THE STUDENT VOICE Vol. 3, No.4 Issued by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 6 Raymond St., Atlanta, Ga. Dec., 1962 200 .Students at SNCC Institute Plan and Demonstrate in Nashville , NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE -- More than 200 students from North and South gather­ ed here Thanksgiving at the Student Nonviolent Coordi­ nating Committee's leader­ ship training institute. They held workshops on aspects of the student move­ ment, discussed some action plans for the future, and demonstrated at 12 of Nash­ ville's segregated restau­ rants. The three-day meeting, November 23-25, featured a attack in Nash­ ville's downtown area, co­ ordinated by the institute's host, the Nashville Student Nonviolent Movement. i'''''''' ...... __ SNCC's Coo rdina ting TWO VIEWS OF NASHVILLE: On left, employee o,f Nashville's Tick Tock restaurant Committee also adopted a gestures angrily at Negro and white training institute participants who wanted to obtain proposal to begin work on a service inside. On right, after attempts to desegregated 12 restaurants , 150 students walk through downtown Nashville singing "". Photos by Zellner. Continue to Page 2 60 A rrested in SNCC Confab Launches Little Rock Sit-ins Gadsden Sit-ins; 'Free Kennard' Drive First in 2 Years Holloway Jailed Long, Hansen Jailed At its Nashville meeting, GASDEN, ALABAMA -- A SNCC resolved to open a LITTLE ROCK, ARKAN­ member of the SNCC Execu­ campaign to free Clyde Ken­ SAS -- After a two-year tive Committee and 59 other nard, a 30-year old Missis­ period of inactivity here, Negroes in this Northern sippi Negro who tried to sit-in demonstrations re­ Alabama city were arrested enter Southern sumed November 8 at Wool­ on November 27 and 28 for College four years ago and worth's lunch counters and "refusing to obey an officer" is now serving a 7-year resulted in the arrests on when they staged sit-in de­ sentence in Parchman State November 28 of a SNCC exe­ monstrations at W. T. Penitentiary for allegedly cutive committee member Grant's, Woolworth's and stealing five sacks of chicken and a SNCC fiel d secretary McClellan's lunch counters. feed. at Walgreen's. Worth Long, 26, a SNCC FranlC Holloway, 23, an Kennard, a native of Hat­ Executive Committee mem­ executive ' committee mem­ tisburg, MiSS., and a chicken CL YDE KENNARD, when ber and a student at Philan­ ber of SNCC, was arrested farmer, applied for admis­ with the second wave of he was in the der Smith College, and Wil­ sion at Mississippi Southern Air Force in Germany. liam Hansen, 23, SNCC field demonstrators. H 0 11 0 way in 1958. Writing in a letter was former executive secre­ secretary, were arrested at the THE AME RIC AN news­ Court for consideration, with Walgreen's "for refusing to tary of the Committee on paper on January 23, 1960, all the publicity and mis­ Appeal for Human Rights, the leave a business establish­ he tried to "follow a reason­ representation that would ment after being requested organization of Atlanta stud­ bring about, makes my heart ents active in the protest able course in the matter••• to do so by the owner or The thought of presenting heavy." He concluded, say- manager." this request before a Federal Continue to Page 3 Continue to Page 4 Continue to Page 4 PAGE 2 THE STUDZNT VOICE DECEMBER 19, 1962 ------,------~~~------T------~---- Freedom Singers Debut, Institute Continued from Page 1 .]urpius Food To Appear at Feb. 1 Fete "Free Clyde Kennard" Denied to drive. (See story, page 1). "On Saturday, November 24, 150 of the institute's Registrants participants staged sit-ins at 12 Nashville restaurants. RULEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI Bobby Talbert, a student who ._- Charles Cobb and Charles was expelled from a Mc­ McLaurin, SNCC fie 1 d Comb, Miss. high school for secretaries working on the his participation in an anti­ Mississippi voter registra­ segregation demonstration tion drive, report that a new in August, 1961, was arrested economic squeeze is being on November 24 with a white I put on Negro citizens here, bystander and the manager where two shootings oc­ of Wilson Quick Drugstore. curred last summer. The bystander had beaten Sharecroppers and day Talbert on the head and the laborers are finding it very manager had sprayed de­ difficult to - obtain s urplus monstrating students with a government commodities, fire extinguisher. the two SNCC workers say. Talbert charged that "Commodities (surplus Nashville police also beat food) are the only way many , a newly organized group of him while he was in the Negroes make it from cotton SNCC field secretaries, are shown above at a reception at Davison County jail. He was season to cotton season," Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Ga. From left to right released on November 26 their report states. "If this (foreground): Cordell Reagan, 19; Bertha Gober, 21; Ber­ when the charges against him is taken away from them, nice Johnson, 19; Dorothy Vails, 23; and RuthaHarris, 21. were dropped. they have nothing at all. The In background: .field secretaries and Ber­ Other demonstrators were success of our voter regis­ nard LaFayette. Not shown, Freedom Singer Charles pushed and slapped. One was tration program depends on Neblett, 21. punched in the groin by an the protection we can offer The Freedom Singers have appeared in Tuskegee, Nash­ irate employee of a restau­ the individual while he is ville, Albany, and , and are slated to appear with rant. waiting for his one small several top stars at a SNCC benefit on February 1, 1963 vote mean something. It at New York's- Carnegie Hall co commerate the third anni­ Students were refused in doesn't take much to tide versary of the sit-in movement. all restaurants tested. After ever the rural Mississippi Engagements for the Singers, all of whom are veterans the demonstrations ended, Negro, but the commodities of the student movement in several Southern Cities, may be all 150 marched to the First are Vital." obtained through the SNCC office, 6 Raymond Street, N. W., Baptist Church through the Sharecroppers average Atlanta 14, Georgia. Photo by Zellner. streets of downtown Nash­ $300-400 each year, Cobb ville Singing "We Shall and McLaurin state. Day Overcome." Later the group laborers receive $150-160 "First Amendment is Dead" marched silently to the yearly. DaVidson County jail where Many sharecroppers now they sang and prayed on the have to fill our new regis­ Albany Leaders, NAG street to Talbert, imprison­ tration papers showing how ed inside. much they earned from each __ employer, many of whom Protest-in W as-hington~· - - Slater King, executive vice keep no records. These president of the Albany forms must be signed by the ALBANY, GEORGIA with demonstrators weanng Movement, delivered the applicant and countersigned After a series of arrests t-shirts with the words keynote address on Friday by his employer or a re­ during a drive for economic "Don't Buy Downtown or evening, November 23. King, sponsible person. Cobb and withdrawal, Albany Move­ Midtown." who provided office space McLaurin point out that this ment leaders obtained an He was charged with "ac­ for SNCC field secretaries usually means a white per­ appointment Dec, 10 with costing young Negro girls" when they first came to Al­ son. "Due to the voter Assistant Attorney General and refusing to give infor­ bany in October, 1961, urged registration drive ••• in Rule­ Burke Marshall in Washing­ mation when approached by students to continue their ville, the 're spon s ib 1 e ton, D. C. to discuss "the "the arresting offi~er." struggle for freedom. death of the First Amend­ Chatfield was held six days people' are not particularly Charles McDew, chairman inclined to favors for the ment in Albany," Two car­ in the city jail and then re­ Negro." loads of picketers arrested leased on bond. At his trial of SNCC, addressed the stud­ on Dec. 6 drove to Washing­ November 21, Chatfield was ents the next evening and Last summer, after the ton and picketed with the urged them not to forget voter drive was initiated, sentenced to a 60-day term nonViolent Action Group "the Mack Par~ers, the Em­ nightriders shot into the (which will be appealed) and mett Tills." ~NAG)in the capitol on Dec. then spent 2 additional days home of Mr. and Mrs. Sisson, Workshops at the institute both of whom were active in 10. in jail. Jack Chatfield, a SNCC On December 6 seven included discussions on non­ the drive. Shots injured two field secretary working on Violence, the economy of the young girls, Jackson State pickets urged economic the Southwest Georgia Voting withdrawal unless fair em­ South, politiCS and voter students, who were Sitting project was arrested on registration, civil liberties in the Sissons' living room. ployment practices were in­ November 12 after talking stituted. and communications. DECEMBER 19, 1962 THE STUDENT VOICE PAGE 3 Continued Pete Seeger Tours Gadsden from Page 1 movement. FREEDOM IN THE AIR (,;¥~i.~ South For SNCC Many of the demonstra- Pete See g e r, inter- tors, several of whom are dOCU':'~nt.,y ALBANY~ GEORGIA 1;; l- ~ fcaluling "The Lli:lc Sllrrcfh Her NellI" f?ev. Ben Gay 1962 nationally known folk singer, juveniles, are students at ,'qOOUCID BY "'l.AN 10M ... ..: .. GUI C"" ~W~N recently completed a tour of Carver High School, and concerts for the Student Non- members of the Gasden Stud­ Violent Coordinating Com- ent Movement. The secre­ mittee in several Southern tary of the Gasden Christian cities and college communi- Citizens Committee, an adult ties. group, w~th Holloway on Seeger, 43, a founder of November 28. the Weavers and writer of "This inc ide nt," said "w her e Have All the SNCC executive secretary Flowers Gone 1', co-writer in Atlanta, of "If I Had a Hammer," "shows that the Woolworth and other songs, traveled chain in the South is not through Georgia, Alabama, completely integrated. We Texas and North Carolina urge all friends of demo­ .for SNCC. cracy to protest these ar- He sang in Atlanta, and rests by sending telegrams --:.." twice in Albany, Ga.; in Bir- to the Woolworth board of ". mingham and Tuskegee, directors demanding that all ~ --- -_. I Ala., in Chapel Hill, N. C., l unch counters in every Sou- ·...... )- ) and three times in Austin, thern Woolworth store serve ' Texas. everYRne, regardless of ATLANTA, GEORGIA -- "Powerful and exhilarating,", In Atlanta he introduced race.. says the November 28th issue of the Reporter magazine the Freedom Singers to the Holloway was released of FREEDOM IN THE AIR, a SNCC-produceddocumentary Atlanta community, and Dec. 7, the other prisoners album of the -- told in on-the-spot entertained an audience of on Dec. 4. tapes in the words and songs which made this movement' 800 with his Gadsden has no integrated internationally famous. Reviews throughout the country from allover the world. public facilities, though a indicate that this, as says is "the After the Atlanta concert, suit against City-owned most effective documentary recording to grow o'ut of the November 11, he spent four facilities is pending. integration movement." hours with the Freedom Singers recording many of Field Sec~y Oxford their songs on portable In FREEDOM IN THE AIR equipment he had brought Reports Courage, Hatred Name from New York. ------Seeger sang to audience of OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI -­ Zellner said that hate Address 1400 students at the Univer- Robert Zellner, SNCC field sheets entitled "Rebel ------secretary, reports from the Underground" and "Rebel I enclose $ for albums University of Mississippi Resistance" are put under of FREEDOM IN THE AIR. that although a heavy atmo­ students' doors at night sphere of hatred and tension urging them to boycott Mere- still exists on this campus dith "for the NAACP leper SNCC, 6 Raymond Street, since the entry of James he is." N.W., Atlanta 14, Georgia. Meredith, a small group of However, Zellner pointed ______students and professors out that thIs sm~l1 group of "have braved physical and liberal students and profes­ social intimidation" to make sors were acting with great Laurel, Miss. Negro Meredith welcome. courage. Some students, he Zellner, 23, a native of said, stayed on campus dur­ Runs For JP Post Alabama and graduate of ing the riot trying to dissuade Huntingdon College in Mont­ students from violence and LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI - gomery, Ala., said: "I be­ urging them to return to their A Negro candidate for Jones PETE SEEGER and lieve this is the beginning Dorothy Vails, Freedom dormitories. County Beat 1 Justice of the of something truly wonder­ Other students, all native Peace, Clinton/ C. Collins, Singer, sit on steps at Gaston ful in the white society of Motel in Birmingham waiting Southerners, invited Mere­ finished fifth lTI a field for Mississippi. " dith to dinner in mid-Novem­ six in the November pri­ for transportation to take He pointed out that some them to a concert at Tus­ ber, and returned to their mary. weeks ago, two freshmen, dormitory to find their Local leaders said that kegee University. Photo by both from rural Mississippi, Miller. rooms completely ransack­ Collins' race "has done attended a concert when ed, in shambles. more than anything to awaken Meredith walked in. They sity of Texas, and to 1000 Zellner commented, "As Negroes to their civic re­ inVited him to sit with them, a recent student in a Southern sponsibility. " students at the University of and the three chatted ami­ North Carolina. institution and as a victim of Collins r e c e i v e d a ably. Some days later, a the trauma that befalls a majority in two heavily Ne­ He lives in Beacon, New cherry bomb exploded in one York with his wife and three Southerner when he goes gro precincts. SNCC work­ of the boy's rooms, and he against his fascist-like ers have been heading up a children and is the author of found a large sign with the many instruction books on background, my heart is with voter registration drive words "nigger lover" on the Lhese brave young students." here. guitar and banjo-playing. door. PAGE 4 THE STUDENT VOICE SNCC HQ at Raymond St. Little Rock Continued from P age 1 ATLANTA, GEORGIA -­ After residence in what Long and Hansen had tried TIME Magazine called a to take seats at a roped "windowless cubicle" on off counter when they were Auburn Avenue, and then a arrested. A sign ,reading brief home furtber up the -_.... ~---~~­ "This fountain is closed in street in a large loft, the the interest of public safe­ offices of SNCC have moved ty" was put up on the to 6 Raymond Street, N.W. counter. (see left). They were both released For the first time since on November 30 on $500, its inception in April, 1960, bond each. SNCC has a permanent home After the two were ar­ WILLIAM HANSEN SNCC with enough room to accomo­ rested, students fro m field secretary. Photo by date staff and volunteers Philander Smith, most of Zellner. whom are members of the ----- gleaned from the nearby At­ darkened counter. lanta University system. Student Freedom Movement marched in downtown Despite the arrests at SNCC Executive Secretary Littl~ Walgreens, negotiations are James Forman said, "We Rock to protest the arrests. being conducted with Wool­ The_ C!lxrent series Qf de­ are still in need, howevt:r, ''' The sign ·on SNCC's door, worth's- -t-o- see -if th~ lunch monstrations began 0 on of office supplies, particu­ beneath the symbol of white counters , can be opened to larly pens, pencils, type­ and Negro hand clasped in November 8 at Woolworth's. serve all customers, re­ writers, paper, and other friendship, reads "Freedom Though students sat-in there gardless of race, in the near office eqUipment." House." several times, no arrests future. occured. Counters were Kennard unofficial boycott went into closed immediately after effect. students appeared. Amos Guthridge, head of. A subscription to the Continued from P age 1 o On September 25, 1960, the Little Rock White Citi­ STUDENT VOICE, the ing, "Yet what other course fIve sacks of chicken feed newsletter of the Student (valued at $5 each) were zens Council, came into can I take 7" Woolworth's several times Nonviolent Coordinating The course Kennard took stolen from the Forrest Committee, may be ob­ Ceunty Cooperative Ware­ and threatened the students to enter an all-white coliege One student said Guthridg~ tained with a contribution in Mississippi finally ended house. A Johnny Lee Ro­ of any amount donated' berts, 19, confessed to the sprayed some liquid on them for him in Parchman as they sat at the closed to SNCC, 6 Raymond After he had appiied the theft, but claimed that Ken­ , ' Street, N. W., Atlanta 14, second time in 1959, he was nard had instigated the rob- Gal. arrested for reckless driv­ bery. grams and petitions to the We are attempting to ing. At the police station Roberts was placed on five President, their local con­ come out monthly, money police confronted him with years probation and is free. gressmen and senators. providing, and feel one five pints of whiskey, which Kennard, on the other hand Charles McDew, SNCC of our functions should they claimed to have found was convicted of being ar: chairman, said, "We urge be a means of communi­ in his car. He was found accessory to the crime and all freedom-loving Ameri­ cation for all protest guilty and fined $600 and was sentenced to seven cans to participate in this groups in the South. costs. years. He has been im- campaign to free Clyde Ken­ Please send news of Kennard then found it in­ prisoned for two years. nard." He suggested that your group, your plans creasingly difficult to buy Delegates at the SNCC letters be sent registered to ideas, to us and we wui feed for his poultry. His leadership training institute Kennard in order to insure be glad to publish the'm. w..er ur ed to send tele- their delivery. crediL w.ruL Clit off and-aD - - - _ ... - -- --

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