Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NSA plans no separate project of its own. Instead, it will place its volunteers in the already established voter registration projects of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Civil rights leaders are anxious to increase Negro registration in time for the 1966 elections, for which some primaries are held in May. An NSA letter to volunteers estimates that there are still 1.7 million unregistered Negroes in the South, despite efforts since the 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed...
Schwartz reviewed NSA's role as "the unheeded prophet of higher education" and received a deafening ovation when he declared...
...left has increasingly shifted its emphasis away from university life and toward direct community action. As Ed Schwartz put it, "The left thinks of NSA as the Urban League of student organizations...
...last year's congress the biggest fight came on whether NSA should refrain from taking any stands...