Arsnick by Jennifer Jensen Wallach5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Initially, Hansen and SNCC sympathizers worked to desegregate many Little Rock businesses. ![]() ![]() William Hansen, a white activist who, at twenty-three years old, was already a veteran of the civil rights struggle, became the first director of the Arkansas Project. SNCC came to Arkansas in 1962 at the behest of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations (ACHR) and politically active students at historically black Philander Smith College in Little Rock (Pulaski County). The group sponsored major projects in four Southern states, including Arkansas. Activists moved to the communities they sought to serve, living among local black residents and attempting to identify and empower local leaders. SNCC members participated in various protest activities designed to dismantle segregation and to increase African-American voter registration. Composed largely of young people, the organization advocated group-centered leadership as opposed to the more hierarchical structure favored by groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the most radical civil rights organizations operating in the South in the 1960s. ![]()
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