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During the years of the Class of '63, student participation in political affairs also increased considerably; the debates which centered around such groups as Core, SNCC, Tocsin, and the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee were attended by more enthusiasm (and more students) than ever before. The phenomenal number of students who took part in the Peace March to Washington last spring represented this new political involvement...
...money will be divided between the Southern Christian Leaders Conference, which is led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE...
...There is no way we can communicate with the white people in Mississippi," Hollis Watkins, another SNCC worker, added. Since SNCC began its latest registration campaign in Green wood, Miss., there have been two shootings and a number of burnings in reprisal. One SNCC worker, James Travis, was shot through the spine and nearly killed. "That was the only time when the Negro community talked of violence," said Hayes...
There is no way that SNCC workers can plan anything beyond the registration campaign. "It would be suicide to try anything more," Hayes explained in response to a questioner who suggested that they organize wide-scale strikes. "Even if the Negro community could be organized, "a lot of people would probably be killed...
This October, SNCC began a similar campaign in Greenwood, Miss., encountering strong resistance from segregationists there. During one week in February, after SNCC had begun to register as many as 150 voters a day, four of the organization members were shot at, and one was nearly killed...