Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jesse Harris, a Mississippi Negro and experienced SNCC staff member, took charge of the area. Mendy Samstein (Brandeis graduate) and Dennis Sweeny (Stanford student) were among the first on the project...
When the Mississippi Project began in 1964, this song became a theme for the summer. SNCC members of COFO returned to McComb in mid-July...
Even after the death of Lee, Moses and a determined group of SNCC members continued to work in the terrified community. On Oct. 4, high school students marched through town to the courthouse. The march ended in the arrest of Moses and eight others, including a white SNCC worker, Robert Zellner. Zellner was beaten unconscious by a mob on the courthouse steps, while the sheriff held his arms and the FBI took notes...
...late October, the entire SNCC staff was jailed. Lacking the $14,000 for appeal bond. Moses and the others were imprisoned until late December. Shortly after their release SNCC left the city...
McComb was a lesson for Moses and SNCC. It showed that Mississippi was unlike any other Southern state, in that the outcome of nonviolent sit-ins and demonstrations was only furious brutality. The freedom movement moved further north in the state and began its work slowly in less dangerous areas...