Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, civil rights activity in the South was focussed on Mississippi and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a coalition of SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC and other groups. But because several of the organizations were dissatisfied with COFO and because Mississippi was considered sufficiently "improved," the major civil rights groups decided to branch out into other Southern trouble spots. This summer each organization will be operating its separate summer project...
...Mississippi branch of the NAACP was one of the four civil rights groups in the COFO coalition (Henry was president of COFO.). But during the summer and increasingly into the winter, the Association became more and more unhappy with what it considered SNCC's domination of COFO. This dissatisfaction went beyond annoyance at playing second fiddle to SNCC, however. The basic disagreement was with SNCC's radicalism. Two weeks ago, the Mississippi branches of the NAACP withdrew from COFO...
...these two projects show, CORE stresses direct action and has formed more local direct action projects than any other organization, except perhaps SNCC. In may ways, in fact, the two groups form an alliance; their workers are younger and angrier than those in the NAACP and SCLC and they are often impatient with compromises and lengthy court actions. Increasingly CORE and SNCC workers are coming to regard nonviolence as a tactic rather than a philosophy...
...convention was called by SNCC CORE, SDS, and the Southern Christlar Leadership Conference to present to students a "clear picture of the choices facing them in civil rights work," the Rev Richard E. Mumma, head of the Harvard United Ministry and a member of the convention planning committee, said yesterday...
Each of the civil rights organizations is emphasizing a different facet of civil rights activity this summer, Mamma said. CORE will continue voter registration projects in the South. SNCC volunteers will concentrate on lobbying for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Washington...