Soon after the first lunch counter sit-ins, activist Ella Baker called for a conference of student organizers at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Baker had fought for black rights and equality for decades through local and national groups, including the NAACP and SCLC. At the Shaw conference, she helped students establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In the following article, Baker summarizes an address she gave at the conference on SNCC’s goals.

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