THE S'iUDENT VOICE Vol. 4, No. 7 TheStudentVoice, Inc. 6 Raymond Street, N.W., Atlanta 14, Ga. December 9, 1963 IN 'TERRIBLE' TERRELL Jury Frees NIGHT RIDERS ~L!~ffi~~~PI~F~
t~~~fi~:f~~t~~t~here by a Federal jury. S 0 OT W0 RK E R The five were accused of beat- H ing five civil rights workers ar DAWSON, GEORGIA - }_ 33- rested in Winona, Mississippi year-old woman barely missed after they entered a white rest death here early Sunday morning room at a bus station there. I December 8, when•night , rid. er Is \ State highway patrolman john bombed her house. L, Basinger, MontgomeryCounty Mrs. Carolyn Daniels, a Daw Sheriff Earle Wayne Patridge son beautician, received a bul and Winona Police Chief Thomas let wound in her left foot when ] • Herod, Jr., all claimed they shots were fired at her home were innocent of the seven charg late Saturday night. es brought against tltem by the While she was at a hospital - justice Department. waiting for treatment for her Former state highway patrol injuries - a bomb exploded in man Charles Perkins and Winona her horne, making it "a total policeman William Surrell were wreck• ., also charged with beatingtheNe As late as Sunday afternoon, groes. Mrs. Daniels still carried the The Justice Department called bullet in he1· !eft foot and shot six witnesses, including four of gun pellets in her right leg. the Negro complainants, and two She said a doctor called by FBI agents, .l10spital authorities to treat her June Johnson, Euvester Simp never arrived. son, Rosemary Freeman, and Mrs. Daniels was one of the BOMBED OUT-· Lawrence Guyot, all testified that .first p awson citizens to open they had been beaten in the Win Mrs. Carolyn Daniels, Dawson, Ga., vote wor ker, points to damage her horne to SNCC voter registra ona jail. done to her horne by a night r ider's bomb. Rider's bullets wounded tion workers. With their aid - Mrs, Fannie Lou Hamer told Mrs. Daniels in the left foot. (Photo by Cochran Studios; Albany, a.nd often by herself - she has Ga.) CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ':llarwged to keep interest in vot ing high in "terrible" Terrell Matthews told newsmen at that County. meeting "We are a little fed up In t·.vo vteeks in NO'!ernber , with this voter r egistration busi Mrs. Daniels and twoSNCC work ness. We want our colored people ers - Rober': Cover and wendy to go on living like they have for Worker Gets Two Years Mann- were able to 3el 45 l':e the past 100 years." with the jury's .findings. Allen' s groes to apply for the registra- Mrs. Daniels' horne has been Three Others Indicted attorney, C.B. King, of Albany, tion test. fired on once· before. On Septem indicated that he would appeal. On November 22, 33 N~groes ber 6, 1962, night riders shot AMERICUS! GEORGIA - An all Allen, SNCC field workers applied. T hirty passed the test. ~to her horne, wounding SNCC white male jury deliberated four Donald Harris and J ohn Perdew. workers Jack Chatfield, Prathia hours before returning a " guilty" and Thomas McDaniel an Amer Mrs. Daniels has set up citi Hall and Chds Allen. verdict against white SNCC field icus citizen, were indicted here zenship schools in Dawson to On September 9, two churches secretary, Ralph Allen. last week by a Sumter County give potential voters instruction - both used for voter registra Allen was charged with " as :;rand jury. They were allcharg- __ in Georgia's voting test. tion meetings - were burned to sault with intent to murder" ed with " assault with intent to Terrell County received na the ground. Patrolman John W. Alford of murder" and ' 'resi sting arrest." tional attention on July 25, 1962, On September 17. another Americus during an anti-ses>:re-· All four were released from when county sheriff Z.T. Mat church was burned. gation demonstration here last jail after 68 days behind bars thews and 12 armed, cigar smok On September 3, 1962, Sasser summer. Judge T , L. Marshall in early November when a three- immediately sentenced Alien to ing white men broke into a vot CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ing meeting in a Sasser church. two years in iai l in cornplia)lce Page 2 December 9, 1963 STUDENT VOICE Over 300 Attend SNCC Conference ·~~~~~~!M ~A~~~L NEGRO LEADERS DISCUSS D. C. GATHERING DEAlS the court that she was kicked by Sheriff Partridge after he yanked DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WITH 'FOOD AND JOBS' her off a bus in front of the bus station in Winona. She testified WASHINGTON, D.C. -Over that she had remained on the bus WASHINGTON, D.C. in- 300 workers for the StudentNon while her four companions enter creased civil rights organization violent Coordinating Committee ed a segregated lunch room, despite P r esident Kennedy' s as assembled here November 29 sassination, redoubled demands thr ough Dec. I, for a leadership All five were arresi:ed on of the federal government, and the confer ence on " Food and J obs." charges of disorderly conduct. r ole of white students in the civil Noted author James Baldwin Annen Ponder, a field secre rights movement, were among and Bayard Rustin, Deputy Di tary for the Southern Christian the topics given wide discussion rector · of the August 28 March Leadership Conference, testified at the Thanksgivingweekendcon on Washington, delivered the that three of the defendants beat ference of the Student Nonviolent opening and closing keynote spee her in the Winona city jail on Coordinating Committee. ches. june 9. She said, " And I'm not James Forman, Executive Se The conference addressed it Clilmpletely over it yet." cretary of SNCC, told members self to questions of "the econo James Harold West, a SNCC told the cou'rt he was of the press at a November 29 mic deprivation of the disenfran worker~ beaten by policemen and two Ne press conference that, "SNCC chised Negroes of the South," gro prisoners who were order will not halt its activities be according to SNCC Chairman ed to beat and kick him. He cause of the President's death." John Lewis. "It was an oppor tunity to examine in depth some said he was later forced by a No Moratorium Called of the programs available to policeman to sign a statement bring about basic changes in the saying that no beating took place. "We would be derelict in our economic and political system Two Negroes who were in the duty to our people and to Pre which holds Negroes enslaved." jail testified that they had been sident Johnson if we had a mora Representatives of the follow "paid" a pint and a half of corn torium," Forman said, referr ing agencies spoke: the Manpower whiskey fo r beating West. ing to suggestions that civil r ights Development and Training Agen Guyot, a SNCC field secretary groups call a halt to demonstra cy; National Sharecroppers Fund; told the all-white jury he- was tions to give P resident J ohnson a Migrant Health Section of the U.S. "kicked, punched, and beaten with chance to prove himself. Deoartment of Health, Education a slapjack" when he went to "Where Mr. Kennedy, because and Welfare; Industrial Union De Winona to post bond for West of his r ecord and past actions partment of the AFL- CIO: u.s. and the women. Guyqt sa_id in the civil rights field, might Rural Areas Development Agen Sh erif( Earle P artridge (.}r have slipped by with words and cy; U.S. Congress House Educ a dered him to " get out of Winona promises, Mr. Johnson, beL1g a 8111yard Rustin tion and Labor Committee; Je and stay gone " but he was stopp Texan, will have to pr ove him wish LaborCommi~e ;U .S.C ivil ed by highway patrolmanBasing self to Negroes and liberals by ;...__------! Rights Commission; and Workers er and knocked down because he his actions,... Forman said. Defense League. r efused to say " sir " to the of "The government did not call Federal Intervention Conference delegates and ficer. m oratorium on government. agency officials joined in work activities, and we will not either!' Must Be Forced shops following speeches to con Then, said Guyot, he was forc he continued. sider technical que stions of im- ed to disrobe and wa s beaten in The r ole of the federal govern- proving the economic condition of the sheriff's office before hewas ment in advancing the civil rights the Negro. They cliscussed the jailed for disturbing the peace. Baldwin At{rees movement received attention utilization of federal programs, FBI agents took the stand to introduce photographs showing James Baldwin, delivering the from Bob Moses, Director of many of which are segregated opening keynote speech,. agreed SNCC'S Mississippi Vote Drive and discriminatory at the local injuries to the five. One agent testified he had examined a blood stating that "the events of the for the past three years. Moses level. stained shirt won by Miss John last ten days have done nothing asserted that the experience of Conference &legates included son while she was under arrest. to alter our determination." SNCC workers in the hard core SNCC field secretaries and wo rk If convicted, the defendants Commenting on the assassina areas of the South showed that ers, · adults and high school stu might have received seven years tion, Baldwin said, "Ke!Jlledywas the only hope for Negroes lay dents from local SNCC projects, sentences and $7,000 fines. killed because he broke the long in creating a situation which southern students from white and standing agreement between the would force a confrontation of Negro colleges, and representa North and South --- that you federal and state· authorities. tives of northern college groups. 1------do with your Negroes what you Moses said that there was Approximately 500 participants want to do, and we'll dq with ours little possibility that the white attended the conference,the lar THE STUDENT VOICE what we want to do. Kennedy population would make any real gest in SNCC's history. broke that bargain - - - he had changes in the status of the Ne- 1.-_:______;;_ ___-j Published Once A Week to." gro voluntarily, and that it would On Mondays at .Atlanta, Baldwin also pointed to the dis not accept any substantial chang Whites Stay North Fulton County, Georgia. parity between the strong reac es in the "power structure" Bayard Rustin, speaking on tion to Kennedy's death, and the without federal intervention. "New Perspectives in Civil BY STUDENT VOICE, INC, response to the deaths of such , SNCC'S job is to "bring about just Rights," suggested that Presi 8 1/Z Raymond Street, N,W, persons as William Moore. the such a confrontation· • • • to dent Johnson may become "an- Atlanta , Georgia 30314 six children killed in Birming change the power structure," CONTINUED TO PAGE 4 ham, and Medgar Evers. Moses stated. STUDENT VOICE Decembe/9, 1963 Page 3 JOBS SECURED; YCOTT HALTED
ATl..AJ.'ITA, GEORGIA -After securing some jobs for Negroes in •A tlanta' s downtown section, two civil rights groups have tem porarily halted planned boycotts and demonstrations_here.
·Operation Breadbasket, a group of 400 Negro ministers, and the Committee · on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), the Atlanta University Center student - ~,. ' ·-·-=
protest group, called the halt ...... ' . . after revealing that " a real in a neighbor 's · b.ouse show the signs of a violent breakthrough" had been made. Cochran Studios; Albany, Ga,)
Reverend Ralph Abernathy, effective, according to SNCC chairman of Operation Bread TERRELL TERROR workers here, basket, said 253 of 1, 816 Ne Ralph Allen CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 SNCC workers have been active groes working In 16 downtown in the county and in Dawson stores had won employment in deputy sheriff D.E. Short ran since November, 1961. Working Americus "nontraditional" jobs as clerks three SNCC workers - Ralph with local people, like Mrs.Dan and salesmen, Allen, P rathia Hall and Willie iels, they have been able to raise COAHR and Operation Bread- Paul Berrien - out of town at the number of Negroes register Indictments basket sponsored a march and gunpoint. Short was later sued ed to vote from 51 to 1960 to picket · line around Rich's, the by the United States Department approximately 140 as of August, South' s largest department store, of justice, but was acquitted. 1963. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 on November 21 and 22, On October 29, 1962; three In Atlanta,. t.he Student Non Student leaders indicated that SNCC workers were jailed in the suspension of boycotts and d violent Coordinating Committee judge federal panel declared Ge- 8 ronwoo , near 0 awson, on asked President Lyndon B. john orgia' s insurrection and unlawful demonstrations wa s temporar y "trespass" charges after they and that action might be r e sum- d h' d son to "act immediately to halt assembly laws unconstitutional, entere a w lte-owne grocery bombings and shootings aimed at The four were held on various ed. store to canvass for voter re- intimidating voter registration counts following an anti-segrega- L------1 gistration. workers in Southwest Georgia.'' tlon demonstration on August 8. Allen was released on $5,000 Forty percent of the Negro The SNCC protest from Chair Had they been convicted on the appeal bond, when defense at- families in Terrell County earn man John Lewis quoted Presi insurrection count, they might torney King filed for a new trial. less than $1,000 a year, 73% of dent John F. Kennedy's remarks have received the death penalty. A hearing was set for February the Negroes over 25 years old after Mrs. Daniels' home was Another youth, Zev Aleony of 14• have not finished the seventh fired upon a year ago, and tow CORE, also charged earlier with During his trial the state con- grade. girls were shot in Mississippi. insurrection, was not named in tended that Mr. Allen had thrown As of 1960, only 51 Negroes P r esident Kennedy said then: last week's indictments. Instead, a bottle at Americus police of- wer e registered voters in Ter "To shoot ••• two young people John L, Barnum, treasurerofthe ficer, john w. Alford, during a r ell County. Out of 4,S33wh1tes, who were involved in an effort Sumter County Movement, the protest demonstration on August 2,894 were registered. to register people, to burn group that coordinated last sum- 8, Allen denied this, and charged The first suit filed by the jus churches as a reprisal, • • • mer's protest, was indicted for that Am ericus officers beat him tice Department under the 1957 I consider both cowardly as well "perjuring" himself before a before they arrested him. Civil Rights Act was filed here. as out;:-ageous." In Albany,Slat justice of the peace. .Terrell County officials were :____ ~.:....: ___:______-1 .charged with systematic discri- er King, president of the Albany Movement, also protested the "We Shall Overcome" the official recording of the March mination, and were enjoined from bombing and shooting to Presi On Washington may be purchased by using the coupon on this further acts of discrimination. dent Johnson. page. Money collected from the sale of this record will be The injunction has proved in- King said, ''The shooting and used to further civil rights activitie~s:• ______:======;-- bombing will be repeated unless THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON * * AUGUST 28TH - ~ COUNCIL FOR UNITED CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERSHIP 10 East 44th Street strong presidential action is VVE SH LL New York 17, New York. taken.'' Please send me copies of the authorized reco r ding(s) of According to a SNCC survey OVERCOl\llE! the March on Washington at the special Council price. 1 understand ~o.«
S.N.C.C. Bro"eh ------Page 4 December 9, 1963 STIJDENT VOICE IN ARKANSAS McDONALD'S BOYCOTT CALLED HELENA POLICE ARREST THREE
PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS - HELENA, ARKANSAS - Two The Pine Bluff Movement - SNCC field secretaries an anti-segregation group here West Helena minister were jail has called for nationwide pro- ed here Friday, Decernller 6, for . test against the McDonald's re "inciting to riot" as they walk staurant chain, ed down a Helena sidewalk. Members of the group have William Hansen, director of tried unsucce ssfully since July SNCC's Arkansas project, said to integrate McDonald's here, SNCC workers John Bradford The Reverend Benjamin Grin and Bruce Jordan, and the Re nage, chairman of the movement, verend Raymond Lyles of West said more than 45 demonstrators Helena, wer e arr ested on Friday were jailed at McDonald's during afternoon. Jordan and Bradford James Forman addresses SNCC Conference. (SNCC Photo tiy Clifford, july and August. had been in Helena for about six vaughs.) Members of the movement and hours, Hansen said. train without havi.I).g a new defini two field secretaries fr J ill the ~ Bradford, 22, i s from , Mound - tion of'work is u~~ l e'ss,,. ~Rustin s tUdent Nonviolen t c oor dinating; Bayou, Mississippi. · Jordan, 19 -o. ~ c .- CONFERENCE stated. Committee went to courtNovem i s fr om Pine Bluff, Ar kansas. Noting the number of white CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 ber 29 to te stify on whether a Rever end Lyles _ is pastor of st udents in the audience, Rustin temporary injunction obtained by Pettis Mem orial C.M . .:i. Church said that-the answer for nor thern McDonald's against them should in We st Helena, other Hugo Black.'' He recalled white students was not to come be made per manent. Thirty-three people , including Negro opposition to the appoint South and_ put on blue overalls, The injunction, obtained there Hansen and Br adford, wer e ar ment of the liberal Supr eme Court He said it was e ssential for staurant's manager , Robert r e sted in Helena on November 16 justice from Alabama. white civil r ights workers to Knight, on August 13, enjoins the duri11g the first sit - in de "Mr. Johnson may be able to work with unemployed whites in two SNCC workers, William Han monstraticms held her e. control the South better than Mr . depressed areas of Kentucky, sen and James jones, The P inE Hansen said t.he three were Kennedy did," Rustin said, " Be West Virginia and the North, Bluff Movement, the Ar kansas held on $1 500 bail each. cause he represents things they " When the day comes that the NAACP , and the Black Muslim s Helena is on the Mississippi want." white unemployed adopt thespir it fr om " engaging in, sponsoring, River in Ar kansa s. " SNCC m ust help Mr. Johnson and tactics of the civil r ights inciting and encouraging stand Bradford and J ordan were - - - but to help Mr . Johnson movement, we are on our wav ins, sit- ins, or from picketing,., working on a voter registration means to create an atmosphere to a r evolution in this country," rne segregated diner. project in Phillips County. in which he is pushed even fur Rustin said, The order also asked that t..l-tey Negroes are 53.9% ofthe coun ther .'~ be prohibited from " interfering ty' s population, according to the Rustin warned that SNCC's Ghettoes In The North empha sis on jobs ana job relo with the business of McDonald's:' 1960 Civil Rights Commission john Lewis , ChairmanofSNCC Most lunch counters are inte Report on Voting. Only 28% of cation not lose sight of the fact that " T here is nothing for which closed the conference by calling grated he re, Sit-in demonstra the eligible Negroe s are r egis for a nationwide movement, tions began in Pine Bluff on Fe ter ed voters, however. to be trained.'' "Until there is a planned econ- "We a s students, we who r e br uary 1. 1------~ omy and automation is controlled present, as we like to sa y - T he Pine Bluff Movement, by the government, there is no the masses ...., we must not sell composed of local citizens, has in public and private facilities, out. We must stand up and stand point in training anybody, be ~ mpl oym ent and schools, up for what is. 4f:i,gbt .-.•• We moved against segregation here cause there are no jobs, To musr-speak" to the whole nation, ------•••••r..••••••••••••••••-••••••., Negr o and white students from the North must go into the black ar eas of the Nor th, go into the ghettoes of Harlem , into the ghet toes of Chicago and Detroit, and organize a mass m ovement simi lar to what we have in the South." "For so long there have been planned movements, planned re ttruDEiNT NONVIOLENT COO?DlliATmG COlVINilTTEE volutions, but we must all re cognize the fact that if any basic .. 3418 • 11th STREB'!'( N. W. changes are to take place now, " NV~GTON. D, c. ~0010 we, the people, the masses, must -..... ~7-7445 _..,..- rise up and bring these changes about. We qmnot depend on or expect PresidentJohnsonorCon gress to do it, but we must help them do it,,. according to Lewis. "For the day will come when f,8L ·oN .t!"""ad D!6•o;o~ "OfUDifY freedom and equality will exist, vT£0£ 'RO ;'RlURpV OIYd not just for some of the people, but for all of the people," Lewis a6DfSOd "$ ·n "M"N "lS puoU!hR"H 9 afD'II '11"8 said.