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The '''Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee''' (SNCC; pronounced "Snick") was a Marxist-Leninist group founded in the early 1960s.
The '''Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee''' (SNCC; pronounced "Snick") was a Marxist-Leninist group founded in the early 1960s.
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.
In the late 1960s, a [[radical]] [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitic]] black supremacist named [[Stokely Carmichael]] took over SNCC and started advocating violence and [[black nationalism]]. He was a [[racist]] who fired all the white members of SNCC. Later, another black nationalist and member of the [[Nation of Islam]], H. Rap Brown, changed the name of SNCC to '''Student National Coordinance Committee''', reflecting the organization's suport of violence. The now-weakened SNCC utimately crumbled in the early 1970s.
In the late 1960s, a [[radical]] [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitic]] black supremacist named [[Stokely Carmichael]] took over SNCC and started advocating violence and [[black nationalism]]. He was a [[racist]] who fired all the white members of SNCC. Later, another black nationalist and member of the [[Nation of Islam]], H. Rap Brown, changed the name of SNCC to '''Student National Coordinance Committee''', reflecting the organization's suport of violence. The now-weakened SNCC utimately crumbled in the early 1970s.