On this day, young Black activists gathered at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and formally established the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Guided by civil rights veteran Ella Baker, the organization became a powerful force in the Civil Rights Movement. SNCC played a key role in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter registration drives, and the 1963 March on Washington, amplifying youth-led activism and grassroots organizing throughout the South.
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