Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER deLISSOVOY, '64, a white Harvard student, has been working for SNCC in Georgia since last June. In an earlier article he discussed the role of a Southern Negro gang leader in the Movement...
Good morning sir. I work with SNCC--you know, with the Albany Movement. You've heard about the election next month of course. It's an important election and we're concerned that you realize how important it is that you vote in it. Have you a moment you can spare me, a moment for discussion? And don't call me 'ma'am'.--I could be your daughter...
...hardly white, and it is possible only when whites have the talent and time to become black. It takes time to become a part of any community. But when one is physically and culturally alien, then it takes a great deal of time. In the southern Movement and in SNCC, there are so many in-and-out, summer vacation whites, so many who do not know the meanings of white, who forget that, because they are white, they will have to prove themselves time and time again before they can be one of the people--fight with them...
...left-wing upbringing, some early identification, a driving need for fame, notoriety, praise or persecution, or an inadequate sex life on the campus. At first they debated a great deal about the Movement: Was it revolutionary or reformist and so on. But for all of them, working for SNCC was going to solve a lot of personal problems, and identification with the organization was much more than political...
...Civil Rights Coordinating Committee meeting here last night, SNCC field secretary Robert Zelinar charged the federal government with inaction in Southern civil rights crises...