Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Funds are now being sought to finance the students' training and living expenses, and to purchase teaching materials. About $10,000 is needed to support six volunteers and the project director, Mary Varella, a former SNCC worker, according to Joel Sharkey, NSA National Affairs Vice President...
Selma was chosen for the project because it has the typical black belt problem of massive functional illiteracy among Negroes, and because the Negro population has been awakened by a voter registration drive SNCC is conducting in the area...
...SNCC's voter registration drive has provoked violent reactions among whites in Selma. A SNCC newsletter dated Dec. 30 warns that students interested in working in Selma "must be prepared to spend time in jail...
...sponsors of the literacy project, however, do not expect a great deal of trouble. They will not work through the SNCC organization in Selma, but through a Catholic missionary group, Sharkey said. He noted that Miss Varella has visited Selma several times, and is attempting to enlist the support of white moderates for the project...
...white problem then is more than how to be black. It is, can you be? Do you want to be? Have you the time, talent, love? For SNCC, the problem is one of recruiting. But, with SNCC's image in the North--coffee-soaked, smoked-stained, streched like a guitar string and hope full like a song--it won't be easily solved. And neither will the white world's Negro Revolution...