“Six Years of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee”. SNCC 1960-1966.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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April 1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina,...
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April 1960
At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Black students founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced snick) to coordinate protests against systemic racism.
4 May 1961: The first Freedom Riders (racially mixed...
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4 May 1961
The first Freedom Riders (racially mixed groups of civil rights activists who set out to defy illegal segregation of long-haul buses and associated facilities) set out from Washington, DC, heading for New Orleans.
Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Oxford University Press, 2006.
June 1966: On a civil rights march through the Mississippi...
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June 1966
On a civil rights march through the Mississippi Delta in the USA, activist Stokely Carmichael coined the new slogan Black Power.
Arsenault, Raymond. “Talking about a revolution”. Guardian Weekly, 8–14 Sept. 2006, p. 23.
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1968: In the USA the Black Women's Liberation Committee...
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1968
In the USA the Black Women's Liberation Committee was founded within its parent organization, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced snick).
Vogel, Lise. “A New Feminist Story”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, Nov. 2004, pp. 20-1. 20
1969: The Third World Women's Alliance was founded...
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1969
The Third World Women's Alliance was founded in the USA, considerably influenced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, which already had its own internal black women's committee.
Rose, Tricia. “The Hard Work of Organizing”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 3-4. 3
1974: African American activist Angela Davis published...
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1974
African American activist Angela Davis published Angela Davis: An Autobiography.
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