THE STUDENT VOICE Vol. 4, No.7 TheStudentVoice, Inc. 6 Raymond Street, N.W., Atlanta 14, Ga. December 9, 1963 IN 'TERRIBLE' TERRELL Jury Frees NI G H T RID ERS ~L!~~~~PI~F~e ~~~;P~~;;EE~~~~~;;~ acy to depnve !lve Negroes of their civil rights, were set free here by a Federal jury. SH 0 OT W0 RKE R The five were accused of beat- ;:::=------'­ ing five civil r ights workers ar­ DA WSON, GEORGIA - p_ 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. December 8, when'night, ri,d,eris \ , 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 J. Herod, Jr., all claimed they shots were fired. at her home were innocent of the seven charg­ late Saturday night. e s brought against them 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 home, making it "a total policeman William Surrell were wreck." also charged with beating the Ne­ As late as Sunday afternoon, groes. Mrs. Daniels still carried the The Justice Department called bullet in her !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. ,hospital 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 pawson citizens to open they had been beaten in the Win­ Mrs. Carolyn Daniels, Dawson, Ga., vote worker, points to damage her home toSNCC voter registra­ ona jail. done to her home by a night rider's bomb. Rider's bullets wounded tion workers. With their aid - Mrs. Daniels in the left foot. (Photo by Cochran, Studios; Albany, Mrs. told and often by herself - she has Ga.) CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ma;;pged 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 'NO ,leeks in November, with this voter registration busi­ Mrs. Daniels and two SNCC work­ ness. We want our colored people ers - Rober': Cover and Wendy to go on living like they have for Wolter Gets Two Years Mann- were able to 3et 45 r-:e­ the past 100 years." groes to apply for the registra- with the jury's findings. Allen's Mrs. Daniels' home has been Three Others Indicted tion test. attorney, C.B. King, of Albany, fired on once before, OnSeptem­ indicated that he would appeal. On Noverriber 22, 33 Negroes ber 6, 1962, night riders shot AMERICUS, GEORGIA - An all Allen, SNCC field workers applied. Thirty passed the test. nto her home, wounding SNCC white male jury deliberated four Donald Harris and John Perdew. workers Jack Chatfield, Prathia hours before returning a "gUilty" and Thomas McDaniel an Am er­ Mrs. Daniels has set up citi­ Hall and Ct.,is Allen. verdict against white SNCC field icus Citizen, were indicted here zenship schools in Dawson to On September 9, tvvo 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 all charg­ 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 "resisting arrest," tional attention on July 25, 1962, On September 17, another Americus during an anti- segre­ 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- ing white men broke into a vot­ immediately sentenced Allen to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ing meeting in a Sasser church. two years in iail in compliance Page 2 December 9, 1963 STl.!DENT VOICE

NEGRO LEADERS DISCUSS D. C. GA THERING DEA LS the court that she was kicked by Sheriff P artridge 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. Ir.= 300 workers for the StudentNon­ while her four companions enter­ creased civil rights organization violent Coordinating Committee ed a segregated lunch room. despite President Kennedy's as­ assembled here November 29 sassination, redoubled demands through Dec. 1, for a leadership All five were arrested on of the federal government, and the conference on "Food and Jobs." charges of disorderly conduct. role of white students in the civil Noted author James Baldwill Annell Ponder, a field secre­ rights movement, were among and , Deputy Di­ tary for the Southern Christian the topics given wide discussion rector of the August 28 Leadership Conference, testified at the Thanksgivingweekendcon­ on Washington, delivered the that three of the defendants beat ference of the Student Nonviolent opening and closillg keynote spee­ her in the Winona city jail on Coordinating Committee. ches. June 9. She said, "And I'm not , Executive Se­ The conference addressed it­ Cllmpletely over it yet." cretary of SNCC, told members self to questions of "the econo­ James Harold West. a SNCC of the press at a November 29 - micaepriv afion Of the dtsenfran­ ..Ylurl

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ATLANTA, 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. f . ------', a -~. group of 400 Negro ministers, -", r __ ~ and the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), the ~ ' Atlanta University Center student :.~-'--~-- protest group, called the halt ------after r evealing that " a real Bullet holes In a neighbor's - house show the signs of a violent breakthrough" had been made. night. (Photo by Cochran Studios; Albany, Ga.)

Reverend , effective, according to SNCC chairman of Operation s rea'd­ TERRELL TERROR workers here. basket, said 253 of I, 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, 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 .. the Student Non­ Student leaders indicated that SNCC workers were jailed in violent Coordinating Committee judge federal panel declared Ge- the suspension of boycotts and Bronwood, near Dawson, on asked PresidentLyndonB.J0hn­ orgia's insurrection and unlawful demonstrations was temporary "trespass" charges after they son to "act immediately to halt and that action might be resum- d h' d 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.______-j gistration. workers in Southwest Georgia:' tion 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 .Tohn 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 thr own As of 1960, only 51 Negroes President Kennedy said then: last week's indictments. Instead, a bottle at Americus police of- were registered voters in Ter­ " To shoot ••• two young people John L. Barnum, trea surer of the ficer, John W. Alford, during a rell County. Out of 4,533 whites, who were involved in an effort Sumter County Movement, the protest demonstration on August 2,894 were registered. to register people, to burn gr oup that coordinated last sum- 8. Allen denied this, and charged The first suit filed by the JUs­ churches as a reprisal, • • • mer's protest, wa s indicted for that Americus officers beat him tice Department under the 1957 1 consider both cowardly as well "perjuring" himself before a before they arrested him. Civil Rights Act was filed here. as outrageous." In Albany, Slat­ justice of the peace. ,Terrell County officials were er King, president of the Albany =------...:.--~------j charged with systematic discri- Movement, also protested the "" 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 .Tohnson. 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 ac tiVities~.=--______======::;-- bombing will be repeated unless TIlE MARCH ON WASHINGTON * * AUGUST 28TH 'I!)6} COUNCIL FOR UNITED CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERSHIP strong presidential action is 10 E.8.t 44th Street VVE SHALL New York 17, New York. taken:' Please send me copies of the authorized recording(s) of According to a SNCC survey OVERCOlVlE! the March on Washington at the special Council price. I understand of Terrell County, there are 8, the proceeds from the sale of this record will benefit the throughout the country, I enclose $3,00 for each record 209 Negroes living there, 3,047 ordered. of whom live in Dawson. Seven NAME ______and one half oercent of the Negro ADDRESS, ______work force was unemployed in 1960. Twenty-six percent of the CITY ______ZONE _____ STATE. ______county's work force is employed Please make check or money order payable to Council for Unity, in agriculture. S. N . C. C. B'anch ______

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PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS - HELENA, ARKANSAS - Two The Pine Bluff Movement­ SNCC field secretaries and a an anti-segregation group here­ West Helena minister were jail­ has called for nationwide pro­ ed here Friday, Decem~er 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, dit"ector of tried unsuccessfully 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, were arrested on Friday were jailed at MCDonald's during afternoon.· Jordan and Bradford James Forman addresses SNCC Conference. (SNCC Photo by Clifford I July and August. had been in Helena for about six Vaughs.) Members of the movement and hours, Hansen said. train without having a new defini­ two field secretaries fr.)m the 13radford, 22, is from Mound tioll-of work is useless," Rustin Student Nonviolent Coordinating Bayou, Mississippi. · Jordan, 19 D. C. CONFERENCE stated. Committee went to courtNov~m­ is from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Noting the number of white ber 29 to testify on whether a Reverend Lyles _ is pastor of students in the audience, Rustin temporary injunction obtained by Pettis Memorial C.M.;:; . Church said that the answer fo·r northern McDonald's against them should in West Helena. other Hugo Black." He recalled white students was not to come be made permanent. Thirty-three people, including Negro opposition to the appoint­ South and put on blue overalls. The injunction, obtained the re­ Hansen and Br adford, were ar­ ment of the liberal Supreme Court He said -it was essential for staurant's manager, Robert rested in Helena on November 16 Justice from Alabama. white civil rights workers to Knight, on August 13, enjoins the during the fir st sit - in de­ " Mr. Johnson may be able to work with unemployed whites in two SNCC workers, William Han­ monstraticns held her e. control the South better than Mr. depressed areas of Kentucky, sen and James Jones, The Pine Hansen said the thr ee were Kennedy did," Rustin said, "Be­ West Virginia and the North. Bluff Movement, the Arkansas held on $1500 bail each. cause he represents things they "When the day comes that the NAACP, and the Black Muslims Helena is on the Mississippi want." white unemployed adopt the spirit from "engaging in, sponsoring, River in Arkansas. "SNCC must help Mr. Johnson and tactics of the civil rights incit~g and encouraging stand­ Bradford and Jordan were --- but to help Mr. Johnson movement, we are on our way ins, ~it-ins, or from picketing," working on a voter registration means to create an atmosphere to a revolution in this country," me segregated diner. project in Phillips County. in which he is pushed even fur­ Rustin said. The order also asked that they Negroes are 53.9% of the coun­ ther." be prohibited from "interfering ty's popu!ation, according to the Rustin warned that SNCC's Ghettoes In The North emphasis on JOos ahd job relo­ with the business of McDonald's!' 1960 Civil Rights Commission John Lewis, Chairman ofSNCC Most lunch counters are inte­ Report on Voting. Only 28% of cation not lose sight of the fact that "There is nothing for which closed the conference by calling grated here. Sit-in demonstra­ the eligible Negroes are regiS­ for a nationwide movement. tions began in Pine Bluff on Fe­ tered voters, however. to be trained." "Until there is a planned econ- "We as students, we who re­ bruary 1. .present, as we like to sa y - The Pine Bluff Movement, 1------1 omy and automation is controlled by the government, ther e is no the masses -- we must not sell composed of locat citizens, has in public and private facilities, out. We must stand up and stand ~mployment and schools. point in training anybody, be­ segreg~ tion_ up for what is right • • • We moved against here cause there ~re no jobs. _ TQ. must speak to the whole-nation. ------1 Negro and white students from the North must go into the black areas of the North, go into the ghettoe s of Harlem, into the ghet­ toes of Chicago and Detroit, and organize a mass movement simi­ lar to what we have in the South:' "For so long there have been planned movements, planned re­ volutions, but we must all re­ cognize the fact that if any basic changes are to take place now, we, the people, the masses, must rise up and bring these changes about. We qmnot depend on or expect President Johnson or Con­ gress to do it, but we must help them do it," according to Lewis. "For the day will come when freedom and equality will exist, vISOS 'eD " e1uepv' not just for some of the people, 'M'N "15 puolliAe1:j 9 but for all of the people," Lewis said.