Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem should be particularly acute this summer, she said, because of the large number of SNCC volunteers who will be working in Mississippi...
...course, and leave matters as they are; despite these real risks, we are going ahead with the project in the hopes that the majority of white Americans of whom Mr. Lerner speaks may realize its responsibilities to the subjected minority. Mrs. Dorothy Zeliner Mrs. Peggy Day New England Representatives SNCC...
According to the above letter, SNCC is doing three things to avoid violence. It is interviewing everyone who goes South under SNCC auspices, it is training them in Kentucky in June, and it is petitioning the U.S. government to intervene in Mississippi...
...Zellner and Mrs. Day believe that SNCC petitions will convince President Johnson in an election year to intervene before the last possible moment, they are naive. Johnson will not intervene to protect the rights of SNCC workers, but only to suppress violence...
Finally, the parallel implied between my position and that of the White Citizens Council is not fruitful. I detest segregation, although I may not always faithfully follow the SNCC view...