16 Facts About SNCC

From 1962, with the support of the Voter Education Project, SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the Deep South.

SNCC did not constitute itself as the youth wing of SCLC.

SNCC suggested that the organization create two distinct wings: one for direct action and the other for voter registration.

Previous month, July 1963, SNCC was involved in another march that eventually made headlines.

In coordination with CORE, the SNCC followed up on the ballot with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, known as Freedom Summer.

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SNCC the focus of summer project became the organization, through the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, of a parallel state Democratic Party primary.

The role of SNCC was to stimulate social struggles, not to provide an institutionalized leadership.

At her last Committee meeting in the fall of 1965, Hayden told both Forman and Chairman John Lewis that the "imbalance of power within SNCC" was such that, if the movement was to remain "radically democratic", they would need to step down.

New direction SNCC was evident in the Atlanta, Georgia, "Vine City" Project, SNCC's first effort at urban organizing.

SNCC was "on loan" from SNCC to Students for a Democratic Society.

SNCC took the occasion to denounce the Vietnam War, the first statement of its kind by a major civil rights organization.

Some participants in the August 1965 Watts Uprising and in the ghetto rebellions that followed had already associated their actions with opposition to the Vietnam War, and SNCC had first disrupted an Atlanta draft board in August 1966.

On stage with Carmichael in Detroit, Alinsky was scathing when, pressed for an example of "Black Power", the SNCC leader cited the IAF's-mentored FIGHT community organization in Rochester, New York.

In impressing upon the young student activists the principle "those who do the work, make the decisions, " Ella Baker had hoped the SNCC would avoid the SCLC's reproduction of the organization and experience of the church: women form the working body and men assume the headship.

SNCC had worked on a voter registration drive in East Harlem and organized with CORE.

Historian Barbara Ransby dismisses, in particular, the suggestion that in its concluding Black Power period SNCC diminished the profile of women within the movement.