HIST 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 25: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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College students leading force for social change. Sncc dedicated to replacing the culture of segregation with a beloved community of racial justice and empowering ordinary blacks to take control of the decisions that affected their lives. Integrated groups traveled by bus into the deep south to test compliance with court orders banning segregation on interstate buses and trains and terminal facilities. Actions led the interstate commerce commission to order buses and. High point of the nonviolent civil rights movement. Reflected an unprecedented degree of black-white cooperation in support of racial and economic justice. To establish peace corps: sent young americans abroad to aid in the economic and educational progress of developing countries and to improve the image of the. Use resources to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Alliance of progress: new policy towards latin america to promote political and material freedom.
