Beginning in 1961, SNCC organizers engaged in voter registration drives in the Deep South, which brought them face-to-face with the political and economic structures that maintained Black second-class citizenship.
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Questions arose as SNCC workers were being beaten and jailed, and local people were being evicted and occasionally killed. “Is it really worth it?” asked Charlie Cobb.
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“If they actually get the vote, what will it mean to them? Is what we are about, making blacks Democrats or Republicans, is that really freedom, is that liberation?”
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This line of questioning, especially after the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) challenge at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, pushed many SNCC workers away from a narrow version of civil rights.
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They began to see their struggle as one for liberation and independent institution building. And they looked to the Third World for inspiration and solidarity.
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In 1964 and 1965, several SNCC staff traveled to the African continent. In 1965, Bob and Dona Moses represented the organization at the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), an organization of independent African nations...
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...In 1967, SNCC declared itself a human rights organization and encouraged and supported “the liberation struggles against colonialism, racism and economic exploitation.”
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