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SHAW UNIVERSITY AND THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC) Photo: The chapel at Shaw University, a traditionally black college in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
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SHAW UNIVERSITY AND THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC) Photo: The chapel at Shaw University, a traditionally black college in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
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By the spring of 1960, word of the
Greensboro sit-ins had spread throughout the colleges and universities
of the South.
On Easter weekend in 1960, an organizing meeting was held at Shaw University. Students from many campuses came together to form SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. |
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SNCC became one of the more aggressive civil rights groups. Photo: The campus at Shaw University. |
| Ella Baker, an older person who
organized for the NAACP, urged the students to establish
their own youth organization.
Ella Baker believed that SNCC would be more zealous in pursuing civil rights goals if it was student-led rather than being a branch of the NAACP or some other adult civil rights group. |
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