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The student nonviolent coordinating committee. - young people working with the student nonviolent coordinating committee or sncc, as we call it are characterized by restless energy, radical change in race relations in the united states, their world is upset and they feel that if they are ever going to get it straight, they must upset it more. - [ella] and this was sncc. now how they got that way, it didn t happen overnight, but there was a need. - [courtland] i would say the two dominant groups in the student nonviolent coordinating committee are the people who came out of the nashville student movement. that s john lewis, diane nash, bernard lafayette, and the howard university people, stokely, cleve sellers, myself. and the one thing ms. baker said to us ....
With the word black power. everybody else got theirs, except us. all we have is the color of our skin, and we re ashamed of that. - [courtland] what we learned in lowndes was the whole discussion of power. stokely expresses nationally, what we were talking about locally. - all this week, you ve been telling the mississippi marchers, they must achieve black power. what do you want them to do to get it? - well, i think that what they have to do to get black power is to organize themselves politically, to register, to vote and to form independent political bases, which will then allow them the chance to carry out and make effective the changes they need to bring about decent lives in mississippi. - [paul b johnson] black power is not a harmless phrase. don t be fooled by it. it harbors the seeds of a hurricane of hate and hostility that could sweep sanity aside and introduce an era of anarchy that ....
I knew my illustrations were going to be really crude and courtland said, yeah, yeah, you know, i think that could work. - [hasan] and you know, you look at it. and you say like, i get the sheriff thing. you want to end police violence, but a coroner, a tax assessor, like how is that gonna lead the revolution? but it was critical to the lives of black folk. the tax assessor historically had always overtaxed black landowners and under taxed white landowners and white landowners were the ones who had all the land. and so part of the reason why the county was so poor is because taxes were unequally assessed. - [jennifer] sncc held workshops, both in atlanta and in lowndes county to make people aware of what it meant to hold office. - [john] we had a mass meeting at the church and nominated our candidate. ....