student Nonviolent Coordinating NEVSLET1~R COIn.."11i ttee ------VOL. 1, # 3 ATLANTA, GEORGIA - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Cornrnittee this week intensified its campaign to free Clyde Kennard~ SNCC circulated petitions and fact sheets to student groups and humfln r ol ations organ izatio~ organizations across the country. -:~--::- ~~-:~-w GADSDEN, ALABAMA - SNCC Executive Comrt'.ittee member Frar;k l-Iollohiay was released from jail here after ne .':' otlations between adults and the whi te community resulted in a general amnesty and a temporary halt to anti- - se-gr egntion aemonstrat-lons. -. - ---- ' ...--".... --
N!-~SI-IVILLE, TEl,lNESSEE - The Nashville Student Nonviolent Movul1'lor:;t con tinued its attack ~n segregation in downtown Neshvilleo DALLAS, TEXAS - SNCC staffers Bob Noses and Bob Zellner and sevonty five students from 22 schools in Texas and Arkansas attended a week en~ conference called by tho Southwost Studont Action Coordinating Comm ittee.
JACK~ON , MISSISSIPPI - Six pe ople - four Negroes, t wo whites - were ~rGsted here during picketing of discriminatory stores on Capitol S:r t'eet. The d ,,"mons tra t ion was a SNC C-CORE-NAACP ;3 pons ored effort sup porting a boycott of Jim Crow employers.
ALBANY, GEORGIA - Albany Movement Presid i3 nt Dr. V.I. G. Anderson told Prosident Ken nedy in a t ol ogr s.m tha t !lour blood is on your hanos" af t er Movement l eaders express ed extreme dissatisfaction Vlith a confer ence l:>etwcen '-A 11:5 ,~ n y lead ers -ana Jus ti ce- Department o';'fictal s 0-- Mov-e mont participants have beG n critic al about the lack of First Amendment rights in Southwest Goorgia. TUSCALOOSA, ALA.BA]\1i'l. - Stillman College students here have secured a "no dis crimina ti on" p lodge from bus company offic ials. Negroes s ti 11 a}.'e not acc orded el eme ntary courtos i os by drivers, however o ATLANTA, GEORGIA - SNCC staffer Bob Zellner announced that SNCC will coordinate mass demonstrations in Montgomery, Alabama to bring public attention and protest concerning Governor Wallace's attempted interpo sition to nvoid integration of the Univorsity of Alabama. NElli! YORK, N. Y. - SNCC staffer Bob Moses, head of the Hi ssissippi VEP project, will speak here this weekend at a conference on nonviolence. LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS (confid ontial) - SNaC staffor Bob Zellner has ro vealed that hotels, r es tuaramts, movie theatres and chain stores may be intogr a t ed soon.
Miles College students may r esort to direct action to bolster a boycott in Birmingham ••• U. of Arkans as students plan a demonstration against segregated housing.,.AtlQnta COAHR r eports mora job breakthroughs in private: and public employment., (continued on page 2) · , ,,'.. . " .' --___~~L~·,~~JS~~E'rT1E~R~ __=2*==~t=' " 7.~,~~~". ~~====~
lROM, l\ }'I~L:q REP?RT 11".1 was si ttin £' r ,'HldiDr:;, having fini-;h8d a bU~~~rdS : Of O'tO'I, aDd a sllont h!3.nd r O[1 chc! d ov(,r from b (~ hindJ) mumblulE So:r"8 ,J<' of.' apology and permission; and stumbled" up ·vJith a 'n"o clrbon e from:~c~ Plate under the bowl, which I had diGc8.rded, which Dad cOnSeq~l9:JL~'Y ~m~ _ m c8. t on it. The hand was b a ck, fi~G seconds late r, gropiD0 lord tte ~otatoGS I had left in tho bowl. Tho hand was dark, dry ene win C~~cked, a man's hand, from cotton chopping and cotto~ ~iolri~6. La-a f ,,_yc tt0 and I got up and l'ITalkcd out. What E'.ro y:m gO Ing to do when ma n has to I.,,-lc?: up leftovers from a bowl of stew'i'; f.r.£~B.£b _M.£s.£ s_i£ Q:.r.£o£w.£o£,_Mis .§..i~ oJ-.PE:!. FROM A FIELD REPORT 11 ••• he ( a local white lawyer) : toll~ :lC1 tLa t !,:1u ~ c1:Jarg os vwre false '8.nd ho really didn't want to toll b -.. r tho r',>U ~ '_8- son v/cy Hrs. BroHD H8S arrestod, but he's h(;aro th.<:t sLc tE!"O ~;o.1~ own and trie d to r ee;ist0r to vote and would she withdraw h ,::r app1::"c~'1.~iono :,if she would withdrew ha r application her bend would bo lo~ orea to FRON I\. FIELD RFPORT !I ••• WG have turne d on tho k e ros e ne lamp b Gcause we ha v e no electricity in tho kitchen-~fficc."it is ao cold hare that we have to wear oVer'co8.ts in the house ••• " ------from" Jack Chatfi s ld in SOL - - --:;------TO LLL STAFFMEIV!BERS: vJe've r e c e ived repf!rts from S0r.10 T1issl..ssippi" and some Southwost Gcorgla stE'.ff membors. Othc·rs are .5"::'ill lc~F~ging. The De c emb or issuo of thl') .:Jtudon~ ~oic9_ will l'e sent to yeu soon~ TO EVERYONE: You'vo probably r ead thE. e nclosed mate ria l on Clyd ..3 Kon nard, WO'~O countinc on cach on e of you to place your name first on tho enclosed petition, to duplicate and circulate copies, and to send thocomploted petiti~ns ba~k hero. We ~Till also bo sending you a "r ep ort on conditions in Ruleville, }1iss- " ~~ issippi. Tho Greenville Voter Education Project office VEry badly n eeds: good ty~cwritcrs, a good electric mimeograph machine and r e lated offtcc supplics; a 16 millemotor movio proj c ctor; cots, sleeping bags, coll~ oge l e vel papc rbnek fiction, nonfiction, and economic and social textR. Send th'.:o m c/o Bob Noses, 901i Nolson street, Grconvillp, Mississippi. Both the SouthHest Georgia and the Mississippi staff noed warm winter c~othin~ and nccd it nowl Sond sweaters, ovqrcoats, ~tc (me n's and womon's) to tho abovu a ddress and ~o Charles Sherrod, 504 lVlqdison St., Albany, Georgia .. " ' In Atlanta, needs arc evor prese nt: opc rntlng funds, to pay ront, gas Clnd light bil13 for our office at 6 Raym~nc. Street; to purchase offico _.ft.-- DUpp:U. C3 and o-q-u-ipment-j to p ay pmrt-:-rgo-j- to in.suro-' this nows getting -to yeu; to p2y telephone bills; to ropay loans; to k eop us going, We are depending on yeu.