This was the segregated South the movement confronted.

The movement’s opposition.

Some individuals were prepared to attack demonstrators on their own, as was this driver in Atlanta.

Protesting could mean arrest, which happened to Taylor Washington in Atlanta.

These protestors also were arrested in Atlanta.

Under arrest in Cambridge, Maryland: Gloria Richardson, in pants; to her left is Stokely Carmichael, and to Carmichael’s left is Cleve Sellers.

Eddie Brown being arrested in Albany, Georgia.

Police in Clarksdale, Mississippi, show their feelings as ministers march to a local church.

A SNCC poster asks a question we might ask today.

SNCC members Ivanhoe Donaldson, Marion Barry, and Jim Forman at a mass meeting against police brutality in Danville, Virginia, in 1963.

Prison could mean being on a work squad such as this 1963 one in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Ella Baker called the meeting that led to the formation of SNCC in 1960.

The young Julian Bond in his SNCC years.

Participants in the Albany, Georgia, movement, which SNCC helped organize in 1962.

Teenagers held in Leesburg, Georgia, stockade for demonstrating in Americus, near Albany.

Mass meetings, such as this one in Danville, Virginia, provided sustenance throughout the movement.

SNCC staffers sit in at a Toddle House in Atlanta in 1963.

Willie Ricks, one of the first to verbalize “black power,” speaks in Atlanta.

Brave citizens of Greenwood, Mississippi, try to register to vote, having been organized by SNCC workers.

SNCC workers Martha Prescott, Mike Miller, and Bob Moses encourage residents in rural areas of Mississippi to register.

The bomb that killed four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963 blew out these windows.

Jimmy Hicks, Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Jeremiah X survey the damage after the church bombing.

Some of the Selma, Alabama, high school students who helped start their hometownℙs movement.

SNCC organized “Freedom Day” in 1964 to register Selma voters and brought in author James Baldwin to help.

Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma in 1965.

“Freedom Day” in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964 is overseen by a large police presence.

Students at a “Freedom School” in Ruleville, Mississippi, one of many set up by SNCC during Freedom Summer 1964.

The Freedom Choir, featuring high school students in Selma in 1964, was just one example of the important role music played throughout the movement.

SNCC members (including Julian Bond at far right) even sang in their office.

Singing at the March on Washington in 1963.

Not all the singers were amateurs. Here is Bob Dylan in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1963.