and it's called sncc, my enduring circle of trust. i saw -- and a lot of sncc people will recognize this. i saw the national office of sncc in 1963 for the first time. it was a rundown office, a one block side street off of hunter street, now martin luther king boulevard, near the atlanta university center. the office was located on the second store before the beauty shop. i think i'm coming in. rugs on the floor. please. i was 19 and gone to atlanta with reggie robertson, who is here, where i had been working full time since leaving college. from the downstairs door of the national office, i saw the large man at the top of the stairs. dressed in overalls and sweeping the stairs. reggie saw him too. and ran up the stairs and with broad smiles and much hollering, they hugged each other like long lost brothers. and i thought, whoa, this is truly an egalitarian office. i assumed the man to be the janitor. it was only after reggie called his name, jim forman, sncc's larger than life executive secretary. there was such joy, warmth, and aff

i've come to sncc in march. greenwood was a large town by mississippi standards but there were probably no more than six or seven dozen houses and then the recession because most people live as sharecroppers on. the small friend houses were painted white with green trim and lined up on it aside. sometimes there would be a smaller house in the back of the main house. my host and hostess lived in rooms like this with only three rounds. for the whole summer they stepped on the living room couch and share giving me the only bedroom to be overwhelmed by their generosity i was respectful, but worried for years afterwards that i had not think them enough and not been as conscious of their sacrifices they should have been. that white liberal guilt. anyway, i am beyond that. do that was what it was. the office was on the first floor of an old building. it had three old wooden desks, each with a typewriter, a telephone, and the chair. i work the national phone its. we communicated with the north support group mobilizing t

early 70's stokely carmichael was a firebrand leader of the student nonviolent violet cord mechem a, sncc come he was one of the original black power people and my dad who was a conservative republican presbyterian minister invited stokely carmichael to speak at spelman college in 1966 and 1967 much to the dismay of the power elite and tuscaloosa that thought was going to start a right but my dad was attractive in a funny way to the radical and the black politics and i try to understand why it is because he was a conservative man, he was the united states of america but i always felt he had mitered applied, he admired the dignity with which the radicals confronted racism rather than taking it with the kind of quietness he was not for instance willing to march in 1962 and 1963i remember being in the hallway and hearing my parents talking in the living room and my father said they want us to go out there and be non-violent but if somebody comes after me with a billy club and going to try to kill him and then my daughter is going to be an orphan soy think that he was somehow attracted to peo

i wanted to introduce sncc hennessy -- nick tennessee, in charge of the emergency number. the director of 911 is here with us as well as one of my colleagues, battalion chief jose vella. we also have someone else who works closely with 911. i want to say that this is one of the best parts of my job, to come out and talk to the students. we hope that you will learn something about how important is to practice and be prepared. what you are going to do today is a drop, cover, and hold drill. you will then exit to a designated area. we want you to go home and tell your families about what you have learned and prepare a plan for your own home. what the plan would be, how he would meet with everyone, and so forth. talk to your families and educate them. you are students and will be like a teacher to teacher families things that you will learn and practice today. would you like to say anything to the children? >> you did a great job on the first drill. i was here for it. let's see you do that again. remember to hold on when you get under the best -- desk this time. wait for the s