apr 1, 1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed

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Formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement’s more radical branches.

Played a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at desegregating buses, the marches organised by King and SCLC and also directed much of the black voter registration drives in the South.

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