Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ended just one week ago in Atlanta, Georgia. At this meeting, which lasted seven days, roughly 250 SNCC field workers discussed and debated the problems which face the civil rights movement in the South. And when the discussion was over, SNCC announced that it would not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi Project as it did last summer...
...took more than seven days of marathon bull-sessions to arrive at the Atlanta decision. Ever since the student movement began with the 1960 sit-ins, the field workers of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and innumerable local groups have been evaluating and re-evaluating their work. Their goal is destroying the power of an anti-democratic, segregated South and reconstituting this power in the hands of those whom it now oppresses: Negroes and poor whites. Specifically this means integrating the lunch counters, the schools, the ballot box, and the labor market. But there...
...Students on a part-time basis cannot hold communities together. There has to be a transfer of control," Claude Weaver '65, a SNCC worker, said yesterday...
...SNCC presently has bout 250 workers In Mississippi. Most of them remained after last summer's project and will continue to work under the auspices of COFO. Likewise, CORE, which has concentrated on the state's fourth congressional district, will maintain its activities, according to James Farmer, CORE's executive director...
...Atlanta meeting, SNCC also made a number of important organizational changes. It created a 22-member executive committee and a secretariat composed of John L. Lewis, chairman, James Forman, executive secretary, and Cleveland Cellers, program secretary, to ease day-to-day coordination problems...