Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ella Baker, former executive director of SCLC and a key figure in the founding of SNCC, will speak on "The Student and the South: New Coalition in the Old Confederacy," at 4 p.m. today in Emerson...
...demonstrators received encouraging telegrams and offers of financial backing from student groups at a number of Negro colleges as well as Stanford, Berkeley, Catholic University, the National Student Association, and SNCC. But Southern students have no way of knowing about this support, Winston said, because of the newspaper censorship...
...Winston doubts that students will oppose the administration again, primarily because the student senate refuses to support what Winston thinks is the majority student view. The senate, which was forced by its advisor to meet behind closed doors decided not to invite Stokeley Carmichael, the chairman of SNCC, to come to Southern...
...real spirit of SNCC is almost dead. Its only meaningful legacy is a sense of commitment that grew out of protest and action and that is slowly smothering under a too-demanding arrogance of anti-intellectualism. SNCC will never get to play the game of politics as it once thought it might. It has given up too much faith in the feast -- the system -- to find a seat at the table meaningful...
This is a bleak forecast for SNCC. Carmichael has already opted out of running again for chairman, and no one anywhere in the present eschalons seems ready, willing or able to fill the formidable void this month's elections will bring. As SNCC's resources and manpower dwindle, the sounds of a new student activism are just beginning on hitherto quiet Southern Negro campuses. It was this kind of activism that SNCC spent the last year trying to capture and make its own. For SNCC this activism may have some too late. If so, this month's elections...