The Movement

Summary

The west coast monthly newspaper affiliated with SNCC, whose national office was housed in SNCC’s Bay Area Regional Office at 449 14th St., San Francisco, 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).

In the raid on the office in the early hours of Monday, May 22, 1967, the raiders stole the newspaper’s subscription list, escaped with confidential files containing SNCC reports and correspondence, scattered the newspaper’s address stencils over the floor, and also took a list of international contacts and the names and addresses of persons working for SNCC and with The Movement in the Bay area (PDF p.8).
The New York Times and the Atlanta Constitution reported that The Movement had severed connections with SNCC; the newsletter says these claims have been proven false. A front page story in the Times, May 7, 1967, claimed the newspaper had disassociated itself from SNCC over a disagreement over Black Power, and Ralph McGill’s column in the Constitution made a similar charge (PDF p.8).
Its editor Terence Cannon says the newspaper fully supports everything SNCC stands for, and a letter to the Times, May 22, signed by Stokely Carmichael and Terence Cannon, reaffirmed the relationship, saying the newspaper supports fully the Black Power philosophy of SNCC and is one of the few newspapers in the country that gives without distortion the views of the Black Liberation Movement (PDF p.8).

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