In 1967, segregationist lawyer Jack Kershaw swore out a warrant against George Ware, an organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the end of the week, a congressman was denouncing Ware on the house floor as an outside agitator. But what is an outside agitator? What do we mean when we blame unrest on these untrustworthy outsiders? Where does that idea come from? And is it even true?
Sources & Further Reading:
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/ARCHIVE/kerner_commission_full_report.pdf
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
https://www.crmvet.org/docs/sv/670400_sncc_nyc-newsletter.pdf
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/274/538/1574803/
https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/GSB/id/10262/
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal67-1311343
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/09/archives/official-changes-testimony-on-antiwhite-school.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/30/archives/sedition-charges-dropped.html
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/11/12/audio/defining-safe-defining-the-outside-agitator/

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