The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964

By Les Bayless, People's Weekly World, 25 May 1996. Three SNCC volunteers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, registering voters in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, are lynched by the Klu Klux Klan.

SNCC Fought for change from the bottom up

By Jon Rice, the People's Tribune, 20 February 1995. A brief history of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.

The Basis of Black Power

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Position Paper, 1966. The whole myth of Negro citizenship, perpetuated by the white elite, has confused the thinking of radical and progressive blacks and whites. The broad masses of black people react to American society in the same manner as colonial peoples react to the West in Africa and Latin America, and had the same relationship—that of the colonized toward the colonizer.

Mississippi unseals secret files on war against black civil rights

AFP, 17 March 1998. Secret files from a segregation-era state spy agency were being unsealed in a move expected to shed new light on Mississippi authorities' fight against black civil rights.