Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SNCC, which recruited nearly 1000 students for last summer's civil rights project in Mississippi, will have this year's volunteers conduct three weeks of intensive lobbying and "non-violent direct action" to support the MFDP's Challenge...
Plans for the Washington project were worked out last week in a seven-day conference SNCC in Atlanta, Ga. The decisions at Atlanta probably mean that many fewer students will work this summer in Mississippi for the council of Federated Organizations (COFO)-the coalition of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SNCC had provided the bulk of the COFO volunteers...
...Atlanta, SNCC decided to hold "people's Conferences" in Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and Alabama. At these conferences local Negro leaders will attempt to shape their own programs...
...Some local areas will probably ask for student volunteers," according to Mrs. Robert N. Zeilner, head of SNCC's Boston office, who attended part of the Atlanta conference. She added, however, that the number of volunteers requested will probably be well below last year's figure...
...Boston Office will now recruit only for the Washington project and expects about 100 volunteers from the metropolitan area, she said. SNCC was "trying to re-evaluate its whole role" at the Atlanta conference. "The whole emphasis is being put on local people running their own projects," she explained...