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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
1962-1965
Voter Registration to Freedom Parties
January 1962
Reggie Robinson and SNCC arrive in Cambridge, Maryland
February 1962
Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) reorganized
April 1962
Voter Education Project launches
April 1962
Voter Registration expands in Southwest Georgia
June 1962
Voter registration expands into Mississippi Delta
June 1962
SNCC’s campaign in Cairo, Illinois
June 1962
Sam Block goes to Greenwood, Mississippi
Summer 1962
Demonstrations on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Fall 1962
Leflore County cuts off surplus commodities
Fall 1962
Terrorists burn churches in Southwest Georgia
January 1963
Philander Smith students push Little Rock businesses to desegregate
February 1963
Jimmy Travis shot in Greenwood
Spring 1963
Bernard & Colia Lafayette begin Selma Project
June 1963
Ella Baker & Anne Braden organize civil liberties workshop
June 1963
Protests in Danville, Virginia
June 1963
Beatings in Winona Jail
June 12, 1963
Medgar Evers murdered
July 1963
Treaty of Cambridge
August 1963
March on Washington
Fall 1963
SNCC does voter registration in Arkansas Delta
October 1963
Freedom Day in Selma
November 1963
Mississippi Freedom Vote
December 1963
SNCC workers meet Oginga Odinga
January 1964
Freedom Day in Hattiesburg
January 1964
SNCC debates Freedom Summer
January 31, 1964
Louis Allen murdered
April 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) founded
May 1964
Demonstrators tear-gassed at George Wallace protest in Cambridge
June 1964
Volunteer orientation for Freedom Summer in Oxford, Ohio
Summer 1964
Building the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Summer 1964
Freedom Summer
Summer 1964
White Folks Project
August 4, 1964
Bodies of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner discovered
August 1964
MFDP holds state convention
August 1964
MFDP Challenge at Democratic National Convention
September 1964
SNCC delegation travels to Africa
November 1964
MFDP Freedom Vote
November 1964
SNCC’s Waveland conference
January 1965
MFDP Congressional Challenge
Spring 1965
Selma voting rights campaign
March 1965
Bloody Sunday
Summer 1965
Freedom Summer in Arkansas
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