Summary
Chairman of SNCC elected at its annual staff meeting in early May 1967, as reported in the June-July 1967 SNCC Newsletter (Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967), PDF p.8).
Details
- The biography on PDF p.8 gives him as “Rap”, a soul brother from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who dropped out of Southern University in 1964 to work with SNCC and spent the past few years organizing the rural counties of Alabama; he was SNCC Project Director for the State of Alabama last year and is 25 (PDF p.8).
- With the other new officers, at a press conference held right after the staff meeting he outlined SNCC’s policies: a human rights organization supporting liberation struggles worldwide, a nation-wide Black Anti-Draft Program, and National Freedom Organizations as the major thrust (PDF p.8).
Related pages
Third World Round Up: The Palestine Problem: Test Your Knowledge — SNCC Newsletter Vol. I, No. 4 (June-July 1967), Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Stanley Wise, Ralph Featherstone