Photo of Marion Barry wearing Free DC button, 1966
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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…