Southern Student Organizing Committee ( SSOC ) was a student activist group in the southern United States during the 1960s , which focused on many political and social issues including : African-American civil rights , opposition to the Vietnam War , worker 's rights , and feminism . It was intended , in part , to be SDS for Southerners and SNCC for white students at a time when it was dangerous for SDS to attempt to organize in the Deep South and when SNCC was starting to discuss expelling white volunteers . It was felt that students at the traditionally white and black colleges in the South could be more effectively organized separately than in an integrated student civil rights organization ; however , this was controversial and initially opposed by advisors like Anne Braden . Sue Thrasher and Archie Allen of the Christian Action Fellowship were among the founders of the group , with the support of Bob Moses and others . At its inception , the group had close ties to controversial Louisville , Kentucky radicals Carl and Anne Braden and their organization , the Southern Conference Education Fund , but a deliberate effort was later made to put some distance between the SSOC and the Bradens to avoid the appearance that the SSOC was a Communist front
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