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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...
...Illinois representative, who is also a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), spoke before an audience of about 250 at the Clyde Ferguson Luncheon, sponsored by the Lotus Development Corporation...
...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...
...were really on the fringes out there,"McDougall says. In fact, SNCC's efforts throughoutthe South would only net hundreds of voters overseveral years. After the Voting Rights Act waspassed in August of 1965, thousands joined thevoter rolls in a few months...
...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...