Brief Description:

This Friends of SNCC chapter  organized Brown University students and took action aimed at forcing the federal government to support SNCC workers, volunteers, and projects. They supported the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party by encouraging students to write to their representatives. They protested locally when the chapter picketed outside the District Attorney’s office in 1965 and met with him to express their concern that federal intervention was needed to protect Freedom Summer volunteers. This chapter was also involved in the discussions regarding a cooperative program between Brown University and Tougaloo College. University administrators promoted the program as a way for Tougaloo College to increase prestige and to offer better educational opportunities to their students. Bob Moses expressed concern that the program would be paternalistic.

Members:

• Judy Speyer

Archive:

Letter, David I. Segal to Wilifred Carney, September 18, 1964, Elizabeth Sutherland Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society

WATS Reports, February 23-March 9, 1965, Samuel Walker Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society

Moses Expressed ‘Worry’ on Brown-Tougaloo Tie Sees Paternalism if Tougaloo is ‘Adopted, Tutored, and Taught’, Brown Daily Herald, December 1, 1964

Sylvia Welch, Tougaloo: Pre-Freshman Tutor, Pembroke Alumna, Brown University Archives

Brown to Supply Money and Advice to Negro College, Brown Daily Herald, June 8, 1964

SNCC Freedom Singers to Give Concert Sunday, Pembroke Record, February 19, 1965

SNCC Petitions House, Backs FDP’s Challenge, Pembroke Record, December 15, 1964

COFO Leader Bob Moses Questions Tougaloo Project, Pembroke Record, December 4, 1964

Miss. Protest Democrats Plan Vote to Overthrow Results in State Elections, Pembroke Record, October 20, 1964

R.I. Friends of SNCC Plan Three-Day Protest Against Fed. Non-Action, Pembroke Record, February 19, 1965

SNCC Demonstrators Support Federal Intervention in Selma, Pembroke Record, February 26, 1965