Out of SNCC came many important leaders, such as Congressman John Lewis; NAACP chairman Julian Bond; Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington, DC; Fannie Lou Hamer, co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; noted civil and women's rights activist Ella Baker; Bernice Johnson Reagon of "Sweet Honey in the Rock", and student leader, SNCC chairman, Black Panther, and pan-Africanist Stokely Carmichael. Together with hundreds of other students, they made invaluable contributions to American history.