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LESSON IN DEMOCRACY "Mississippi Freedom Project - Stan­ ford" is a new organization recently formed Th_e Mississippi Freedom Democratic be ended - in Mississippi and in the by volunteers returned from the Missis­ Party (MFDP), lilte in September, issued Democratic Party. sippi Summer Project and other students a report explaining its role and plans "Moreover, the conditions under which on the Stanford campus._Its purpose is to much more fully than the "Position Paper" the FOP delegation was chosen were cer- (1) interest and recruit students for civil released earlier (and reported in last tainly unique. Though the FOP delegation rights work in the South; (2) raise funds month's Newsletter). Because the MFDP was chosen according to the laws of Mis- for the on-going Mississippi Freedom cannot be successful "without pressure sis sippi, its role was only partially polit- Project; and (3) develop campus programs from the rest of the country", it is im­ ical. This is so 'because simply to take to prepare students for civil rights work. portant that friends of SNCC everywhere part in the political process of the state These programs will include Negro hist­ understand what it does and why. That's m~kes the Negro in Mississippi automat- ory, the curricula of Freedom Schools and why this report is reprinted below, with a ically a rebel against the segregated soc- !rrst-aid and health education programs minimum of cutting imposed by space iety. This means that he is in immediate for Southern communities. limitations. and grave danger of losing his job, his The new group was launched last month home, and possibly his life ... This ... atacampusrneetingaddressedbyDr.Aar­ On its challenge to the National Dem­ means that they are literally gambling on Henry, chairman of the Mississippi ocratic Party Convention, the key points their lives against the right of being seat- Freedom Democratic Party. Dr. Henry of the report are: ed in Atlantic City, emphasized that "for theMississippiNeg- "Many friends of the FOP have express­ "The third thing that must be understood ro, the civil rights movement is more ed concern and confusion as to why the FOP is that the FOP bad the support that it than a matter of dignity, more than a mat­ delegation at Atlantic City refused to ac­ needed to win the fight at Atlantic City. ter of being allowed to buy a hamburger cept the decision of the Credentials Com­ Within the Credentials Committee there at- a lunch-stand or to rent the bridal mittee. (That decision gave Dr. Aaron was sufficient support to get the FOP's suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. It is purely Henry and Rev. Ed King votes as Dele­ demands on the floor of the Convention ... and simply a matter of survival." gates-At-Large, required that the Regu­ On the floor, there was sufficient sup- I Officers of the Stanford group are: lar Democratic Party of Miss issippi pledge port to force a roll call vote. Once a roll Judy Walborn, chairman; Chris Wilson, 'Support to Johnson-Humphrey in Novem­ call was allowed, most observers agreed administrative assistant; Carolyn Egan, ber, and provided for a commitree towork that the FOP would have been seated. What secretary; and Geoff Smith, treasurer. on requiring that at the 1968 convention all prevented this was the most massive pres­ delegates be chosen through processes which do not exclude Negro registered sure from the White House; through the Mid-Peninsula Friends of SNCC be­ mediation of Hubert' Humphre y ... This voters.) gins with a party at the horne of Clar­ "In analyzing why the FOP did not ac­ I kind of dictation is what Negroes in Mis­ ence Heller, 98 Faxon, in Atherton. sissippi face and have always faced, and cept this compromise, it is important to I Be there on , Saturday, at it is precisely this that they are learn­ understand .first what the FDP delegation i 8:00 p.m. -- and join. I ing to stand up against. represented ... The FOP delegation was ! not . simply an 'alternative' delegation i "The specific reasons for the rejection BOARD MEETING - chosen by Negro instead of white Missis­ . of the Committee's decision follow: sippians. The FOP is not a Negro party, I l. Supporters of the cornprorn ise ar­ Any interested person is invited to attend but an integrated party, open to all whites. I gued that the two seats would have great a San Francisco Friends of SNCC board It grows directly out of the civil rights I symbolic value. But 6.8 symbols would meeting on Tuesday. at 8:30 movement in Mississippi. It came to At­ 1 have been a lot better than two. We must p.m. at 584 Page Street, San Francisco. lantic City demanding, not simply that 1 stop playing the game of accepting token John Dearman will assume the chairman­ Negroes be represented, but that r acism I e CONTINUED NEXT P.AGE C OLUMN z ship.

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Registration for the westcoast Friends of SNCC conference. to 15. in San Francisco, is still open. Deadline: . Mail or take your registration form to the regional SNCC office, 584 Page Street, San Francisco 94117. with $3.00 fee ($2.00 students). • CONTINUED ... ROM F .RONT !'AGE ·the challenge presented by the FDP. The CAN FREEDOM GET recogt~ition for· real change and of allow- Conyention and the National Democratic . ing the opposition ~o choO:~e a few 'lead- 1 Party failed that test. " · ers' to represent tlie peot)le . at large - .TO ·. POOR ··wHITE' FOLKS? especially if . . . the opposition is all On its plans for the future, the MFDP white and ~he p~ople are ali Negro'. If report continueNovember 1 and 2 ... open culties and dange;t:s; to develop a full­ 2. The first provision of that com­ to all p·eople, Negro and white, registered scale program, inpoor white communi tie's. promise was that the Regular delegation or unregistered, who are at least 21 and Bruce Maxwell, staff worker in the would be fully seated and recognized. The residents of Mississippi ... White Folks .Program, calls it "a near FDP did not go to Atlantic City to vote "The FDP is also supporting. the John­ impossible task>< that "bOth politically tor a pr.oposal whicl\ would recognize the son-Humphrey ticket il\ the regular elect­ and 1n human· terms. the freedom move­ Regular party as the Democr&tic repre­ ion ... the only' major group ment has no other choice but to develop ... sentative in Mississippi. The FDP came in Mississippi (to do so) ... (emphasis added)" . His frank and .inform.­ to unseat the regulars because they don't •The FDP is supporting Johnson and ative repot:t builds up a compelling case. repr,esent the people. of Mississipp~ ... Hym:phre,y because it recognizes the im­ ".Politically, the freedom movement 3. The compromise made pretense portance of a Johnson-Humphrey victory cannot succeed as a Negro movement ..• at setting up means of challenging dele­ in November; and because it believes, (because) a soU

~Get Your Registration in NOW for the Regional SNCC Conference: Nov 13-15 at Benjamin'F'ranfdin Junior High School in San Francisco. .TEEN•AGERS GI:VE MISSJSSIPPI A FREE . PRESS. freedom Here Too Most · ,Fr~edoin Schools have student the integration of me public ltbrary: • At­ newpapers. The ~tve:rage editor alld wtiter ter several days of noh -' Yiole11C~ work­ s·Ncc Tells uc fo'r these ·papers is .abOut 13-15 yea.rs.old. shops, three of Shaw M,S.U. (Mississippi · Their arficles give news and opinions not Student· Union) students· went' to the public On .October 2, while studentswere fight­ likely to appear in thees.tablishedMissis- . library here in our town. The. three stud~ ing for free speech on UC's Berkeley sippi' press. ents were Eddie Short, James Johnson, campus, Bay Area FJ;iends of SNCC gave ln the McCoinb "Freedom Journal" a and Willie:W:r;ight, lice and a number new regl!lations limiting · free speech on cOnditions are ..bad , The wages are very of. bystanders watched with app.ialled and · the University's campuses. low·.· The ·amourtt paid for.plowing a. tracto:r confused expressions.• "We regie,t the University .Administra­ aU d3,y is three dollars ... The white ma·n Students·of t!J.e P iiimer' s Crossing (Hat~ tion's a~tempts to ·separate .discussion of ·buys mtist of the. sl.lpplies used fur ~;he an­ tiesliurg} Freedom School drafted their issues from participation in sociiilacdon. nua~ .crqps. put the Negro contributes all own "Declaration of.lndependence; ~ which Is it the. UniverSity's position iliat a stud­ me labOr. In the fall of the year when me. declares to begin witlt: "ln iliis course of ent can disCU!SS .conditions fn Mississippi crop is harvested arid the. cotton is sold human events. it · hli·s become necessary but not urge his fellow· students. to gQ to to market, the white man. gives the Negro for the Negro· people to. break away P:om MisBissippi as voluntee:~; civil rights work­ What he thinks he needs, wimout showing me · customs which have made it very dif­ ers? Will the University allow-on me cam­ the Negro a pec0rd of the.income me white ficult for the Negro to get his God-given pus recruitment for community service man has coUected for the year. This pro­ rights.... Following a sill'\ple and. eloquent abroad but ·not at home? . cess or farming luis h~come a custom. statement on ilie sovere.lgrtty of people ov­ ·•Regarding the issue of fund-raising, This way of livelihood is not much differ­ er government and a list of 17 grievances, we note that funds are raised .on t~ cam­ ent from sta:very. • the deClaration concludes: ~we. therefore, pus for aid to und~rdeveloped countries In the M.r: Zion "Freedoml,'ress", a girl ilie Negroes ofMiss,issippiassembled, ap­ abroad. Will mis be allowed while fund­ wrote that she attended its Freedom School peal to the. gov~rnr.nent of the state, that raising for MissiSsippi community centers ~cause "I want to become a part of history no man is free until all men are f;ree. We and freedom schools is denied? Student also.~ do hereby declare independence from the g:r;oups at dozens of collegeslmdur\iversi.­ The Augt!st 22 issue ofShaw'.s "Free­ unjust laws of Mississippi whicll conflict ties across the country raise .funds for dom FlaJ;tte" ran a lead s.tory describing with the. Unite.d States Co!lStitutton. • Missis!'lippi on their campuses. ·Pan we· allow our own 1/;rea:t · State University: to deny: its students the same right? · • Rather man seeking to ~;>title student MOSES TO LEAD Conference Plans Roll On protes.t, we ShOuld encourage it·. We ,may The Western Regional Friend.s of .SNCC disagree wiili a particular student group REGIONAl CONFERENCE Confer~nce is moving ahead with plans in a particula:~; action it might take, but and support. Workshops on political sup• ])ow· insignificant such disagreement is 'Robett Moses, 'director ot the Missis­ port for SNCC will be led by WUii'e Brown, when compared to tbe significance of the Sippi Summe:~; Project,. will be the main Jr., Assemblyman to be from San.Fr.an­ fact that students 'of. the '' 60's will nev!"r speaker at theNovember 13,..- 15 r .egiopal dsco and by ·Mervyn bym,iiily, ·Los Ang­ be spoken of as a silent generation. • · SNCC conference in San Francisco. eles Assemblyman. The workshop for soc ~ Tbe statement was signed byt Mrs. Rob­ SNCC field secretary and dir.ector of A lal workers will be led by Dave Fogel, ert. Lauter. John ·Dearman. Rev. Thomas the Council of Federated Organizations Director of the Marin County Juvenile Dierricl'• ~ev. William. Grace· and. Dick (COFO), MoseS.. first went into Mis~issip­ Hall and recently returned ftom Missis­ .Lynden (Of s, F. Friends of SNCC); pi in 1961. with five people, working in Dor­ sippi. Professional fund-ra[sers from the othy Weller (of Sari Jose Friends ofSNCC); Pike, Humphreys a.nd· Amite Counties, Bay Area .will be leading special work­ Mrs. Gail Brown, Gene Opton and Mrs. where he initial;ed the voter registration shops on funct~raisingfo:r SNCC. Marvin Sh.ibro.t (of Eas.t Bay Friends of the movement in State. Registrations are coming in from Los . SNCC); Mrs. Donald Gillis artd Mrs.Mary Bob Mos.es is 29 anq hold1> 11n M. A. Angeies, Boulder, Seat~le, Sacramento, B. Moore (of Marin County ,Frl.ends of in philosophy fr.om Harvard University. San Jose and around the Bay SNCC); and Jeff Freed (of S. F. State Col~ lie left a teaching .joh in City ~ortland, Area. WHERE lS YOURS? lege Friends of sNCC). . to be()ome active' in die movementc bolt. ~oWL. ~«fJo~t,w;al.(.ote.-: Where Are You.r Blue Chip Slam:ps? cif" Your blue chip stamps are not coming North to southern distrt:bution centers. In SNCC: The New Abolitiqnists, l:Jy Howard ip fa;st enoug!1. Po you know what t!1ey fact, it's because of the lack of motor .ve­ Zinn, Beacon Pres s, $4.'95. Inquire at your mea:n to SNCC? About 3,000 bool<;s of h icle~at the .Mississippi Projecthas:had · book1>tote gr order fromEasd~ay Friends· stamps will get a bus or a truck. Trans­ to call a h1,1lt .to donations of .booki>. and of SNCC , .. por.tation is one of the most important doth.itig for the time being. If Friends 0f l ".QJ2Side -.Do.wn Justice•, an excellent Hnes of communication. SNCC has all kinds SNCC ·make a tiil1-.fledged campaign of -pamphlet · documem:ing the Albany (Ga.) of communicating .to do: . Sta·ff and volUIJ­ collecting blue, chip stamps troJ;n neigh- · cases, ·the. U. S. ,h.isti()e Department's teers have to get 'places~ from. one end of bors, people at work, relatives, and P,rosecution against civil rfghts leaders. Mississ ippi to the otl.ler, to keep freedom friends - . a mass of stamps will add up: Order · from the National Committee for ·on the. move. Contributions of focxl, do~h­ to the autos, busses aJJd trucks that. SNCC the Albany Defendants. 532 Mer.cer Street, ing and books. have ro !:)e. trucked .from t!1e needs. Civil rights moves faster oq wheels. Albany, Georgia, enplo;sin ~ a contribution, The • )3.unning Summary of Incidents" ie of the ina<\equate education we're (Of }'ike County'S 35,0~3 Negro a log of ,ev:eryday ecvents in the vat ioull getting.' Its t;lema_nds includedup­ Voting•/,lge Citizens, 207 (3%)reg­ wwns. · of Miss!&sipj)i, r,ecorded b:y the to-date texts, a well-stocked li.b:­ istered,. as contrasted to 9, 9/39 Missi.ssippi.Surnme.r. Prr:ijett, from June :rary. with J:'!egro llistory IJ)ttt .pf courthous~?. Potentiifl of· bombing, Co JJ1P a,n y holding registrants w.ere able to take test hou!le's insurance indicated Jt Aug; 2- "Greenwood: Local resident ar- quickly as regi!ltr;~r is under does not want.to continue.thepol­ . rested today while Jn his front Fec:!eral injunction to cease dis­ icy on the hpuse. yard. He repqrted that poHce cat crimination. Sheriff also under drove by, an officer maoe ob.scene federal .injunctio.n J;est:r;~ln\ng Aug. 2.3.- "Jv!cC,omb; L;ocal White citizen gestures, the Negro laugheo, the hiin front iiitimidating Negro ap­ held ·for 3 h()l!rll }a>;t night by fiV~ car backed up, and theNegrowas plicants." heaVily armed, hOoded white men. arrested for profanicy .Bondi $50." He is described by McComh.SNCC Ruleville: Students at local Negro spokesmen as 'p r; his.ftiends t>Cb90l organizing to force li.each.­ 00 Aug. 3- "Glark~>dale: White CP,urch ··of are. all NegroeE; and he lilies in ers to register to vote. Only one Negto neighborhood.' n . Christ m}nister and white sum~ is registered, TJ:iey are a Is q mer volutttee~ refused admission pressing· to improve school cJ;ln-' to white Chur·ch ofChrist: Church ditions. -;J.nd to stop practice of Aug. 25 - . ~. Moss Pt.:. owneroflocal.launo­ memlJe:rs felt they were 'exploit­ sru\ients finanCing school'.s oper­ romat here re~E;!i>d t9 es reportedly have .r~gate ·facllipjes •wl;len pr~sentEid. . class · field days · when students wfth .petttionhy local Negr0 citi: Aug. 4;...., •shaw: Negro schools closed in­ gq out in field. and piCk cotton. to ;t;eps. He reportedly stated that defin~t!O~Y follow:ii:m arudent boy­ raise-moneyfors<;:hgoL" he realized. Negrge~ c6n$titlJted ·cott. 't'his was triggered oy Neg,_ SO% of his business, but . that ro principal's request that thr.ee· Aug. 18- "McComb; After j,e:riesofbomb­ whites would refuse to wash th.ere White volunteers leave cafe't!"ria lngs and intimidation, firSt South­ if partition removed; He report­ whe:te they'd be.en Lnvite.d for west Mississippi Freedom Day edly tolo.Negroes that 'Commun~ school fund~raising dinner laet was peacefully conducted here to­ ists .are behind thi.s whole t\linJ'.' Friday. Students declared boycott day. 25 potential Negro regis­ and that 'Ne'groe& and Whites lia.d of cafeteria,., asl<;ed Student Union trants went to c.ourthou.se, 23 of a good relationship •in Moss ft. to assemblethei.r grfevances, whom .permittedtotaicetest, Reg­ until few month$ a:go when COFO then 6alled a general ooycott;,of istrar .p,r,oc,essed one applicant workers c.ame in.' . (On Aqg. 46, the s.chool. s which. wae s.uppor.t.edi• even 45 minut<')S. 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