THE STUDENT VOICE VOL. 5 NO.8 MARCH 3, 1964 MAYHEM IN MISS. NATCHEZ, MISS. - Sheriff James Anders of Natchez said this week his office has "uncovered nothing" in his investigation into the beating of an elderly Negro by five hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan, as other beatings, two shootings and the arrests of two SNCC workers were reported in the area. Archie Curtis, 60, an undertak er, said he and his attendant Reluctant Judge Willie Jackson, were whipped on the night of Feb. 15. In Atlanta, SNCC asked At Releases Coed torney General Robert F. Ken ATLANTA, GA. - Anl8-year nedy to investigate "reports of old coed from Connecticut Col a resurgence of the Ku Klux lege for Women, convicted in a Klan and terror tactics aimed racial case and given the maxi at Negroes in Mississippi.'' mum sentence by a county judge, Clifford Walker, 34, was found was freed Feb. 22 under a $15, shotgunned to death in his car Princess Anne firemen t1rn lloses on Maryland 000 property bond. eight miles from Woodville in The girl, Mardon R. Walker: Wilkerson County March 1. State College students to halt de_monstrations. of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Walker was employed at the was sentenced to 12 months in International Paper Company. the common jail and six months Bob Moses, program director In Maryland at hard labor. She was also for the Counc'il of Federated fined $1,000. Organizations, said two other She was the third white per Negroes, Albert Whitney and son convicted fer participating in James Winston were whipped by whites during early February. DOGS, FIRE HOSES "Negroes with decf: nt jobs are being terrorized," Moses said. "There have been 180 cross burn ings, five killings, several shoot ings and at least three whippings OUELL ·PROTESTS since the Ku Klux Klan reorganiz PRINCESS ANNE, MD. - Anti demonstrating against segrega ed shortly after President Ken segregation protests, halted by a ~ed restaurants. nedy was killed," Moses said. weekend moratorium called by SNCC Chairman John Lewis Moses said three Negroes with student leaders after police used md CambridgeSNCC leader Mrs. bullet holes in their bodies were dogs, fire hoses and billy sticks .:;loria Richardson, asked into "stuffed into a car in Wilker to disperse demonstrations, may Princess Anne by SAFE, report son County with the motor run resume this week. ed no violence from the white ning." The sheriff of the county Fifty - seven Maryland State community here toward demon attributed their deaths to carbon College students were in the col strators. "It's from the state monoxide poisoning, Moses said. lege infirmary as .a result of in police," Lewis said. The two vote workers arrest Mard01 Walker juries sustained from police Chicago comedian Dick Gre ed Feb. 29 were released the next treatment, according to SNCC gory addressed a mass rally here demonstration by the Judge our day when they posted $100 pro worker Reginald Robinson. Feb. 27 urging students to seek wood T. Pye, who has a history perty bonds each. George Green "At least 14" students suffer a "completely opened city." of pro-segregation activity. was originally charged with auto ed from police dog bites, Dr. Maryland State students, num He was appointed to the bench theft and speeding, · but the theft Neville Barron, college physician bering 600, make up a sizeable in 1955 by segregationist ex-Go charges were .dropped. McAr stated. Others were injured from portion of this town's 1,300 popu vernor Marvin Griffin. Before thur Cotton was held on vagrancy blows by billy sticks, Robinson lation. his appointment, he was an as charges. said. One student, Marion Brown, sistant county attorney and se Green said a 14-year-old girl, Demonstrations were calledby 20, who was injured by a police cretary of the Georgia Education Leona Stills, was shot at Feb. the Student Appeal for Equality billy club here in a Feb. 22 de Commission, a group created to 28 by three teen-aged whites (SAFE), affiliated with SNCC monstration , required surgery maintain segregation in Geor while she was walking along a for more tnan a year. Twenty as a result of a blood clot which gia's schools. Natchez street. She was not year-old SA FE head, John Wilson developed after being struck on was arrested Feb. 26 along with CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 more than 20 other students, for CONTINUED ON PA GE ~ PAGE 2 STUDENT VOICE
Gregory I Hansen CAMBRIDGE NEGROES RESUME PROTESTS Sentenced I Fined CAMBRIDGE, MD, - Demon PINE BLUFF, ARK. - Negro strations have resumed in this comedian Dick Gregory and Eastern Shore community as 18 SNCC worker William Hansen persons were arrested here Feb, were sentenced Feb, 25 to six 25 for picketing. months in jail and fined $500 All demonstrators on picket for a Feb. 17 sit-in demonstra lines in front of the Welfare tion at a segregated truck stop. Board and State Unemployment In addition, Gregory was fined Security Commission offices $50 and costs when he appear were taken into "protective cus ed in court one-half hour late. tody" by the Maryland National Both posted $2500 appeal bonds. Guard. Troops were sent into Their arrests began a series Cambridge by Maryland Gover of anti-segregation protests here nor J. Millard Tawes in July 1963 that have resulted in the court after whites began attacking de ordered closing of the eating monstrators and violence broke place, Ray's Barbecue . and in the out. arrest of more than 50 demon According to Mrs.Gloria Rich strators. ardson, head of the Cambridge Gregory described the jail as I~IIJI::=:C'"!: Nonviolent Actiori Committee "somebody' s torture chamber" (CNAC) and member of the Stu after his release last weekend. 1 ""'-~~-- dent Nonviolent Coordinating 0n Feb. 18, 15 people were CANTON NEGRO CITIZENS face Mississippi law officers as they Committee (SNCC) Executive jailed and crowds of whites _ attempt to enter the courthouse to try to register on Freedom Day. Committee, the "economic sitll: some identified by newsmen as ation' ' in Cambridge is to be "professional segregationists" the chief target of demonstra- began to gather outside the eat tions. ing place. SNCC worker James "In the second ward which is Jones was "roughed up" by a Miss. Freed om Days the Negro ghetto, two-thirds of state trooper. all families have incomes of less On Feb. 19 39 others than $3,000, and over 60% of the were arrested, Reverend Ben city's unemployed are concen jamin Grinnage, chairman of the trated in that area," Mrs.Rich Spur Registration ardson said, "More than 60% Pine Bluff Movement, was shot at of the houses in that ward have during a protest by the owner HA TTlESBURG, MISS. - Over CANTON, MISS. - A 10 p.m •. of Ray's Barbecue. 500 Negroes have tried to re civil curfew has been set by the no hot water." Hansen said after his trial gister to vote in Forrest County city council here after more than "Twenty-nine percent of the that the Pine Bluff Movement in the month following a Jan, 22 400 Negroes tried to register Negro work force is chronical would press the city to adopt a "Freedom Day." to vote in two days. ly unemployed in Cambridge and public accommodations law, He On Feb. 22, the one-month an On Feb. 28, only four Negroes more than one-third who do hold said the group would continue niversary of the first Freedom were allowed inside the Madi jobs work less than 30 weeks of anti-segregation protests. Day here, over 200Negroes stood son County Courthouse. each year. With few exceptions, The Pine Bluff Movement be in line to take Mississippi's re Workers for the Council of Negroes in only the lowest paying gan demonstrations on Feb. 1 gistration test, a prerequisite to Federated Organizations, CORE jobs," Mrs, Richardson stated, 1962. voting here, and SNCC said over 400 CNAC 's demonstrations aim The owner of the eating place "The campaign thus far has Negroes stood in line outside both for an overall economic deve under fire has obtained an injunc- been a success," according to dayll waiting for a chance to lopment plan in which Negroes are represented in policy mak tion against SNCC, Hansen, Gre John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC register. ing decisions on any planning gory the Pine Bluff Movement Lewis, who was here for the jan. Registrar L.F. Campbell re and several local workers. 2 2 Freedom Day, said civil rights mained inside, while policemen commission, according to Mrs. groups "won the right to organize from Canton, jackson, YazooCity Richardson, CNAC also demands and run a voting campaign in and Neshoba County guarded the that if no qualified Negroes are ALBANY LEADER Hattiesburg through the Free Negroes outside, available for an' • industrial com dom Day techniques," Local citizens, deputized es plex" now being developed, RECEIVES 3 YEARS The Freedom Day drive has pecially for Freedom Day, Feb, "then Negroes must be trained been highlighted by the presence 28, were transported to Canton for forthcoming jobs," MACON, GA. - Federal judge of more than 100 ministers and via school bus, Volkswagen, and SNCC field secretary Reginald W.A. Bootie sentenced Mrs,Elza rabbis from the United Presby pick-up trucks, Robinson - active in Cambridge Jackson, recording. secretary of terian Commission on Religion last summer - and Mrs, Rich the Albany Movement, to three and Race, the -Episcopal Society a number of vote workers, in ardson have stated that !:lemon years on probation on Feb. 28. for Cultural and Racial Unity, cluding nine lllinisters, were ar strations "will continue as long Mrs. jackson, with five other and the Rabbinical Association rested, The first to be jailed as the white power structure of civil rights leaders from Albany, of America. Their participation was SNCC worker Robert Mos this city shows no willingness was indicted and tried onperjury in the vote drive is sponsored es, COFO program director for to correct the intolerable con charges • . by the National Council of Chur the state. ditions of Cambridge Negroes." They were accused of falsely ches, in cooperation with the Also jailed was Lawrence telling a grand jury they could cooperation with the Council of Guyot, arrested for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor" THE STUDENT VOICE not remembering being present Federated Organizations (CO Published Once A Week or were not present at a meet FO), a state - wide coalition of and Peter Stoner, jailed when he On Mondays at Atlanta, . ing where a boycott of a white local and national civil rights tried tfreedom schools. community centers, research projects, and law student pro jects in addition to voter re gistration. A "pilot project" in white communities is also planned. According to SNCC Chairman John Lewis, the struggle for freedom in Mississippi can only be won through concentrated act ion within the state and aware ness throughout the nation of the need for Federal intervention to insure the voting rights of Ne groes.'' Plans call for voter registra tion workers in "every rural county and important urban areas in the state," Moses said. Daytime and resident "Free dom Schools" will provide re medial work for high school students and "advance adult li teracy for the purpose of voting," according to plans. Community centers will "focus on political education and or ganization.'' Libraries, similar to the library in SNCC's Green wood, Miss. office will develop ed throughout the state form na tional book drives. "Skilled workers are needed. to carry out a r~searcpproject inquiring into Mississippi's sup pressive politkal and ecohciq~fc · ATLANTA, GA. - "SNCC needs help now more than ever before" SNCC Chairman John Lewis system," Lewis ·stated. "SNCC said. hopes to launch a massive legal The SNCC Chairman asked "Freedom lovers everywhere" to make regular pledges to SNCC's offeii.~ive aga·inst the· ofhc'ialle:.: · direct action and voter registration programs. gal tyranny of the state:• Lewis Lewis said the Atlanta-based anti-segregation organization needs funds "if we are to carry out said. · existing programs and expand into new areas.'' Lewis and Moses claim the t------. summer program will "attempt I pledge $____ to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. to involve students from all over the country." Students over 18 NAME • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••• years who feel they are qualified ADDRESS •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • •••• may apply to: Mississippi Sum CITY • • • •.•••••• • •••••••••••••••• STATE ••••••.•••••••••••• mer Project, 1017 Lynch Street, Contributors to SNCC receive a subscription to the Student Voice. Send to: SNCC, 6 Raymond Street, Jackson, Miss. N. W., Atlanta, Georgia 30314 PAGE 4 l\1 RC! J 3, 1964 STUDENT VOICE U.S. SUPREME COURT Natchez UPHOLDS CONVICTION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 BATON ROUG E, LA., -ASNCC injured. worker, arrested here over two He said Lee Moon, a cab driver years ago, must serve a 60-day was beaten in Natchez Feb. 18, jail term, the United States Su and a Negro was beaten in Amite preme Court has ruled. County by white men. He said The Court refused to overturn at one spot in nearby Franklin a Louisiana conviction for Dion County, whites have drawn a line T. Diamonq, arre-sted Feb. in the road and forbidden Ne 1, 1962 on trespassing, vagrancy groes to cross it. and disorderly conduct charges. "Amite, Wilkerson and Adams Charges of criminal anarchy Counties are involved in a reign placed against him then were of terror," Moses said. A Ne later dropped, and he was releas gro man who had witnessed the ed - after 59 days in jail - on 1961 slaying of anotherNegrowas a $7,000 appeal bond. killed in Amite County Feb. 1. Moses said that over 180 cross GREENWOOD, MISS. Librarian Barbara johnson inspects es had been burned in southeast new books in a section of the library set up in the SNCC office in Louisiana and southwest Missis COED RELEASED Greenwood, Miss. sippi before Christmas. He said vote workers in Louisiana said CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 "Establishing libraries and community centers is an important the cars of the people who set part of our program," SNCC worker Dick Frey said. Frey said crosses on fire there had Mis Shortly after his appointment there are approximately 50,000 volumes in Greenwood now. Most sissippi license plates. he imposed a $25,000 fine on the will be shipped to other libraries throughout the state.'' The "The civil rights bill doesn't Atlanta branch of the National Greenwood library, according tn Frey, offers "thousands of re- begin to touch the problem of Association for the Advancement ference books, school texts, books and periodicals about politics organized racist terror," Moses of Colored People, because of the and civil rights, an excellent selection of modern fiction, and a said. group's refusal to comply with wide variety of children's books. Greenwood is serving as are Moses said the NAACP SCLC a request for its financial re ceiving point for books which SNCC intends to spread over Mis CORE and SNCC were ,,'issuing cords from the Georgia Revenue sissippi in the form of small libraries in all the Congressional a call for 1,000 students, min Department.- In july 1963 he in isters and educators to partici structed a Fulton County grand Districts of the state," he said. pate in a "Mississippi Freedom jury that the state's anti-tres Freedom Libraries are already operating in Columbus, Canton and Summer" program. (see sum pass law - used to arrest anti Meridian. mer project story) segregation demonstrators at eating places in the state- was 1------The other, Thomas Taylor "Does the country have the being "flouted, defied and vio- Tolg, a white Ohio youth who BUMPER STICKERS courage to confront Missis sip lated." worked for SNCC, was released pi?" Moses asked. He ordered, and obtained, in- under a $5,000 appeal bond. Judge dictments against 101 persons Pye has refused to accept $5, NOW AVAILABLE arrested in r acial demonstra- 000 in cash to free Reverend PRINCESS ANNE tions here dating back to 1961 jones, who has been bPhind bars CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 During the summer, he tried since Aug. 28, 1963. : ~ ~ i the head, Robinson reported. two of these cases both involv- During Miss Walker's trial, ing white persons. Both were Judge Pye ordered one witness, According to Robinson, reports a former professor of hers who "One Man -One Vote" are avail that a student threw acid at a given maximum sentences, and . testified in her behalf, to go to able for $1.00 from SNCC 6 policeman are "incorrect.'' One one defendant, the Reverend jail for 20 days for contempt of Raymond Street, Atlanta, Geor student who arrived at the de Ashton Jones, is still in jail. court. gia. monstration with a bucket of lye "persuaded to leave it in the street" by Robinson. "Later a policeman walked into it," he said. "Innocent Negro bystanders were drawn into the demonstra tions when police turned the fire hoses on Negroes standing on the sidewalk," Robinson stated. Negro Woman To In f11 (OIIflltSSiOIGI Pri•aty SELMA, ALA. - A Negro wo man has qualified for the United States House of Representatives seat held by Congressman Ken neth Roberts. Mrs. A. P. Boyington, Selma civic leader, qualified for the race Friday, Feb. 29. She will face Roberts, who has D!6J03~ ... l b~UDI~V been in Congre:;s since 1950, in ·,y;N ·~aaJ~S puowAov 9 the May 19 primary.