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Ellen Lake '66, who introduced the motion, stressed the fact that this proposal is quite different from the SNCC fast last spring to which many 'Cliffies objected...
Thus, the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, rather than civil rights groups like CORE or SNCC, was selected as one of the six recommended charities in this year's drive, he added. The drive will run from...
This is not, apparently, the same philosophy that is created by sitting in an armchair and worrying about "the Negro problem." The usual text on the inevitability of violence is replaced by a polite reaffirmation of the "Nonviolent" in SNCC's title and a warning that if violence is not to take over in the movement, the government must begin to act. The usual section on the incompatibility of whites and Negroes in the civil rights movement is replaced by a chapter describing how individual white men have won the respect of Negroes who never expected to feel anything...
Zinn's book is an unbalanced glorification of SNCC, and if you dislike its idealistic attitudes, you will dislike the book. Zinn admits its failings ("It exasperates its friends almost as often as it harrasses its enemies") without dwelling on them. His implicit point, and I think it is correct, is that organizational failures aside, SNCC has done some remarkable things and has created some unusual thinking in three years...
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