Marion Barry arrested in an FBI sting operation for crack cocaine use and possession.

Marion Barry inaugurated as D.C. Mayor

In a speech in Greenwood, Mississippi, Kwame Ture introduces the phrase “Black Power”

1965 SNCC’s first chair, Marion Barry, moves to Washington DC to open a SNCC chapter

A group of college students form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at another historically Black college in North Carolina, Shaw University