Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC (pronounced as SNICK) was an organization that acted to protect young black activists and civil rights movements in the early 1960s. Young black college students conducted sit-ins around America to protest the segregation of restaurants and other public amenities expected to be provided to both blacks and whites equally. Ella Baker founded and led this group alongside others like Daine Nash, Dorris Smith-Robinson, etc. Ella Baker brought about these black activists for a meeting at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April of 1960. From that meeting, the group formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). And lastly, the group  decided to keep its autonomy and not to affiliate itself with other civil rights groups.

The first and foremost purpose of the SNCC was to allow young African Americans to safely become active participants in the Civil Rights Movements occurring during this period in America. The extreme segregation amongst the people left the minorities no choice but to unite and fight. In addition, the SNCC participated in several major civil rights events in which the earliest was the Freedom Rides in 1961. Members of SNCC rode buses through the South to uphold the Supreme Court ruling that interstate travel could not be segregated. They faced violent acts from the Ku Klux Klan and law enforcement, and many members were jailed. In 1962, SNCC embarked on a voter registration campaign in the south states, which ironically was where segregation was supported, as many believed that voting was a way to unlock political power for many African Americans. Lastly, its agenda formed from the time Stokely Carmicheal was elected chairman of the organization further alienated whites as Brown formed between SNCC and the Black Panther Party. This was a militant and anti-white missionism.

In July 1967, with the expulsion of white members, SNCC’s annual income decreased dramatically. By 1970, SNCC lost about 150 employees and the majority of their branches across the United States. The civil rights movement splinted this organization into several fragments. With Brown facing various legal churches, the organization struggled to survive and in 1973, SNCC no longer existed.