The nation . ofReconciliation (the FOR) and theFriends Service Committee. CORKwas still a small group of intellectualenthusiasts and there simply werentenough people to go around. To thisday, most Negroes know little moreof CORE than its name, which theyhave seen in the Negro press, andthe bare fact that its program is di-rect, non-violent action. This didntdeter the high school and collegestudents in the Jim Crow highschools and colleges in Raleigh andDurham. They set up their own di-rect non-violent action organizationand in imitation of CORE gave ita name whose initials spelled a word,COST.
The nation . ofReconciliation (the FOR) and theFriends Service Committee. CORKwas still a small group of intellectualenthusiasts and there simply werentenough people to go around. To thisday, most Negroes know little moreof CORE than its name, which theyhave seen in the Negro press, andthe bare fact that its program is di-rect, non-violent action. This didntdeter the high school and collegestudents in the Jim Crow highschools and colleges in Raleigh andDurham. They set up their own di-rect non-violent action organizationand in imitation of CORE gave ita name whose initials spelled a word,COST. Soon there were COST cellsin remote hill-country high schools,complete with codes, hand signals,couriers, all the apparatus of youth-ful enthusiasm. Needless to say, thevery words frightened the olderro leadership out of its wits. The police hosed and clubbed thesit-inners, the Uncle Tom presidentsof the captive Jim Crow collegesexpelled them in droves, white stu-dents came South and insisted on ;Wy 2, 1960. being arrested along with the . sympathy picket lines werethrown in front of almost everychain variety store in almost everycollege town in the North. Evensome stores with no branches in theSouth, and no lunch counters any-where, found themselves picketeduntil they cleared themselves of anyimplication of Jim Crow. THE 1 I CT on the civilized whiteminority in tie South was extraor-dinary. All but a few had gone on pting the old stereotypes. Therewere good to he sure, but they didnt want to mix. The major-ity were ignorant, violent, hitter,half-civilized, incapable of planned, nized action, happy in JimCrow. It would take another twohundred years. In a matter ofweeks, m thousands of white brains,,the old stereotypes exploded. Herewere the Xegro children of servants,sharecroppers and garbagemen —their servants and sharecroppersand garbagemen who had alwaysbeen content with their place, di-rectly engaged in the greatest con-trolled moral action the South hadever seen. Th
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