Article, 1966.

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Article, 1966.

Photocopied article edited by Smith and published by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a teaching aid for the beginning rural reader, concerning Strike City, Leland, Mississippi; with information on the events leading to the strike by black farm laborers, the year they lived in tents, and the building of homes for the strikers; based on interviews with Strike City residents.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)

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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was created in 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its purpose was to coordinate the student protest movement. SNCC led voter registration drives in Mississippi and other southern states, held civil rights demonstrations advocating social integration, and sponsored the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi....

Smith, Jean R.

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