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...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...
...people nationally. I got to know Tom Hayden. We had the back room at Cronin's. It began to seem to me that the issues were interrelated and something more had to be transformed. I got involved with the Civil Rights Movement. I was very impressed with SNCC [the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]. This was also the spring of the Birmingham violence...
Some of the disintegration of the campus protest movement naturally comes from the aging of any extremist group as its views and tactics move toward the center (or as the center moves toward it). A similar phenomenon accompanied the success of SCLC and SNCC in the civil rights movement. Perhaps the divestment movement is just becoming old and tired--especially to the students that have watched it spring after spring...