Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unlike most Negroes struggling for "the cause," King keeps himself non-controversial by never saying anything anyone but the most rabid White Supremicist doesn't want to hear. Yet below his gentleness, below his slickness, one senses enormous restraint. "Yes . . . yes, of course" he drawls when introduced to a SNCC worker, as though he had followed the boy's courageous exploits all summer...
Neither Lamont nor Zinn has as yet put into action any of these recommendations. Zinn, who has been active in support of SNCC in the past, did state that he was trying to rally support of the movement among the faculty...
...SNCC officers have asked Harvard-Radcliffe students to urge their perents to make their views on the issue clear in letters to their Representatives. If the "Fairness Resolution" manages to make its way to the House floor through the Subcommittee on Elections and Privileges, which is doubtful, the House will have to decide to either seat the contestees or declare the election unconstitutional and call for another vote...
...White SNCC worker Ralph Allen of Melrose, Massachusetts, was tried and convicted Dec. 11, 1963 on the "assault" charge, but his conviction and two-year jail sentence were overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. The Court ruled that white defendants are entitled to a trial by a jury from which Negroes have not been excluded...
...plan, as described by Howard Zinn, associate professor of government at Boston University and advisor to SNCC, would provide an opportunity for civil rights workers to take time out and discuss the movement's long-term problems...