Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SNCC officials decided it was essential to help support them, or Negroes in other areas would refuse to register. Drives similar to this one were conducted last year in New York and Chicago...
...response has been extraordinary." Mrs. Zellner said, "especially from the suburban women." Contributions have come from 31 communities in the Boston area. Robert E. Wright '65, chairman of the campus SNCC committee called the Harvard drive "pretty successful." He said that running the drive during exam period had affected the intake...
Although the campus SNCC committee plans a fund drive next month, there will probably not be another food and clothing drive until next year. Meanwhile, SNCC field workers continue to register Negroes in rural Mississippi and Alabama, and the number of dispossessed sharecroppers continues to rise...
Wright said SNCC officials hope by crash education programs to enable large numbers of Negroes to pass the literacy test required in both states. Most of those who had attempted to register before had failed them; Harvard and Radcliffe students will participate in one of these programs in Selma, Ala., this summer...
...Wright said SNCC has no plans for supporting the dispossessed Negroes, beyond the drives now being conducted in several cities. 'It's a movement based on faith, I guess, and will power...