The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had moved its headquarters to Greenwood in early 1963, and by late March of that year, eight SNCC members were arrested while trying to register voters.
学生非暴力強調委員会が963年初期にその本部をグリーンウッドに移し、同年3月下旬までに8人の委員が有権者登録をしようとして逮捕された。