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SSOC Goals

It is important to remember that the students in the SSOC were interested in areas beyond Civil Rights. These areas included academic freedom, peace, protesting the war in Vietnam, advocating women's liberation, civil liberties and capital punishment.

Goals:
- Not only an end to segregation and racism but the rise of full and equal opportunity for all;
- An end to personal poverty and deprivation;
- An end to public poverty which leaves us without decent schools, housing, parks, medical care, and communities;
- A democratic society where politics poses meaningful dialogue and choices which affect men’s lives;
- An end to man’s inhumanity to man;
- A world working towards the erasing of tensions of the Cold War with positive emphasis on peace, disarmament, and world-wide understanding.

"As students living in this generation, and believing in the dignity of all mankind, we affirm our belief in a new South that will bring democracy and justice to all of its people. The freedom movement for an end to segregation inspires us to make our voices heard for a beginning of a true democracy in the South. The South that we would work for must be free of racial prejudice, of poverty and deprevation, manipulation by vested interests, and the tensions that come from the threat of nuclear war."