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(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."
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(Feb.) four black college students stayed seated at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.
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(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
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(April) SNCC activists joined a campaign to desegregate interstate bus transportation.
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(May) A founding member of SNCC helped organize the Freedom Rides and recruited riders.
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(Nov.) Interstate Commerce Commission mandated the full desegregation of all interstate travel facilities.
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(Late) SNCC organizers recruited rural young people to join in voter registration efforts
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Focused their campaign on Mississippi and established "Freedom Schools" there.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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SNCC's chairman used phrase "Black Power" during the March Against Fear
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SNCC chairman forged a public alliance with the "Black Panther Party"
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"Non-Violent" was replaced with "National".
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No longer existed