Department of Defense. "Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)." 1967.
Microfiche: 1986 Fiche #10 Document #64
Date Issued: October 10, 1967
Date Declassified: NA
Length: 26 pages
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This extensive document is the result of an investigation conducted
by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the
Army, with the assistance of the US Army Intelligence Command and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The intelligence report details the evolution of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), from its creation in
1960 through October of 1967 when this report was issued. As stated
in the introduction, SNCC:
"was created in 1960 as a nonviolent civil rights organization
concentrating on Negro voter registration campaigns in the South,
by 1965 SNCC had renounced its policy of non-violence and
integration to advocate political and economic power for the
Negro and to agitate against the United States involvement in
Vietnam."
The government's reaction to SNCC was a typical one in that it
labeled SNCC a "racist organization with black supremacy ideals
and an expressed hatred for whites." It seems that anytime a group
of African-Americans demanded what was rightfully theirs or expressed
these views as they related to foreign and domestic policy, the
government labeled them as "reverse racists" and conducted
surveillance operations such as this one."
This report gives a detailed description of the organization.
For example, summaries of SNCC's policy statements, organizational
structure, contacts with other organizations both communist and
otherwise, an account of SNCC's protest activities, and a
description of the personalities that made up the organization
like Stokely Carmichael, John Lewis, H. Rap Brown, George Ware,
and Marion Barry.
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