Miss Ella Baker founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 at Shaw University (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010, p.95). She believed that the students would be instrumental in this movement as combined they would form a powerful strength to be reckoned with during the Jim Crow era (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The SNCC was comprised of students who possessed strong mental capacities and willing to endure heavy scrutiny for their participation in the movement. Ella Baker believed that these young individuals could benefit from the adult local leadership as collectively the adults displayed an immense cohesiveness that would make a significant contribution to help mold these students’ cognitions during this movement (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). These groups of students were referred to, as demonstrators, massively influential during the Civil Rights Movement in illustrating the prejudice and discriminating ideations of the white-owned establishments (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The SNCC was composed of hundreds of intelligent, opinionated individuals that were politically assembled college students in the Greensboro North Carolina and Technical College (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010, …show more content…
This journey would encompass just under sixty miles of distance from Selma to the Alabama capital building in the year of 1965 (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010, p.100). The law enforcement officials viewed this organized march as deviant behavior challenging their authority and creating a dysfunction in society. The emergency response teams that took an oath to protect the citizens of the community would take extreme measures of violent and a physical means to an end the organized non-violent protest. Specifically, the firefighters purposely aimed their hydro hoses at the lower extremities of African American activists (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The behavior displayed by these emergency response members would inflict physical damage on not only the adult activists but also the children who participated in this march due to the high water pressures released from the hoses (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010,