Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee will not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi summer project unless Negro leaders of each locality specifically request them, officials revealed yesterday. Instead, SNCC plans to recruit 2000 students to work in Washington, aiding the Mississippi Democratic Party's attempt to unseat the state's five congressmen...
SNCC, which recruited nearly 1000 students for last summer's civil rights project in Mississippi, will have this year's volunteers conduct three weeks of intensive lobbying and "non-violent direct action" to support the MFDP's Challenge...
Plans for the Washington project were worked out last week in a seven-day conference SNCC in Atlanta, Ga. The decisions at Atlanta probably mean that many fewer students will work this summer in Mississippi for the council of Federated Organizations (COFO)-the coalition of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SNCC had provided the bulk of the COFO volunteers...
...Atlanta, SNCC decided to hold "people's Conferences" in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama. At these conferences local Negro leaders will attempt to shape their own programs...
...Zeliner insisted that ousting the Mississippi congressmen was :not a wild dream." "We are fighting to win," she said...