Word: sncc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee will not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi summer project unless Negro leaders of each locality specifically request them, officials revealed yesterday. Instead, SNCC plans to recruit 2000 students to work in Washington, aiding the Mississippi Democratic Party's attempt to unseat the state's five congressmen...
John Perdew '64, who was beaten and jailed while working for SNCC in Georgia last year, expects further trouble this month when he returns to that state with his Negro bride...
Perdew has been working for SNCC since June, 1963, when be left Harvard to join the civil rights movement in Albany, Ga. Arrested almost immediately during a peace march, Perdew was charged with "assault with intent to kill," a state felony. While awaiting trial, Perdew was again arrested and this time charged with "attempting to incite an insurrection," a capital offence...
Perdew, who thinks he will probably return to Harvard at some point, said that he and his wife will continue to work for SNCC...
...methods, too, King has lagged. Two groups, SNCC and CORE, have a policy of remaining in the areas that they enter, developing local leadership, and sharing the victories, the defeats, and the risks that the local people experience. King, however, operates in a hit-and-run fashion. When he moves into an area, he is neither familiar with past efforts, nor in touch with the local people. In Albany, Ga., in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he selected a city where other civil rights groups were already working, flew in for several weeks, fired up local Negroes to heated protests...