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TESTING TO CONTINUE COMPLIANCE SELMA, ALA. -Organized ATLANTA. GA. -Successful testing of public facilities here attempts to integrate formerly and a stepped up voter registra- all-white public places in four tion drive will continue,aStudent deep South states were reported Nonviolent Coordinating Com- this week by SNCC. miitee spokesman announced this But the SNCC said .'a clear week. pattern of extra-legal and of- On July 10, an injunction pro- ficially sanctioned violence. con- hibiting assembly of more than doned or initiated by local police- three people, meetings where men. is evident in Arkansas. violations of law are suggested, Alabama. Florida. Georgia and or encouraging impeding justice, Mississippi where Negroes have was issued against SNCC, CORE, tried to exercise their rights un- COFO, NAACP, the Southern der the 1964 Civil Rights Act... Regional Council,Alabama Coun- The SNCC office here reported cil on Human Rights, the Dallas the following incidents: County Voter's League and Im- Georgia establishments in At- provement Association, SNCC lanta. Albany. Thomasville. Tif- Executive Secretary James For- A GEORGIA STATE TROOpER (left) tries to reach SNCC worker ton. Savannah and Americus in- man, SNCC Chairman John Chuck NeDlett being beaten with ~s,at a July 4th rally in tegrated quietly on Luly 3. but on Lewis, SNCC Selma Project Di- Atlanta. Neblett. Wilson Brown. and Matthew Jones were beaten the days following. SNCC worker rector John Love, the Reverend when they entered outdoor stands to hear Alabama Governor George John Perdew. 22, of Denver.Col- , SNCC workers E. Wallace and ex-Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett speak. orado, was beaten in Americus Benny Tucker, Alvery Williams, lour times by a white mob on Karen House, WilIieC.and Cha.r- July 4 after leaving a newly les Robertson and James Austin, ROJECT GOES ONI Court . Order, SNCC integrated restaurant; mobs of attorneys and DrlYe .eglstratlonR .. whites drove through Americus' Charles Chestnut, 27 local re- DESPITE BOMBING JUll Negro neighborhoods shooting

sidents and the p S troll 1 to 237 and throwing bricks; four SNCC and the National States Rights McCOMB, MISS. -Despite BA TESVILLE, MISS. -A fed- workers. Donald Harris. Ran- Party. three blasts that rocked a Negro eral court has erased double dolph Battle. Roy Shields and Only SNCC has had an active home here July 8 and ~ :,istory standards for Negro and white Dale Smith and nine other Ne- program in Central Alabama. of violence, a Student Nonviolent voters here. groes were arrested on July 5 The National States Rights Party Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Two SNCC workers helped 237 for trying to enter a public swim- has been holding meetings in the voting and educational project Negroes register at the Panola ming pool in Albany; a mob of Selma area. will continue. County Courthouse here in one 250 whites and police chased Over 60 people, including John Ten voter registration work- week. Negroes away from an integrated Lewis, SNCC Chairman. have ers in the home at 702 Wall The current registration drive movie theatre in Americus. been arrested here since July Street here were not seriously began after the Fifth Circuit In Laurel, Mississippi on July 3, when the rights bill was sign- injured. One. Curtis Hayes, 22, Court of Appeals overturned a ed into law. .City and county a SNCC worker, was cut by fly- decision by the District Court of 4. a group of Negroes attempting policemen and members of a ing glass. Another. SNCC Miss- North Mississippi "opening'. re- 'to enter a restaurant were re- special Sheriff's posse. under the issippi Summer Project Volun- gistration books to Negroes. In I;>ulsed by a white mob and two direction of DalIasCountySheriff , teer Dennis Sweeny, 21, of Port- effect, the court said the same Negro youths were slashed with razor blades. Jim Cl-rk, beat and jailedNegro- ! land, Oregon. suffered a mild standards that had been applIed to es making integration tries on concussion. whites must be applied toNegro- In Selma. Alabama. N egroes Saturday. July 4. Clark's men Others in the home wereSNCC es. ~acefully integrated a movie also arrested four members of a workers George and Freedye The court ruled registration theatre on July 4 until the owner SNCC -..ided Literacy Project Greene. 20. and 19, both from applicants must be 21 years or stopped selling tickets. Mobs of here. Greenwood. Mississippi; SNCC over, may apply for registra- whites and policemen attacked the Thomas Brown, 24. a SNCC worker Julius Samstein. 25. of tion without paying a poII tax, Negroes waiting outside. worker. said organized teams of New York City; SNCC worker may try to register without the I In Pine Bluff. Arkansas.mem- Negroes would test whether Sel- Jesse Harris. 22, of Jackson. registrar or his deputy being pre- bers of a SNCC testing team ma's eating places and movie Mississippi; SNCCworkerSher- sent, and that as many applicants were served in two of four plac- es they entered. At one. Rays

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Clinton. JWle 26 -The Church tacks of the Holy Ghost was damaged of the Negro community. by fire in the fifth firebombing Meridian. July in ten days in Mississippi. old brother of missing Jackson. JWle 27- A white worker CORE worker. jailed for three broken arm weeks along with seven other car ran a red light forcing rights workers, was beaten by cars to collide. white prisoners in the Hinds Hattiesburg. July 3. - COWlty jail. grocery s~ore and teen spot Ruleville. JWle 28 -Themayor 'hit by dynamite. of Ruleville prevented a white ~ .J~Y 3 -A Stanford University chaplain from attending services at a white Freedom School here by church here. Leake County sheriff. Jackson. JWle 28 -A surn- Tougaloo, July 3- -~- ,- mer volWlteer was kicked from car en route to Canton was chas- behind by a local white youth at ed by two white cars. the train station here as he arriv- Clarksdale. Julr 3 -A ed from Oxford. Ohio. manager Hattiesburg, JWle 29 -Two ees they would be cars belonging to SNCC volWl- if they went to teers were shot at outside the Batesvllle. July 3 - SNCC office here. SNCC work- er Pete Stoner was arrested for as he left the Panola County reckless driving and failure to courthouse. SNCC WORKER JESSE HARRIS surveys damage of SNCC FREE- DOM HOUSE in McComb. Miss. signal. Laurel, July 4- Two brothers, A SNCC worker and summer Biloxi. JWle 29 -Severalwhite partora group of seven Negro 1.volunteer were injured. voiii"riieers working in SNCC 's teenagers who attempted to test The shots had injured a l7-year- dy, claimed he was in the juris- pilot white commWlity project the public accommodations pro- old girl who wa s hospitalized diction of the other department were turned away from two hotels visions of the civil rights law, for stomach wounds. and refused to give information. here. were wounded by a mob of 25- Walthall, July 7 -Police of- McComb. July 9 -A car with Holly Springs. JWle 30. -A white 30 whites. ficials in two counties refused to four white males is reported to man assaUlted SNCC worker Batesville, July 4 -A local give information -supposed tQbe have fired on the only Negro Larry Rubin and threatened to clttzen and summer volunteer public -to the Greenwood SNCC on the McComb police force fol- .'shoot up" the SNCC office. were chased in their car for office on the whereabouts of a lowing a SNCC mass meeting. Harmony (Carthage), JWle30- thirty miles. missing rights worker arrested G~port. July 9 -11lree SNCC The (white) COWltysuperintendant Laurel, July 5 -Two white earlier in the day. ja'mesBrown summer volunteers were J.rrest- of schools suddenly annoWlced a SNCC volunteers were held by had been arrested for forfeiture ed in front of the Harrison Coun- police for questioning and aSNCC of bond despite removal of his ty courthouse as they accompan- staff member was detained when case to federal court. ied local citizens to the voting she went to investigate. Hattiesburg, July 8- The Rev. registrar's office. - Jackson, July 5 -A white car Robert Beech of the National Greenwood. July 1O-Phil Moore. hurled bottles at the project of- Council of Churches was arrest- a SNCC volunteer, reported he fice here cutting a local woman's ed on a false pretenses charge was beaten and hit with a club by leg. for allegedly overdrawing his a representative of the Interstate Clarksdale, July 5 -Two local bank account. Bond was set Insurance Company who told him white volunteers were denied en- at $2.000., to "get out of town." trance to the (white) FirstChris- McComb, July 8- A SNCC Hattiesburg. July 10 -Three tian Church. worker and summer volunteer summer volunteers were as- Jackson, July 6 -A local Ne- Nere injured when the SNCC saulted by two white youths with gro was told he faced $311 in Freedom House was bombed. The metal bars and beaten on their fines and three months in jail house contained ten project work- way to SNCC canvassing head- on unspecified charges after he ers. six of them SNCC staff. quarters. All three. including was visited by a summer vol- Columbus, July 8 -ThreeSNCC a rabbi, were released after unteer. voter registration volunteers hospital treatment. were arrested and charged with 1 , Clarksdale, July 6 -Civil Rights Greenwood. July 10 -SNCC /(Orkers were "nearly forced off trespassing while canvassing for worker Fred Mangrum was sing- he road" by a car of whites. IN RULEVILLE. the site ofvoter potential voters. led out of a group of 12 SNCC Ashland. July 8 -SNCC staff registration meetings sponsored Gulf port, July 7 -The tires workers and arrested for pro- .)f a summer worker's car were member CleveSeller was arrest- by SNCC, was damaged by fire fanity. on june 25. slashed after she drove local ed f{)r reckless driving. citizens to the courthouse to re- Ruleville. July 8 -A summer Hattiesburg, July 10 -SNCC worker reported interference by special session forNegroesonly. c gister to vote. volunteer was "thrown out" of Vicksburg, July 7 -White the Sunflower County registrar'1O .lie telephone company with their two days prior to the scheduled "hone lines after they made re- opening of a Freedom School youths threw a bottle, breaking office when he accompanied i I'ated calls to the FB1. here. a window, at a car waiting to local woman to register to vote. Harmony. july 2 -Local citi- pick up Freedom School students. Laurel. July 8 -A SNCC ex- zens were told they could not Moss Point, July 7 -Three ecutive committeemember,Les- Jackson. July 10 -FBI direct- use the Freedom School by the Negroes, but no whites, were ter McKinnie, was '.missing" for or J. Edgar Hoover told news- sheriff and county school sup- arrested here when they followed close to 24 hours. Both city men the FBI would give "no a car of whites believed to have and county police, who finally ac- protection'. to civil rights work- , erintendant.and six ' pounds A crossof large was roofing burned shot into a mass meeting here. knowledge he was in their custo- ers. i STUDENT VOICE July 15, 1964 PAGE 3

PROGRESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 REPORT I theatres would obey the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Brown said JACKSON, MISS, - a "Freedom Week," during which Negroes made registration at- tempts here in large numbers. rolled in would continue, with increased Mississippi," a SNCC spokes- canvassing of Negro neighbor- - man reported. hoods for potential voters. Six more schools are planned Observers who saw Lewis jail- ed said police crowded the young students. By mid-summer more integration leader into an alley with others arrested with him and engaged in the "treated them with excessive Project," brutality:' The witness said statewide policeman pushed electric cattle prods under girls' dresses to shock and burn them. started by SNCC in 1961 in Mc- Lewis' arrest here July 6 was Comb. his 33rd. He was arrested here 450 summer volunteers are in September 25, 1963. and again the state now. loo additional this week while carrying signs workers are expected in the next urging Negroes to register. ten days. They are On Sunday night.July 5. posse to 100 SNCC staff members and members and local policemen other civil rights groups that SNCC STAFF MEMBER DICK FREY (left) explains SNCC's beat and clubbed Negroes leaving make up the coordinating agency Mississippi Summer Project plans to Representative Augustus Haw- a weekly mass meeting. Four of the three-month drive. kins (D-Calif.), Rep. Philip Burton (D-Calif.) and Rep. William persons were hospitalized. in- Some 150 lawyers and law stu- Fitts Ryan (D-N.Y.). The three congressmen and Rep. Don Edwards cluding two white newspaper re- dents, plus loo clergymen who (D-Calif.) toured Mississippi last week wit!t SNCC staff members porters attacked by the officers. ---, will serve as counselors to the Law officers refused to let volunteers, make up a comple- in leadership development, re- wood, 50 (three schools) ; and Negroes seeking to register en- ment of 900 workers in the state. ter the front door of the county medial academic programs (rea- Ruleville, 30. Total enrollment The second group of volunteers. ding, writing, mathematics, his- at all schools is expected tO top courthouse July 6 and made one arriving here June 27 from a SNCC staff member. a Selma re- tory), and contemporary issues. 1,000. training session in Oxford, Ohio. The first "" Director for the SNCC "Free- sident, leave a line at the rearof man community centers and teach opened Thursday, July 2 in Vicks' dom School" program is Dr. the building. FJftyotherNegroes in Freedom Schools located in burg, Clarksdale and MilestoJ Staughton Lynd, former social seeking to register, plus Lewis cities a~d towns across the state. and three other SNCC staff mem- with approximately 30 student! studies professor at Atlanta's The first group. which arrivec each. Schools opening Monday, Spelman College, who will Join bers. were jailed on charges they June 20,is engaged mainly in July 6 included Sharon, with 100 the Yale University faculty this interfered with a court session. voter registration. Nine Negroes were jailed July 7 students; Camden, 100; Valley fall. The United Federation of Each school will have a low View, loo; Canton, 60; Hatties- Teachers assisted in recruiting while walking down a Selma teach-student ratio. The "Free- burg. 575 (five schools}; Green- street. dom Schools" will offer courses vine, 60: Moss Point, 60;Green- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 16 more were jailed July 8. including Ernest McMillIan, 19, a SNCC staff member from Dal- VOTER DRIVE In other Mississippi voting RIGHTS LA W CONIJNUED FROM PAGE 1 Ilas , Texas. Police have also I CONTINUED FROM PAGE I cases, U.s. District Judge Sid- ! Truck -StoP. where comedian I impounded two automobiles be- as possible may take the test as ney Mize took under advisement I and Arkansas Pro- I longing to SNCC. a request from theDepartmentof , physicalOver 85%space of theallows. eligible white ject Director Bill Hansen were Justice for a prelimInary Injunc- a child. while they were fishing. arrested earlier this year, a voters in Panola County are re- tion to halt discrimInation agaInst white customer hit aNegroSNCC In Ocala. Florida. four restau- gistered voters. Of 7250 eligible Negroes In Lauderdale County. rants served Negroes but a fifth worker. At another eating place. Negroes. however. only I was District Judge Claude Clayton a white man threatened the group refused to serve an all- Negro registered before theSNCC drive will hear voter discrimInation with a shotgun. group. A Fort Smith. Arkansas began. cases agaInst Carroll Countyre- swimming pool was peacefully in- The Fifth Circuit Court of Ap- gistrar George W. Tuberville and In Helena, Arkansas, threeNe- tegrated by eight Negro boys. peals said a Negro Voters Lea- Humphreys County registrar G. groes -including two SNCC work- In Baton Rouge. Louisiana. a gue. formed in 19~5.had attempt- H. Hood. ers -were arrested July 7 near white government worker hit a ed to register 10 Negroes and In addition, a three- judge fed- a swimming pool after integrating Negro who took part in integrat- had only registered one. while eral panel has been appointed to a formerly all-white library anc ing a cafeteria at the state capi- local white people could register hear a suit challengIng the state's restaurant. SNCC worker Hanser- tol. "without distraction'. even when election laws, and askIng for an reported that two of the arresteC: In other Georgia incidents.Ne- many white voters "were not Injunction preventIng all county men were beaten by Helena po- ~roes were admitted to a pre- qualified to be registered accord- registrars from givIng Negro lice. viously all-white pool in East ing to Mississippi law." votIng applicants tests not given In Jackson, Mississipp4 Ne- Point and five eating places in In addition. the court found to whites. The suit also asks groes integrated a movie thea- Warner Robins. but were turned many Negroes had been intimi- the three-judge panel to set aside tre and two hotels. In Texar- away fro:n three eating places I dated by local whites. state Democratic precInct and kana. Texas. four people were tn Perry and a Winder movie I The suit was originally filed county meetIngs and to delay the injured in an exchange of gun- i:heatre by mobs of whites. The

against Leonard C. Duke. Circuit state Democratic convention until fire over an integration attempt J~ast Point pool was later closed Clerk and Registrar of Panola Negroes are assured a greater at a beach.lnSt. Augustine. Flor- lfter a fight at the pooltsparking County. and the state ofMississi- role In state Democratic party ida, 15 white youths attacked five lot. In Brunswick. city and coun- ppi. activity. Negroes, including a woman and ;y pools were closed down. PAGE 4 July 15. 1964 STUDENT VOICE

GOULD, ARK. -The Arkansas tions was May 2. That deadline SNCC project has expanded its is now July 20. voter registration drive to this small town about 30 miles from the Mississippi Delta, in Lincoln CAMBRIDGE. MD. -Maryland Governor J. Millard Tawes or- County. dered the National Guard with- Bill Hansen. 23. of Pine Bluff, drawn from here July 7 after who directs SNCC's work in this more than a year of martial law state. said workers had been bas- in this Eastern Shore City. scene ed here since May. of SNCC work since December The county's population is a- 1961. bout 35 to 50 percent Negro.

BROWNING. MISSISSIPPI -A ALBANY, GA. -A renewedef- Negro church. located in the fort at registering Negro poten- middle of an all-white neighbor- tial voters will be made here and hood. was burned to the ground elsewhere in the state in connec- after church member refused tion with recent passage of anew to sell to a white property own- THE NEW MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH in Sasser, Georgia election laws code whichreopen- er. was re-dedicated two weeks ago. The church -and two others ed registrar's books in Georgia. Pleasant PlanMissionary Bap- near here -were burned down by nightriders two years ago while Don Harris, 24, director of tist Church burned while local SNCC was using them for voter registration meetings. SNCC's Southwest Georgia pro- firemen stood by and watched. ject, said SNCC workers in the SNCC workers Fred Mangrum 22 counl;ies of Georgia's 2nd and Ed Rudct said the cinder- Congressional District were de- block structure was still burning I CONTINUED FROM PAGE I The drive three years ago voting most of their time to a at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday morn- ry Everitt. 19. from Pittsburgh, was met with official resistance I Pa.; CORE worker Pat Walker and terror tactics from local concentrated vote drive. ing. July 11. , SNCC workers have been active AccoJ:'ding to reports from the from New York City; and sum- whites. as is the state-wide drive in the campaign of Attorney C.B. SNCC office in Greenwood. a mer volunteers Don McCord, 26. today. King, the first Negro to run for Browning white man had asked of Stafford. Kansas and Clinton Moses and other SNCC staff U. S. Congress in the state in church members to sell him the Hopson. 26. of Asbury Park,New members, including Hayes, who modern times. Jersey. joined the anti -segregation building and,property. , prior to enactment of the new They refused. an d the local Sam stein, Sweeney, McCord. group s staff then, were jailed code, the deadline for register- sheriff told them the church would and Walker are white: the others several times by local law of- ing to vote in the primary elec- have to be moved. are Negroes. ficers. Moses was jailed in Three Negro homes were bomb- nearby Liberty on A ugustIS, 1961, SUMMER PROJECT are being accepted for the sum- ed in McComb on June 23. This as he accompanied three people CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 mer project. small southwestMississippitown to the registrar's office there. volunteers for this program. "We see the Freedom Schools was the site of the first Student On August 29. 1961. he was beaten The "Community Centers.'. ~d community centers as a na- Nonviolent Coordinating Com- by the son of a Mississippi primarily for adults will each tural part of our voting program:. mittee voter registration voter law officer on a Liberty street. have a library, sewing facilities, SNCC Executive Secretary James i registration project in 1961.SNCC A local Negro supporter. Her- literacy and child care classes. Forman said. There are more! worker . now Program bert Lee, was killed September health program s and instruction SNCC staff members in Miss- i Director for the state-wide Miss- 25, 1961, by a member of the in Negro history. issippi than other rights groups issippi Freedom Summer Pro- state legislature, and a witness No more summer volunteers have throughout the South. .ject. began work as the first to 1;.hat shooting was murdered on L .:-. ~. F~It.NDS OF S.N'.C"~} February I. 1964.

8501 SO. SAN PEDRO S T " I The Ku Klux Klan and another

-.racist group, the Americans for [OS ANGELES, CALIF. S000.~ Preservation of the White Race

(APWR), have begun organiza- tional drives throughout South- west Mississippi. Arsene Dick, APWR president. says his all-

I male. all-white group has chapt-

ers in 30 Mississippi counties and a membership "in the five figure bracket."

There are more than 15,000 Negroes in Pike County. Fewer than 164 are registered voters.

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