Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Sunday Selma, Alabama, Negroes began a 50-mile march to Montgomery to protest voter discrimination. The following report was compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee directly from phone calls and field-radio reports made by SNCC staff members from various locations in Selma...
...John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC, Robert Mants, SNCC staff, and Hosea Williams, SCLC staff, are leading the march. They are in the process of organizing into companies and squads, with company commanders and squad leaders...
Organizations from most of the colleges in the Boston area, including Harvard's CRCC, will participate. Claude L. Weaver, '66, a SNCC field secretary, and Howard Zinn, an associate professor of Government at Boston University, will address the rally...
Weiner stated that SNCC has not approached the Young Dems for assistance. "We would be very willing to cooperate with them if they asked us," he said...
...vote on the FDP challenge is expected to reach the floor of the House early in July. SNCC, which plans to send 2000 students to Washington this summer to lobby for the FDP, estimates that the Freedom party commands over two-thirds of the votes necessary to defeat the regular congressional delegation...