Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...appear at a march he himself called. The march ended in the notorious bloodbath at Pettus Bridge. "King's response to the clubbing at Pettus Bridge was, 'If I had known it was going to be like that I'd have gone myself.' Which was what the people from SNCC had been driving at all along." King's collapse at Selma was so unrestricted that the word does not appear in a prizewinning biography of him. Yet, "The criticism and name-calling (that King received after Selma' jarred him." That, along with the impact of the carnage itself forced King...
There have been at least two meetings in the past between students and administration officials to discuss similar incidents. One involved a colloquium course-AAS 95-required of all Afro Studies concentrators. In October 1969, Willie Ricks, a former SNCC coordinator, announced that he wanted all white students to leave the room. A meeting between white concentrators and Vic Glassberg, a tutor in Afro-American Studies, followed the incident...
THERE had always been a tension in the civil rights movement about racism. At the time that white Northerners chastised white Southerners for racism, the proximity of whites and blacks in the movement made white Northerners uneasy about their own racism. When Stokely Carmichael kicked whites out of SNCC the conflict was repressed; whites and blacks no longer worked together. Soon after the separatism drive the civil rights movement fragmented. When the student anti-war movement arose, racism was apparently forgotten by whites. A new moral purity, ignoring residual guilt about racism, launched the mass education phase of the anti...
...substantial number of this new "liberated" black class were from urban ghettos, and had participated in civil rights activities. Many were, if not members, at least fellow travelers of SNCC. They did not consider themselves divorced by virtue of location from the problems of Black America...