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...SNCC, which has organized voter registration in such places as Albany, Ga. and Greenwood, Miss., "is in serious financial trouble," according to Claude Weaver '65, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. "If they don't receive more money within the next month, their projects may have to be abandoned," Weaver said...
...organization was founded in early 1960, in response to sit-in demonstrations in Greensville, N.C. At first, SNCC's objective was simply to coordinate activities of autonomous integration groups in the South, supporting direct action campaign throughout the South...
...summer of 1961, integration leaders in the South were generally agreed that direct action campaigns, such as sit-ins, stand-ins, and Freedom Rides, were not sufficient to bring about desegregation. SNCC decided to implement new programs, as well as coordinate those that were already in existence...
...their signs and leaflets the students deplored "police brutality" and Federal inaction" in Greenwood, Miss., where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has been connecting a voter registration campaign since last summer...
...Several SNCC workers have been shot and many imprisoned since the group began its work in the heavily-Negro delta area of Mississippi. "We are asking for dedicated FBI action to protect workers and registrants in Mississippi," Claude Weaver '65, a member of the BAG steering committee and head of the Harvard Civil Rights Coordinating Committee said last night...