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...took more than seven days of marathon bull-sessions to arrive at the Atlanta decision. Ever since the student movement began with the 1960 sit-ins, the field workers of SNCC, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and innumerable local groups have been evaluating and re-evaluating their work. Their goal is destroying the power of an anti-democratic, segregated South and reconstituting this power in the hands of those whom it now oppresses: Negroes and poor whites. Specifically this means integrating the lunch counters, the schools, the ballot box, and the labor market. But there...
Almost a year ago, on Easter weekend of 1964, SNCC held its spring conference in Atlanta. There were less than a hundred staff members than, and they gathered to plan what was known as the Mississippi Project. (Although the Project was officially run by the Council of Federated Organizations, SNCC provided at least 80 per cent of the funds and manpower...
...taken SNCC a long time to decide that a summer project was needed, and even longer to agree that it would work. Some had felt that white northern students could not relate to the Southern Negro community and carry out the complex work of voter registration. Others had felt that a massive influx of civil-rights workers into Mississippi could only result in murderous reprisals from an inflamed white community. But on Easter Sunday, 1964, SNCC members began leaving for their projects in the Black Belt, carrying with them the preparatory plans for the Summer Project...
...Decision-making--One of the basic philosophies of SNCC, and therefore COFO, is that local people must become the leaders of civil-rights activity. Since the SNCC worker cannot stay forever, local people must learn to make the decisions, avoid the mistakes, and continue the work that something like the Summer Project might initiate. In practice, however, this idea has received more lip-service than implementation, in some areas of Mississippi. And so the Atlanta Conference, held last week, was faced with the question: Who had been making the decisions in Mississippi and who should make them...
...question of decision-making was answered by a call for "people's conferences." If the local people are to begin making decisions, then the first decision they should make is what sort of summer project, if any, they want. Therefore SNCC will assume the responsibility of organizing conferences of local leaders in Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, to be held during the next two months...