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and they are voted on before the main motion. 4. Courtesy to the group is the key to an orderly meeting. Every member has rights equal to every other member. 5. Only one subject at a time should claim the attention of the group. 6. The will oi the majority must be carried out, and the rights of the minority must be T preserved. - I 3 -J l h Chapter 3: Citizenship and Voter Registration This chapter is based in part on notes distributed by the Council of Federated Urgnizations CUFU! for teaching in Misissippi, but is general enough to apply to other areas in which civil rights workers have con- tact with the local population for various eciucational purposes . ! In much of the South repression is the law, oppres- sion a way of life, and veering from the path of "our way of life" is not tolerated at all. Here an independent idea is subtersien that must be squelehed. for each bit of intellectual initiative represents a threat. Negroes have learned what is necessary for immediate survival: that silence is safest, so volunteer nothing and tell "them" only what they want to hear. Workers in the South will be teaching people who have lived in the South all their lives. They have been deprived of decent education, denied free expression and free thought, 36 37