# Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

> Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is mapped as the unfinished promise: it forces formal equality, lived dignity, and unequal state power into public contest.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:civil-rights-racial-justice:student-nonviolent-coordinating-committee` |
| Family | Civil Rights & Racial Justice |
| Domain | Rights |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The Unfinished Promise |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee belongs to the **Civil Rights & Racial Justice** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee forces formal equality, lived dignity, and unequal state power into public contest, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Unfinished Promise.** Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is mapped as the unfinished promise: it forces formal equality, lived dignity, and unequal state power into public contest.

## Gift

expands membership, rights, and democratic participation; through Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

invites co-optation, backlash, symbolic inclusion, or selective memory; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Unfinished Promise enters through Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**role.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; another player names a countermove. Initiative 5.

## Relationships

- **depends on — Southern Christian Leadership Conference:** Southern Christian Leadership Conference depends on Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Congress of Racial Equality:** Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee institutionalizes Congress of Racial Equality by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Surveillance:** Surveillance counteracts Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Petition:** Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee enables Petition by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Civil Rights History Project](https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/) — Library of Congress and Smithsonian, ongoing. Participant accounts of the U.S. civil-rights movement.
- [Letter from Birmingham Jail](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/letter-birmingham-jail) — Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, 1963. Direct action, constructive tension, law, justice, and timing.
- [Universal Declaration of Human Rights](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights) — United Nations, 1948. International human-rights framework.

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