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STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE 6 Raymond Street, N.W. 7/30/63 Atlanta 14, Georgia 688-0331

INTRODUCTION We in the Student Nonviolent Northern Coordinating Committee Support as more than look on for concerned fund raising: we want to individuals and groups find a way in creating outside the South to r~cial justice in the South. play a role group supporting The primary job of SNCC will be fund raising, any income except these for we have no source effotts. However, each of be seen as an educational fund raising drive should on effort also, for change a climate of opinion all in the South depends to support over the country which will the movement in the South cause people government. In and demand action from addition, individuals who the Federal efforts will, we hope, give their time to these broaden their own understanding its problems. of the South and

SNCC has no Northern organization communities in which to support it, and the Southern we wo~k are poor. Only of friends all over the the work and contributions country can provide the work that must be done. funds necessary for the appreciated; Generosity in the past our hope is with has been deeply each of you in the future.

CONTENTS I. Some Facts About SNCC II. Organizing and Operating a Friends of SNCC Committee III. Campus Groups

IV. Appealing for Funds A. Some Current Needs of SNCC B. Materials Available from SNCC c. Special Support Programs D. Other Fund Appeal Methods ------· ----- ' 2.

I. SOME FACTS ABOUT SNCC

The first step in gaining support for SNCC•s work is to facts about our work clearly have the in mind. The following should help and you can secure more information, if office. you need it, from the Atlanta SNCC 1. History

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was April, 1960, at a general organized in conference of sit-in leaders held in Its purpose then was to circulate Raleigh, N.C. information about the Southwide protests and to promote joint activities by the Coordinating protest groups that made up the Committee. SNCC employed an Executive Atlanta office, Secretary, set up an issued a newsletter, and served as a clearing information about the house for sit-ins. The Coordinating Committee met regularly to exchange information, plan joint protests. But the summer of 1961 and the advent of the Freedom Rides which saw New Yorkers and Californians taking an active in Alabama personal interest in segregatj ~n and Mississippi brought a change in areas, after SNCC's thinking. In many lunch counters had been integrated, the movement others, it had never begun. lagged. In It became clear that if the movement was to have any meaning for the millions of degraded, exploited disenfranchised, and Negroes of the Black Belt South, someone would theories, methods, and have to take the actualities of the protest movement to them. Subsequently, SNCC organized to do just that. 2. Structure

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee atives from now consista of represent­ 2u autonomous protest groups which are considered expression of the the prime movement. The Coordinating committee elects Committee, employs a staff an Executive and accepts volunteer workers. S:tK:C is not a membership organization, but rather an agency growth of indigineous attempting to foster the protest movements which may then affiliate. 3. Staff

As of August, 1963, SNCC had on its staff 12 off ice secretaries, and 121 workers, 60 f i eld full time volunteers for a total of 193 staf Most of these are Southern students f p eople. working in rural areas and small ci in Black Belt counties. Some are Northern t ies to work students who have come South with the movement. The average age of staff staff are Negroes. is 22; Ba( of the 4. Northern Relations

We have twelve Friends of SNCC groups, primarily supporting our concerned with action in the South. The Conunittee is fraternally to almost every major national related student group (such as the United States

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National Student Association, the National Student Christian and various liberal student Federation, groups). SNCC 1 s activities have sparked civil rights action on college campuses and in student the country. groups in every state in 4. Program

As of fall, 1963: Colleges--24 affiliate groups receive help and advice from SNCC with local campus and community direct action programs, the send representatives to Coordinating Committee, attend educational conferences Travellers--Travelling field secretaries visit areas who campuses, local protest request help. As of fall, 1963, SNCC had initiated in 54 local projects in or participated 13 states. Travelling field secretaries worked these areas during crisis periods. in Projects--SNCC has voter registration and direct action projects operating with offices and permanently placed staff in Mississippi (out of Greenwood and Greenville offices), West Central Alabama (out of Selma office), Alabama (out of Gadsden office), Southwest Georgia Eastern Arkansas (out (out of Albany), of Pine Bluff), Southern Virginia (out of Danville), Eastern Shore (out of Cambridge office). These projects, the real heart of the SNCC program., are manned by students taking a year or more out of school, subsistence living with the community at wages, building new institutions and ways hard vore areas. of thought in the

Atlanta office--Providas central headquarters for SNCC, publishes materials for and about the movement, acts as field ·clearing house for reports and needs of staff. · 5. Budget

Nearly all of SNCC's budget comes from individual voluntary contributions. Friends of SNCC groups and Northern student groups raise the bulk of our funds. 1962 Budget $ 71,927.00 1963 Budget (projected) 267,750.00 Total funds raised Jan.l -June 30, 1963 123,Boo.oo

II. ORGANIZING AND OPERATING A FRIENDS OF SNCC COMMITTEE

Area "Friends of SNCC 11 committees have recently Northern urban formed in several areas and have contributed significant amounts money and materials to of support our work~ These committees seem to the most viable means of fund provide raising and spreading infonnation about what is happening in the South and I SNCC s role in the changes taking place there.

[Lt] SNCC plans to keep in close contact with each facilitate of the Friends groups, exchanges of information among the various Friends groups, and be a source of materials about si,x;c.

A. Organizing a Friends of SNCC Committee l. One to five people can form the core of organization for a Friends group. At first, 1 t probably is not a full-time job, funds but if the amount of ever justifies it, some secretarial help can and should be employed. 2. Oetting a permanent seat of operations is essential along access to with ready typewriters, mimeograph machine, and volunteer labor. An office of a student government or civil rights group of a local is sometimes college or university available. Unions, churches, and liberal groups may also have available space and equipment. Organizations in your area with that are affiliat, ,::;, groups supporting S~C can be approached with a letter of introduction from us if that is necessary• .3. Using whatever contacts you have and aey materials that we can a most important step send you, is acquiring an impressive list of community sponsors fer the Friends group. Civil rights leaders in the community (officials cal ~P, of the lo­ CORE., Urban League, etc.)., are the people most likely to lend their names as sponsors for your group. If you can get an few prominent "inroad" with a people, ask them to contact others on behalf of the group. B. Operating a Friends of S1'¥JC Committee

1. Once a board of sponsors has been obtained (10-20 community print up letterhead leaders), stationary with their names on it, including stationary that can be used :tor mimeographing. When you put out leaflets publicity or any kind of have these persons' names on it. If an offset machine is available, you can use SNCC releases as the body of material for a leaflet, with your group's name and address (where more information can contributions be obtained and where can be sent) and the sponsors' names on the top or along the side of the sheet of paper.

2. You should keep some of the funds you raise for SNCC for future operating capital. Ten percent of your gross should cover sure you have your expenses. Be enough to cover current costs plus a minimum with which to continue educational efforts and begin your next fund drive. 3. Avoid the Friends• group being centered exclusively around in the area, one institution even though one location will probably have to be used as a source of volunteer labor. Individual contacts with other institutions can help avoid too much centralization. Try to develop as broad a group of active participants as possible; avoid allowing the group to exclusive. seem or become

4. If possible, you should be ready to move at any time: was shot, when J~ Travis every city in the country should have been awealed to publicity from for funds while the mass news media (a rare thing indeed) was 1reely available.

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S.. Gettillg a wide distribution of inf'o~tion about SN::C as preparation tor fund raising is very helpful • . Y ou might write letters to :the editors of the major daily and weekly newspapers in your area whenever something important happens concerning SN::C 's work in the South. Some papers might even do a feature if app~ed personally.

6.. Again, keep in touch with us about what you aN doing, both betore and atter. We_migbt have soJnething oureelvea you didn't know we bad, you might have SOllething we didn1 t know you had, or we night be able to put you 1n eontaet with another Friends group that has experienced S'hd lar problems as yours.

III. CAMPUS GROUPS

In •ome fµ"eas campus groups have spearheaded the effort to develop an Area Friends of SK:C group. !n other places the campus S~C supporters have fonned a campus Friends of S~C group. In st1ll other areas, students have worked through existing civil tj,ghts organizations on · campus. Any of these is workable; you will lmow better than we which is best for your campus. The important thing is to institutionalize the fund-raising efforts in some way so that ve know there is a group on the campus who will be responsible and long range in thei,.r support effort~. Real support efforts. Real support will come only when we have individuals dedicated to the work we are doing• but we need groups through which students can develop this dedication. Thus we should have the names of groups doing work for us which are not Friends of SNCC groups,­ and we should have the names of one or two persons with whom we should correspond each year, Th.e following may help you:

1. If you do set up a Friends group, try to get a.a many campus organizations as possible (faculty, too) to act as sponsors. It's particularly ef'feetive if .student govermnent will sponsor the group and give it office space. 2. The same type fund raising that can be done for a city area can be used on the campus: mailings to the faculty (preferably over the signatur ,.:: of faculty ·membersJ, leaf'letting with collection tables, benefit concerts, par­ ties, folksings, house to house canvassing, etc. Try to get regular contributors sign$d 'up.

Each campus group that is active on a campus located near other colleges should tr,y to find ways to introduce SNCC to the other campuses. You might write the student government or civil rights group on that campus telling them of your existence and appealing·for funds or asking for an opportunity to explain SNCC and perhaps help set up a fund drive or Friends group there• . · 4. The school newspaper, as we're sure you realize, is a major aid or hindrance to any fund raising. We'll be glad to put any school newspaper on our mailing list to get all the releases and publications of SNCC. Y ou should encourage them to write stories on SNCC ( or write the story yourself and get them. to publish it) or write letters to the editors. Do this before fund raising events. ------

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5. I~agination can be useful: Using the reverse poll tax idea at campus elect.ions could be a mea::1s to inject something of substance into the electi0ns if notl1:i.. ng else!) Have students who are able to speak ·about t.he South and about ivhat .SNC() is doing go tb the living uni tso Get names of really interested pemo:ns for our mailing list ---it keeps them informed, and if they leave and go to another schooJ. or get some money we will keep our contact with thei~ throug.~ mailingso

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IV.. APPEALING FOR FUNDS A. ----~---Some Current Needs You will probably find in any fund drive or continuing fund raising program that your eff c:::·ts at securing support will be more successful if you can give detailed and concrete information about what money is needed for. Listed below are s o!'ne cf the needs which became pressing during 1963. These projects, p:.ograms, and physical needs and others like them will be what mo::1ey v;ill be used for in t hfaJ futur e, and any of these could serve as the focus f 01~ raising funds. Funds earmarked for specific programs are noted in the Atlanta cfficeo 1~ Support for Field Workers S!ITCC field workers operate at subsistence wages. We do have an average breakdown of expenses, v1hi ch fol lows .. You might organize a drive around secu~ing support for one or two or. more field workers for a year~ NEEDED: Per Month Per Year Room, board, personal expenses 120•,160 1440-1920 Gas and auto repairs 30-40 360:.480 Paper and supplies 10-lS 120-180 Phonn 10-15 120-180 Office overhead 6-10 72 •• 120 Miscellaneous 20-30 J2'o.. .: L80 $'2352·-3240 2., Project reporters There is a real need for someone trained in reporting urgent atrocities, collecting data on complaints and investigating local problems, and taking pictures-~t o be statior..ed with each SNCC project. This person would relieve the field st3ff of the burde:i of t hese t asks and take responsibility for developing these sldlls in local citizens., NE11)t!D~ Up to 10 reporte~s at $3,500 each. 3. Stenographer for office For more than two years the SNCC office staff has functioned without stenographic help, NEEDED: One stenographer at $4,,000 4o Travelling secretaries We have a need for travelling secretaries whose primary funetion will be to assist in trouble shooting in local areas. Permanent staff often need relief or aid<> NEEDED: Six traveling staff at $5,000 each. (includes transportation anci other expenses).

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5~ Cars for projects Th e su~ess o.f our fieJ.d projects dei;:;0?11s on mcbili t.yo We hP.ve tried to use sec0nd hand cars, b·•.1t we fo11 :1d that used cars do not hold up under the strain of the driving our f:i.eld sP.crc't;aries mi.mt do on rural roads., f]:i.n,:;e we work in communities T~h e1"e peopl8 canno·t, affo:.~c: automobiles9 we rrrtIBt be in a position to prov:1..de tra:nBportEt. tion to take ·:;l1em to regist,er a.nd vote., NEEDED: 13 ca1·s at $1,800 each. 6,. Buses Our moYements in d~prived areas ha.Ye reachGd a stage where nu.'llbers of people must be ffiLY'Ted ..... to workshops, trials, vis:i.ts to jails, outings, on canvassing trips for registration~ We have renti:rl buses in the past, but local people who own buse.tJ uae them most.17 fer hanling day laborers and will not rent them to u3~ Further, one Mississippi citizen who rented us his bus lost his pe:cmit. NE·i.~mID: 4 used buses at $3,000 sach

7"' Audio-visual equ:i.nne:c'.t. The need for .. t..his i.s cJ.oar~ Th ere is no such equin::i.(mt available in the areas vJhere we are working f.rtd we m112t. ha"le audio-v:i_s..ia.l~ ed.u~nt,io!'lo.l materials. The need fo::- f i J.m).:ng and t ap:;.ng om.. ong,)ing work and t he t :.::- e.'-.:. t mcnt of Negroes in the a :>.' :::2.s 1,,;beJ:-e ·,: e wcrk is H)::; o i 1:·,por·t:mt, not only for our use, but for documen­ tation of th,;se casas for official prosecution. NBEDiID: 10 c2.meras at $J.S0-)00 4J 16mm projecto~s at $625vOO Film cmd -process:Lng cost,s ( estimate for a year) $1,000 1 ,,._,_, .,, r r~1·--'1·.1." n g P,,\,,,\.u-,, v...~i-..., a--·-;·..L .i. ,;,u "'--u....·11...... 1 ...... ,_ . c._,..,,-'t,__ ·,,~ -.·,.,..'-' ,:.,. t •·:0 •- -1"'1a f ..;.,....a..J.u,-;,.,S ;p~' 1 I 000 J.O tape r6cordern Qi.; ~ri_ eoavO Tape ( 0st:un,::.t.e for a S03.'.' ) $ _500,,00 4 slide projactors at $5o~oo

8., Scholar~h5.p fur.d Whilo we ask student3 to work on a sacrificial basis, we do feel we have an obligatio:1 to h -':!J.p the.'Tl with their education latero We are att1:~;-:;pting to set up a scholarship fund -which can rece·i... :;e monies tax-exempt for students who wish to r,ybu:m to school after work with SNCC or who have lost finu~'1cial assistance for their schooli!1g because of their civil rights act:i.vitieso NEEDED~ Money in unlimited amounts

"'9 ~ l'.f o~f.-2 .. "-:.. ~e r ·~ r1c~. ~ vfo :n:11B t. be r:it) .. e to asn:tst people NhosG husbands or bread.winners are d0n::_ed. t'.:wir :Liv-e1:1. hocct be:-.,rn:.,o of t h &:tr civil rights activities. This ~.: a com; t a 01t pro].-JJ.em i:n ·;-.h,cl d(1ep Scrrth a r&1.s where we work" We are planning a welf,m.· o :Cund ,..J ".5.ch 1r1 i11 b e u s;;::d fo:.:· t h :1.s purpose. lfBI:!DBD ... l1ct~0y i~1 lli~li .r.-i~t t cd ar.101.JJ::t s °'

J.. :-~~ I~::s-~:1. s r:;j_?l)i Proje,:~~·\ r.,~_j,~~;~~lit ~~t:l.l 11~'3d.s ~-'i1e .i:ti.::;sit,cippi Voter Regtri t:1•at:l.on Pro.ject is operat:i.ng out of a two story bu:'..ld~.ng in Greenwood. The building is perhaps the best one available in t.hc c cmmul'l:i. ty and has become a ccnt,er for various meetings and citizenship training sessions, as well as providing facilities for the feeding and housing of st.?.:ff mEmioe-rs o Hm~eve:r, the building is in need of remodeling and equipment is ned.ed.., Projected facilities would include an adequate ki khc ..:, o.f.fice space, and library facilit.iest,o NEEDED: $4,000 for remc.deling and refurnishing.

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?;t. Staff workshops 1he accelerating pace of civil rights activity in the whole, cou..-itry makes it imperative that'we have an opportunity for staff training~ In addition~ SNCC sees one of its functions as providing leadership training to student­ age staff members who are going to be providing leadership in the South in the yea.rs to como. Projected st..aff workshops would take place year round and would focus on goals of the movement, nonviolent techniques, politic.9,l education, and the training and developing of local leadership. NEE::JED: $5,000 for materials 1 transportation, housing and feeding of staff at workshops.

120 Not included in thn above are the continµing needs of SNCC.---publications~ pay for of fice staff, office equipment, telephone, transportation for necessary trips by the chJ.irman and executive director, rent for the Atlanta offke., ct.c. We assu.rne that you know theoe needs exist and that your fund raising efforts will taka them into account. Bo. Materials J..vat labla from Sl\TCC

Wa have a number of materials which can help you in your fund raising eilc ... ,:}, l. Film: "We'll Never Turn Back" This film about the lives of the people in the Delta of Mississippi and our work there was produced through the efforts of the Bay Area Friends of SNCC in California.. It is available to groups working for SNCC and runs about 30 minutes,, Each of t.he Friends of SNCC groups has a copy and the Atlanta office has cop ies for distribut,ion., The film and suggestions for its use are available from Friends offices or from Atlanta on request. 2',:,SNCC Buttons The Atlanta office has available pins in black and white with the SNCC crossed hands ernble.rn and the letters "SNCC"!• We are unable to keep large stocks on hand, but we can supply the.'ll to groups doing SNCC fund raising in limited amounts. We do not charge for them and we ask that they be sold for $1.,00 a piece in the North. Southern affiliates receive them free. They can b~ sold for fund raising or can be given out to people doing soliciting as identification. We have larger pins a bailable with "We Shall Overcome" and "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee"' on them. They are available at $5,.00 per hundred and can be used in the same ways as the above. 3. Photograph Exhibits E3 ch F11 iends of SNCC group is supplied with an exhibit of 20 photographs about our work. The photography is by Danny Lyon, SNCC staff photographer, and is excellent. The photographs can be used for display in a public place during the drive, to accompany a spe~ker, or as an admission-charging exhibit. The exhi bit can be secured for your area from the Atlanta or New York office or from the l<"'riends group nearest you. 4. Literature We can supplLy bulk reprints of stories about SNCC or of our publication, The Stud,~nt Vo:Lco, to groups having drives. Please order in advance of the aate't1ie'c1rive begins., so we can ship by bus .•

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5,. Records: "Freedom in the Air", ''We'll Never Turn Back" Both of these records are available from the Atlanta office. Both are sold at $4.,00 eache SeJ_ling t.he records is a good fund raising device and any group having a fund drive shou;Ji.d have the records for use in groups with speakers, to publiciz.e the drive, to learn the songs of the movement. 11'.Freedom in the Air"' is a documenta1--y of tl1e Albany, Georg:i.a. movement. •rwe ' ll Never Turn Back" is a recording of freedom songs by the Freedom Singers. Both are excellent, well worth the money.

C. ~ R.1.ising Plans

In addition to the uses to which you can put the materials available from SNCC, there are a few other special fund raising ideas which we have devel0ped. More information is available on any of these programs on requesto lo Voluntary Poll Tax Student groups in the North developed a plan of handing out flyers and setting up contribution tables at polling places during elections. The flyers ask that voters make a contribution of $1.00 or more as a "voluntary poll tax" to help SNCC workers registering voters in the Southo 2 .. February 1 concerts., February l is the anniversary of the sit-in movementt While concerts are good fund raising programs all year round, FeQruary: l is one date which i s very significant to St.TCC and to the movement in the South. Large benefits on t;;at date are very appropriate ways to raise funds, as well as providing a method of educating the North to the work St~C continues to do. 3. Freedom Sta.'11ps Campaign v SNCC needs physical equipment for field offices and for the Atlanta office. This can be purchased with trading stamps of any kind (Green Stamps, Blue Chip, etco) Supporters who cannot give ~oney can give stamps. We ask that drives for the stamps be organized on a comrnuni ty wide basis and that the stamps be put into books.

4o Speaking tours by staff members,. We can arrange for a field staff member to be in your area for speaking engage~ents, but it is much easier to schedule his time if you can arrange for fui.1d raising programs for a week or two weeks in your area. This saves tran~p0:ctation cost.s for several visits and allows for a full and coordinated fund drive in a given area. ,~ Food and Clothing Drives WB have a ,::ontinuing need for staple foods and good used clothes to help people in the areas where l1le work. Often the local citizens suffer economic hardship as a result of their participation in the movement, and even those who are not fired live at below subsir.tence levels. The A.tlanta office can be contacted as to where the food an clothing should be sent.

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DQ, Other Methods of SoJ.iciting Funds ...... ;;,;;; ·- In addition to the fund raising projects suggested by the materials we have available for your use, there are several standard fund appeal methods which you can use:

le Letters sent out to selected mailing lists is one of the easier approaches. "T!ieireffectiveness l.S eii.iiailce<1 if 1.lie mailing concentrates on what SNCC's efforts have been in a special area and details on what the money is to be used for. Try to get the mailing lists of organizations whose head is on your list of sponsors. It is good if the sponsors will sign the fund appeal letter. If you are short on workers, try to get the organization to g:i.ve you the addresses on tape or already on the envelv_.>~.. 2o Collections at meetings of community organizations should be tried. Have stuaents or~ommunity people who are willing and able speak at these meetings for SNCC (and also see individuals). Community organizations (from women's clubs to "keep your block clean" groups), churches (particularly in predominantly Negro areas where a personal visit to the pastor or priest helps spead the movement in addition to getting contributions), labor union locals, ADA and other liberal cause groups, and other civil rights groups; all these should be approached to hold collections for SNCC--with someone from your group speaking if that is possible. }~Handing out leaflets with special appeals for funds has proved quite successful. Two hundred dollars was collected in money sent in by mail as a result of leaflets handed out a year ago outside a Pete Seeger concert in downtown Chicago (right after the criminal anarchy charges) 0 Collecting food and money outside supermarkets for the starved-out Mississippi Negroes was an effective means of appeal and make contributing very convenient. Going door to door with leaflets and shopping bags can be a profitable project for food and money in soje neighborhoods. Everytime SNCC leaflets are handed out, the message hits more people who may remember SNCC at some more convenient timeo

4.., Personal appeals for funds: Every area has a number of well-to-do liberals who can cor:it!:rbute substantial amounts of money J but who will only contribute substantial amounts of money, but who will only give if personally approached. Y our sponsors may be able to give you at least a start of names°' Building up a resevoir of regular contributors to SNCC is a pressing interest at this time. SNCC's work is in areas of the South where long term re!-list.::".n.r: e is a faett'! Getting people to pledge $1., $s;., or $10 a month to SNCC CO"uld tide us over the summer months. for example, when contributions come in rather slowly~ Over a period of the next year SNCC should be able to find 10,000 people who will be willing to become regular contrj_butors in bringing freedom to the South.. Mailings that are sent out should include, in addition to an 11'urgent" appeal for funds, and appeal for regular contributors.

S. Benefit Concerts are probably the most successful single fund event SNCC has used • .Tliere are a number of artists who are willing to hold benefits for SNCCJ their names can be secured from the Atlanta office, the Chicago Friends of SNCC, or New Y ork Friends of SNCC of.fices. In addition to big name artists, SNCC sponsors the Freedom Singers, a group of young SNCC staff members. Contact the .A:tlanta Office for further inf.onnation. · · 2 tudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 8! Raymond st,, N1if :":. tlanta 14, Ga.,,

DECISIONS ·1'.1ADEAT MEf TING OF S NCC EX"SCUTI VB C0 ·1rrn TTEJ}-"ATLA 1\JTA, S "S:P T. 6-9

1. Priorities for Winter a) Mississippi Projec t b) Recruitment of staff c) Creat:tn r: exipus protest groups wb ich will move out into t he c0n1r.1 ;1.ni t y :l n t he i 1~ &otlon proe:Pams Ot l:-: e,.• p:r>O fCC'ams virill be continued.,

2. Guidelines for m8.k ing decisions on expansion and prio1"i ties in t he n e x t f ew monthso a) Do we have c ompetent people to handle t he project? b) There s ho~ld be a clear idea of our reason for going into an arec:: and f e r a foll::::w- L1p progr am. Gui d ing q ue s tions should be~ Wha t · p12.n0s will make for b a sic c hanges in the South? W',ere are t he s tr-a tegic p oin-i:; s wl.-1 erethe s true t ure cm be broken and bow wil1 we do it'? c) S :N"CC must be r·esp o:nsive to requests for help from local areaso When staf~ is s e nt in at t he request of loc~ group s t he emp hasis must b e on leade:r>sbip tra ining and de•ieloprr.e nt,, For t his task SNGC must d e velop a mobile project (a s bort term task force)o

3. Mississippi Project~ A pro-r:; osa 1 for Mississippi programming and goals presented by Bob Moses was acceptedo a) SNCC will launch a One Man One Vote campaign in Mississippi immediately"' b) Sufficient personne l will be moved to Mississippi to -1_.:.,..., lement this decisiono i ) A committee composed of Bob 1\1oses, .John Lewis, .Jim Forman, " · 1 E lla Ba ver will desl with t be implementation of t he se decisions :.nd will report at t l.1e Coordinatinrr Comm ittee meeting .

4. Organizi n g in t he Sout h on Camp1Jses The Sout ~:ern Canp1rn Coor d i r.ato :c" ? s r e por t was a ccepted: a) Four fiel d sec retari es vir.I. 11 be h iI•ed as soo::-i as possible to travel to ca~pu ses o b ~) Their work will be coord inated t hroug h t he Atlanta officeo c) T L~ ey will work on local organizing for civil ri::hts and will al s o wo r k witb c ampus c i vil liberties i s sues"

Ccncentration of recruitment. and concentration on organizing will be in t he Ca r olina's and Virginia, since t hat is wh ere t h e bulk of t h e Negro colleJ es are loca t edg

Attention will be given to t be crest ion of Work-Study progr a.11 s on c ampuses a fter t he patte :0 n of t he Ivi iles and Tougaloo projects,, Campus Coordinator will secure a copy of t be proposal and see t ha:; it is circulated to t he Coordinating Committee, staff, and campus travellerso

Details will be sent to you in a mailing soono

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Spe •::ific 2s s i g:n.11'3ni_;s for work on pecruitment: and campus organizing were ma de to oa foL!..owed vp by Campus Coord 5- na tor.

Sa Ma~ch on Washin gto~ a ) SNCC vvi11 continuG to supp::>r·t the March Committee and March

::: ) E~:..oanor Holmes ·will be SNC C representative to t l:0 Mlt>ch ·: .J;nmi ttee ,, c) S HCC wi.J. l support Pe ople's Cone;ress plan s.nd J..0 0 c ities demons tra t;lons"

Tbe r3:Jrs E.:en t e t:1- ve wa.s ::.n~ trL'..cted to~ ,.., ') P'"',')Or1C-: .,:·~ ... .._--:- ·1-, tj' '-"• ..L -..., :.'.'I u .. ~ · .... c· ·-·JJ..·,,,..i. ..-, .. e-,.,-,,· ·-· ·V... __ Ll c, ln~;', ...... , ,,:r,,1,._,.... , riem·L \#!J...-··1 <:t•·r· ~_,.l,,,.•LO'"lS +· -.. n1° ...... 1.., U .. ..;:J V a L·. 1 ,., i.J ...._ 1., ...... i.. "-• .i. demands and gettl.!\?; IvI&1.~1~h Corr.rnl tte e ou.ppor)t f 'or" J_ oc:aJ. l)l"loter:;·t s a b) Sand a momo to ·f; he Ex.a cut5.ve Cmn,"Ji t~ee r eporting on decisions ma de a "t e ct e l.1 l\1a :~ch (; 0:r.JTJ.'1. t t; Be m0 Fi t. tr\g c c) Attempt to s 0cura buses f or t r ansportation t0 t h e Congr e ss wl-:: ich 12 :::i uJ..d b0 used i:n t be Soi;.t:'l afte:::-• t he Cor-:GX' C8 8o

6. Jcb::: ?ro j,,)ct A p~0po~~ i pr0~2nts~ b y Bill ~ahacsy f a r a proje ~t on economic problems ""NaG ecccpted~ a ) A Washington office will be e stablishe do ·u ' 111 1 • i' ,., ' , ~ - -. J . l I 1 .' J ... as o-;..ic0 WlLl a <:'O.. . w:._t ; L1 e rn·t-~ oymc)n!.i, an d economJ•_c programs f oJ.,, ;3.11>e1:1s vvh. e~!~,e 3N::;~ 5- .3 \N ,Jrl, i ngo c) 'The offi.ce 'Nil 1 elso d ,1 aJ_ with SNCC new3 an.d other lia.son n eeds in Wa s hington0 d) Th e personnsl ccrnmi tt;ee will f:i.11 tl:1 9 post '°

7o Albany and k:1e:." i e ~w , Ga" Prot es\ Ca m.p .e i gns A plan for a protest m~rch in or aro~nd Am0 ricus, Georgia was accepted .. '11he K3rri b wE l L:tl-::o pl.c.:.c a on Cc.t -c;'os:r• S., A ~omrnlttee composed of J 0 hn Lawis, J i m Forman, Jul i ~n Bond, Micbael S~ya~ , '19a.nor Holmes j Cha r::i.es S b G::."' rodp 2.nd Bill IJi n h on ey w:i.11 map dni·. .c tils t '·: e March f'pom t he pls n acc epted by t he Executive Commi tt;ee .

1,ew Pr'O j ec Ls a) A plan for a voter registration project in Southeast Atlanta was accepted,, b) T he Executive S,~c_:-f,tar y w2.s i .r,.st~ Lw t ed to p7. .an for and attemp t to s e 0ure funds f :J:e a votor r e gi s trTt. :lo:n p:r·o j s-c·t i n North Car::,lina, c) The Executive Secretary- was i ns t ructed t o begin work on developing a voter registr ation project in East Texas . 9. Northe~n Contacts a} S ,:_;m eone will be hired as soon as poss i"ble to travel in t h e North wi t '.1 t h e specific pupcse of working with and helping set up Friends of SNCC groups o b) Work should b egin with t h e C hicago Friends of SNCC toward setting up a conference or meeting for Northern SNCC supporters R

\ iJ/ Decj_sions of Executive Committee page 3

c) Policy for Friends of SNCC group~: Friends groupR shouJ.d concentrate on support fer the South as we do not; LmYe resources to cc:ordlna te or di rect Northern action programB. The Ex8c uti ve Ss cre·i;a,:-y will ha.ve discretion in recognizing gro:..1.. ps r-:Jt.:.pporting SNCC as o:'f ic ial Friends of SNC C gro u.ps. lOo Da nville, Virg!n~a The D nville pro ject will be continued with particular emphasis on economic situation (discrimination in employment , labor organizing, boycotts of Da n River ~ ill, etc~). 11. 3outhGrn Conference Education Fund Grant A g:~... a r.d; f T· nm. SCKF' w2s 8 :;c0.D l~ ed to prov5.de funds fOI' t he 10 iring of one staff person to work wi~h white students.

12. Schola rsh ip Aid Af1 iJlic.aticr1s vv0 1.~ (~ re·,?iev1J ed for scb.ola~s!1j_p l1e l p and scl1olarsl1ips were granted to t he appl i cants " to be followed LIP by t he ~:taff Coordinatcr.

13. Personnel Decisions The p e r s c,nr,.el com:nittee report was accepted and addj_ tlons made. See attached s he s t for p e :r.';'10n::e1 poli cies as accepted by t he · Executi ve Comnittee .., J4. Executive Secretary's Report on fund raising wa s accepted. (see attached o utline of report) ~inancial Report Acceptad. Jan.. J. .• July 3J..~ 196 3 Fi n ancial sta tement: To tal Reoeipts 142,208a03 C ::;:;;;h p :;1;{n1ont.:J 116 s 51C5~ ..?.3 Ca s h ba l snce 26,333~00

R8cornmenda ti ems of t !1e financial dEJpa rtrnent regarding field personnel were a ccepted a nd t he fina ncia l depart ment was inR~ructed to r ela y dec isions to t he field staffo

f' • • .,... • J '· - J .. , . 1 16 , , -.., ·· Tber9 °v'.11J. ·. be 8. F·aJ 1 Leaders hip Conf erence in Wa shingt on , DaC., Thanks givi ng weekend and t he t heme of t he Conference will be Food and Jobs.

{FL1l l mi nute s of' t ho Exacuti ve Comni ttee me e ting are available in t he Atl.snta office for t he Coord i nating Committee if t hey w:I. s h to s e e t h em o )

· curre nt 'a s. lance (September 22) around $.SOOOoOO. ------~ - ---

Student Nonviolent CoordinBting Committee 8i Raymond St.. ~:w,; Atlanta 14, Ga. Report of Executive Secretary

The essential points I would like to cover in t his report are:

, -- J General Comments On Fund Raising Na t Cc:Le Be nefit; Contacts L1 Eoll;tv, ood Conmmnity October 5th Concert Role of t he Folk Singers T!·1e F:::-: s edom Singers Special PPoject s with volunteer fund raiser•s 2e SchoJ.crship Fund 'I'oGg:Jloo and Miles College Work-Study Pro j ect G2G.Dt frcm Ur: i t e d C C:- Ll1'.1 C~.l o.f' Civil Ri ghts Organi!ations I nGorporation of Student Aid Socie ty

J. Legal Aid H::·wa.:v d Moore and t he Legal Defen se and Education Fund, Inc. Nationsl Council of Churches and Bonds 4.. Promo t i on i,.nd P u.blici ty Photo graph!c Exhibits Photor raphi c Bock Stamps 8 n d Car8 for :Fr•e ed om Albany Defens e Situa t ion 5. Voter Education Pro j ect

6. Approval O!' Re jection of Gra.nt from Southern Conference Ed ucation Fund , I nco

Ge n e r al . Cor,unents on the Rol e of SNCC groups and staff personnel The need for staff p e 0p~e to see t hemsalves as organizers Elimination of overfeeding project s The need f or l~cal. pr ote3t grcu p s t o hold regional 0 .n d state conf0r 0:::: e1:;s Note irr.pr ovemon-c of comm uni cation between gr c,ups 8. Fall Leadership Conference - Approval or Rejection 9. Findings of t he Po:esonnel C0mmi ttee 10. The need for t j e s taff to do mor e writing. Student Nonviolent Coordinat5_ng Connni ttee 8! Raymond st .. NvV Atlanta, Georgia

SNCC PERSONNEL POLICY

1. The Executive Secretary is responsible for the functioning of SNCC personnel. He is assisted by a Staff Coordinator who will carry out t he administrative vrnrk related to t he personnel .. . 11. Hiring: 19 The Personnel Committee of SNCC will bold regular meetine;s. Staff may ba hired on a temp orary basis by the Executive Secretary and wLLl be reviewed and hire d on a permanent basis by t he Personnel C2,n1mittee.,, In t he ~ibsence of t he full committee, t he Executi ve Secreta~?y, t he Cha irmm1, .t he Staff Coordinator, Miss Ella Ba k e1"' and Mro Willie Paul Berrien 8.re responsible for 1:iring, sub ject to review when t he full committee meets~

2 D Tbe Staff Coordinator will be responsible for t he dispersal of applica tion forms for work with SNCC~ None will be hired wJ t bout r etur·ning t 1:is form to t he SFCC office" W!--, en t he form is received, the applicant ,rvi ll be intervi ewed by a me mb er of t he SNCC staff or ,:, _,ordinating Committee and an evaluation p: iven to t he Staff Coordinator 3. The staff Coordinator, in consult~ ion with t ~e Exe cutive Se cretary, will be responsible for t he placing of office staf f. Project Di rectors will be consulted before staff are placed w ith t heir projects.

4. There will be t wo categories of f j eld staff: a . Field Secretary-- a seasoned work er capable of running a project or doing independent work i n a crisis area " b. Field ~ orker--a probationary wor~er. His work s hall be reviewed at t l>. e end of one mont h ., a gain after t wo more mont hs,, and a gci. n after t lJ ree more mont hs time& The personnel committee will t :-: en decide if t his worker s '.1 ould be made a ::'ield secretaryo T'. ,e Staff Coordinator s li all handle t he administrative work of securing evaluation of t he field staff from t be Field Secretaries or Project Directors.

5. Volunteer workers wh o are residents of local areas ma y be recruited by Fie~1-a Secretaries or Project Directors and t i-:eir names sent to t he Atlanta Office.

6. Hiring of summe r workers: All a pplications for summer work ~ i t h SNCC must be in t he Atlanta office t wo wee ks before t he annual ~9rin g conferenceu All a pplicants must be present at t he c onference .C- or inter views,, The Personnel Comm ittee will meet followin g t be conference to decide on app licants and t heir placement. 111. Pay for SNCC Slaff:- 1. Pay will be on t he basis of need. 2 . Tt1 e maximum pay for any staff person wj_ ll be (sh_5 •.oo per week. ,~ l'F arried staff s hall receive a maximum of ~:ih5.00 per week and 1, 0 0 per c hild,, 4e Every staff person s hall be paid a minimum of $ 10.00 per week. If he has independent income he s )rn ll return t he pay to SNCC as a donation. If payroll is not met, records will be kept and back pay returned when funds are available. [,rw:1 THE STUDENT NO'ti'VIOLENT COORDINATING CO~lliITTEE 6 Raymond Stree·i,s No,rL:-, Atlari:,a ll.1., 8ct,::\;5.a. Telepho~e : 688-0331

HISTORY

The Stud2nt Nonviol e nt Co,:,rdinati.ng Com'llJ t 'tee (SNCC) wa s organized in April, l '.;60 2,t a general confe:rer.co of stnds nt. sit~,in J.e a.de:cs held in RaJ.eigh., NeC .• Its purpose then was 'vo ci~,:-cu1a t e information aboi.ri:, t he Southwide pro tests and to prom­ o ts joint :.:.chvi ties by the protest groups that make up the Goordinating Committee., SNCC emp::i.c\v-ed an EXeGilt ive Secre tary., set up an Atlanta offi ce , i ss:.1ed a r... ewslet t e " t he Studr>nt, Vn~.r;n) and served a2 a clearing house for information about tt.e si·t-d.r;:J o 'l'he Go orchnating Corr.:cnittes; , composed of one r epresm1tative from each of t l:e Southe• e::--ri ::ii~dtes ar.d t.h3 District of Colu.'Ylb:i.a, me t r e gularl y to exchange inf.o:rmation.:, methods , nonv:olent, t e chniques, and to plan joi n p:cctGs ts,,

But the s1..1.iill'ller of 1961 and the advent of the Freedom Rides bro11ght, a ch:-.n["e J..11 Sl'-1C:: 3 tt.. ir1k:Lrl.b c =n rLaI!J ar r:;ac, afte·r ll1r1ct1 co1.:nters hac1 been intr~e~ ra.tsr:~ :/ t,j:-~(:! mo7eml1i:.t l agged., In othsrs., it h3.d never beg,ino SNCC member s s 2,w that if t.to j:\.::rve~, ment was to 113.ve m2aning for the millions of degrac.ed:i ciisertfranct,isdd.? and e:-:.::;?loit,... ed Negr oes of the Black Belt South, some one would have to t ake the t.heori'.:!s.!i me tt-iods., pract:Lcea .1 and act u2litie s of t he prot e st movemsnt to theri ... Conseq1.w ntly, SNCC di d ju.st that,o

S'J'RUCT'URE

The Student Norr,iolent Coordinating Committee now consists of representatives from autonomous protes·i:i g:r::;1..~ps vJhi ch are consider ed t he pri me expr ession of the mo'rement. It has an Executi Fe Comu1i ttee, elected from t he Coorrbn2.ting Committee msn;bershi.p. a staff, and vol1..,nt ee1' wo1·kerso A mo:rn detailed expJ.a.:1a+,ion of t he SNCC stru;;t1..11"e may be fm.:md in t he SNCC Cons titu t ion,;i revised at the f.:p :r.·i:. ., 1 962 Confer ence o PROGRAM

The Stude nt Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ' s aim is to serve as a chan."1el of coordinaci ng and communicatj_on for the student movement., SNCC initiates a.1-:,i­ s egr egation programs wher e none exist" It works closely with local groups in the inte nsification and exter1sion of t he moverr.eni;.,

.srJC:: 1s two main t br u~,ts e.gainst segr egation a r e dir e ct action and voter r eg­ istrc-.tionu Dire ct ar;ticn protests ar e ai rm ~d at integr a t ion of public faci::!..i ties s uch D'.-3 J.u;,,.c~1 c::rnnt ,3rs, hos:i;.)ital s ., lib.rar i e :Jp theatre s , and at s egr e:}'3:~iop i:'.'l. emr1l oy1nont and hcms :ingo Be sides giving d:i.se nfra nchi 0ed Negroe s the right, of the t c.1.J. J.oi:.)I SHCC 7 s voter r egistration prpg:r-am ci5Jr.s at awakening an awar ene ss of ci ·i;Lmnship,,

The Stude nt Nonviolent Coordi nating Com.rnittee has i :1itiat. ed or p D.r t i cipat ed i n di;:e ct a ction and voter r egistrat:'...on proje cts in ~ '

Ge orgia~ Albany, Sasser, Dawson., Leesburg, Atl3.nta, R.ome.,, anc1 Sava m:.ah

rtJis3issippi : Ruleville :, .Jn\?.kson, McComb, Hatti e sburg, Green,rnod, Cleveiand, Gree!!.ville ; Holly S prir,gs , Libert y , Ty l e:r't0Tuil1 ;1 Laurel., Holl andale and Le:.and I~

Alabama: Talladega;, Hnntsv:Llle, T 11s (: '. :'. 0J:!J a;; Selma: BirrrJ.ngr.F.m ct1d Montgomery

Kentucky: Louisville, and Frankfort

Arka nsas: Pine Bluff and Little Rock

Vfrgir..ia: Peters burg~ Newport News, 1-kt,npton and Alexanc1.ria

Sctth Carolina: Rock Hill and 0:>'.'angeburg

Maryland : Cambridge, Crisfiel d, Baltimore , Pincess Anne and the Eastern Shore

Illi ,10-j_g: Cairo, CarboiYJal e and Mount Vernon

Loufoiana; Baton Rouge

Missour i : Charle ston

Washington, D. C.

SNCC wa s also a nomb er of the Freedom Ride Coordinating Con11nittoc3 whieh kept a s tream of ric:e s flowing into Mi ssissippi in 1961.,

CURRE~T PROGRAMS

SNCC 's two me.in programs ar e direc t action and voter r egistration. Ther e is a functioning direct action proje ct in Pine Bluff, Arka nsas, m2.nnec~ by two SNCC field se cretarie s and nine expell ed studc~nts f:r om Arkansas AN & N GoJ.lego,, In r ecent weeks , S NCC has s ent field ai d to Rome and Mo1J.c!t,:rie, Ge.cr gia; Kncx01ille~ ' Tennessee, and Hampton, Virginia. Our voter r e gis trati on efforts a:ce beins con::ent r at ed in four Mississippi count:.e s., three Southwest Ge o::egia coun:;ieo,. Dallas and Wi:cox Counties, Alabama, and Or angeburg, South Carolina. FINANCES

The Student Nonviolent Ccordina ting Commi ttee r eceive s most of its operating c api tal .from volunt ar y contributions . Tho Nort hern St udent Movement, the Nationil. Stud,:j ;:1t I.ssocia tion, Students for a Democrat i c Society, and other national st:ide~: :; groups also help in securing financial assistance for SNCC e

FUI' DRE

I n the future.,, SNC C l;ope s t o enlar ge its existing activities_. to engage more students s No:cth,:::c'n and S outhern, in t he movement, to id,tiate dire ct, action a nd v oter rcgistr-a tion prog:;:- am3 in border s t o.t e s and dc; ep S 01:th areas Hhe1·e none have been heldo

[ llv] THE STUDE1'T NO:Nl!IOL'SNT COORDINATING COMI1ITTEE 6 Rnsino~r1c~ S·Gi_"eo~;. .! $ I~TotftJo Atln.r/,a lh.9 Goorf:i.a Telephone : 688-0331

HIST ORY

The Stud8nt Nonviol e nt Coor dinating Gormn.it t ee (SNCC ) was org2.nized in April, 1%0 E, t a gen.era]. coni'e:L'eDCG of 3tudc:-nt si t -,in }.eade:cs held in Ra..leigh,, N .c. It,s purpo~;e then was 'ii o ci:".'cu1a te inforination about the Southwide p:rn tests and to pi~om­ o-':.e joint 2. c tivi ties by t he protest g.ro 1-1.ps t hat make up the Goordi.naUng Go :-rirr.ittee • • SNCC emplo::,-ed an Executiv,3 Sscr·2t2.r y _? se t up an At lanta offi ce , iss'Jcd a ne~1sle tte1~, t he Stu.c:r::;:t1t V0:.ee; ::1n..,'. se:'ved a3 a cles'.;.r i ng hous e for information about ·U:o s:i.t,

But t he su,u.rner of 1961 and the advent of t he Freedom Rides brong!i:t a c:1::-x1r;e in S NCC 1 s thinkingc In rr:a,.-.._y a:r~as 3 aft er lunch co..:.nters had bee n integratec\, the movement lagged~ In ot.hcrs .:1 it, had never begun" SNC~ member s s ;:;w that i .£' J,-, Le ;n'.)vc~, ment was to have mnaning fer t he millions of degradeci :i cii scnfranc ];Iised., and e:r;~:Loi t; ..,, ed Negroes of t he Black Belt South., some one would have to t ake t he t,lleories, me t hods_, pract:Lce.:, J and actual:::_ti e s of the prote st movement to t hem~ Consequent.:i : : SNCC di d ju.st that"

S7RUCTURE

The S tuc1ent Non,1iolent Cocr dina,0ing Commi t tee now consists of r eprese ntatives from autonomous protest g:r:::ur,s which are consi dered the prime expression of t h8 movement., :::·r, has an Execut:'..ve Committee, ele cted from t he Coo rdinating CommittGe membership ., a st&ff, and volunt eer wor!;e r;=,,., A mo:re detailed e:x:pJ_a:1ation of t he SNCC struct1.11' e may be found in t he SNC C Constitution., r evised at t he J:i:pri~-, 196 2 Confer ence,,

FR.CG RAM

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ' s aim is to s erve as a c l1an:'.1el of coor dina ti. ng and communication for t he s tudent moveme nt,, SNCC init :~c1.tes .sn-'.:.,i·­ s egr egation progr ams where none exist" It works closely with local groups in t he i ntensification and exte,.1sion of the moverr.Gn-t.,

,SNCG is two ma:..n t h:::-usts a gainst seg:::-e ga tion are dir e ct action and vote?:' reg­ i stration c. Dir e ct aGt::. ·:::-n pr •Jt ests are airmj d at integrati on of pu.blic fa:;5_:::. :i_+,:; .e3 such as lu::::c~1 counto::'sp ho:::;:pj_ta.ls, libirarie3.11 theatr es, E,nd at s egrer;n·1~ion, i ::.1 employment and housing .. l3esides gi_ving disenfranchised Negroes t he right of t he bellot,, SNCC 1 s voter :.reg:L stration prpgr-am aims a t c,Wak::ming an awar eness of cH,i~enship,,

PROlSGI'S

The Student J\Jr:mvio l ent Coordinating Cornrnittee has i nitiat ed or part icipated in di:::c ct ,~ ction 2.nd voi~er r egist r a t.:-'.- cn proj ectR i n

Geor gia~ Albany, Sasser, Daw son, LeGsourg, Atl:rnta, Homes and SavanF..ah

VJisJissippi : Rul eville ., Jnc".kson:i McComb, Ha.ttiesburg, Greenwood, Clevel and, Qree:::i:ville Y Holly Sprir,gs , Liberi:,y 3 Tylertown, Laurel, Hollandale and Leland /:J.

Alabama: Talladega, Huntsvn:i.e, Tr.sc J.l oo;,12. .:, Selma., BirminGi1a::n ai1d Mo:1.tgomery

Tennessee: Nash-ville) Hoaph:i.s .; ~:nox,,.! ::..10, a nc:. :;:,,_,1Janon

Kentucky: Louisvillo, and Fr ankfort

Arka.nsas: Pine Bluff and Little Rock

Virginia: Petersburg, Newport News, Hampton and Alexandria

Sc-::Cth Carolina~ Rock Hill and Orangeburg

Maryland : Cambridge.~ Crisfield, Baltimore, Pincess Anne and t he Easte:rn Sho:'o

Illino:i.s: Cafro, Carboudale and Houn:t Vernon

Louisi a na~ Baton Rouge

Hi ssour i: Charle ston

Washington, D.C.

SNCC was aJ_s o a r 1a:3:nber of the Freed om Ride Coordinating Somrni'tte e which kept a stream of ricle s .flowing into Mississippi in 1961.,

CltRRE~~T PROGRMiS

SNCC's two main programs are direct action and voter registr2.tion., There is a functioni ng direct action prc;ject in f j_r:e Bluf f_. Ar l:ansa s., mc,m1e c"'. by two SNCC field secret a rie s and nine expelled stuclJ:mts from Arkansas AM & N C: oJ.J.e gA,, In r ecent weeks, SNCC has s ent, field aid to Rome and Mo uJ_t,rie, Gscrgia ; Kncxville, Tennessee., and Hampt on, Vi rginia . Our voter r egistration efforts arc be i y;g co ncent r at ed in f01.rr· Viississippi countie s, three Southwest Georgia couni, =~Eo s,, Dallas and Wilcox Counties., Alabama, and Orangeburg .:, South Carolinao FINANCES

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comnittee receives most of its operating capital .from voluntar;r contribut i ons q Tho Nort hern Student Mo vement, the Nation::]. Stucler:i.t /'s s ociation, Students for a Democratic Society, and other national st'.YJ.c,:, ,, groups also help in securing financial assistance for SbCC.

FTJITJRE

In the future., SNCC popes to enl.arge its existing activities, to engage more stuc.e nt s, NorthGrn and Southern, in t he movement, to i r~:Ltiate dirs ct act~on and voter r ogi s t :cation programs in bc1 c:or stat es and deep S outh ar eas where none have been hel.do

0 v-] f[X)~ . EMEHGEl!CY C~L FOR ~ AlTD CL-Gq'HHlG FOR MISSISSIPPI

Over 22,000 His:rlssippi Negroes, in Sunflower, Lefl'.oro, and Coahoma

Counties, have beon dropped by local authorities from federal surplus

. \.__ ' ~...... food r elief because of voter registration drives in the Mississippi Delta

r egion. . Those .counties represent t~e vorst denial of civil rights in·

America. In Sunflower County, for example, l e ss than 1% of the voting '-- ago lTegroes are registered. Voter r egistration campaigns were begun in

those countiGs by SITCC (Student :Non-Violent. Coordinating Col'lillittee ).,

Mississippi l aws gr ant local registrars .. alnost complete authority

to det ermine who can vote, and the registrars-as is expected of them--

use this authority to deny tho vote to all but a token number of.Ncgrbes. · . . Attempts t o :register have been met by economic reprisals and violence·.

Despite this, ·with tho assist anc E; of. SITCC vorkers tilld wQrkor.s';from bthcr

civil rights organizations, a first breakthrough for f reedom is beginning

in Mississippi. The situat ion is a tense orie. One SiiTCC worker was bli nded

by a o l.llle t sl:ot- 1ro:r.i a speeding car. Throe I! :c workers :ri.nrrow y escape

a lynch mob, which Has equipped with guns and ropes, by fleeing ov.er the

roof of their off i ce . Now economic r oprisals havo boon· t aken . against ·

thousands of. . . Nogr·oos in tho Del ta coTu.'1tios.. · The denial of f'odcral food surplus comas at a crucial time-..;tho winter

months, . bohroon crops,. when f ar m workers require this food as 'a means of .

survival. In . these counti es, tho vast -ma)ority of the Negroes aro share­

croppers ·('average nnnuc.1 incomB $300-400,) or dny' l o.borers :(uvorago annual

income ~p1 50-160 ). Unless t hey rocoiv o out s ide assist n..'lce , these fc.milics

) will be lite'rnlly without f ood or clothint bocmuic of t heir -0ffort to

guin the ballot ~ To hel p t hem livo o.nd continua their fight, \ hey need

our h olp now. The Bc.y Ar on Friends of SrICC is conductinc; a ccunpc.i gn to . )--_C collect food Gcnd clothing for Mississippi. Will you he l p? / ,,,,...

lHE SOUTI-lERN STUDENT AND CIVIL RIGHTS

On February f, 1960, the sit-in demonstration occurred which was to spark the dvil rights movement in the South. AlthoL1gh the Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter demonstration was the spoAtaheous work of students., aroused Negro leaders from every area of enterprise - the clergy, business and pro­ fessional men - have joined the movement. In some areas., such as Montgomery., Alabama, and Albany, Georgia, the Negro protest movement has involved virtu­ al ty the entire Negro community. The political voice of the Negro in the South is emerging, patient, dignifier.i and firm, utilizing the ballot., non­ violent direct action and selective buying. In the forefront of this grow­ ing civil rights movement are the studemts. One of the leaders of the Albany

Movement has said, 11 The kids were going to do it anyway ••• they were hold­ ing their own mass meetings and making pl ans ••• we didntt want them to have to do it alone." Wherever the action is., there the students have been instrunental. Witness Albany., Ga.; Cairo., Ill.; McComb, Mississippi, among others.

\-A-IAT IS THE STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNCC )1

SNCC is the organization whfch materialized Qut of the students• need for a coordinated effort. Organizationally, SNCC consists of a Chairman, an Exec­ utive Secretary., Field Secretaries and Field Workers. Operating on a low budget., the Field Secretaries and Workers live in the Negro conmunity and share - literally - their hardships and privations - all too often including jail and beatings. Typically, Field Secretaries enter an area and recruit workers from the community. Often., these are rural communities with little or no consciousness of their citizenship potential, and much of the work consists of instilling the basic and elementary notions of rights and respon­ sibilities we all take for granted. In addition, work with the adult Negro community includes voter education as well as direct action projects. The suce~s of the voter education project in Mississippi has led that state to coerce Negro citizens by denying them federal relief aid in some counties. There the challenge to SNCC is set: to administer aid in the form of food, clothing., medicine, the essentials for survival. SNCC, with other civil rights groups in the South, has sent out a call for thes e essentials.

lHEY NEED OUR HE LP The Bay Area Friends of SNCC was constituted to aid in the efforts of the Southern Students., by publicizing the ir activities., raising funds, and more recently in a clothing drive · to he lp a lleviate the suf f ering in Mississippi. We need more help., however, especially since we plan to enlarge the scope of our activities in the future. If you are interested in joing the Bay Area Friends of SNCC., please sign up at the table at Bancroft and Telegraph, or send a postcard to Chairman Mike Miller, at the address be low. Though we cannot be on the scene, let us at l east show the people of Mississippi that they are not alone in the ir struggle for equality.

Mike Mi 1 ler ·.vr~ NJ. (/, ~1 0 (;It L. 5845 Chabot Court J '{I"' /r(J I Oak 1and, Ca 1i for n i a f2vt~.,1J_1µ\. ,},, .l1Jf· 1f 'lfjJ'.J-J-0 ANNOUNCING THE BAY AREA VISIT OF MR. CHARLES MCDEW, CHAIRMAN, STUDENT NON~VIOLENT COORDIN­ ATING COMMITTEE. MR. MGDEW WILL BE I N THE BAY AREA FROM DECEMBER 1~11. FOR FURTHER INFOR­ MATION, CALL: BERKELEY: TH 8- 4312; TH 8-8742; SAN FRANCISCO: UN 1-6404. BACKGROUND INFORMAT ION ON MR. MCDEW AND SNCC C~arles McDew was born in Mas sillon, Ohio . He is 23 years old. His parents went to school in. So . Carolina. Chuckh first t rip to t he South w as a return to his parentsq home state to study sociology at So. Carolina State College. Entering school in September, 1959 , be­ fore the sit-ins began, Chuck w as arrested three t i mes in the South for failing to comply with Southern segregation patterns. When t he first sit-in t ook place in Greensboro, North Carolina, Southern students at Orangeburg decided to act i n support of t he Greensbor o group. Mr. McDew took part in the first Orangeburg sit-in~ and ha s been active in the student c i vil rights movement ever since.

"In this cell is our Nigger anarchist. Do you know what anarchy is? I t is an attempt to overthrow the State of Loui siana by unlawful meansj t o overt hrow the government . Do you know that there are 100,000 Conununists in the Uni t ed St ates? Would you beli eve, j ust to look at him, that this boy is one of the t op Communists in this country? Do you know what the international plan of Connnunism i s, a s app l i e s t o t hese Freedom Ri ders? They want t o mix the races, to inter-marryj to make t he race weak, an easy prey ·for Connnuni sm. 11

Chuck McDew, lying in his cell in t he East Baton Rouge, Louisians jail, heard these senten­ ces time and again as prison guards guided white southerners to his cell. The Chairman of SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Conunittee , wa s a celebrity; meriting daily guid­ ed tours. His crime? He and Bob Zellner, a white SNCC field worker; were arrested while paying a visit to Dion Diamond , a third SNCC s taff member arrested a few days earlier on charges of vagrancy and disturbi ng the peace . They were charged with criminal anarchy. Chuck spent two weeks in solitary confinement. He faces a ten year jail sentence. If con­ victed of the charges agains t him by the Louisiana court, he will be denied bail and forc ed to stay in prison while his case is being appealed. Bail is not allowed to persons convict­ ed of the charge of criminal anarchy .

SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Conuni ttee, grew out of the Southern sit-in move­ ment. Initially a body to connnunicate t he activities o f its several autonomous affiliates, it developed into a group with 22 full-time staff members, working at $40 per week ($ 60 if married), coordinating South- wide direct act i on and voter registration projects.

SNCC was the first civil rights orgenization to begin work in Albany, Georgia. Working out of the organization·.'·s office in Albany, S NCC staff member s are also active in Terrell County, Georgia. Terrell County is the seat of the old Talmadge machine and is considered by many to be the citadel of white racism in Georgia. SNC C and Charles McDew were featured in a re­ cent article in the Saturday Evening Post, September 8, 1962 issue.

SNCC was also the first civil rights organization to work i n McComb, Mississippi. McComb is but one of the many cities in that state where SNCC s taff member s , working out of a field office in Jackson, are engaged in Southern c i vil rights work.

SNCC needs help to continue its work i n the South. That is why Mr. McDew is now touring the country to spread the SNCC story and to r aise desparately needed funds. If you wo uld like to help publicize the work of SNCC in t he Bay Area, and to raise funds for the South­ ern civil rights movement, please fill in and mail the form below.

TO: MIKE MILLER, SNCC REPRESENTATIVE; 1915 MILVIA; BERKELEY 9, CALIFORNIA. TH 8- 4312. ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND $1.00 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON SNCC. ===I WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE$ Tb THE WORK OF SNC C. I WOULD BE WILLING TO SOLI CIT FUNDS AND DO OTHER WORK IN THE BAY AREA FOR SNCC. PLEASE SEND ME NECESSARY MATERIALS TO PLAN A MEETING I WILL ARRANGE WITH MY FRIENDS FOR SNCC AT WHICH TIME YOU WILL PROVIDE A SNCC SPEAKER .-.,.,....- _PLEASE FORWARD THE SNCC RECORD (12" long-play) , "FREEDOM I N THE AI R: ALBANY ~ GEORGIA. 11 IN ENCLOSE $4,00 TO COVER COST AND MAILING. NAME: ADDRESS~ PHONE: FEDERAL PROSECUTION & CIVIL RIGHTS in ALBANY, GEORGIA

11 ••• The only instance in which the government has moved with vigor has been against Negro leaders who have been working to remove the evils of the segregation system. 11

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made this statement after nine leaders of the Albany, -Georgia Movement were indicted and convicted by a Federal jury at the request of a Federal Attorney General.

Dr. King's statement is tragic but true. A look at Southwest Georgia's history of oppression and brutality aimed at keeping Negroes "like they have been for the past 100 years," according to one sheriff, reveals the Federal government has always moved with caution and hesitation until the civil rights of white persons were allegedly under attack.

IN JUNE, 1958, James Brazier was arrested by police in Dawson, Geor­ gia after he complained they were beating his elderly father to death. He too was beaten and died. The government convened a Grand Jury which returned no indictments.

IN JULY, 1962, Mrs. Marion King was carrying food and clothing to de­ monstrators jailed in Camilla, Georgia. Although she was in her seventh month of pregnancy and carrying an infant child, a police officer kicked her and punched her in the face until she fell to the ground and lost con­ sciousness. A month later she gave birth to a premature, dead child.

IN JULY, 1962, Sheriff D. C. "Cull" Campbell of Dougherty County broke a walking stick over Attorney C. B. King's head. Campbell said later, "I'm a white man and he's a nigger.- Yeh, I knocked hell out of him and I'd do it again."

IN AUGUST, 1963, during anti-segregation demonstrations in Americus, Georgia, children were hit with billy clubs and beaten with electric cat­ tle prods. One man, not a participant in demonstrations, had his leg broken by state police with a baseball bat. Another youth had twenty stitches taken in his head, as a result of a police bating. A U.S. Justice Department spokesman was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "There is no evidence of police brutality in Americus." The power of the Federal governmentto prosecute in these and These nine are the leading forces behind the direct action and voter re­ many other instances of brutality and violations of civil and human gistration campaigns in Albany that made the world wonder in 1961 why rights is amply covered by the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights acts. Cover­ the most powerful nation in the world could let its citizens be jailed and ed so well, in fact, that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy denied beaten without taking action. the need for additional legislation in this area. They are; The cases of Mrs. Marion King, brutalized before witnesses so DR. W. G. ANDERSON, President of the Albany Movement badly that she lost her child; of Attorney C. B. King, beaten by a man MR. SLATER KING, Acting President of. the Albany Movement who admitted he did it because King was a "nigger"; of James Brazier, who succeeded Dr. Anderson and whose.. wife had been beaten whose killing was brought before a Grand Jury when no jury was neces­ in Camilla; sary for prosecution; and in the cases of the Americus beatings, were MRS. ELIZA JACKSON, Secretary of the Albany Movement, who no Federal action has resulted, illustrate the hazards southwest Geor­ lost her job at an all-Negro State College after she began gia Negroes must face, and face alone. working with the movement; REV. SAMUEL WELLS, perhaps the single most active local But the actions taken against nine Albany Leaders indicate that the worker in Albany, and a Board Member of the Albany Movement; Federal government is ready to prosecute when it wants to, when it MR. THOMAS CHATMON, a local barber and Movement Board Mem­ feels it can get a conviction, and when it is politically expedient to do so. ber, ran for City Council in 1962; MSSRS. ROBERT COLBERT and LUTHER WOODALL, two young, frequently arrested Albanians notorious with police for their IN JULY 195v, a Negro was arrested and shot three times by the Sheriff participation in demonstrations; of Baker County. The Negro, Charlie Ware, brought a damage suit MISS JONI RABINOWITZ, a white field worker for the Student Non­ against the sheriff, and the case was heard by an all-white jury which violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); decided for the sheriff. One of the jurors who decided against Charlie MR. ROBERT THOMAS, a Negro active in the Albany Movement Ware was Carl Smith, the white owner of a store catering exclusively to Albany Negroes. Dr. Anderson, Colbert and Woodall were charged with "conspiring to injure a juror. " The others were charged with perjuring themselves Leaders of the Albany Movement approached Smith, as they had approach­ during the Grand Jury investigation. ed other Albany businessmen, and tried to get him to upgrade his Negro employees. He refused and on April 20, 1963, four Negroes picketed THAT EIGHT NEGROES, all active in trying to destroy a system that is at his store for one-half hour. Two days later, he closed down, claiming the very least embarrassing to the Federal Government should be singled the half-hour picket line and a boycott called by the Albany Movement out for attack by that government is surprising in itself. Miss Rabinowitz' had forced him out of business. He complained to the Justice Depart­ indictment is even more so. ment, as civil rights leaders had complained of James Brazier, Attor­ ney C. B. King, Mrs. Marion King, and the Americus beatings. She is accused of falsely telling the Grand Jury she was not at the seene of the half-hour picket. Her defense presented thirteen witnesses- including THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESPONDED THIS TIME, However, with one gir1 who looks like her, and admitted that she but not Miss Rabinowitz a force of "at least 35" FBI agents, (according to U.S. Attorney Floyd had been there-to back their case that the indictment was based on mis- Buford in his prosecution of the Albany leaders) a Grand Jury investi­ taken identity. The prosecution-the Federal Government-put three wit­ gation, and indictments charging conspiracy and/ or perjury a ~inst nine nesses on the stand who declared she was there. people. SNCC has had many white students active in southwest Georgia since work began there in 1961. Their presence has been an embarrassment for local and Federal officials, for a southwest Georgia sheriff never knows if he is beating just another crazy nor therner or a Congressman's niece when one of SNCC's white workers is maligned; with Negroes, he is sure he's beating no one who counts, or so it would seem.

Miss Rabinowitz' indictment was clearly an attack on all the white youngsters who come South to embarrass the rural policemen and the Federal govern­ ment. If this Federal action goes unprotested, other Federal Grand Juries­ and county juries also - may use this same tactic to halt any rights drive which grows too impressive.

THE ALBANY INDICTMENTS CAN BE REVERSED, but only if the United States Department of Justice takes the necessary legal steps. This will be done only if the American community which believes in civil rights makes their protests known.

WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT THE ALBANY CASUALTIES?

Write to Attorney General Robert Kennedy demanding that his office:

1. confess error before the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and join in appellants motion to reverse the c onvictions and dismiss the indictments.

2. direct the U. S. Attorneys in the South to examine their jury lists and to apply to District Courts for the immediate compilation of lists representing a true racial cross-section of the population. (In the Division in which the court that heard the Albany cases is located, 34% of the population is Negro. The jury box selected to hear these cases contained 1, 985 names; only 177 -or 5%­ were Negroes. ) Contribute to the cost of defense and the expense of appeals. Send your contributions to: SNCC, 156 Fifth Avenue, Room 902, New York, N. Y. 10010 (make checks payable to The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

labor donated Student Nonuiolent Co ordinating Comm ittee 135 Auburn Avenue, N.E. Atlanta 3, Georgia MUrray 8-0331

The Righi To Vole ... 100 Years Laler

One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation and ninety-eight years after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, less than 13.8 percent of the Negroes of voting age in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama are allowed to vote. In Mississippi, less than 6.1 percent of the qualified Negroes are allowed to vote. Think what this means. These American Negroes are ruled-without ben­ efit of representation- by white men in the United States today. The machinery of legislation, of judicial process, of the simplest justice, is closed to one segment of American society. No offense has been committed by these disenfranchised men and women-except the worst offense of all: they were born of a different color. That so few Negroes are allowed to vote in the deep South is one of the world's greatest injustices. Besides the broken promise to our own citizens, think what this simple fact means to our country's status in the world today. How does American democracy look- how can it look-to our allies ( and to our enemies) when so large a proportion of our population is not allowed to vote?

The Non-violent Approach

The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee is devoted to helping qualified colored voters to vote in the states where they are now disenfranchised. One of its main functions is to advise potential colored voters as to their rights and help them to register. To do this, it must coordinate the work of many individuals and many groups. An organized effort of students who understand their rights as Americans is mandatory to bring true democracy to the deep South. The original credo of purpose adopted by the SNCC stated: "We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of non-violence as the foundation of our purpose, and the manner of our action. . . . By appealing to the conscience and standing on the moral nature of human existence, non-violence n urtures the atmosphere in which re­ conciliation and juctice become actual possibilities." • •

Benefits of SNCC Ac:lion Pallern ol Harassment

The work of the Student Non..:Violent Coordinating Committee is carried on b y student protest groups and twenty field representatives throughout the SNCC's field representatives are being opposed by white supremecists all over the South. White dieha South. The staff, a s mall band of dedicated men goes about its w ork.quietly and rds know that v oter registration is the first v alid step tow systematically, telling Negroes of voting age a bout their rights under the Constitu­ ard true integration. They realize that as the education of the c olored people procee tion. The requirements for registration in the various areas are explained. ds, Negroes will learn their Constitutional rights. W hite supremacy will have Frightened p eople are accompanied to t he polls. All of this work i s done ac­ lost. Therefore, SNCC's field representatives are fighting continuously against sout cording to the principle of non-violence which characterizes all of SNCC's work. herners who still won't accept the Fifteenth Amendment. SNCC's main purpose is to co-ordinate the activities of student protest White extremists retaliate against the field representatives of SNCC by groups across the entire deep South. Today, this relatively n ew organization has threats, beating, or even throwing them into jail. For example, on February 17, expanded its program and has taken its place among the forerunners of the civil 1962, two staff members of the SNCC were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana rights organizations. It has captured the imagination of students i n colleges all and charged with "criminal anarchy." This charge carries a maximum sentence over the nation because of its grass roots work in the vital area of voter registration. of ten years at Angola State Prison in Louisiana. B ail was set at $7,000 e ach.

Student protest groups have sprung up across the nation as a r esponse SNCC Chairman Charles McDew and white SNCC Field Secretary, Robert to the courageous actions of the SNCC in the South. Some of these groups Zellner, a n ative of Alabama, visited the East Baton R ouge jail in an attempt supply much needed financial assistance to the SNCC. As they continue to aid t o see a fellow staff member who was in jail on charges o f vagrancy, criminal the struggle in the South, they are paying increasing attention to the housing, anarchy, and two counts of disorderly conduct. A t the jail McDew and Zellner employment, and education discrimination problems existing in the North. were arrested and charged with being vagrants, too, though they had over $100 between them. Criminal anarchy charges a gainst them followed shortly t here­ The work of the SNCC is bringing t o both white and colored students all after, even though they had only been in town for a total of three hours. over the United States the r ealization that d emocracy really means equality­ and if one group suffers because of its color, we, a ! Americans all suffer. As Bail for Dion Diamond was raised to $12,000 and then to $13,000 and he long as these injustices p revail, we are all guilty. was subsequently placed in solitary confinement. On September 7, John Hardy, an SNCC staff member, accompanied two persons to the registrar's office in Walthall The twenty dedicated field secretaries of SNCC are on leave from their county, Mississippi. The registrar ordered him out, and a s he turned to leave respective colleges and universities. They ' left to go into an untouched area of struck him aside his head with pistol. J ohn was then arrested in the street by the the struggle: the rural community. Field s ecretaries have gone into the farm areas sheriff for disturbing the peace! of Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana in order to establish voter registra­ tion schools. The schools have been · the main stimulus in getting the people of This case was so clearly a violation of civil rights that the J ustice Depart­ these communities to register and vote. ment filed a suit in Federal courts asking for a court order stopping the trial. The fifth circuit court granted the request, and the State of Mississippi has appealed to Unfortunately, these schools have a lso been the chief cause of the staunch the Supreme Court of the United States. segregationists' threats, attacks, and murders perpetrated against p ersons affili­ liated with these schools .. Though these students m ay b e in the vanguard in the Other SNCC staff members have been beaten. Bob Moses, who has a South, they also give inspiration and leadership to some Northern Communities. Master's Degree from Harvard, was beaten by a relative of the Sheriff in A mite County, Mississippi. Charles Sherrod, a divinity student, has been threatened by the Ku Klux Klan in Southwestern Georgia and has been intimidated by the The i mmense uproar in the South against a relatively small organization Sheriff of Terrell County, Georgia. Cordell Regan and Charles Jones have been illustrates better than any words possibly could, how effective SNCC really is. arrested by public officials in Albany, Georgia. Dion Diamond had a shotgun The following page lists just a few of the "incidents" that have characterized blast pass less than a foot over his body as he lay in bed in McComb, Mississippi. the work of SNCC representatives during t heir ordinary day's work in the deep South. This is perhaps only the b eginning - as this is being w ritten, some field This is the pattern of harassment that SNCC representatives undergo daily. representatives are out on bail. They must go again to the courts to stand trial. These harassments are so frequent, the SNCC members are used to them. They If convicted, these dedicated men must appeal until justice is attained. believe that this pattern will persist until democracy becomes a r eality. SNCC Needs Your Help ... Desperalely!

Since many obstacles are put in the way of Negro registration by the white registrars in the deep South, the course is difficult. Every contingency must be foreseen and every eventuality prepared for. But the work goes on-quietly and systematically. Those who do learn to vote in turn teach others so that in time all will reach their rightful stature as truly franchised Americans. But SNCC needs money to carry on. The pay of its field representatives is low- only $40 per week for the unmarried men and $60 for the married men. But because of lack of funds, sometimes even these small payrolls have been missed.

Please send whatever you can to further the work of SNCC. Any amount that you can afford will be sincerely appreciated. And every cent of every dollar you send will be used intelligently to radiate the work of educating Negroes into their rights as American citizens.

$800 will cover the total cost of a voting school for one month in a typical Southern town.

$100 will purchase stamps for 2,500 informative letters to students across the country who work under coordinated SNCC efforts.

$ 60 will pay subsistence wages for one week for one married field representative.

$ 40 will pay subsistence wages for one week for one unmarried field represen­ tative.

$ 5 will aid in purchase of much needed office supplies. Any amount will be of assistance in our fight.

Send a check, money order, or cash for whatever you can afford. We gratefully welcome any contribution that will help us carry on this work. Please f il l in your name and address if you wish to be kept informed of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's activities.

i STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE l 135 Auburn Avenue N. E. , Atlanta 3, Georgia l 1 Gentlemen: l I am happy to send you a c ontribution of $...... - ...... 1 to help SNCC in the South. I I

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