Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practices" and had an "affiliation with segregationist legislators." A covering letter from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee later that May traced a complicated set of inter-relationships that they said formed the Mississippi "power base" -- Mississippi Power, the anti-integration White Citizens' Council and the state Democratic Party. SNCC claimed that these three organizations were the dominant political and social forces in the state...
...present, the student left is crystallized around two organizations-- the predominantly Negro loosely structured Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) and the predominantly white, nationally-organized Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The former is without doubt on the decline; the latter, in a period of transition, is attempting to move in new directions in the hope of extending its grass-roots support and thus prevent its demise...
That is not the way things were supposed to be, and Lottman is painfully aware of it, but without the money to pay competitive wages, he feels powerless to do much. At any rate, SNCC workers have from time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections, when...
...purpose of the organization was clear," Frank explained. "It picked a non-Communist left-wing delegation of students, including SDS and SNCC people to represent American students...
...weak because it is a federation of student governments which are themselves weak, instead of an organization of individuals. A more workable federation, one member of the anti-NSA forces in Washington suggested in an interview last week, would include representatives from a variety of campus organizations, including SDS, SNCC, and religious clubs...