Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Carolina. They were trying to integrate that restaurant through direct action instead of working for the election of a sympathetic mayor or city councilman. It was an historic moment in the evolution of American dissent. This rejection of electoral politics caught the imagination of students around the country. SNCC grew out of the Greensboro lunch counter...
...Zellner, first white person on the SNCC Staff (1961), will meet with students at 1 p.m. today in PBH. Zellner is currently organizing poor whites in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
Each speaker who followed Dellinger was trying to out-epithet the others. Norman Mailer '43 had called Lyndon Johnson "an imbecile" the day before. Now John Wilson of SNCC was calling Lyndon Johnson a "criminal" and "a fool." And Dr. Benjamin Spock chipped in: "The enemy, we believe in all sincerity, is Lyndon Johnson...
George W. Ware, Campus Coordinator of SNCC, who sat in on last Friday's meeting, stated: "Now is the time that black students must move from easy chair intellectualizing." Jeff Howard and the majority of the Harvard AAAAS membership agree with him. In Howard's words: "We have a great deal of research on both the curriculum idea and the Roxbury project. We are moving from the intellectual chair to make ourselves felt as a constructive force in the Harvard community but are ever cognizant of our obligation to confront the broader issues facing the black community...
That is not the way things were supposed to be, and Lottman is pain-fully aware of it, but without the money to pay competitive wages, he feels powerless to do much. At any rate, SNCC workers have from time to time lashed out at the notion of a white-dominated newspaper for Negroes. As one SNCC staffer put it, "Man, it's just one more white man tryin' to tell me what to think." SNCC seriously discussed at one point organizing a boycott of the Courier. The idea apparently was forgotten by the time of last year's elections...