Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school bill goes through, it's guaranteed that everyone--all the demonstrators and teachers--will go to jail this summer," Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, head of the Boston Friends of SNCC, said recently...
...questions confronting SNCC is whether or not nonviolence can succeed in Mississippi and the "hard-core" South. Howard Zinn, former chairman of the History Department of Spelman College and presently a SNCC advisor, offered the Theory of the Two Souths at the conference. In the First South, which inclcdes Atlanta, Ga., Richmond, Va., and Nashville, Tenn., nonviolent sitins, mass demonstrations, and boycotts eventually result in integrated lunch-counters and de-segregated schools, he said. But in the Second South, the Black Belt area--Albany, Ga., Danville, Va., and Jackson, Miss.--nonviolent actions end only in broken bones, jail terms...
...SNCC field workers are now seeking methods to make nonviolence work in the Second South, where Zinn says, "the smell of slavery still lingers." The worst regions are Southern Virginia, Southwestern Georgia, Eastern Arkansas, and all of Mississippi. In these areas machine guns and bombs are freely used against the Negro population. According to Robert Moses, SNCC project director in Mississippi, there have been 180 cross burnings, five killings, several shootings, and at least three whippings in Mississippi since the Ku Klux Klan reorganized shortly after President Kennedy's death...
Zinn insisted that only federal intervention and protection could make nonviolence successful in the Second South. He expressed the hope that a SNCC lobby in Washington, D. C., could convince the President that he must act to prevent the failure of nonviolence...
Over one-third of the students at the Atlanta conference were white, in sharp contrast with past meetings. "It was encouraging to see so many whites, especially those from southern colleges," said Robert E. Wright '65, chairman of the Harvard Civil Rights Coordinating Committee and a summer SNCC field-worker...