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