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Born. To Jomo Kenyatta, 74, Kenya's "Burning Spear" in the days of Mau Mau terror, now Prime Minister, and Ngina Kenyatta, 34, his fourth wife: their second son, fourth child (his eighth); in Nairobi...
...grounds of this one half-whimsical remark. Though nothing I could say could possibly damage SNCC's reputation with the white Mississippi press. I should like to set the record straight. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee remains nonviolent: we have no intention of forming a Mississippi Mau-Mau this summer or any other, neither do we intend to foment or encourage violent rsistance...
...part of SNCC's philosophy has not changed: the firm commitment to nonviolence. Some workers may joke about starting "a small Mau-Mau" or quietly express their belief that unless victories come soon in the South, race warfare could erupt. But these fears only increase the sense of urgency and dedication toward proving that nonviolent tactics can succeed. It seems tragically certain that there will be violence in Mississippi this summer; yet it is equally certain that such violence will not come from anyone associated with SNCC...
...separate tribes, the majority are of Bantu stock, and all share the Swahili lingua franca. Thus, unlike neighboring Kenya and Uganda, Tanganyika has no basic conflicts between rival tribes or kingdoms, nor had it a large white-settler population to fight against independence and give rise to black Mau Mau-type terrorism. What whites there were mostly stuck to the cool, green coffee-and-banana highlands...
...said, "if we wanted to get a small Mau Mau going it wouldn't be difficult." He smiled; "Might be a nice summer project...