Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard SDS representative claimed that SDS and SNCC have a greater influence on the Party than the Communists have on them. "We wouldn't dream of asking the Communists to leave SDS," he continued, "because we feel it is important for our membership to come in contact with Communists and learn that they aren't devils." The neurotic American phobia of Communism must be overcome, he continued. It is equally important, he said, that our membership learn to formulate their own ideology, distinct from the Communist ideology...
...further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...
...first step in establishing alternative service, according to its advocates, is to set up a board to approve projects proposed by agencies requesting national service volunteers. Peace Corps work would undoubtedly make the grade, as would work in hospitals and schools. But is a member of SNCC working in the national interest? Does a small community-organizing project which constantly irritates the local political machine have a place in the catalogue of alternative services...
Stokely Carmichael, first to use the words, let it be known that SNCC was working to consolidate "black power" in Lowndes County, Alabama. Few other definitions or coherent programs seem to have come from Carmichael's general direction...
...very use of the words. "Black power is racism in reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...