SNCC’s Think Tank

How SNCC's research department helped civil rights organizers fight Jim Crow.


First posted at Eyes on the Ties.

“AT LAST!! THE PAPER YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!! WHAT IS THE SNCC RESEARCH DEPARTMENT . . .  . . . ”

This was the headline of a February 1965 circular, typed and mimeographed, that went around to chapters of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee — or SNCC, as it commonly went by — across the US.

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