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...evening later in the week, James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, borrowed Lackey's bullhorn to quiet a restless mob outside the Jackson Street Baptist Church. When he bitterly criticized the police chief for calling in the posse, Lackey, who had been standing on the edge of the crowd, hesitated for a moment and then strode up to Forman...
...answer to that," he declared and took the bullhorn from the SNCC leader's hands. "The possee was getting orders from the sheriff and the country solicitor," he told the crowd. "I had no control over them. I didn't want any violence, I simply wanted to contain the large group. I didn't want the crowd dispersed...
...Political Action Committee of the Radcliffe Government Association has distributed to all Radcliffe students a questionnaire concerning political action in the name of RGA. This action would include supportive action in the form of letters, telegrams, and SNCC fasts. However, the questionnaire is limited to the procedural alternatives of requiring a referendum for action each time or permitting RGA to implement action, subject only to standard operating procedures (a referendum if twenty-five people object). That is, the questionnaire considers "when" and "how" action should be taken, completely ignoring...
...benefit of those who become incensed by what they see as merely personal views, the signers of this letter are supporters of civil rights, SNCC, LBJ, academic freedom in Tougaloo, Miss. and in Cambridge, Mass. Also, we are seniors who will not be affected personally by future trends in RGA. C. Sheridan Murphy '65 Caroline D. Warner...
...owner of the cafe defended the Movement, maintaining that it was immoral to fight back and impractical to reason with poor whites. A highly sophisticated debate followed--but it was more than words. Both men knew that the next day SNCC would once again summon the Negro community to march nonviolently on the state capitol. Similar discussions were going on throughout the ghetto; for the Movement is the central fact in the life and thought of every Montgomery Negro, whether or not he considers himself in the Movement...