The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee began in 1960 as a rather conservative, idealistic movement. Black Americans in 1960 were locked out of the economic and political life which the majority of Americans took for granted. SNCC began with non-vi
Few people have heard of the 1968 Orangeburg massacre. One has to search high and low to find information on this event, compared to other civil-rights developments during the 1960s.
The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from 1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and
The purpose of this website/newpaper was to get an indepth learning experience about the civil rights movement. We have written articles of important people and events during the era. Our editorials will draw connections between the movement and other poi
