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| Testimony before the DNC |
-SNCC registered enough voters in 1964 to select delegation for DNC in Atlantic City
-challenge all-white regulars
-hoping to outseat segregationists
-Fannie Lou Hamer (vice chairman of delegation)
-tried to register to vote in MS
-police, fines, bullets, went to jail
-Mrs. Rita Schwerner
-widow of Michael Schwerner, killed in Philadelphia, MS
-they were working on voter registration
-husband went missing
-tried to see MS governor Johnson, door slammed in face
-when husband's body found, no state authorities tried to help |
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| David Dennis |
-CORE
-angry speech about murders of Chanay, Goodman, and Schwerner
-said have to register to change anything
-SICK and TIRED of murders of blacks |
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| Letters from MS |
-SNCC sent workers to MS in summer 1964
-wanted alt to white MS Democratic Party
-wanted to challenge its delegation at the DNC in Atlantic City
-non violent
-registered voters, taught illiterate kids, establish MS Freedom Democratic Party
-faced constant harassment, abuse
-3 murders
-letters talked about training in Oxford, OH
-workshops, role-playing, chanting mobs, must be ready for all
-talked about daily life, frustrations, 3 murders |
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| Freedom Rides |
-1961 James Farmer became national director of CORE
-JFK wouldn't enforce SC's decision to desegregate interstate buses
-farmer decided to focus attention on the issue
-black and white volunteers
-traveled on 2 buses to South
-violated segregated seating on Greyhound bus and at rest facilities along the way
-non violent
-no problems thru VA, NC
-SC John Lewis got beat up
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| SNCC Founding Statement |
-formed under SCLC's Ella Baker
-affirmed nonviolence
-Judeo-Christian tradition
-justice, love, peace, acceptance
-genuine spirit of love and goodwill |
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| Jackson Sit-In |
-Anne Moody
-sit in at counter of local Wooloworth's
-at first, whites weren't mad
-student came in
-began chanting anti-negro slogans
-Anne was slapped in the face
-bloody fight, hair torn
-beaten for three hours
-90 police outside; didn't do anything
-thought that MS whites were sick |
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| Power of Nonviolence |
-MLK
-outlines principles of nonviolent resistance
-instead of humiliating or physically subduing one's opponent, victory could be achieved through love, persuasion, and justice
-win friendship/understanding of opponent
-attack evil system instead of individuals
-3 types of love (agape is at center of movement) |
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