"On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter. Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins. In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression."

1961 Freedom Rides-- Robert Moses, Marion Barry
1964 joined  Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and NAACP
1964 helped start Mississippi Freedom Party (MFDP)      1966 Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture of the Black Panthers)
 
SUMMARY: Challenged racism in the political-legal system

Just as the political-legal system was the most powerful force in the 1960s, science and technology are the most powerful force in the new century.