Talk:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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[edit] Talk Page
This was an apparent question that was placed in the article instead of the talk page. the exact text is as follows: {Why did Richard Nixon Only Serve 6 Years?.... and whats a franchise? } I deleted it from the page and am placing it here. --preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 15:26, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Carmichael, in his autobiography Ready for Revolution claims that SNCC didn't expel its white staffers, and merely reassigned them to back offices in the North, citing safety concerns (whites were targetted at least as intensely as blacks, in order to intimidate other whites from assisting). --Eric 07:09, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MFDP, Atlantic City, and SNCC
The following was cut: "After the Democratic convention of 1964 <<at which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party tried to gain more political rights for blacks and was rebuffed by liberal wing of the Democratic Party,>> ..." I'm curious why that reference to the Demo Convention was cut. The rejection of the MFDP challenge to the MS delegation was seen by SNCC as an enormous betrayal on the part of the liberal establishment. It was the critical tipping-point that began moving many SNCC activists away from reform and towards revolutionary ideologies. The splits in SNCC that are referenced later in the article were grounded in what happened in Atlantic City in August of 1964. Brucehartford (talk) 18:26, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Cuts and Comments
I took out the following text, not because it wasn't interesting, but because it focused on a relatively minor aspect of the history of SNCC:
- However, the last SNCC chapter in the United States was in San Antonio, Texas. It was disbanded in 1976 with its members going on to form civil and human rights groups called Organizations United for Eastside Development and later Frontline 2000. Frontline 2000 would be responsible for obtaining a Martin Luther King State Holiday in Texas after negotiations with former Speaker of the Texas House Gib Lewis.
- This SNCC chapter was a hybrid organization that was part White Panther Party and part SNCC. Members of the organization adopted Black Panther styled survival programs. Their uniforms were the old southern styled blue jean pants and blue jean jackets with a Panther Black tam. The chapter sold SNCC papers and White Panthers in downtown San Antonio. Its office was once located at the corner of Iowa and Pine Streets in San Antonio in the Denver Heights area. The organization was started by SNCC Field organizer Carlos Richardson and its initial members included Ouncy Whittier, Mario Marcel Salas, Claudius Minor, Roslyn Lewis, Carl Jackson, Webb Boyd, and others.
- The San Antonio Chapter of SNCC organized around the killing of Bobby Joe Phillips, an African American man beaten to death in 1968 by San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) officers. The group protested the beating by organizing a massive demonstration in downtown San Antonio during the River parade. This incident would be one of four known "riots" that occurred in San Antonio. The SNCC office would be attacked by SAPD soon after the "riot" as SNCC militants were accused of conducting military drills at their office.
I also cut
- SNCC is recognized today as one of the primary influences on the modern youth activism movement.
Perhaps someone can supply some authority for this proposition. I admit to being somewhat skeptical of any links to that article, which is in need of editing and rethinking.
As for what remains, it needs a good deal of reworking. The birth of SNCC and its role in the sit-in movement get barely a mention, With all the sources referenced in this piece we can do better. Italo Svevo 04:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
