◆ SpookStack

fay -~ #eN¥ 100-161445 y, “4 1. sted nod STUDENT HONVIOLENT coonptidarnic COMMITTEE 4 . . Literature cistributed by the Student Wonviolent Coordinating Committee (SCC), headquartered at 360-362 Nelson Street, S.., Atlante, Georgia, describes itself as not being a rembership organization, but rather an acency attempting to sti:sulate and foster the rrowth of local vro- test movements, SCC was born out of the sit-in movement which erupted acress the South beginning on February i, 1960, f&. conference at “aleigh, North Carolina, that Sprinc, brought tovether many of the demonstrating Southern students in a loose netvork of militant youth which was officially named “SNCC in October, 1960. } STOKELY CARMICHAE Nationa eirmen by entrel v4 Committee. In Mav, 1967, CARMICHAEL was replaced as Chairman by if, RAPP BROW), with CARMICHAEL assumine the nosition of Recruiter and Orcanizer for the SNCC. In Aucust, 1967, at the invitation of FIDEL CASTRO, CARMICHAPL participated in the Organization of Latin American Solidarity Conference which was held in Lavana, Cuba, Subsequent thereto, CARMICHAEL travelea to Hanoi and other sections of North Vietnam. he returnec to the United States in December, 1947, at which tie his passnort was picked up because of travel to un- authorized countries. ee e-: CARMICHAEL was elected _ ' Chairman of » the orsanization embarkes on a program of eliminating Caucasians from its ranks. With the election of RH. RAP BROW! aes Chairman in 1967, it embarked on a world- wide strugsie for human rights and to teke a firm stand against violations of these ri¢hts by the American Governnent — and to strensthen its prorrams of opposition to the craft and to the United States involvement in Vietnam. . Literature distributed in Februery, 1968, identifies SNCC as an organization in the revolutionary vanguard. It ae. advocates that to be successful it is necessary to develon a revolutionary ideology and revolutionary program, On August 13, 1967, wnile addressing a group in the “Watts area of Los Angeles, California, H. RAP BROW! said "You better shape un America, or we'll burn you down." Later in ; February, 1965, in a publicized note BROW wrote, "America, if it takes my death to orsanize my neople to revolt arainst you and te orcenize your jails to,revolt against you and to organize your children, your God, your poor, your country, and to organize man~ kind to rcjoice in yous deetauction and ruin, then here's my life"