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Steve Cohen: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC, one of the…

On the recordJuly 29, 2010
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC, one of the organizations that served as the very foundation of the civil rights movement, the movement that brought America closer to its purpose, its established goals in the Declaration of Independence, which we had been striving to achieve and are still striving to achieve, as a place where there is equal opportunity for all people. It was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that was responsible for conceptualizing and implementing the sit-in movement. College students came together in the name of justice and equality to desegregate lunch counters and other public places through nonviolent demonstrations.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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govinfo.gov
Jul 29, 2010

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Cohen commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its role in the civil rights movement.

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