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...staff conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ended just one week ago in Atlanta, Georgia. At this meeting, which lasted seven days, roughly 250 SNCC field workers discussed and debated the problems which face the civil rights movement in the South. And when the discussion was over, SNCC announced that it would not recruit volunteers for a Mississippi Project as it did last summer...
...Boston Office will now recruit only for the Washington project and expects about 100 volunteers from the metropolitan area, she said. SNCC was "trying to re-evaluate its whole role" at the Atlanta conference. "The whole emphasis is being put on local people running their own projects," she explained...
...Students on a part-time basis cannot hold communities together. There has to be a transfer of control," Claude Weaver '65, a SNCC worker, said yesterday...
...SNCC presently has bout 250 workers In Mississippi. Most of them remained after last summer's project and will continue to work under the auspices of COFO. Likewise, CORE, which has concentrated on the state's fourth congressional district, will maintain its activities, according to James Farmer, CORE's executive director...
...Atlanta meeting, SNCC also made a number of important organizational changes. It created a 22-member executive committee and a secretariat composed of John L. Lewis, chairman, James Forman, executive secretary, and Cleveland Cellers, program secretary, to ease day-to-day coordination problems...