Discover the pivotal role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement, from Birmingham Children's Crusade to the founding of SNCC.
Discover the crucial role of children and young people in the Civil Rights Movement, including the founding of SNCC, and how their legacy continues to shape our world.
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of marches organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to demand ...
Led by SNCC Chairman John Lewis and SCLC’s Hosea Williams (Dr. King was not present that day), they planned to march to Montgomery to petition Governor George Wallace for voting rights. As the ...
The efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the southern states were noteworthy as there existed the tendrils of ...
The efforts of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the southern states were noteworthy as there existed the tendrils of ...
There, thousands of protestors organized by SCLC and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) gathered to march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights.
Furthermore, when members of the SNCC asked King to join them on the ride into Mississippi, he pompously declined, saying: 'I think I should choose the time and place of my Golgotha'.
Kelefa Sanneh reviews “John Lewis: A Life,” a new book by David Greenberg, about the civil-rights leader and Georgia congressman.