The correct answer is: C. it abandoned its commitment to nonviolence.
Step-by-step explanation:
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created to help black people to fight for their rights in a pacific way. However, in 1966, someone called Stokely Carmichael was leading this movement and started to coin the idea of "Black Power" and they promoted violence as a means of self-defense. Later on, Rap Brown, who was part of the movement, was arrested because he incited to start a riot.