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wees ¥ 6 6 APPERDIX te STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE sNcC The Student Nonviolent Ccordinatirg Committee (SNCC), headquartered at 360-362 Nelson Street, 5. W., Atlanta, Georgia, is a nonmembership organiz2tion, which was born out of the sit-in movement that erupted across the Scuth beginning in 1960. Today SNCC identifies itself 2s an srgtnization in the revolutionary vanguard. It advocates that to be successful it is necessary to develop a revolutionary ideslogy and revolutionary program. According to SNCC, the year 1967 marked a hisvoric milestone in the struggle fer the liberztion of tiack people in the United States and the year that revolutiontries throughout the world began to understand more fully the inpect of the black movement. SNCC declared that "liberation will 2 only when there is final destruction of this mtd octcpus - the capitalistic system of the United States with 21] its life-sucking tentacles of exploitation and racism that choke the feeple cf Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The realities cf black life, together with the recognition instilled in SNCC workers forced its msnbers to further popularize the legitimacy of self-defense and rebeliions when oppression became too great." From May, 1866, until May, 1967, Stckely Carmichael was National Chaimnan of SXCC. As of July, 1998, Carmichael resided in Washington. D. C., where he vas affilisted with SNCC and active as temporary chairman of a black coalition group. In May, 1967, Carmichzel was replaced by Hubert Geroid Brown, commonly known as H. Rap Brown, who served untii June, 1°65. In June, 1968, at the Staff and Central Comnitice 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.