SSIT history

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, includes civil rights language but is not binding on member states.

Daniel B. Speed, who as leader of the Inter-Civic Council and heavily involved in civil rights protests, including the Tallahassee Bus Boycott in 1956, would later bail out the students.

On March 12, 1960, members of CORE from FAMU and several white students form FSU joined together to create an interracial sit-in.

The first freedom riders left Washington, D.C., in May 1961 en route to New Orleans.

These training activities led to the establishment of an academic institution—SIT—in 1964.

In 1968 the United States Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act.

International pressure combined with internal upheaval led to the eventual lifting of the ban on the African National Congress, the major Black party in South Africa, and the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990.

Mandela later became the first Black president of South Africa, in 1994.

Launched in 1999, Softech Society of Information Technology (SSIT) continues to be one of India’s leading institutions of education and research in information technology.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Arab Americans suffered from heightened levels of discrimination and hate crimes and had to conform to government policies that restricted their liberties, as codified in the controversial USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.