What was the original purpose Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded in early 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, to capitalize on the success of a surge of sit-ins in Southern college towns, where black students refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race.

This committee was a civil rights group that was formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement.