Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important point criticizes the common "umbrella" or "united front" structure of community organizations in which function follows form. Instead, Jenkins suggests that community organizations be "stacked and calculated" to achieve specific goals. That type of thinking, requiring more expertise than ideology, was behind early black-power efforts such as SNCC's 1966 Lowndes County, Alabama, election campaigns. And when the uproar has died down, that will remain the hard logic of black power...
Conrad J. Lynn, one of the official SNCC attorneys and a counselor for draft resistance in Harlem, voiced similar feelings Friday, speaking at Harvard on "Vietnam and the Black Man." Hamilton called the proposed strike "the first real concerted effort of black students across the country to voice their opposition...
...students with starting the spasm of gunfire, the fact that no fire-arms could be found among the students belied their accusation. That two of the dead and scores of the wounded were shot in the back added telling footnotes to the incident. The presence on campus of SNCC organizer Cleveland Sellers gave South Carolina Governor Robert E. McNair the excuse he needed for the police action...
...Senate office behind, Lowenstein was elected president of the National Student Association (NSA) during the summer of 1951. Ivanhoe Donelson, a former SNCC leader, and others in the New Lelt relate his NSA presidency with his involvement as an observer of the Dominican Republic elections of 1965. The unexpected election of conservative Balaguer aroused Leftist cries of a fixed election. The observers, led by Norman Thomas, reported that the elections were reasonably fair. As a consequence Lowenstein is still accused of being a CIA agent. As far as can be determined Lowenstein wasn't offered money from...
...when he was not campaigning in Humphrey's "Happy Warrior" plane, he spent working in the struggle to seat the MFDP at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City. The extremely bitter fight alienated him from most of the black activists whom he had been friendly with in SNCC and CORE...