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Women and the Civil Rights Movement

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

SNCC Digital Gateway
"The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) was the only national civil rights organization led by young people. Organized in 1960 and mentored by the legendary Black organizer, Ella Baker, SNCC activists became full-time organizers, working with community leaders to build local grassroots organizations in the Deep South."Includes timeline, essays and oral interviews, a history, links to digital collections, and a section on Women in SNCC"
SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference
76 streaming videos of the proceedings (formal addresses, panel discussions, programs) ot the April 2010 conference commemorating the April 1960 founding of SNCC at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.