Glossary
| Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | | One of the key civil rights organizations of the early 1960s, “Snick,” as the organization was known, was committed to direct action, civil disobedience and voter registration of disenfranchised African Americans. Founded by Southern college students in 1960, the organization helped to organized sit-ins in segregated businesses (such as Woolworths) and massive voter-registration drives throughout the rural South. The group also organized the famous “Freedom Rides” in 1961, in which SNCC members rode through the South, integrating interstate travel while braving violence and abuse from the segregationist opposition. |
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