What was sncc

In , SNCC lost all employees and the majority of their branches. By , the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee no longer existed. The March Against Fear. Blogs from Rediscovering Black History. Once the new group of freedom riders demonstrated their determination to continue the rides into Mississippi, other students joined the movement. By the time the Interstate Commerce Commission began enforcing the ruling mandating equal treatment in interstate travel in November , SNCC was immersed in voter registration efforts in McComb, Mississippi, and a desegregation campaign in Albany, Georgia, known as the Albany Movement.

The Albany effort, although yielding few tangible gains, was an important site of development for SNCC. He intended to criticize John F. Lewis softened the tone of the delivered speech to appease A. In organizer Bob Moses moved to Jackson, Mississippi, and began organizing young Mississippi residents. Meanwhile, several SNCC workers established incipient organizing efforts in volatile urban black ghettos.

The election in June of H. The spontaneous urban uprisings that followed the assassination of King in April indicated a high level of black discontent. Although the sit-ins and voter registration drives in Albany were slow to produce concrete results, the Albany Movement produced the largest direct-action campaign since the bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama. As a result, civil rights activists learned to organize mass demonstrations that would provoke the federal government to intervene.

Martin Luther King Jr. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair. The protests demonstrated not only the appeal of SNCC to urban Blacks but also the importance of the church and religious beliefs as a foundation for mass struggle among Blacks in general.

Atlanta was also a center for SNCC activity. Several students were arrested, as was King. The U. Supreme Court ordered reapportionment for the Georgia state legislature during the General Assembly session, creating several new voting districts. Fulton County and the city of Atlanta, which together had only three legislators, gained an additional twenty-one seats.

A reapportionment election was held on June 16, , and Julian Bond , the longtime SNCC communications director, was elected to the th district, defeating a local minister and the dean of Atlanta University later Clark Atlanta University. During the campaign Bond emphasized personal contact, going door-to-door and asking residents in the all-Black district what was needed.

SNCC changed dramatically in direction and philosophy during , when Stokely Carmichael succeeded John Lewis as chair of the organization. In the lead-up to the The sit-in movement soon spread Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August , when some , people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.

Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. Black History Month. Brown v. Board of Education.