96 – Friends of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Friends of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1964 initiated Freedom Summer, an effort to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. SNCC’s local chapters throughout the U.S., including UI, were active on the home front as well. In March 1965, local members staged an 8-day hunger strike in front of the downtown Iowa City post office to raise money for civil rights workers in Selma, Alabama.