Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group that effectively registers young people, and that's the Youth Citizenship Fund." Bond explains. However, perhaps also influencing Bond's choice of charities was the fact that James Bond. Julian's younger brother, heads the southeastern region of the YCF and that John Lewis, the former head of SNCC and a close crony of Julian's since their days together in the movement, is director of the VEP. This is not to suggest that Bond was motivated by nepotism alone, for, as he says, the YCF and the VEP are the best in their business, but it is indicative...
Bond started to work on his end of the bargain almost immediately. Along with John Lewis, the former head of SNCC who is now director of the Voter Education Project (VEP), he went to work on Coretta Scott King to persuade her to endorse McGovern and, equally important, campaign for him in California. Simultaneously, he scavenged the South for commitments to McGovern from previously uncommitted or Humphrey-learning blacks...
COLLINS, who is now 27 years old, entered the civil rights movement from the ground floor. In 1963, he participated in the early sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters and theaters in New Orleans. Soon after, he joined SNCC to help register voters in Louisiana and Mississippi and with the '64 Mississippi Summer Project...
...addition to Collins's case the Supreme Court has refused to hear many other cases of the Supreme Court has refused to hear many other cases black activists convicted of draft evasion, including those better-known cases of Fred Brooks, Nashville black student movement leader, and Mike Simmons, a SNCC leader who refused induction and took part in one of he first induction center demonstrations in Atlanta...
...with justice, accuse him of inaction. Urged by the conviction that "somehow we all must learn to know one another," Coles has written, in the space of barely ten years, 13 books and hundreds of articles. Although no political organizer himself, as early as 1962 he joined hands with SNCC, with CORE, and the Appalachian Volunteers, and in 1964, with the McComb Freedom House and the Mississippi Summer Project. (He and Stokely Carmichael taught a seminar on non-violence to college students preparing for the 1964 civil rights crusade.) In 1965 he evaluated and helped improve the medical project...