THE STUDENT VOICE Vol. 5, No. 10 STUDENT VOICE. INC. 6 Raymond S:tree:t. N. W. A:tlan:ta. Georgia 30314 MAY 5,)964 COURT RULING DUE ON TRESPASS LAW ROME, GA. - Attorneys for Tolg's lawyers argue that the a former SNCC worker argued law involves state enforcement in Federal court here May 1 of private discrimination. that the Georgia anti-trespass Attorney Howard Moore, ap la w is unconstitutional. pearing for Tolg, said Fulton U.S. judge Frank A. Hooper County Superior Court judge said he would devote his "full Durwood T. pye had ordered time" to studying the case be a grand jury investigation of fore r endering a decision in the what he called "the flouting" case of Thomas Taylor Tolg, of the anti-trespass law. 23, a graduate student atMiami "Then," Moore said, "he University in Oxford, Ohio. (pye) set a special calendar, Tolg who is white, accused of to hear a misdemeanor case in violating that law when he was Superior Court." Misdemean arrested in an Atlanta anti-seg ors are usually heard in city regation demonstration june courts. 17,1963. The trespass measure Judge pye is the same fudge was passed in 1960 shortly after who sentenced Miss Mardon sit-in demonstrations began Walker and the Rev. Ashton sweeping the South. It has been jones, both white, to maximum used since then almost ex terms after they were arrested clusively against racial demon CONTINuED ON PAGE 4 strators.
RIGHTS WORKER· STATE ACTS TO CURB - d;-'I~g ·demo·ns A.=,...... --' ASKS FOR BOND. COFO SUMMER DRIVE NEW ORLEANS, LA. - A JACKSON, MISS. - With the worker for the Student Non help of the State Legislature, NASHVILLE ERUPTS violent Coordinating Committee Mississippi's police officers will - held in a Hattiesburg, Miss. be more than ready to deal with jailed since Feb. 5 - has civil rights groups planning asked the 5th Circuit Court of a "Mississippi Freedom Sum AS PROTESTS BEGIN Appeals to allow him to make mer." bond. The summer drive, sponsored NASHVILLE, TENN. - More fellow demonstrator. He was Pete Stoner, 25, was jailed by the Council of Federated Or than 95 people - includingSNCC hospitalized for at least five in Hattiesburg Feb. 5 when ganization (COFO), involves 1,000 Chairman john Lewis - have days. he tried to visit SNCC work workers in programs of voter been arrested here in a week Lewis and Lester McKinnie, er Lawrence Guyot in the Hat registration, Freedom Schools, long serie s of prote sts. chairman of the Nashville Stu tiesburg jail. He was charged Freedom Registration and com Lewis was jailed and roughed dent Nonviolent Central Com with resisting arrest, breach of munity centers. up by police April 28, and mittee, a SNCC affiliate, were the peace and using profanity. Governor Paul johnson has al had his lip split by a police jailed April 28, when they sat An additional charge of con ready signed into law five bills man's club on May 1. down on West End Avenue in tempt of court was added when designed to halt demonstrations. He was critical of police front of a segregated Mor he was coiwicted on Feb._ 7 They prohibit picketing, ban dis . treatment ofthe deomonstators, rison's Cafe. in a justice of the peace court. tributing boycott literature, allow and compared Nashville's po The protests are coordinated He was sentenced to 90 days in cities to extend police aid to other lice force with Birmingham's. by the Nashville Student Com jail on all charges. municipalities, permit cities to A Negro policeman was driven mittee and the Nashville Chris Attorney Benjamin Smith of restrict the movements of groups away from a demonstration in tian Leadership-Conference. New Orleans filed a petition to and to set curfews, and increase a police car , when he tried to admit Stoner to bond and an ap penalties for violating city or stop a white officer from man In Atlanta, SNCC asked plication for informa pauperis dinances. handling a Negro girl. the U.S. Department of justice (stating he is unable to pay Governor johnson has asked . One protester, William Bar and the Civil Rights Commis court costs~. the legislature to enlarge the po bee, 22, a student at predo sion to investigate brutality MississippiA ssistant Attorney wer of the state police. minately white Scarrit Col- charges against Nashville po General William Wells admitted Newspaper accounts of state lice~en. lege, was knocked unconscious Stoner, who is white, had been legislative sessions have cited The Student Nonviolent Cen by a policeman's club when he beaten by other white prisoners frequent reference by legislators tral Committee has been waging tried to sto p police blows on a CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 PAGE 2 MAY 5,1964 STUDENT VOlCE NEGRO REGISTRATION INCREASES AFTER C.B. KING ENTERS PRIMARY
ALBANY, GA. - Negro voter registration in Georgia's 2nd Congressional District has taken a leap since Attorney C.B. King _ announced his candidacy for U.S. Congress. According to SNCC workers here 319 Negroes qualified to to vote in Albany alone between the time King filed for the na tional office race on April 4 and April 28. King, this state' s first Negro Congressional candidate in mo dern times, says he will seek to represent "underprivileged SNCC; WORKER ROBERT ZELLNER, A native of Alabama and whites and Negroes" and will CB. King former Chairman Charles McDew after their release from a Baton offer a "meaningful choice to King told the rally he would Rouge, Gi. jail; ---:-Zellner faces a May 7 trial- in Magnolia South Georgia voters' for the "seek to extend Federal-mini Mississippi rising from his participation in a 1961 McComb, Miss first time:' mum wage laws to cover domes issippi demonstration. McDew, jailed during that same protest, He opened his campaign in tic and agricultural workers:' has appealed his conviction. Cuthbert, Randolph County, with "No where in the nation is the an open air rally April 17. basic exploitation of the have ZELLNER TO BE TRIED FOR 1961 Attorney King, 40,hasbeenac nots by the haves more apparent 'tive in civil rights cases through than in the white kitchens of South out Southwest Georgia and hand Georgia, where Negro women ~PISTURBING THE PEACE' CHARGE led many cases arising from the slave away for 10 or 15 dollars massive jail-ins here in 1962. a week," the attorney said. MAGNOLIA, MISS - A former SNCC worker, Robert Zellner, must face trial here May 7 on a 1961 "disturbing the peace" STUDENTS CALL FOR charge. INTEGRATED SPORTS Zellner, who is white, and 102 Negroes, including several KNOXVILLE, TENN. - An in SNCC workers, were arrested terracial student anti- segrega in nearby McComb Oct. 4, tion group at the · University of 1961 following a student march Tennessee is circulating a peti to the city hall. tion calling on the school's Board of Trustees to "immediately au McComb was the site of the thorize the athletic department first SNCC voter registration to recruit and play athletes re drive. Sporadic acts of violence gardless of race, creed or and frequent arrests of SNCC color:' workers culminated in the .?hootin~ qf Herbert Lee on Sept. _ The group, Students for Equal 25, 1961. Students in McComb fieatment (SET), an affiliate of staged sit-in demonstrations at Atlanta-based SNCC started the the local Greyhound bus ter petition a month ago. minal on August 3D, and their According to Marion S. Barry ~-r======:m~~~~~~~~~~~~==~~===~~~ subsequent dismissal from the Jr., a university graduate stu- local Negro high school trigger 6 Raymond St . UW dent and SET chairman, the peti Student ed the protest march. Nonviolent Atlanta, Ga. tion was started because of the Coordinating 30314 The cases of SNCC Miss inaction of school officials. Committee issippi project director Robert "Kentucky's Board of Trustees Enclosed 1s $ 1.00 for each poster and/or Moses and former SNCC Chair has said that Kentucky will play $ 4 .0 0 for eacll set of tl1e following: man Chuck McDew and vote Negroes and I don't see C,,! ri.te quantity) any Food for Freedom One Man , One Vote ' worker Bobby Talbert, also ar reason why UT's Board can't rested with Zellner, have been do the same," Barry said. 1I0ll I Is lie P rotecting You? appealed to the circuit court. THE STUDENT VOICE Come Let Us Build A Complet e Set New World Together Published Once A Week Thirteen other cases, most Name ______local juveniles, have been con On Monday s At Atlanta, tinued in Pike County Court, and Fulton ' County, Ga. Address ______By STUDENT VOICE. INC. will not be heard until a de City ______S tate ______Zip Cocie_ cision is made in the circuit 6 Raymond Street, N. W. court. 14 STUDENT VOICE MAY 5,1964 PAGE 3 OVER 800 ALCORN A&M STUDENTS SUSPENDED AFTER DEMONSTRATION LORMAN, MISS. - More than were not allowed to go to the 800 students have been sus dorms to pick up clothing or pended from Alcorn A&M Col other personal items, the lege here April 28 after a night source said. long demonstration protesting Dr. E.R. Jobe, executive se "violations of student freedom" cretary of the State College on the campus. Board, said the students had A student said the protests been suspended and "no definite began when students decided to time limit placed on the sus boycott the school' s student un pension." ion, charging prices were too "It is my understanding," high. he said, "That if they can make College administrators or satisfactory statements before dered all scholarship students the school administration, their to report to the building on the petitions for readmission will night of April 28. They com be heard." plied, the student said, but re A similar strike a few years fused to make purchases. When ago led to the ousting of a for the building was closed, the mer Alcorn president. students marched to the home of The students said they wanted the president and asked him to "adult treatment, more social to come out to hear their their freedom, better school build grievances. He refused, and ings and teachers." they marched to the football There are 1,400 students at stadium where they spent the the state school. night. The marchers were joined later in the ~vening by other FOR .MAN IN EUROPE, students who left thei~ locked dormitories to become a part MAY VISIT AFRICA of the protests. ATLANTA, GA. - James For They had decided to return to man, SNCC Executive Secre their dorm s and try to see tary may tour Africa following school administrators later a four-day International Con Wednesday afternoon, when they ference on Economic Sanctions discovered 57 cars of Miss Against South Africa inLondon issippi state -troopers had sur England. ' rounded the stadium. Forman represented the stu When they tried to leave, they dent anti-segregation group at were halted, placed into busses the London conference, held and driven to their homes. They April 14-17. SUPPORT SNCC NOW
ATLANTA, GA. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee needs your help. Since 1961, SNCC workers have lived - and in some cases, nearly died - with the disenfranchised, dispossessed Negroes of the Black Belt South. Our staff has grown from one to 136. Presently we have workers in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. For two months now, no one on our staff has been paid regularly. Most receive only $9.64 a week when they are paid. This summer in Mississippi, we intend to have 1,000 workers manning a Freedom Summer Campaign. In Southwest Georgia, our project is ready to encompass every county in the 2nd Congres I pledge $____ to the Studen: Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. sional District. In Arkansas, our workers want to expand their voter registration drives. From all across the South, we receive NAME...... o.o .... .o .... .o ...... o ...... pleas for help. ADDRESS All this takes money. It takes cars, and pencils, and paper, ...... o .. .o.o ...... o • .o .. .o .. .o.o .. .o.o.o.o qTY •• ...... o.o.o ...... and telephones and mimeograph machines and hard work. STATE ••• We have been workL'1g for three years. Contributors to SNCC receive a subscription to the Student Voice. We need your help now to continue. Send to: SNCC, 6 Raymond Street, !'l.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30314 PAGE 4 MAY 5,1964 STUDENT VOICE SNCC INITIATES HELP THE STUDENT VOICE Last week' s issue of the STU ic al bill s or all of its l36-m an MAIL-IN TACTIC DENT VOICE was the first since staff, ancC-;!llots funds for per early March. sonal emergency travel needs. Publication was resumed only When wor kers leave the staff, ATLANTA, GA. - SNCC has because we have begun to inch SNCC may assist with scholar initiated a campaign which in out of a financial crisis which ship funds so they can return cludes a massive "mail-in" aim kept our staff without regular to school. ed at securing Federal protection subsistence pay for two months. Large items in our total bud for summer civil rights work The Atlanta office staff voted get include postal expenses and ers in MissisSippi. last week to take a voluntary the cost of a special trunk The campaign asks Southern half-cut in wages (already be telephone line so we can be and Northern college students to low subsistence.) constant communication with. circulate petitions asking Presi 10 In addition to our civil rights our worker s across the South, dent Lyndon B. Johnson to "pro Guy Carawan and political programs in six and relay information to vide guarantees that summer Southern states, SNCC attempts Northern contacts. workers in Mississippi will be FOLK MUSIC SESSION to provide educational pro Although the STUDENT VOICE offered full protection." _ gr ams and emergency relief is just a sm all part of our total The SNCC drive calls on stu- TO BE HELD MAY 7.9 of food and clothing of the lo operation, it has been impos dents to "Mail-in" thousands of i cal people with whom we live sible for us to spend the $470.00 letters to Jo~~.on on _May 17, _and work. __ AtLANTA, GA. -A-ilireeaay which is required for its week "One Man - One Vote" are avail able for $1 ,00 from SNCC 6 D!6JO"~ 't I b,UDI4V Raymond Street, Atlanta, Geor "M"N ',,,;u'S puow,(Dli 9 gia.