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2- O - O- _ i] APPENDIX STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE SNCS : The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),° headquartered at 360-362 Nelson Street, S. W., Atlanta, Georgia, is a nonmenbership organization, which vas born out of the sit-in movement that erupted acrcses the South beginning in 1960. Tod2zy SNCC identifies itself 2s an organization in the revolutionary vanguerd. It advocates that to be successful it is necessary to develop 2 revolutionary ideology and revolutionary pregram. According to SNCC, the year 1967 marked a historic milestone in the struggle fer the liberation of tlack people in the United States and the yeer that revolutionaries throughout the world began to understand more fully the impect of -the black movement. SNCC declzred that “liberation will come only when there is final destruction of this mad octopus - the capitalistic system of the United States with 21] its life-sucking tentacles ‘ of exploitation and racism that choke the people of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The realities of black life, together with the recognition instilled in SNCC workers forced its mesibers to further popularize the legitimacy of self~defense and rebellions when oppression became too great." « a From May, 1966, until May, 1957, Stokoly Carmichael was National Chairman of SHCC. As of July. 1958, Carmichael resided in Washington. D. C., where he was affiliated with SNCC and active as temporary chairman of a black coalition group. In Hay, 1867, Carmichael was replaced by dubert Geroid Brewn, commonly known as H. Rap Brown, who served until June, 1968. In Juve, 1968, at the Staff and Central Committee meeting of SHCC held in Atlanta, Georgia, it was decided to restructure the organizeztion 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. -36- =