may 6, 1960 - [SNCC] Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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[SNCC] Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; keep sit-in movement organized; extended to restaurants, hotels, buildings, libraries, pools, transportation, etc (May 1960) | BY MID-SIXTIES: Stokely Carmichael, chairman of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), began advocating for violence, black power (esp economic), and racial separatism (influenced by Malcolm X)

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