Terence Cannon

Summary

An editor of The Movement, the west coast monthly newspaper affiliated with SNCC, quoted throughout the SNCC Office Raided item 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).

Cannon is quoted as sure that the middle-aged man driven off when he tried to enter the building through a window on the previous Friday was the same person who waited until Sunday evening, when no one was around, to enter and raid the offices of SNCC and The Movement in San Francisco on May 22, 1967 (PDF p.8).
He says SNCC has come under extreme attack from the FBI and the House Armed Services Committee for its opposition to the Vietnam War, that Rep. Mendel Rivers wants to do away with the First Amendment in order to put Stokely Carmichael in jail, and that J. Edgar Hoover is trying to link SNCC with so-called insurrectionary groups; this climate of oppression, he says, led directly to the raid, which was carried out by persons who want to know who they are, fear what they are doing, and wish to intimidate who they know (PDF p.8).
He calls false the reports in the New York Times and the Atlanta Constitution that The Movement had severed connections with SNCC, and says The Movement fully supports everything SNCC stands for, its programs and philosophy; a letter to the Times, May 22, signed by Stokely Carmichael and Terence Cannon, reaffirmed the relationship (PDF p.8).

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