I took out the following text, not because it wasn't interesting, but because it focused on a relatively minor aspect of the history of SNCC:
- However, the last SNCC chapter in the United States was in San Antonio, Texas. It was disbanded in 1976 with its members going on to form civil and human rights groups called Organizations United for Eastside Development and later Frontline 2000. Frontline 2000 would be responsible for obtaining a Martin Luther King State Holiday in Texas after negotiations with former Speaker of the Texas House Gib Lewis.
- This SNCC chapter was a hybrid organization that was part White Panther Party and part SNCC. Members of the organization adopted Black Panther styled survival programs. Their uniforms were the old southern styled blue jean pants and blue jean jackets with a Panther Black tam. The chapter sold SNCC papers and White Panthers in downtown San Antonio. Its office was once located at the corner of Iowa and Pine Streets in San Antonio in the Denver Heights area. The organization was started by SNCC Field organizer Carlos Richardson and its initial members included Ouncy Whittier, Mario Marcel Salas, Claudius Minor, Roslyn Lewis, Carl Jackson, Webb Boyd, and others.
- The San Antonio Chapter of SNCC organized around the killing of Bobby Joe Phillips, an African American man beaten to death in 1968 by San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) officers. The group protested the beating by organizing a massive demonstration in downtown San Antonio during the River parade. This incident would be one of four known "riots" that occurred in San Antonio. The SNCC office would be attacked by SAPD soon after the "riot" as SNCC militants were accused of conducting military drills at their office.
I also cut
- SNCC is recognized today as one of the primary influences on the modern youth activism movement.
Perhaps someone can supply some authority for this proposition. I admit to being somewhat skeptical of any links to that article, which is in need of editing and rethinking.
As for what remains, it needs a good deal of reworking. The birth of SNCC and its role in the sit-in movement get barely a mention, With all the sources referenced in this piece we can do better. Italo Svevo 04:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I made some changes to the section on the March on Washington (1963) because I think it had some inaccuracies. The speech has not been properly referenced; I followed the reference and found two different versions of the speech, but not the version quoted in the Wikipedia section (unless I missed it). Despite ackowledging that the speech was changed, the section did not show awareness of how it was changed and why and, indeed, quoted an earlier draft of the speech rather than the version that was read on that day. My chief source for these amendments is James Forman's book on SNCC, which is referenced. But, the reference originally given by the previous author also confirms this, since the censored version given on the website "Veterans of the Civil War" is not the same as the version quoted originally in the wikipedia article section. I am new to wikipedia, so feel free to tidy up my amendments, but please don't change the substance (i.e. the acknowledgment of the different versions that exist, and what was changed and why). --C.Witter — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.44.63.92 (talk) 04:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
Could I enquire as to how H.Rap Brown changed the name of the organisation to the Student National Co-ordinating Committee when it says that he resigned from SNCC in 1968 and it has been stated previously that the name was not changed until 1969? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.112.3.123 (talk) 17:10, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
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