Summary
Program Director 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 27, who gave up his Washington, D.C. teaching job in 1964 to become one of SNCC’s most daring and courageous organizers in Mississippi; as Project Director of Neshoba County he was feared by the white sheriffs and cops responsible for the murder of Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman in 64, and he later served in West Point, McComb, and Holly Spring [as printed], Miss. (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, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Wise