The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

By iveykr

  • Founding of the SNCC

    Founding of the SNCC
    Ella Baker founds the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

  • Marion Berry

    Marion Berry
    Marion Berry is elected as the first chairman of the SNCC.

  • New SNCC

    Robert Moses moves to Mississippi and begins another SNCC

  • The Albany Movement

    The Albany Movement
    The SNCC supports the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia

  • Recruitment

    Fannie Lou Hamer is recruited as a new SNCC leader.

  • Arrested

    Arrested
    Fannie Lou Hamer and 17 others try to vote and are sent to jail.

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    SNCC chairman, John Lewis, speaks at the March on Washington.

  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

    Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee supports the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  • Jail

    Jail
    Jonathon Daniels and 30 others are put into jail for picketing.

  • Released

    Released
    Jonathon Daniels and Father Morrisoe are released from jail, but are murdered by Thomas Coleman

  • New chairman

    New chairman
    Stokely Carmichael is elected as a new Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman