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...reflection, his autobiography, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Simon & Schuster; 496 pages; $26), co-authored with Michael D'Orso, at times degenerates into a travelogue of movement battlefields. But it also provides a stirring portrait of the power of moral consistency and courage. Lewis and SNCC colleagues like Diane Nash and Robert Moses were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution and so-called moderation. The young activists were simply unwilling...
Jack Chatfield, who worked for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s, said the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling initiated the civil rights movement...
...said that he was a field worker in theSouthwest Georgia Project of the SNCC for the nextseveral years
Many of these students had spent the summerlearning about activism and facing tear gas inMaryland under the Student Non-violentCoordinating Coalition (SNCC). The coalition, theother major activist group during the decade,sponsored protests against segregation and drivesfor voting rights in the South. SNCC had the tightdiscipline and organization that SDS'sparticipatory democracy often undermined...
Many of these students had spent the summerlearning about activism and facing tear gas inMaryland under the Student Non-violentCoordinating Coalition (SNCC). The coalition, theother major activist group during the decade,sponsored protests against segreation and drivesfor voting in the South. SNCC had the tightdiscipline and organization that SDS'sparticipatory democracy often undermined...