Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recruiting, selecting, and training new field-workers is the first real task of the Mississippi Summer Project for civil rights. While the detailed four-page application forms are examined by the staff in Jackson, Miss, SNCC workers throughout the South and North are interviewing each student who applies. And before those accepted actually enter the Magnolia State, they will attend orientation meetings in their local areas and an intensive four-day workshop, probably on a college campus. According to Dorothy Zellner, in charge of organizing in New England, "We want the most disciplined group of people we can possibly...
...hundred and fifty students have already been accepted for the Summer Project by the Jackson office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Most of them, Negro and white, are from the North, but the group includes 15 to 20 white southerners. SNCC's Atlanta office, which is recruiting Negro field-workers from the South, has already accepted over 100 people. At the rate applications are arriving, SNCC expects to have over 700 Project members before summer begins...
...interviewing students, SNCC hopes to determine how each applicant will act in a totally alien environment; this applies especially to Northern students. The pre-summer meetings are designed to prepare the student for (his or her) role in a Southern community and to weed out those students who may not be able to make the transition...
...think you can be nonviolent in all situations?" The Students who are admitted to the Project will be required to attend a preparatory workshop, which was originally to be held at Berea College, Ky. Berea has reneged on its offer of accommodations, but SNCC is already negotiating for another site and is certain to have one by June 15, when the program begins. The trainees will be processed in three shifts over a two week period, each student participating in the workshop four to six days...
...example, Mrs. Fannie Lou Haimer and Mrs. Victoria Gray, running in SNCC sponsored campaigns for U.S. House and Senate, respectively, are the first Negro women ever to run for national office; and they are doing it in a state where such an action is worth their lives...