1943-1960

SNCC: Origins and Founding

1960-1962

Direct Action to Voter Registration

1962-1965

Voter Registration to Freedom Parties

1965-1969

Freedom Parties to Black Power

1968-Present

SNCC Legacies

1943-1960

SNCC: Origins and Founding

1940 - 1946

Ella Baker organizes NAACP chapters in the South

April 1943

Pauli Murray organizes Howard student sit-ins

1945

Black veterans return from World War II

January 1946

Southern Negro Youth Congress organizes march of veterans demanding the vote in Birmingham

April 1947

Congress of Racial Equality organizes Journey of Reconciliation

April 1951

Barbara Johns leads Prince Edward County student walkout

May 1952

RCNL holds first mass meeting in Mississippi Delta

August 1955

Emmett Till murdered

Fall 1959

Jim Lawson conducts nonviolence workshops in Nashville

February 1960

Sit-ins in Greensboro

April 1960

Founding of SNCC