Research Catalog

Title

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee financial records.

Author

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), creator.

Publication

1962-1965.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

Description

3.96 linear feet (19 boxes)

Summary

• The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an American political organization that played a central role in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Begun as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, it adopted greater militancy late in the decade, reflecting nationwide trends in Black activism. SNCC was founded in early 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to capitalize on the success of a surge of sit-ins in Southern college towns, where Black students refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race. This form of nonviolent protest brought SNCC to national attention, throwing a harsh public light on racism in the South. In the years following, SNCC strengthened its efforts in community organization and supported Freedom Rides in 1961, the March on Washington in 1963, the Civil Rights Act (1964), voter registration drives in the South, and desegregation in schools. In 1966, SNCC officially supported the broader protest of the Vietnam War. As SNCC became more active politically, its members faced increased violence, leading the SNCC to migrate from a philosophy of nonviolence to one of greater militancy after the mid-1960s. The shift was personified by Stokely Carmichael, who replaced John Lewis as SNCC chairman in 1966–1967; Carmichael was an advocate of the burgeoning Black power movement, a facet of late 20th-century Black nationalism. SNCC was disbanded by the early 1970s.
• The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee financial records consist of accounting and bookkeeping documents mostly from 1962-1964; these documents include vouchers, expense reports, ledgers, receipts, vendor bills, and utility bills. Donor records are filed by state, while most of the utility and vendor bills are from SNCC offices in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. There are a few documents that are not finance-related, including a SNCC brochure, a Yale Civil Rights Council newsletter, a "Newsweek" article reprint, and staff and supporter correspondence. Various topics and projects are represented, such as voter registration; the Miles College Work Study, a literacy effort; the Freedom Singers, a group who educated communities about civil rights through song; the Arkansas Project, which fought for desegregation in schools and promoted voter registration; and the Council of Federated Organizations, which organized Freedom Summer to register as many Black voters as possible in Mississippi. Several civil rights leaders are featured as well, including John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, and James Forman, among others.

Subjects

• African Americans > Civil rights
• Voter registration > Mississippi
• Civil rights workers, Black
• Civil rights movements > Mississippi
• Civil rights
• Black people > Civil rights
• African Americans > Segregation > Southern States
• African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
• Freedom Singers (SNCC)
• Lewis, John, 1940-2020
• Forman, James, 1928-2005
• Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998

Access (note)

• Materials with personal identifying information have been redacted.

Source (note)

• Gift of Sid Lapidus, 2014.

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• Also housed in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Betty Garman Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee files, Sc MG 807; Civil rights collection, Sc MG 95; D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group collection, Sc MG 644; Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, Sc MG 94; Robert Fletcher civil rights collection, Sc MG 402

Processing Action (note)

• Processing Information: Partially processed ca. 2014; processing completed by Lauren Stark, May 2022.

Call Number

Sc MG 899

OCLC

1319838987

Author

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), creator.

Title

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee financial records.

Production

1962-1965.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Restricted Access

Materials with personal identifying information have been redacted.

Location of Other Archival Materials

Also housed in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Betty Garman Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee files, Sc MG 807; Civil rights collection, Sc MG 95; D.C. Area Nonviolent Action Group collection, Sc MG 644; Iris Greenberg/Freedom Summer collection, Sc MG 94; Robert Fletcher civil rights collection, Sc MG 402

Processing Action

Processing Information: Partially processed ca. 2014; processing completed by Lauren Stark, May 2022.

Source

Gift of Sid Lapidus, 2014.

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Finding aid

Added Author

Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)

Research Call Number

Sc MG 899