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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
1965-1969
Freedom Parties to Black Power
March 1965
SNCC makes contact in Lowndes County
June 1965
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union founded
July 1965
Poor People’s Corporation organized
July 1965
COFO disbands
July 1965
McComb project comes out against the Vietnam War
Summer 1965
Julian Bond runs for seat in Georgia Legislature
Summer 1965
Child Development Group of Mississippi runs Head Start programs
August 8, 1965
President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act
1965-1966
SNCC’s voter education efforts in Lowndes
January 1966
Murder of Sammy Younge & SNCC’s Statement on Vietnam
January 1966
Georgia Legislature refuses to seat Julian Bond
January 1966
Vernon Dahmer murdered
February 1966
Occupation of Greenville Air Force Base
February 1966
SNCC’s Atlanta Project grows out of Julian Bond’s campaign
March 1966
SNCC protests at South African Consulate in New York
April 1966
Lowndes County Freedom Organization founded
May 1966
Stokely Carmichael elected as SNCC’s chair
June 1966
Meredith March
Summer 1966
Fay Bellamy & Muriel Tillinghast go to USSR
August 1966
New York Times publishes Atlanta Project Statement
August 1966
Anti-Draft Protests by SNCC’s Atlanta Project
September 1966
ASCS elections in Alabama Black Belt & Mississippi
November 1966
Lowndes County Freedom Organization becomes Lowndes County Freedom Party
December 1966
SNCC staff meeting at Peg Leg Bates club
May 1967
Courtland Cox attends Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal in Stockholm
May 1967
OEO funds Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association
May 1967
Dottie & Bob Zellner present GROW proposal
July 1967
Stokely Carmichael goes to Cuba
August 1967
Maria Varela meets Reies Tijerina at National Conference for New Politics
November 1967
Robert Clark wins election in Holmes County
August 1968
Democratic Party Loyalists and Freedom Democrats face off in Mississippi primaries
May 1969
Jim Forman delivers Black Manifesto at Riverside Church
1969
New Communities formed in Southwest Georgia
1969
Fannie Lou Hamer founds Freedom Farm Cooperative
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