Word: zellner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central argument in the letter is that I have ignored the "alternative" of Federal intervention. I did not ignore the possibility that the President might order troops into Mississippi as a last resort in the event of terrible violence. This is not what Mrs. Zellner and Mrs. Day mean. They mean that I ignored the possibility of Presidential intervention before this violence occurs, "to protect American citizens...who will be conducting themselves in a constitutional manner...
...Zellner and Mrs. Day believe that SNCC petitions will convince President Johnson in an election year to intervene before the last possible moment, they are naive. Johnson will not intervene to protect the rights of SNCC workers, but only to suppress violence...
...school bill goes through, it's guaranteed that everyone--all the demonstrators and teachers--will go to jail this summer," Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, head of the Boston Friends of SNCC, said recently...
...Zellner called the COFO project "unprecedented." She said it was "the first time segregation has been attacked from so many angles by so many people...
...tactics vary "from community to community," Mrs. Zellner said, "and nobody knows what they'll do." In general, however, "there is a lot of trepidstion," she said. None of the COFO wokers in Mississippi doubt that "things are going to be very hot this summer...