Movement History
In Memoriam: Colia Liddel Lafayette Clark
Colia Liddel Lafayette Clark
1940-2022
Clark was born in 1940 in...
In Memoriam: Sandra Casey Hayden
Sandra Casey Hayden
1937-2023
SNCC Veteran and Freedom Rider Sandra Casey...
In Memoriam: Staughton Lynd
Staughton Lynd
1930-2022
Staughton Lynd, historian, activist, Friend of SNCC and...
In Memoriam: Myrtle Glascoe
Myrtle Glascoe
1936-2019
Myrtle Glascoe was born in 1936 in Washington,...
In Memoriam: Rev. Willie Blue
Rev. Willie Blue
1939-2022
SNCC Veteran the Reverend Willie Blue died...
In Memoriam: Ralph Allen
Ralph Allen
1941-2005
Born in Melrose, Massachusetts and a Trinity College...
In Memoriam: Jack Chatfield
Jack Chatfield
1942-2014
Born in 1942 in Baltimore, Jack Chatfield was...
In Memoriam: Carita Richardson
Carita Richardson
1935-2002
Carita Richardson was born in 1935 in Tarrytown,...
In Memoriam: James Peacock
James Arthur Peacock
1935-1998
James Arthur Peacock was born in Tallahatchie...
In Memoriam: Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
Born Stokely Carmichael in Trinidad, and later known...
In Memoriam: Unita Blackwell
Unita Blackwell
Unita Blackwell, the sharecropper who later became the...
In Memoriam: Tamio Wakayama
Tamio Wakayama
1941-2018
SNCC Photographer Tamio Wakayama passed away on March...
In Memoriam: Jesse T. Morris
Jesse T. Morris
1941-2021
SNCC Veteran Jesse Morris passed away this...
In Memoriam: Reverend Charles Sherrod
Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, Civil Rights Leader Who Brought...
In Memoriam: Walter “Billy” Stafford
Walter "Billy" Stafford
1940-2008
Billy Stafford was born in 1940 in...
In Memoriam: Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
1944-1966
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. was...
In Memoriam: Ralph Featherstone
Ralph Featherstone
1939-1970
Ralph Featherstone was born in Washington DC in...
In Memoriam: Prathia Hall
Prathia Hall
1940-2002
Prathia Hall was born and raised in Philadelphia,...
In Memoriam: Hellen O’Neal McCray
Hellen O'Neal McCray
1941-2010
Hellen O’Neal McCray, Freedom Rider, was...
In Memoriam: Cordell Reagon
Cordell Reagon
1943-1996
Cordell Reagon was an American singer and activist....
In Memoriam: Charles Horwitz
Charles Horwitz
1935-2006
Jules Charles Horwitz was born in 1935, in...
In Memoriam: Frank Cieciorka
Frank Cieciorka
1939-2008
Frank Cieciorka was a noted graphic artist for...
In Memoriam: Eugene Willie Steptoe
Eugene Willie Steptoe
1907-1983
Eldridge Willie (E.W.) Steptoe was born in...
In Memoriam: Norris McNamara
Norris McNamara
1942 - 2020
SNCC Staff photographer Norris McNamara passed...
In Memoriam: Morris Lenwood Ruffin, Jr.
Morris Lenwood Ruffin, Jr.
1944 - 2021
Morris Ruffin, later known...