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Funds are now being sought to finance the students' training and living expenses, and to purchase teaching materials. About $10,000 is needed to support six volunteers and the project director, Mary Varella, a former SNCC worker, according to Joel Sharkey, NSA National Affairs Vice President...
Selma was chosen for the project because it has the typical black belt problem of massive functional illiteracy among Negroes, and because the Negro population has been awakened by a voter registration drive SNCC is conducting in the area...
...SNCC's voter registration drive has provoked violent reactions among whites in Selma. A SNCC newsletter dated Dec. 30 warns that students interested in working in Selma "must be prepared to spend time in jail...
...left-wing upbringing, some early identification, a driving need for fame, notoriety, praise or persecution, or an inadequate sex life on the campus. At first they debated a great deal about the Movement: Was it revolutionary or reformist and so on. But for all of them, working for SNCC was going to solve a lot of personal problems, and identification with the organization was much more than political...
...white problem then is more than how to be black. It is, can you be? Do you want to be? Have you the time, talent, love? For SNCC, the problem is one of recruiting. But, with SNCC's image in the North--coffee-soaked, smoked-stained, streched like a guitar string and hope full like a song--it won't be easily solved. And neither will the white world's Negro Revolution...