Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black Atlanta, separates a stately complex of Negro colleges from the hectic offices of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The proximity is misleading: Morehouse and the other schools in the Atlanta University system are training Negroes to meet the standards of middle-class participation in American society, while SNCC's field workers are out to change the political and ethical bases of that society...
...group such as the National Association for Colored People would provide a more efficient framework in which to work for Negro advancement. With the departure of DuBois, Negro higher education fell almost totally under the influence of Booker T. Washington. Today the radicalism of DuBois finds its extension in SNCC (significantly, the SNCC Chairmanship is awarded annually to a student who will take off a year from school to work for civil rights "in the field"), while Washinton's emphasis on emulative technical proficiency provides the educational heritage of Morehouse and the other outstanding Negro colleges. The leaders of Negro...
...weeks ago, four members of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were shot by Mississippi segregationists while trying to register Negroes to vote. One man nearly died of bullet wounds. SNCC's work had progressed to the point where they were registering as many as 200 people a day in one country, and evidently the segregationists were becoming frightened...
...SNCC members were bound by principle not to retaliate violently. The organization has always adhered closely to the policy of non-violence, hoping that it will exert a strong enough moral force to help rapid integration. But non-violence does not work at pistol point, especially if there is no effective agency of the law to deter prospective killers. The FBI and Justice Department in Mississippi have not been effective...
William Hansen, field secretary for SNCC, who participated in the sit-ins, reported that notices were placed in school buildings Feb. 11 requesting that all students who had been involved in the demonstrations see Davis...