The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later the Student National Coordinating Committee, was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement
John Lewis representing SNCC at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer (1964) speaks at a Democratic Convention regarding the plight of sharecroppers.
Stokely Carmichael 1966 Mississippi press conference
Anne Moody in the 1970s
Black Panther Party
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The Black Panther Party was an American Marxist–Leninist and black power political and militant organization founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 which was active until 1982. Between 1968
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
…establishment supporters: opposition to the Vietnam War and, in the wake of the Six-Day War, criticism of Israel. Following an aborted merger with the Black Panther Party in 1968, SNCC effectively dissolved. Because of the successes of its early years, SNCC is credited with breaking down barriers, both institutional and…
Original six members of the Black Panther Party (1966): Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard, Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherwin Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman); Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer).
An issue of the Black Panther Party newspaper from July 1970.
Black Panther Party founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton standing in the street, armed with a Colt .45 and a shotgun
Black Panther convention, Lincoln Memorial, June 19, 1970