SNCC organizes for 1966 bus boycott at its Rhode Island Avenue headquarters, January 1966.

ID: 4160 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, Washington Post.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

SNCC organizes for 1966 bus boycott at its Rhode Island Avenue headquarters, January 1966.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

It was with these words that 29-year-old Marion Barry launched the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on a campaign to “free DC.” The District's citizens had no elected city government and had only recently won the right to vote in US…