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...black Atlanta, separates a stately complex of Negro colleges from the hectic offices of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The proximity is misleading: Morehouse and the other schools in the Atlanta University system are training Negroes to meet the standards of middle-class participation in American society, while SNCC's field workers are out to change the political and ethical bases of that society...
...weeks ago, four members of the Southern Non-Violent Coordinating Committee were shot by Mississippi segregationists while trying to register Negroes to vote. One man nearly died of bullet wounds. SNCC's work had progressed to the point where they were registering as many as 200 people a day in one country, and evidently the segregationists were becoming frightened...
...SNCC members were bound by principle not to retaliate violently. The organization has always adhered closely to the policy of non-violence, hoping that it will exert a strong enough moral force to help rapid integration. But non-violence does not work at pistol point, especially if there is no effective agency of the law to deter prospective killers. The FBI and Justice Department in Mississippi have not been effective...
William Hansen, field secretary for SNCC, who participated in the sit-ins, reported that notices were placed in school buildings Feb. 11 requesting that all students who had been involved in the demonstrations see Davis...
Another important feature of the campaign was the distribution of literature informing voters of the work of SNCC. Peter Countryman, executive director of the Northern Student Movement, called this the most important aspect of the project...