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ia S 1 APPENDIX Es Oe -_ fe STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE Se REL. ORR. fs The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), = 9 9% Ee headquartered at 360-362 Nelson Street, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia, ie is a nonmembership organization, which was born out of the sit-in movement that erupted across the South beginning in 1960. is Today SNCC identifies itself as an organization in ,the revolutionary vanguard. It advocates that to be successful it is necessary to develop a revolutionary ideology and revolutionary program. According to SNCC, the year 1967 marked a historic . milestone in the struggle for the liberation of black people ge in the United States and the year that revolutionaries throughout ° = the world began to understand more fully the impact of the black “Pre. movement. SNCC declared that "liberation will come only when x there is final destruction of this mad octopus - the capitalistic an system of the United States with all its life-sucking tentacles fy of exploitation and racism that choke the people of Africa, MeO ad e) Asia, and Latin America. The realities of black life, together te. with the recognition instilled in SNCC workers forced its members jae to further popularize the legitimacy of self-defense and rebellions | ite when oppression became too great." fee ?- From May, 1966, until May, 1967, Stokely Carmichael pee -* was National] Chairman of SNCC. As of July, 1968, Carmichael] ae resided in Washington, D. C., where he was affiliated with SNCC ee and active as temporary chairman of a black coalition group. In May, 1967, Carmichael was replaced by Hubert Geroid Brown, commonly known as H. Rap Brown, who served until June, 1968. In June. 1968, at the Staff and Central Committee meeting of SNCC held in Atlanta, Georgia, it was decided to restructure the organization by equalization of responsibility by creating ten deputy or vice chairmanships. The primary purpose for this change is to take law enforcement pressure off any single individual . Laan! part is t. \; ut 17% eee a cs ‘4 yet ¥ .. . a ' fe ge : bit . aamsetidonaideratbfiidertbsentareanremereunereaeenasas: ester ee Te OE bry