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...course, and leave matters as they are; despite these real risks, we are going ahead with the project in the hopes that the majority of white Americans of whom Mr. Lerner speaks may realize its responsibilities to the subjected minority. Mrs. Dorothy Zeliner Mrs. Peggy Day New England Representatives SNCC...
According to the above letter, SNCC is doing three things to avoid violence. It is interviewing everyone who goes South under SNCC auspices, it is training them in Kentucky in June, and it is petitioning the U.S. government to intervene in Mississippi...
...possible to determine emotional maturity, discipline, and non-violent conduct. We will hold one orientation session here for New England applicants in late May, and all applicants for the project will undergo extensive training in Berea, Kentucky in June before departure for Missisippi. None of this indicates either that SNCC will accept young people who cannot act in a disciplined fashion under what will certainly be dangerous circumstances, or that students are looked upon as expendable "cannon fodder" to be put to "tactical advantage...
...Zellner and Mrs. Day believe that SNCC petitions will convince President Johnson in an election year to intervene before the last possible moment, they are naive. Johnson will not intervene to protect the rights of SNCC workers, but only to suppress violence...
Finally, the parallel implied between my position and that of the White Citizens Council is not fruitful. I detest segregation, although I may not always faithfully follow the SNCC view...