Word: sncc
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...percent of Blacks in the United States,the civil rights movement was an extraordinaryleap forward," says Robert H. Abzug '67, a formervolunteer with the Student Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee (SNCC) who is now a professor of historyand American studies at the University of Texas inAustin...
...roommates had spent the summer of 1963 in Virginia, working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), while another had joined the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society...
Ganz, too, decided to get involved. He joined a group called Friends of SNCC, and started hosting visits by civil rights workers from the South...
Ganz says the president's death challenged him to get more involved in the civil rights movement. In the spring of 1964 he went to Atlanta for a SNCC convention. That summer, he and several other Harvard students worked for SNCC, registering voters in Mississippi...
...down to Mississippi, Ganz and the group of SNCC activists stopped in Oxford, Ohio for training in methods of non-violent protest and adjusting to the highly polarized culture of the deep South...