4.5 SNCC Flashcards
1960 Greensboro
1960 Greensboro
Sat down at a yt only lunch counter waiting to be served. They got food thrown at them held their ground
sit-in. Sit-ins spread. Across south.
SNCC emerged as the youth wing of the Civil Rights movement. Spontaneous.
Revitalised movement after lull following Montgomery.
By 1961 Woolworth’s had desegregated all its lunch counters due to loss of business = eroding Jim Crow.
150 cities soon desegregated public places.
won media attention
Activities in Mississippi led to the creation of Mississippi free democratic party, which offered a rival to the yt le official democrat party
By 1961 Woolworth’s had desegregated all its = 1960 Greensboro
lunch counters due to loss of business = eroding Jim Crow.
…. cities soon desegregated public places. = 1960 Greensboro
150
.. cities soon desegregated public places. = impact of Greensboro sit in =1960 Greensboro
150
Problems/Failures 1960 Greensboro 1960 Greensboro
Thurgood Marshall said he did not want to represented by crazy coloured students = WHIILE
SNCC accused SCLC of keeping donations intended for SNCC and king’s public acknowledgement of NAACP = Division infuriated Roy Wilkin
Albany 1961-2.
SNCC organised students from Albany State College, Georgia (black) in sit-ins in bus station – ignored federal pressure to desegregation.
Also boycotts of white businesses but city refused to desegregate.
Black community – more confident
Mobilisation of the black community
SNCC’s ‘jail not bail’ = brought jails and courts to a standstill.
National publicity
Problems/Failures Albany 1961-2.
Bus terminal for interstate travel was deseg but parks and pool closed, schools remained segregated. = failure.
Some black violence = bad publicity.
1964- Campaign for voter registration - Black freedom movement in Mississippi
1964- Campaign for voter registration
in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
Established the Mississippi Free Democratic Party.
Situation in Mississippi 1960 only 5.2% of B.Acould vote.
(Southern average – 30%. Half of pop was black).
Impossible questions set, inconvenient office hours = make it difficult for B.A to register.
70% of B.A illiterate. Only 6 black doctors.
A lot of migration to north.
NAACP increasingly persecuted = asked SNCC to help.
Their white members would help get publicity. .
Black freedom movement in Mississippi =
Situation in Mississippi 1960 only … % of B.Acould vote.
(Southern average – ….%. Half of pop was black).
5.2
30
Black freedom movement in Mississippi = 70% of B.A r
illiterate
SNCC established Freedom schools 1964 = wat is it = who did it help =
to educate would-be voters so they could register.It was poorer b.p - sharecroppers rather than B m/c who responded to SNCC’s 1964 voter registration drive (freedom summer)
1964 – Freedom Summer – mostly
white northern volunteers came to help.
When did America take notice of the freedom summer and what is the conseq
Three young activists, 2 white one B.A were murdered by segregationists ( Mississippi burning is based on this event)
Overall SNCC helped to politicise many poor B.Missippian and developed new …. leaders and bring M suffering to ….. …..
grassroots
National level
After the violence of the Freedom Summer, divisions within the civil rights movement
grew between those who continued to believe in non-violence and those who had begun to doubt whether equality could be reached through peaceful means. After 1964, more militant factions would rise as the struggle for equality continued.
