Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Fannie Lou Hamer was born Fannie Lou Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917. She was born into poverty and grew up in a tar-paper shack with a roof patched up with tin, sleeping on a cotton sack stuffed with dry grass. She was the youngest child of twenty, which included fourteen boys and six girls. Her parents, Lou Ella and Jim Townsend, were sharecroppers. Her family moved to Sunflower County, Mississippi in 1919 from the east of the Mississippi Delta to work on the E. W…

In the 1940’s , the prologue to the Civil Rights Movement began in Detroit with the thousands of black migrants . Jobs in the auto industry gave blacks an opportunity for work but not equal opportunity in economics . Racial tensions began in Detroit over jobs and use of public spaces . When Pearl Harbor was attacked , the industry in autos began making more bombs than cars and blacks were integrated because of the war efforts . A race war erupted in 1943 , rioting broke out with whites beating…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remain as one of the most prominent figures of United States history for addressing issues of social justice plaguing our society on a national scale. Dr. King’s impact in the Civil Rights Movement reappears each year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and during Black History month. American culture remembers Dr. King solely for few significant moments in his life, such as his “I have a dream speech” and March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is viewed from a…

president in Little Rock, choose nine African American students to integrate Central High. These nine students are now known as the Little Rock Nine, which include: Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Patillo, and Carlotta Walls. On September 4, 1957, crowds of protesters, white parents and students alike, ridiculed them and refused to let these nine students enter the school. Governor Orval Faubus of…

“Tradition is our security. And when our mind is secure, it is in decay,” laments Jiddu Krishnamurti wisely. While tradition is a solace to many, as Krishnamurti puts it, once outdated, it can result in the deterioration of society. And worse, perhaps, are the consequences faced by those who protest antiquated values. Set in a stereotypical American town and initially written with a joyful tone, “The Lottery” explores such paradoxical views on tradition shifting to a dark and sinister tone…

Many people see the words “Civil Rights Movement” and automatically think of the bus boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Ku Klux Klan. However, the movement was much more than that. In the book At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance- A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire, the author shows us some of what was happening in the lesser known parts of the movement focusing on how sexual violence…

deserves the same education. The project had also established Freedom Schools. Establishing a solid education system is crucial for children at young ages. In education systems children are taught politics and practice their right to vote through student council and later in life can exercise these rights. We take for granted all of the rights and privileges we have and forget what some people have had to fight and even die…

King Jr. ended segregation on buses by leading a boycott in Montgomery Alabama in 1957. Martin Luther King Jr. alongside with the four major non-violent activist groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who influenced the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. For a certain amount of time each group work on…

I propose on doing is on the beginning of the 1960’s Sit-Ins and the outcome of this non-violent movement leading to the creation of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). The lunch counter movement was notorious for sparking a revolution in justifying the fact that separation does not mean equality. February 1, 1960 four African American students came together to protest the inequality served at public facilities and in this case at a local restaurant in Greensboro, North Carolina.…

anti- racism to stop and let them go to work, school without being criticized by their skin color or race. “This happens because of one women her name is ella baker Martin Luther King Jr was a big impact on her so she made a decision to help the student and that made SNCC movement which she join a lot of organizations to help with this movement” . Ella Baker idol was Martin Luther King Jr because of his speech the name of the speech is “I HAVE A DREAM” his words gave ella baker and other hope.…