curtis casey came up to describe organizing efforts in mccollum mississippi in the fall of 1961 and tom hayden became of that winter fresh from an albany georgia jail. in the spring of 1962 paid an invited a group of us to attend the conference in chapel hill, north carolina. in its berth with the freedom songs and stories of beatings and jailings sncc workers talked about baker's notion of radically democratic organizing and how seven freedom movement to liberalize the country as a whole, especially with seven back people voting. who could defeat the conservative southern congressmen who held a stranglehold on the senate and congressional committees? i was drawn in emotionally by being around people like myself who were, for the most part, black, political, and very radical. further, i was convinced that the organizing philosophies and strategies i heard about in chapel hill just might work. i made plans to go south, but my parents who had lived apart for two years so that i could attend my mother's alma maters as a student would not hear of it. i continued to do support work for the movement