In three pages this paper considers the summer of '64 actions taken by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee regarding civil rights discord. One source is cited in the bibliography.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized to sweep into the South to come to the aid of the repressed black population and to campaign for civil rights
for all of Americas citizens was well meaning. While there is no doubt that the motivations of the individuals involved were pure in intent and that they truly cared
about their cause, they failed to recognize the vision they created. They were right in wanting to take action, and they were right in taking action. The actions
they chose, however, were ill-advised. Attitudes Freedom as a basic American ideal and the fact that America stands as a symbol to the
world of the epitome of freedom is among the uppermost thoughts on the minds of all Americans today. Thrust as we have been in a fight for freedom itself,
we take pride in the fact that the nation was founded on the principles of individual and collective freedom. We tend to idealize
that freedom, however. While it is true that the first permanent colonists were searching for freedom to worship as they pleased, without interference from the British crown, that indeed
was the only freedom that existed. Further, that freedom existed only for those who were like-minded. Those who were not often were socially ostracized or mistrusted, but they
were not prevented from living their lives as they pleased, nor were they prevented from taking part in local politics. Frederick Douglass stands
as a symbolic thorn in the side of the system. As a black man he was marginalized in society by virtue of birth. As an articulate and highly