Half a century ago, a group of college students involved in the civil rights movement formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Raleigh, N.C. It became a national touchstone for ...

One thousand enthusiastic celebrants at the fiftieth anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee here were credited by a top White House official with making possible the Barack Obama ...

There is no more dramatic measure of the distance our society has traveled during the past half century than the fact that 50 years ago signing your name could be an act of extraordinary bravery. In ...

Many moments helped shape the Civil Rights Movement, but one event is credited with transforming it. On Aug. 28, 1963, more ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A poster supporting the Student ...

Univ. of North Carolina. 463 pp. $34.95 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") evokes no special meaning for most Americans today. That is unfortunate. As Wesley C.

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By Sam Roberts A charismatic orator in the ...

Click to open image viewer. Black and white flyer with a large image of two hands clasped. The hand on the left has a jean cuff in the lower left quadrant of the image. The hand on the right has a ...