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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in April 1960, by young people who had emerged as leaders of the sit-in protest movement initiated on February 1 of that year.

On May 4, 1961, a group of Black and white civil rights activists boarded two buses in Washington, D.C. and set out on a mission to end segregation in public transportation throughout the South.

Although they faced jail and angry mobs, they remained steadfast and focused on their goal to challenge Jim Crow laws and pressure southern states to enforce the United States Supreme Court decision (which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional). As a result, segregation in transportation facilities were prohibited later that year.