Carrie Young - Moments of the Movement

When a group of black college students refused to leave a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960 after being denied service, they ignited a groundswell of sit-ins across the South. These collective sit-ins led to the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC ("snick"). Making its way to Arkansas in the 1960s, SNCC (snick) found a committed worker in teenaged Carrie Young. But even Young’s devotion had not prepared her for the illiteracy she would find among the residents as she worked to organize them to vote. Neither was Young expecting that SNCC would lead her to a forbidden love.