<P> "Women who were active in the lunch counter sit - in movement of 1960 led the transformation of SNCC from a coordinating office into a cadre of militant activists dedicated to expanding the civil rights movement throughout the South . In February 1961, Diane Nash and Ruby Doris Smith were among four SNCC members who joined the Rock Hill, South Carolina, desegregation protests, which featured the jail - no - bail tactic - demonstrators serving their jail sentences rather than accepting bail ." "In May 1961, Nash led a group of student activists to Alabama in order to sustain the Freedom Rides after the initial group of protesters organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) encountered mob violence in Birmingham . During May and June, Nash, Smith, and other student freedom riders traveled on buses from Montgomery to Jackson, Mississippi, where they were swiftly arrested and imprisoned . In August, when veterans of the sit - ins and the Freedom Rides met to discuss SNCC's future, Baker helped to avoid a damaging split by suggesting separate direct - action and voter - registration wings . Nash became the leader of the direct - action wing of SNCC ." </P> <P> Young black girls also played a significant part in the SNCC demonstrations . In July 1963, dozens of young black girls participated in a SNCC protest of a segregated movie theater in Americus Georgia . Over 30 of them were arrested and eventually held against their will in the Leesburg Stockade . They were freed over a month later due to the help of a SNCC volunteer who photographed the girls and published the pictures in a SNCC newsletter . However, despite the multiple humans rights violations that they enduring in the stockade, many girls continued to fight for civil rights after they were freed . </P> <P> Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, in 1970, detailing her decision to participate in SNCC and later CORE, and her experience as a woman in the movement . She described the widespread trend of black women to become involved with SNCC at their educational institutions . As young college students or teachers, these black women were often heavily involved in grassroots campaign by teaching Freedom Schools and promoting voter registration . </P> <P> Young white women also became very involved with SNCC, particularly after the Freedom Summer of 1964 . Many northern white women were inspired by the ideology of racial equality . The book Deep in Our Hearts details the experiences of nine white women in SNCC . Some white women, such as Mary King, Constance W. Curry, and Casey Hayden, and Latino women such as Mary Varela and Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, were able to obtain status and leadership within SNCC . </P>

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