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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

AbbreviationSNCC
FounderElla Baker
Founded1960
Dissolved1976
HeadquartersAtlanta, Georgia
Political orientationPacifism
Black Power
Anti-Capitalism
Anti-Imperialism
Anti-Zionism


The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a primary force throughout the civil rights movement during the 1960s and was a channel for student commitment for the movement throughout the United States. SNCC would coordinate a number of peaceful protests alongside CORE and the SCLC as a means of fighting against Jim Crow laws in the deep south. Over time, the organization would continue to radicalize under the influences of organizers such as Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) and H. Rap Brown, who would go on to transform SNCC's ideology from liberalism to Black Power, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics.