Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first three years of intensive, "direct action" civil rights work in the deep South. But what makes it stand out from the umpteen thousand other books on the civil rights movement written this year is that it also presents the unusual philosophy that has been born out of SNCC work...
This is not, apparently, the same philosophy that is created by sitting in an armchair and worrying about "the Negro problem." The usual text on the inevitability of violence is replaced by a polite reaffirmation of the "Nonviolent" in SNCC's title and a warning that if violence is not to take over in the movement, the government must begin to act. The usual section on the incompatibility of whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement is replaced by a chapter describing how individual white men have won the respect of Negroes who never expected to feel anything...
...good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy. When you begin protesting that federal troops in McComb might cost Johnson votes in North Carolina, turn to a passage like this one, describing SNCC workers' attempts to feed would-be voters who had been waiting all day to register in Selma...
...SNCC field secretaries stood before the shopping cart and filled their arms with food. One was Avery Williams, Alabama-born. Another was Chico Neblett from Carbondale, Illinois Both had left college to work for SNCC...
Chice gave his wallet to Ferman, a final gesture of acceptance of going to jail. He said to Avery, "Let's go, man." They walked down to the corner (a SNCC man never jaywalks in the south) with all eyes on the street focussed on them.... It was 2:20 p.m. As Chico and Avery came close to the line, the fat trooper with the cigar and the blue helmet, Major Smelley, barked at them, "Move on." They kept going towards the line of registrants. The next thing I saw was Chico Neblett on the ground, troopers all around...