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The '''Student Non-Violent Coordinance Committee''' (SNCC; pronounced "Snick") was a civil rights group founded in the early 1960s to combat racial segregation.

The '''Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee''' (SNCC; pronounced "Snick") was a civil rights group founded in the early 1960s to combat racial segregation.

It is most famous for staging "sit-ins" in restaurants across the American South, where black protestors (and a number of white supporters) sat in the "Whites Only" section of a segregated restaurant, and sat there and sat there, even when the waiters refused service to them. The founders of SNCC were inspired by philosophers such as [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] and [[Henry David Thoreau|Thoreau]], borrowing their philosophy of [[civil disobedience]].

It is most famous for staging "sit-ins" in restaurants across the American South, where black protestors (and a number of white supporters) sat in the "Whites Only" section of a segregated restaurant, and sat there and sat there, even when the waiters refused service to them. The founders of SNCC were inspired by philosophers such as [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] and [[Henry David Thoreau|Thoreau]], borrowing their philosophy of [[civil disobedience]].