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The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in 1960, in Raleigh North Carolina. It was founded to help organize the student sit-ins, to fight segregation in restaurants and other public areas.
The organization was formed with the support of Martin Luther King, but eventually the SNCC grew to have a different focus to the King led SCLC. The organization was affiliated with the militant Black Panther Party, which had been greatly influenced by the Black Power Advocate, Malcolm X.
The SNCC eventually aimed to make changes in individual local communities rather than on a national scale, in the case of the SCLC. It was also the most militant of all of the black civil rights organizations which led to tensions with the peaceful SCLC despite its name including "Non-Violent"..
The SNCC was also committed, as were the other black organizations to convincing blacks to register to vote, as each organization realized that if the blacks didn't vote the government would not be representative of them.
The SNCC ran a major campaign during the early 1960s in an attempt to get blacks to register to work.
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