Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip was organized by the United Ministry at Cornell University and is sponsored by the Lendership Conference on Civil Rights, the Northern Student Movement, SNCC, and other civil rights groups...
Those students with experience in civil rights will do field work, such as helping Negroes register to vote. Those in the field run a greater risk of clashing with the police, Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, New England representative of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, said yesterday, SNCC provides most of the manpower for COFO...
Moreover, the COFO project will aim at giving Negro students pride in the achievements of their race. John O'Neal, a SNCC field secretary, is organising a "Freedom Theater,"--a company of Mississippi Negroes which will tour the state performing works by Negro authors such as Ossis Davis and Langston Hughes...
Appearing with Gregory will be the Freedom Singers, made up of five SNCC field secretaries. Thomas F. Pettigrew, as associate professor of Social Relations, and Noel Day, chairman of the Boston School Stay-Out, are scheduled to make introductory remarks...
Wright said that SNCC was fairly satisfied with the outcome of the drive, although they had hoped to reach the predrive goal...