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Chronology of Abuses 37 APPENDIX D CHRONOLOGY OF ABUSES \ ~l\jANY· t 1 1.1. February 1, 1961, Baton Rouge, Lou,isiana--SNCC Field Secretary, Dion Diamond, was arrested and charged with "criminal anarchy." Mr. Dia- mond was arrested when he appeared on the campus of Southern Univer- sity in Baton Rouge to fulfill a speaking engagement. February 16, 1961, Baton Rouge, _~ouisiana- - Criminal anarchy charges : were brought against two additional SNCC per-sonnel. Charles McDew, Chairman of the committee, and Robert Zellner, Field Secretary, were arrested and Charged with criminal anarchy when they visited Dion Diamond, held in the Baton Rouge jail on the same charges. ----------------------j I i ! The Atlanta Journal Wednesday, March 14, 19ti2 ANARCHY TRIAL SLATED FOR 2 INTE GRA TIONISTS BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI)-- Zellner and McDew were Two Atlantans, one Negro and reed on bonds of $7, 000. Thei: one white, were arraigned Tues- ttorneys were given until Apr. day on charges of vagrancy and 8 to file preliminary motions criminal anarchy. in the case. Trial for John R. Zellner, 22, The proceedings were delay-I and Negro Charles McDew, 22) ed temporarily when Zellner sa~ was set for May 28, Both are in the Negro section when he enj identified as officers of the Stu- ered the court. A bailiff aSke1 dent Nonviolent Coordinating if he was white, and Zellner re Committee in Atlanta, lied "I am a member of the The two were arrested when 1uman race. " I they tried to deliver pamphlets Zellner was told to be seated I advocating integration to Dion T, in the white section. He com- Diamond while he was in jail for lied with the order after con- taking part in demons trations at sulting with his attorney. Southern University, ,-----------------0. _____ ---.-J THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS, LA., WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 14, 1962 SIT-IN IS HELD AT RF'K OFFICE --------------------------- would return Wednes- t Faster Action Wanted in lAtty. Gen. C. Burke day to seek an appoint Rights Cases 'Marshall about civil rights - ment with the attor-- legislation and its enforce WASHINGTON (AP)-An ney general. -ment. inter-racial group staged Earlier) Mahoney had Mahoney, a Howard Uni I a sit- in at the justice de- turned down an offer by -versity junior majoring I partment Tuesday, but Kennedy's administra- in sociology, said the de- changed its tactics after tive assistant to ar- monstrators wanted from I 4-1/2 hours outside the off range a meeting with Kennedy a statement out- _tee of Atty. Gen. Robert the attorney general, lining what his depart- I F. Kennedy. saying "this is an act of ment plans to do about I The group was pressing civil di s obedience. It's what they called "50 orso for faster federal action in a sit-in. II violations" of civil rights I • '1 . ht W 11 The attorney general in the South. I CIVI r ig s cas es. i- iam Mahoney, 20, acting as left for a meeting with Mahoney said the de- spokesman for the dozen Secretary of Defens e monstration was sponsor- demonstrators, said they Robert S. McNamara ed by the Student Nonvio- planned to remain outside shortly after the ar r i- lent Coordinating Commit,' Kennedy's door until he is- val of the student group, -tee and the Committee to I sued a "positive statement" an aide said. Free Dion Diamond. Dia- of plans for action. But the group talked mond is a Petersburg, Va, But as the department at length with Asst. Negro arrested in Baton closed the day the group abanr-----'--------L----------- - doned its vigil and said it .. 39 Rouge. pleaded innocent to criminal The sit-in group was pro- anarchy charges at their ar- testing the arrest of Diamond raignment. Their trial was and the later arrest of two set for May 28. others during a visit to Dia- mond in jail. The others, Charles McDew, 22, chairman of the student group, and John Robert Zell- ner, 22, a field secretary, The Atlanta Journal and CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 1962 RACIAL SEGREGATION SIDES TO EYE BATON ROUGE FIGHT By FRED POWLEDGE went to the jail to de- s ldent of the Brother- liver fruit and books to hood of Sleeping Car Proponents and opponents Mr. Diamond. Porters; James Far- of Southern racial segrega- The books, said Chair mer, national direc- tion will watch closely a le- -man McDew in Atlanta tor of CORE; Roy gal-battle to be fought soon Saturday, were "Scotts- Wilkins, executive in Baton Rouge, La. boro Boy" by Heywood director of the NAACP, The fight will be over a Patterson, "Eight Men" Whitney Young, execu- state I s right to employ ex- by Richard Wright; and tive director of the traordinary legal means to "The Ugly Amer-ican" National Urban League enforce segregation. It is by William Lederer and and Reinhold Niebur, the que s tion of whether a Eugene Burdick. internationally known Negro or a white can be Mr. McDew said jail- theologian. charged legally with "crimi- ers told them the books The civil rights lead nal anarchy" because he were contrary to Louis- -ers, while confident espouses racial views which iana+s public policy of that a federal court conflict with those of the segregation of the races. would quickly set asid state. Also charged was Ron- an anarchy conviction Four young civil rights lead ny Moore, Baton Rouge in a lower state court, -ers, one a white, have been I charged with that offens e in civil rights leader. said Saturday they had Baton Rouge. One, Dion Dia- A preliminary hearing been advised that there mond, a field secretary of the has been set Tuesday on was "no possibility of the criminal anarchy release onbail while Student Nonviolent Coordinat- ing Committee, was arrested, cases. As the date nears, appealing." sever-al civil rights or- Alex Wall, assistant charged, and placed under $13, 000 bond on Feb. 1 after ganizations are mounting district attorney in a visit to the campus of South- I what they hope will be a East Baton Rouge Par- ern University. I wides pread public pro- ish, said Saturday that test of the charges. a judge could specify **********-*; TWO OTHERS, SNCC Chair- TELEGRA*M*S*WENT out bai1 if he wanted to. man Charles McDew and field Friday night to more "He would probably let secretary Robert Zellner, a than two dozen national them stay in jail, " he white, were char-ged when they leaders urging either pro- said .. * * ,,;::-- ---------------1 test or attendance at the THUS THE case rises hearing. as an important one in ! The wires were signed by A. Philip Randolph,pre- 40 the segregation- integration strug- gle, If the charges stick, segre- gation- minded Southern govern- ments will have another weapon in their arsenal. But some Negro leaders are hoping the matter will be serious enought to warrant direct action on the part of the Justice Depart- ment, Burke Marshall, an assistant U. S, attorney general, was ask- edabout that in a telephone inter- view Saturday, Usually, he said, the federal government must wait until the appeal procedure carries a case through the state courts. There is one way, he said, in which this procedure may be circum- vented. "It is a federal misdeameanor, IT said Mr.:ivIarshall, "for anyone acting under color of law to de- prive someone of his constitutional rights. I'm not saying that's the situation in the criminal anarchy cases, but that is a law which we have to go on. TI / March 30, 1961, Jackson, Mississippi--Club-swinging police and two police dogs chased.mor e than 100 Negroes from a courthouse when nine Negro students were convicted for staging a sit-in demonstration. Several were struck by the clubs and at least one person was bitten by the dogs. TEN VOTER REGISTRATION WORKERS FROM THE STUDENT NONVIO- LENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE, including SNCC's Executive Secre- tary, JAMES FORMAN, were arrested and charged with "inciting to riot" and "refusing to move on" after police turned a dog loose in a crowd of 150 Negroes on their way to register to vote at the Leflore County Court- house. (GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI, MARCH 27, 1963). 42 April 30, 1961, Jackson, MiSSiSSi~~ld Secretary of SNCC, five months pregnant, was arrested on Contempt of Court charges as she sat in the "white" section .of the Hinds County Courthouse. She was in court to surrender herself to serve a two year sentence imposed in 1960 for "contributing to the delinquency of minors" after she conducted nonviolent workshops in Jackson, Mississippi, preparing youths for Freedom Hides. -: /' // August 22, 1961, Amite County--Robert Moses went to Liberty with three Negroes, who made an unsuccessful attempt to register to vote. A block from the courthouse, Moses was attacked and beaten by Billy Jack Caston, the sheriff's first cousin. Eight sttche s were required to close a wound in Moses' head. Caston was acquitted of assault charges by an all-white jury before a justice of the peace. /- / September 5, 1961, Liberty, Mississippi- - Travis Britt, SNCC voter re- gistration worker, was attacked and beaten by whites on the court- house lawn. Britt was accompanied at tbe time by Robert Moses. Britt said one man hit him more than 20 times. The attackers drove away in a truck. September 7,1961, Tylertown, Mississippi--John Hardy, SNCC regis- tration worker, took two Negroes to the county courthouse to register to vote. The registrar told them he ", o • wasnt r registering voters II that day. When the three turned to leave, Registrar John Q.
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