The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), often pronounced as “snick,” was formed in 1960 to coordinate student protests, such as the sit-ins in the South.
SNCC’s goals were to desegregate public lunch counters, rest rooms, parks, theaters, and schools; to register all blacks in the South to vote; and to get whites to practice nondiscriminatory practices in hiring.
In 1962, Robert Moses, a Harvard-educated schoolteacher, brought together a staff of SNCC organizers to help black Mississippi citizens achieve voting rights.
