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April 15-18th - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - 50th Anniversary Conference
The SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference to be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from April 15 - 18th, to commemorate the April, 1960 founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, Raleigh, NC.
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History
Atlanta Sit-Ins
http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960atlantaAtlanta Sit Ins
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3615Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement, 1960 - 1965
http://www.atlantahighered.org/civilrights/essay_detail.asp?phase=3Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement, 1940-1970
http://www.atlantahighered.org/civilrights/atlantasstory.aspAtlanta Sit-ins
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3615Freedom on Film :: Civil Rights in Georgia
http://civilrights.uga.edu/bibliographies/atlanta/Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement: Part Two
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2006/0612/07AMSupplement/07AMSup14.cfm" ...
Phase Three: Direct Action and Desegregation (1960–65)
The emergence of the Atlanta Student Movement and its use of nonviolent direct action as a tactic defined the phase 1960–65. Student activists of the AUC drew inspiration from the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. AUC students Julian Bond, Lonnie King, Herschelle Sullivan, Carol Long, Ruby Doris Smith, and many others outlined their goals and strategies in "An Appeal for Human Rights." AUC students also established their own movement newspaper, The Atlanta Inquirer, with the help of local black businesspeople. SCLC's Ella Baker soon guided students from across the country in the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The organization would recruit thousands of black and white young activists to go south during Freedom Summer in 1964. SCLC did the same in 1965 when it trained hundreds of volunteers for its Summer Community Organization and Political Education Project (SCOPE).... "
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Various Links
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
http://www.crmvet.org/Document of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.crmvet.org/docs/dochome.htmAn Appeal for Human Rights (1960)
Original Appeal of March 9, 1960
http://www.crmvet.org/docs/aa4hr.htm
An Appeal for Human Rights (2000)
40th Anniversary Appeal v.II
http://www.aucdigest.com/appeal.htm
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