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NAACP Created
Ella Baker traveled around the South making connections with people for her new grassroots organization. She met people in barber shops, stores, and just anywhere she could talk to people. -
Pauli Murray Sit in
Howard University students orchestrated a sit-in through the NAACP chapter of their school. A multitude of people entered a white-only restaurant and requested service, they were refused so they sat in wait until the shopowner shut the restaurant down and they had to move outside. -
Greensboro Sit in
This protest became major fuel for peaceful protests all over the country. -
SNCC Creation
Ella Baker persuaded Martin Luther King Jr. to join their organizations together. They got many students to join and help their causes giving the movement more strength. They focussed on getting students to form their own wing of the organization. -
SNCC voters
SNCC did lots of work with voters and to gain rights for years, especially after the war. In 1962 they finally got their voters education project launched -
March on Washington
SNCC brought many civil rights leaders out to speak, while also making their own speech, where they say that the new Civil Rights bill is too little too late. -
I have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. made his life-changing "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Resources
SNCC origins & founding. SNCC Digital Gateway. (n.d.). https://snccdigital.org/category/timeline/1943-1960/