Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ninth-grade five fixed up with a minority-athletic scholarship and a battery of tutors, and a summer-in-the-country boarding program to instill a taste for the good life, Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous...
...upheld the Georgia legislature's 1966 refusal to seat black Activist Julian Bond because of Bond's endorsement of an anti-Viet Nam War statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The majority opinion branded the SNCC statement "a call to action based on race ... It aligns the civil rights organization with 'colored people in such other countries as the Dominican Republic, the Congo, South America and Rhodesia...
Irons laughs, a little embarrassed about the number of organizations in which he seems to have been an active force--the Student Peace Union (a draft resistance group he helped found in the early 60s), the Socialist Party, the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His FBI files, tucked into his Law School course catalogue, are an accurate record of the meetings he attended, the times he was arrested, the dates on which he spoke at hearings. True to FBI form, all names except the subject's own are deleted--including J. Edgar Hoover's, which is faintly visible through...
Jeffrey" Schnitzer, who did public relations work for SNCC and large-scale organizing in the late 1960s, says he finds benefits in the one-to-one approach that he did not find in mass organizing...
King's own Southern Christian Leadership Conference has drastically declined in size and importance. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) has disintegrated. The organization of young activists known as SNCC (Student Non violent Coordinating Committee) has disappeared, as have the Black Panthers...