“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.
xxii
, 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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