Founded in April 1960 shortly after students at North Carolina A&T began the lunch counter sit-in campaign that reignited the southern civil rights movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was arguably the most dynamic and influential of the 1960s new left and civil rights era organizations. Not only did SNCC lead many of the campaigns that challenged segregation in the early 1960s, it also inspired some of the new radical formations of the mid and late 1960s, including Black Power and the student movements that swept across college campuses. These maps and charts locate more than 500 SNCC actions from 1960 through 1970. Here is the full database and an introduction to SNCC history and geography.

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In Progress: We continue to seek additional data and are eager to correct errors. Please Help. If you know something about a SNCC action or chapter, please share it here.

Sources: These maps and charts are based on data on SNCC activities as recorded in the following newspapers: Student Voice, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal.

Additional SNCC maps and charts

Timeline of SNCC actions 1960-1970

This filterable database shows more than 500 SNCC actions month by month and by state.

The SNCC Project: a year by year history 1960-1970

In this collaborative essay, the SNCC project team (Hannah Wise, Jiajun Law, Kenon Morgan, Gary Chen, Brittany Lasher, Rachel Caldwell, Oliver Groeneveld, An Lau) detail the history of SNCC activism.