Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While speaking at Winthrop House Saturday, SCOPE director Hosea Williams explained why SCLC had cancelled Ala. "The people were ready I decided not to march because you can't go faster than the local leadership. The SNCC kids said that leaders would come out of the people, but I couldn't take that gamble...
...further information, contact: SCOPE Project, SCLC, 334 Ave, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
...only organization actively seeking Northern volunteers is Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Selma incident diverted SCLC's attention at a key point in the recruitment drive, but the SCOPE project has inspired the formation of chapters at several key universities. At both the University of Minnesota and Brandeis, SCOPE groups are training for a summer of voter registration work. As explained in today's insert, each chapter will work under the supervision of Negro leaders in preselected Southern communities...
...doesn't Harvard have a SCOPE chapter? The story is rather involved. Originally the Young Democrats agreed to form one but, after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected communities been adequately researched by the SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes...
...reconsider the decision to withdraw. He and the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the United Ministry met with several civil-rights leaders on campus to discuss the whole muddle. Mumma suggested that the Harvard community might focus its efforts on a single Southern community, perhaps beginning the project under SCOPE auspices, but eventually operating independently. As shown by the letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, Harold McDougall and other members of the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee doubted the efficacy of such a step. CRCC heavily favors the SNCC local initiative approach...