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...kind of Negro-the knife and club type." He explained that the various Negro groups were competing with each other in militancy and fervor, and that there was a danger that the leaders would become followers. "There's competition among the N.A.A.C.P., CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 'Snick' (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and Martin Luther King Jr.'s group. They think the group that's most militant will wind...
...Civil rights radicals" are a difficult group to define; though many are members of such organizations as the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee, (SNCC, dit "snick"), the Boston Action Group...
...Middle. Standing somewhere between the N.A.A.C.P. and Snick is the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 33. A persuasive, emotional speaker, King won national fame in 1956 as the leader of the successful effort to integrate the buses of Montgomery, Ala. King, an advocate of the Gandhian technique of nonviolence, is head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a diffuse collection of some 65 local civil rights groups in the South...
King is also accused of status seeking. He recently moved his Southern Conference headquarters into a predominantly white office building in Atlanta, where he puts up with segregated toilets and restaurants; in contrast. Snick's Atlanta headquarters is a windowless cubicle in an all-Negro district. King began to lose status with young Negroes last May when he failed to take a Freedom Ride into Mississippi. He lost even more last month at a civil rights demonstration in Albany, Ga., when he was taken off to jail vowing that he would stay behind bars indefinitely, then meekly posted bond...
...Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), primarily a Northern organization of whites and Negroes that makes only occasional forays into the South under the leadership of James Farmer. It organized the first Freedom Ride from Washington to New Orleans, but withdrew after mob violence in Birmingham and let Snick's dedicated campaigners ride on to Jackson, Miss. The group suffers fragmented leadership and a membership described by an N.A.A.C.P. leader as "a bunch of loonybirds and crackpots...