The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. Baker encouraged those who formed SNCC to look beyond integration to broader social change and to view King’s principle of nonviolence more as a political tactic than as a way of life.
SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Targeted getting rid of Jim Crow Laws -- important in desegregation and using media.
<span>SNCC: Student nonviolent coordinating committee. Focused a lot on voter registration and participatory democracy. </span> <span>The one major tension that grew between these two organizations was that SCLC's base was the minister-led black churches while SNCC was trying to build rival community organizations led by the poor.</span>
It is called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It pumped $241.9 billion in the US economy. The program cut taxes, enlarged unemployment benefits and provided funds for public works. The recession ended in July 2009; the stimulus package had been passed in February 2009. President Barack Obama bailed out the auto industry on March, 2009. The takeover of GM and Chrysler saved 3 million jobs.
