SNCC Timeline

By nruggiero001

  • (Mid-Feb.) Acknowledged by MLK in a speech. "What is new in your fight is the fact that it was initiated, fed, and sustained by students."

  • (Feb.) four black college students stayed seated at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.

  • (April 16-18) SNCC was founded by 200 students attending a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC.

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    History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

  • (April) SNCC activists joined a campaign to desegregate interstate bus transportation.

  • (May) A founding member of SNCC helped organize the Freedom Rides and recruited riders.

  • (Nov.) Interstate Commerce Commission mandated the full desegregation of all interstate travel facilities.

  • (Late) SNCC organizers recruited rural young people to join in voter registration efforts

  • Focused their campaign on Mississippi and established "Freedom Schools" there.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • SNCC's chairman used phrase "Black Power" during the March Against Fear

  • SNCC chairman forged a public alliance with the "Black Panther Party"

  • "Non-Violent" was replaced with "National".

  • No longer existed