so sncc itself operated quietly behind the scenes and within sncc the administration it was very decentralized for thee most part the chairman had the prominent one stokely carmichael so they were the face but really it was run by everybody all the staffers and police were involved in 1963 and went to mississippi to join the freedom summer effort went to atlantic city to the democratic convention which was a watershed turning point in the movement of the democratic party in black history in america and then emerged but stokely was elected chairman and one was elected program manager said he was the number three guy but literally stood behind stokely carmichael. if you look at t the pictures you will see that. he is there but just a little bit in the background he was a bureaucrat in a way and tell he wasn't and resisted the draft and went to jail and got headlines during the vietnam war and was arrested all the time but sncc was interesting as an aside they were so ahead of the curve we did not know about apartheid until the eighties but sncc was way ahead they were protesting the neocoloniali

the sncc people knew that there were informants among them by 66, 67, 68. they knew, they knew that sitting in their small, sometimes small meetings, somebody was speeding information to the fbi. there was a small network of informants. black-and-white. many african americans. working with the fbi at the time. it would be fascinating to further research that and uncover who they were and how they function and what they did. a lot of people very suspicious. cleve knew. the fbi file is about 3 inches. they must be, i don't know. forget it. basically the fbi file was in large part a consequence of the fbi tracking stokely. anyway. another point i wanted to make was the size of the movement. it was actually kind of small when you think about it. we were talking about the older generation. and how they were relatively more conservative. they were little more timid. anxious about this direct action phase of the civil rights movement. they were very comfortable with that. cleve's own father and mother did not want them to do this stuff. his father wrote this lette

the midst of these discussions in martin luther kings room, stokely carmichael, of the memosos of sncctiay dried out why welcomes of the naacp and drive a whitney young, the more established figures, the one with alliances with the federal government and good relationships with president johnson. that leaves martin luther king as a moderating force on the march and shapes with the flavor of the march is going to be. it in some ways freeze stokely carmichael to use the march as a vehicle for introducing the notion of black power to the entire country. marchers have divertedasas frome original path set forth by james meredith. meredith thought he would walk straight down highway 51 which is a direct path to jackson, mississippi. the marchers decided they would detour into the mississippi delta and theth delta is the reason, the most fertile region in the city, agricultural region. it's also the region which is most notorious for aggression has the highest black populations. the reason that afforded to the delta was to reach for african-americans and get african-americans to register to v

come to the town of greenwood that is a small city in the delta where there was a long history of sncc that was the center of organizing so stokely carmichael was a key figure at that time and had relationships with all figures and greenwood. that was the site selected to introduce the slogan of black power. then said we were going to drop the slogan of black power reporting back to carmichael and others. and then to go back to chicago the march was congregated and maybe a thousand people they are. and it was already in progress and then to speak to the crowd about the international situation of vietnam for the need of black unity in the political mobilization and what we know as black power what we want? black power. the response back is thunderous. and the reasons are twofold because white power is expressing the frustration it also the aspirations. it deals with federal reform the slow pace and it hasn't changed materially over the course of the civil rights movement it is a frustration and that is to be on a higher moral plane. with the white liberals in particular that is the frus