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Note on the Title The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was often referred to in the media as SNCC or sometimes as “Snick.” In 1960, a group of Arkansas student activists began humorously referring to themselves as “Arsnick,” as both a tribute to the national organization and as an indication of the poisonous “arsenic” impact they hoped to have upon the system of white supremacy in the state. After SNCC officially began operating in Arkansas in 1962, field director Bill Hansen occasionally used this same play on words to describe the Arkansas project. ...

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