"SNICK"-the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-in the Bay Area. Charles McDew, t he organizat ion's National Chajrman, visited PAGE 17 late last year to raise funds and help estab Wednesday, Dec . 5, 1962 l i sh the Bay Area Friends or the Student Non San Francisco Chronicle violent Coor dinating Committee. Write ror information to: .... I Ch 1'/egro s arge Mike Miller Page 42-~. JJt fxttmtnrr 5845 Chabot Court Wed. Dec. s, 1962 SC Oakland, California OL 8-6626 Justice Dept. Bobby Fails 1 27 ARRESTS Dragging Feef McDew was here for a series Negro, Says of talks on his group's drive to get Negroes to register in A Negro college senior, arrested '27 times while states like Mississippi and fi ghting for equal rights in the South, accused the Leader Alabama where they consti United States Department of Justice here yesterday of tute the majority of the popu "dragging its feet" in t he struggle. lation but have almost no say The student, Charles Mc V.ote Drive in .in politics. Dew, 23. chairman of the McDew said he has been Student Non-Violent Co-ordi South Lags arrested 27 times. nating Committee, currently The 23 year old sociology awajting trial as an anarchis t ''Despite Bobby Kennedy's student from a South Caro in Louisiana, told a p ress con lovely statements, he's failed lina college will s p e a k at ference·here: to protect Negroes who regis 8:15 p. m. today in the Oak· "Bobby Kenned~· 1l:. S. ter and vote in the South." land Jewish Community Center. Attorney General Robert This was the crux of a Kennedy 1 has -been mak-in · TALKS SCHEDULED lovely statements. but Negro st-udent-leaae-r's p1,0test - we Tomorrow feel that some of the very here yesterday against what he will appear at no on at San Francisco bad situations in the South he called "half-hearted" sup State College and will speak could have been prevented port from the Justice Depart if the Department of Justice at a public meeting at 8:30 had acted ... ·· _ment in the current drive to p. m. at San Francisco Jewish register southern Negros, Community Center. McDew said that his own His talk is sponsored by the "crime" was to He is Charles McDew, na encourage Americans f o r Democratic registration tional chairman of the Stu of Negro voters Action. in Louisiana-a campai gn dent Nonviolent Co-ordinating Friday he will appear at which his Student •Non-Vio Committee which o rganized Stanford University at lent Co-ordinating Commit CHARLES McD'cW noon and · Sunday at 7:30 p. m. at tee (SNCC) is promoting in Arrested 27 times registration drives in Georgia, during w hich eight churches Berkeley's Town and Gown several Southern States. I among Negroes in the South Club. EFFORTS ! - "to get lawyers and doctors were burned and five egistra tion leades shot. In his own case he said !I into i( as well as the wash the Department ~f Justic~ woman .. an d the shoeshine did interve,1e - thus far I bo? · · · Tues., Dee.4, 1962 without result-on grounds ! !hr SNCC w or~ er s. ?e 6 S. F. News Call Bulletin his prosecution was a clear [ said. also are _seeking to m- i violation of civil rights and I valve more w?1te college stu- ' that his action was not anar- ! dents 111 the fight, and lo reg- chv at all. i ister more Negro voters so ' Dixie Negro ;,But in less spectacular i thei:r v~i~e m~y be heard on efforts-in our day-by-day Ith e political front. Leader Hits campaign to get Negroes If eligible Negroes we re registered as voters - we lperm itted to r e gist e r. he think ,Bobby Kennedy . and said, Alabama and Mississippi U.S. Agency 'the Department of Justice .woulcf have Negro majorities. haye ' been dragging their 1 ARRESTS A soft-spoken Louisiana feet," McDew said at a p ress Five of his student organ- Negro, Charles McD~w, 23, conference in the St. Francis ization workers have been has accused the Justice De Hotel. . shot, he said, and all of them partment of "dragging its He, said that despite such have been arrested. "I've feet" in helping get out the lack of Federal help in the been arrested 27 times since Negro vote in t h e d e e p battle for civil rights in the I quit in my senior year at ; South. South, his student organiza- South Carolina State College McDew chairman of the tion is gaining in its fight to at Orangeburg to take part : . Student Non-Violent Coordi- give Negroes the right to in this effort . .." . nating Committee, held a CHARLES MeD~~ vote. His latest alleged offense- press conference here Tues- "Dragging feet MEETINGS criminal anarchy against the ' . day. He was in the Bay Area, S tat e of Louisiana - was The committee is a group schools for potential voters. as one of SNCC's 46 field charged, he said, after he and of about 40 college students HE IS FREE on $17,000 workers (who "survive" on a white fellow worker tried · who have given up one y~ar bail from a charge of crimi. $20 per week), to address a to visit a jailed companion t of study to spearhead a drive nal an'archy in Baton Rouge, special meeting of Amer- in East Baton Rouge last 1 for gettmg Southern Ne- La -a charge that carries 10 icans for Democratic Action February. groes to register so they can ye~rs in prison on convic, tomorrow at 8:30 p. m. at t he "If the case does go to trial vote. tion. . Jewish Community Center (the Justice Department still McDEW SAID the com- He said when he iei tried here. is seeking to halt the trial), mittee's efforts resulted in he'll be taken from a segre He also spoke on. the . Uni: ·we'll probably be convicted," the doubling of the Negro gated jail, in a segregated, versity of California c ampus McDew said. "We' ll be tried regis . . · · · · · ·1 through a court- yesterday noon, and will ap tration m M1ss1ss1pp1, Jal van, " k" - by a jury of our ·peers·- an from 20,000 to 40,000. room door marked Blac_ pear at San Franci.sco St;i.te white.'' But the committee's ef- into a segregated courtroom. College tomorrow noon, and , McDew said t he voter reg · d 1· ·• e j - 1- r ·• to speak at a forts have resulte a s o m a -- ·. , , .,_..:. .• . , ~ at Stanford University Friday ! istration campaign depends criminal charge against the neetmg of t t:ie Am_en ca,1.:. noon. !'on voluntarv contributions workers, including himself. for Democ,·at1c Act1~n, at His student organization, Ifrom the public. Five o f h is workers have 8:30 p. m. Thurs.day m the he said at yesterday's press ! Contributions may be sent . been shot and eight churches J e"".ish _Community 1 Cen~r·1 conference, is seeking to , to the Student Non-Violent were burned in Georgia be- Cahforma st. and Pres1 10 make the civil rights battle i Co-orinating Com mitt e e. : "a community -wide effort" 1915 l\Iil•;ia s,rcet. Berkeley. · cause they were _:u::se:::.:d:_=a:.:s:.::a:.:.v_e.:....------~- laber d(lrla ted ,...~-,·
STEP UP DRIVE TO AID HUNGRY MISS. NEGROES ECONOMIC PRESSURE AGAINST 5,000 FAMILIES AFFECTS 22,000 PEOPLE tllT By LARRY STILT. Vol. XXIII No. 18 Feb. 21, 1963 A Johnson Publication
After months of protesting and pleading, thousands of Negroes are being saved from starvation in the Mississippi Delta by the voluntary distribution of tons of food and supplies donated from all over the nation. Aaron Henry, chairman of the Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, which is handling the distribu Justice Department refused her plea, but Mrs. Nancy B rand tion of aid from Clarksdale, estimated that some 5,000 fights on for her frail brood, including two tell-tale mulattoes. families, or more than 22,000 persons, were destitute in the area as a result of being denied work or state welfare aid because of increasing economic pressure against Negro Federal Government to take immediate steps to provide voting efforts. more aid and protection for the state's Negro citizens. Henry said nine county COFO chairmen were aiding and Casting aside all fears for the first time in recorded distributing the food throughout the state under the direc ?-istory, Negro witnesses appeared before the nine-man tion of Mrs. Vera Pegues, a Clarksdale beautician. In near Workers stock supp_ly center 7J?ith rations to be doled out to he~ mterracial Civil Rights Advisory Commission (eight whites by Cleveland, the Rev. James Bevel, a representative of the . l~ss, penm'.ess, but i oud, Mississippi families. and one Negr?) and b?ldly testified on the creeping reign Southern Christian Leadership Council said the food prob of terror behmd the ' Cotton Curtain." Take the case of lem is a statewide action which would drive 500,000 Negroes Mrs. Fan~ie Lou Haymer, who told how she was run off out to other sections of the country. · actively mvo_lved m the Vler Education Project conducted b? a plantat10n _away from her husband and children, forced · Although state and county officials denied the charges. the ~~mbi1:e? ?r~aniza ions (the NAACP, Student Non to V10l~nt coordmatmg Com ittee, Southern Christian Lead flee to Chicago and finally decided to return to terror a survey of the area by JET found many families who had stricken Ruleville (JET, Sept. 27, 1962) "to live or die here been denied aid without reason or after they became ership Conference, and he Mississippi Voters League) which 111:ak~ up COFO. I some instances, officials voted not to distribute surplus ood to the needy in areas like LeFlore and Madison Co~nty, where efforts were being made to register more Negroes. Answering the plea o SNCC and COFO privately gathered supplies poured into the area from 'places like Iowa City, Louisville, Detroit, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor and L~nsing, Mich. The drive 1to aid the hungry families was cl~m~x~d ?Y plans to airlift some 10 tons of supplies into Miss1s~1pp1 by the Chicag! friends of SNCC to dramatize the phght of the average Mississippi Negro. Conditions in the terr r-stricken state were best de scribed by P. D. East, nbted white editor of the Petal (Miss.) Paper, who said: ''If I were a Catholic in Missis sippi,. I'd be worried. If I were a Jew, I'd be scared stiff. And 1f I were a Negro, I would really be gone." · Faced with embarrassll}ent over the manner in which thousands of needy Negrtj families have been denied aid officials in several counties announced a stepped up wel~ fare and surplus commodities food program. The Missis sippi Civil Rights Advisory Comm. also held a quick half While their pregnant mother slaves in field to earn crumbs, Mrs. Beatrice Little keeps grandchildren's minds off hunger. day hearing on the problem in Jackson, then urged the because this is where I'm supposed to be." Here is Mrs. 'They Still Pester Me ... But I'm Not Afraid ..· . ' Haymer's story: "I was a timekeeper on Bee Marlow's plantation for the past 18 years. On August 31 I {ent down to Indianola and attempted to register. Whm I got back to the far:m, my oldest girl ran to meet me and told me Mr. Marlow was raising lots of cane. About 20 minutes after I got in the house, Mr. Marlow came and started talking to my hus band, Pat. Then he told me I'd have to go down and with draw my registration. He said that Mississippi 'wasn't ready for Negroes to register.' I told him: 'Mr . Marlow, I thought I registered for myself.' He g9t mad then and told me I would have to withdraw or leave. And he said even if I withdrew it, I still might have to leave, depending on how he felt. I had no other choice so I c ame to Ruleville. He told my husband he could stay if he left me. I went to Chicago righ t after that, but i decided to come back and For vote try, whites harassed Mrs. Haymer ( l); Aaron Henry, live h ere. Vera Pegues show $15 check from James Meredith. "I figure somebody's got to sacrifice for us-they still pester me at night but I a111 not afraid. I could not get any food or welfare aid until Mrs. Diane Nash Bevel wrote the Agricultural Dept. in Washington." Mrs. Haymer was one of scores of Negroes returned to the Sunflower County S urplus Commodity Food rolls after appeals to Washington. The Rev. Mr. Bevel said Mrs. Haymer is an example of FOOD AND CI.OT""BING SHOULD BE SENT TO: hundreds of Negroes who are ~iecoming really n on-violent in the Delta area ... "not by demonstrations and sit-ins Samuel Block but just by not being afraid." Another example was Willie and Rosalee Stewart on the Avon Plantation in LeFlore 115 East McLaur in County. The Stewarts have 17 c hildren, a '62 income of Greem,ood, Mississippi $300. Stewart said h e lived "bylthe luck of the Lord." In Greenwood, Mrs. Nancy § rand, a 36-year-old mother with two marriages and nine cijildren, told the Commission she has been refused aid since 1956 because she wrote the Justice Dept. asking for help. rs. Brand said she was told there was a "mixup in h er marriages," as she displayed two mulatto children. Another current victim of LeFlore or to: County practices was Mrs. Lau\'a McGhee, sister of former Belzoni grocerer, Gus Courts, ,who was shot in the h ead and chased out of the state (t b Chicago) in 1956. Mrs. McGhee, who owned 58 acres on the main highway, said she was committed to Whitfield Mental Institution, denied welfare aid and threatened with foreclosure on her land because a local merchant wants it for a new housing development. Living with four teen-aged children, Mrs. The Student No11'violent Coordinating Committee McGhee has been able to keep going with loans from SCLC and "Operation Freedom," a group of Cincinnati ministers 6 R aymond Street, N. W. organized to help Negroes facing economic reprisals. Notorious LeFlore County, locale of the Tallahatchie Atlanta 14, Georgia River and the infamous Emmetlt Till case, voted not to dis tribute surplus food commoditi'es this year because it was "too expensive." SATIIDAY, WIIAIY 12, 1113 ATLANTA IUllrlH PAGE 3 • SNCC Workers Out On $3,000 BaH After Charges Of DopeP os ss1on c n ' l ,il'Y j ,, mes Fnrm;in, (SNCC) cind has been ' paigns i n sever;1l_Ddt:1 counties. Clarksdale, Mississippi - timidation S made aga-inst those I mmee I l·L:i v\ng \\',lin •d prdim~n,u-y ac tive in .1nri-segregation de- nw confisc,tted ~oods were Two workers for the Atlanta who try to aid them." hc,rmgs , rhe rwn \\'t>rkers w.iit anhoe had been working with t\1e impoundeJ whell' t~ two men I based Student Non-Violent The two arrested, Iv for the sc hcdulinf! of their he,,r y- Louisville Student Non- violent wece arn:'stcd las t week. !-low- Coordinating Committee were Donaldson and Benjamin J. Ta in),, Bond \\ .is or i)! itu lly sEt Committee (SNAC ). n ever. subseque nt s hipments <'f released from jail in thi.s Miss lor, bothe Negroes, were a r - Action I ,1 t $15.0()\l c,1\'11 , liur w ci s r ccluccd decine have 1 issippi town Monday on $3,000 res ted on December 28, by affiliate of the .\ tl.1n u gr·otJp, food , c h>thing .rnd me ost of the gone thro itg h to the Delta, .ic- .iftc>r protests :rntl thi-eats of le- cash bail following charges of Clarksdale police while they in collecting m ropd I suppli('s. con lin!! to SNl't; executive se- g::d .wtion. J SNCC sp,lkes- "illegal possession of barbitu slept in the truck they used and 1nedic inal Chairman Char.!es Mt- m an ,;;iid. ates." The-two workers, botn to transport l,000 pounds of SNCC Negroes, were arrested when food and medicine to Delta Ne- Dew, in a telegram to Presi- Clarksc!dle police searched a groes. Police charged the m dent Kennedy, c harged that caravan of food aod medicine with violation of the state's " Mississippi police and local they were transporting to dis drug laws, but two doctors in officials at·e using everq10s i - to halt Negro pn:i- possessed Negro families in Louisville, Kentucky, w ho had · ble method Mis s isstppi's Delta. don;;ted the medecine, said mat gress." MdJew said that '( if The chairman of the protest ,. monstration in •~cuisvH!e , He tlie United States Gove rnment group, Charles McDew, declar vitamins and ~'that: type of had offered prntection to Nf-- ing that the caravan contained thing". and that physicians had grc>es in the Del.ta who tried The Student Nonviolent Coordinating chec ked the materials to make to registe.r and vote, no fQf d Commit tee "nothing mm·e potent than as 6 Raymond Street, N.W. pirin," wired President Kenne sure there were no objectior.al caravans would have been dy asking that be "take immedi drugs. necessary," Ationto 14, Georgia ate steps to halt harras sment Donaldson is a field worker The Student Non - violent of potential Negro voters in for the Atlanta - based Student Coordinating Committee is con·: I Miss i.s s ippt and thre ats
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-EISmll ·a'8Tn£SS PEIIPlE I A9£1.ESS PEGPU Who? Doing What? And Why?1 They Seek Miss. Voters In Indianola, Mississippi, the birthplace of the Citizen's Coun cils, the Mayor called a young N·. .,o man a "black bastard." SNCC's voting program, begllll in Amite County, Mississippi In nearby Ruleville, two young girls were shot, one almost fatally, in August, 1961, has now spread to eight Mississippi counties. shooting of two as they sat in a modest home. In Liberty, Mississippi, a Harvard The whole world remembers hearing about ~he , and bow trained Negro was beaten by the son of the local sheriff with a SNCC voting workers in Southwest Georgia last' summer had met in were· burned to knife. And in Southwest Georgia, Negro and white youngsters four churches that the SNCC members picked and chopped cotton all day so that they would earn enough the ground. to supplement their daily diet of cucumbers. To many armchair observers, voter registration ls a tiring Who are these youngsters? Why db they take the beatings, jail job. To them, it means knoclc:ing on doors, holding meetings, and ings, threats? Why do they leave their homes, families, schools registering a few thousand new voters. and jobs to work in rural Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia? REEDOI HOUSE But to the SNCC workers in Mississippi, Alabama, and South They are field secretaries for the Student Nonviolent Coordina west Georgia, it means living and sleeping with a knowledge that SNCC has been headquarter ting Committee (SNCC). "you have no rights that any white man is bound to respect; if he From its beginning in Raleigh, North Carolina three years ed in Atlanta since its beginning. wants to shoot you; or beat you, then he will." ago as an information and coordinating agency for student sit-in It now has offices at 6 Raymond Street, N,W. SNCC's ruling "We're working in areas," SNCC's Charles Sherrod says, groups, SNCC has grown into a nationally known civil rights move "where a white man will drive up in front of a Negro's door and ment, with 41 staff members. SNCC workers are· now working body, theCoordinatingCommit up of studentlead say 'send Mary to the big house.' Mary may be your dog, your in eight Mississippi counties, in Alabama, and inSouthwest Geor tee, is made ers from protest groups in mule, your daughter or your wife, but you'd better send her." gia. seven Southern states. A statistician once figured thattheSNCCworkerswere the most One new voter is a victory in the Mississippi Delta, SNCC's "SNCC is the only civil rights arrested group in hi~ory. Frank Smith, a Morehouse student who interrupted his schooling group run by the people who are to work in Marshall Cowity, Mississippi, has managed to get What makes the SNCC youngsters unique is that they dare to actually making the changes in 300 Negroes to pay their poll tax and take Mississippi's com take the message of freedom into areas where the bigger civil the cotton curtain of segrega plicated voter test. One - a school teacher - passed. rights organizations fear to tread. tion, " an Atlanta student lea der said. AFearless Staff Of 41 SNCC PLANS They live On s15 AWeek 1963 SPRING MEET HERE Each Easter, SNCC hosts conference where over 300 stu dents come together to exchange notes and techniques of fighting segregation. This year's conference wLU. be in Atlanta, Easter weekend, April 12-14. Each conference gives students from Missis sippi, Alabama, Georgia, Ark ansas South Carolina and Florida "a chance to rededicate themselves to the movement,'' one student said, ust astwee ,studentgroups. in Atlanta and Nashville sent .. WE SHALL OVERCOME" telegrams to protest to the ,n,t. ton 11111 IACI" Mayor of Baltimore, where 450 $15 a week, they live with Ne SNCC's staff members are mostly ,college age youngsters For salaries ranging from $10 to students had been arrested for belt communities in an attempt to increase who have taken a year or more away from their jobs and school groes in rural black protesting segregation at a voters. Other SNCC workers, whites to work in hard-core areas of the South, They work for SNCC the number of registered movie theatre. On last Thurs are organizing nonviolent sit-in groups in Alabama, I.Jt'Cause "I see in SNCC a chance for me to do more than march on and Negroes, day evening, the theatre inte Mississippi and Arkansas. a picket line," one said. Most of SNCC's present staff the jailed were re-. Most of SNCC's operating are young people who were grated, and leased. · capital comes from Northern leaders in the anti-segregation college students. SNCC has two drive in their own homes. During a SNCC meeting in other ways of raising funds; Many are Northerners who Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961, one, .a record, "Freedom In wanted '·to put our bodies ,n a Negro cafe refused to sen,e The Air," recorded onthespot the movement.'' white members of the group. during anti-segregationdemon All are devoted to the "one They all refused to eat until strations in Albany, Georgia for all, all for one"philosophy. they could all eat together. last year. When ,me staff member was ar Last August, Sam Block and rested in Southwest Georgia re Willie Peacock just missed be The other, the Freedom Sin cently, his co-workers gave up ing lynched when they jumped gers, five SNCC staffers who their subsistence for .twoweeks from their second story window sing the · Freedom Songs that to pay his bail. to escape a mob of white men come out of the movement. They have a devotion to an carrying chains, ropes and iron ideal, too. pipes. But these two sources are "It may sound trite," one Last summer, Mrs. l)iane barely enough to raise money student said, "but we care about Nash Bevel, then expecting her to keep SNCC going from day Ex-teacher Negroes in other states and cit first child, surrendered herself to day. Last summer, the ca••L AIARClff workers inSouthwestGe James For ies. \\'e aren't just fighting to Mississippi authorities who SNCC to eating was the charge man, SNCC'S Executive Secre- segregated lunch counters here had charged her with "contri orgia were reduced times a day; leveled against SNCCChairman tary, gave up a position in Chi and anit-Ncgro voting laws buting to thedelinquincy of min cucumbers three - in Charles McDew when he visited public school system to there; we're out to change the ors." If my child is born in the Atlanta office staff cago's a fellow worker In a Baton Rouge work for SNCC at "subsis- entire society that allows such Mississippi, he will be born in cluding two married men - skip of payrolls. jail. tence•• waj!;eS. evils to exist. jail, she said. ped almost a month [.,J I Friday, Maich 1, '63 Delta Democrat-Time!! -----....:.~___ _:______------i
,1,1,111 ... :-: :-: ··:·~::~:;··::; -.-.n11m1m11 1 ATLANTA INQUIRER SATURD~Y. MARCH 9, 1963 An Inspiring Album With a Two Shots Hit " SHOOTINGS WON'T STOP MISSISSIPPI VOTE DRIVE'' Lesson and an Eye on Posterity (/) Fiel_d ~ecretaries for the Atlanta-based Sfudent Nonviolent ro Coor~matmg Committee (SNCC) have vowed that the near-fatal "0'.... Voter Worker (1) shooting of one of their worker:s outside Greenwood, Mississippi JACKSON - A 20-year-old Negro voter registration last T~ursday night won't stop their drive fO register Negro 3 CTro representative arrived at University Hospital here this vot~rs m Missis3 ippi. car he was driving. -, afternoon for emergency treatment of gunshot wounds Jimmy Travis, 20, of Jack received in Greenwood last night. son, Mississippi, was shot twice f~EEDOM IN THE AIR @?:t) The condition of J immy Travis c.______in the hail of bullets that broke out three windows in the rented was reported as serious but not Sam Block, another field rep rlocu:~nta,y ALBANY, GEORGIA 196_! critical. He was treated first at resentative working out of Green featunng ·'The Ear,le Stirrelh Her Nest" Rev. Ben Gay J 962 · Mississippi Vocational College and wood, said a white hardtop Buick ORJ(;I NA! Hl(A t, fit![, WQR K GU ) r'.ARJ\W M-1 Pf<()l)UC(O R'Y AlAN I OMA:( .!, f;!JI' CARA.WA~ then at Leflore County Hospital. without license plates had been before he was rushed to Univer noticed earlier in the evening in sity Hospital for removal of a front of his McLaurin Street of bullet. fice. Robert Moses, in the car with "The Buick circled the block Travis at the time of the shooting several times," he said. "At one and a fellow member of the pro time there was a city police car >z integration Student Non-Violent directly behind it, but it was not "T1 Coordinating Committee, said stopped. even though the Buick :::0 three white men · wearing sun had no license plates." > glasses trailed them as they left z * () Greenwood and opened fire as * * MOSES said be was questioned VI they were driving toward Green by sheriff's deputies shortly af () ville on Highway 82. ter the shooting. Block said short 0 ly before noon today that no one "Jimmy shouted he bad been VI hit and the car went out of con had asked him for information C trol," he said. which might lead to the arrest of NEW YORK POST, THURSDAY, ARCH 7, 1963 i z the white men. He said he planned" .r ) on getting in touch with the a ~ * * • ---.1 ---. ---- -< sheriff and giving him a descrip MOSES said be, Travis and tion of the car. () Randolph Blackwell of the Atlanta 3 Negro Vote Ai de~ Wounded :c office of the Southern Regional FREE DOM IN THE AIR The shooting prompted other in ~ Council, were in the car. He said A SNCC Documentary, $4 Donation z the shots were fired at about tegrationist groups to issue angry statements and a call for federal In Miss.; Kennedy Urged to Act () IO: 30 p.m. and that there were NAME------r at least seven bullet holes in the protection for civil rights workers. . Three Negro vot~r. registra- re,gistration workers jparked applicants to the voter registra· m front door on the driver's side ·h?n workers were mJured last their auto across the ~t ree t tion office. CITY______~ STATE ______after the barrage. He identified David Dennis, a field worker mght when bullets tore through from SNCC's headquarters in p t d Bo 1 the white men's car as a 1962 for the Congress of Racial Equali ~he windows of tl:eir parked car Greemvood. j os e m I enclose $ for album(s) of FREE DOM white Buick hardtop, with no ty, said the group wired Atty. m Greenwoo_d, Miss. _ Cut by flying glass we le Sam- He was released after posting IN THE AIR. I understand that purchase of this album en Th h a $25 bond. license plates. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy asking . e s. ootmg, second such in- uel Block, 23; Willie Peacock, titles me to a subscription to the STUDENT VOICE. c1dent m _a week, prompted r d p CJ"CJ" M- . , r A week ago, James Travis, 20, for "ir:1mediate action by the Moses said Travis was wounded James Foreman executive sec- v, an e,,,,,,y arje, 19. None of Jackson, another voter regis federal government to provide retary of the St~1dent Non-Viol- was injured ser_iously. Aj fourth . tration worker, was wonndPd in in the left shoulder. He said an protection for Mississippi Negro other slug hit Travis in the back ent Coordinating Committee, to passenger, Essie Broome, 24, the neck and shoulder while rid- citizens who attempt to register send a telegram to P resident 1 was unhurt. j ing in an auto a few miles from · The Student Non7Jiolent Coordinating Committee part of his neck and lodged near to vote and for civil rights work Kennedy reques ting protection _ Block, according to an SNCC Greenwood. his spine. ers who attempt to teach and in "to halt the reign of violence.'' spokesman, , had been arrested Thre~ white persons bave 6 Raymond Street, N. W. earli er in the day by 1Grecn- been charged with felon:ou.3 as- The Leflore County sheriff's of sure democratic freedom to these people." Parkecl Near HQ wood police on a "trump~d up" sault in the Travis sh0oting. Atlanta 14, Georgia fice confirmed there were holes Last night's shooting occurred Icharge of reckless drivihg. At They were released after "OSt in the car. Sheriff John Cothron moments after four Negro voter the time, he was driving_lNegro ing $5.000 bonds yestercta/ said the incident was being inves A similar telegram was sent to ------=L.: ------tigated, but declined further com Gov: Ross Barnett asking for im ment. mediate state action. r ~.... l-·