THE STUDENT VOICE VOL. 5 ~O •. 18 STUDENT VOICE. INC. 6 Raymond Street. N. W. Atlanta. Georgia 30314 JULY 29, 1964 SUIT TURNED DOWN King, Lewis Spark DAMAGE PLEA FILED Freedom Demo Drive PLEA TO ENIOIN ALA. $200,000 SOUGHT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told an OFfICIALS REIECTED AGAINST ALABAMA estimated 3,000 Negroes at a rights rally here last week that NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA at the present pace of registra- The United States Fifth Circuit A white SNCC field secretary ticn "It wlll take 135 years for Court of Appeals here has re­ has fUed a suit in federal court half the present Negro popula- jeCted a SNCC field secretart s seeking $200,000 in damages a- ticn of Mississippi to become re- plea that the federal courts en­ ga..insr Alabama GovernorGeorge glstered voters:' He pointed join Alabama from prosecuting C. Wallace. out that in the past month of nine other SNCC and CORE The suit, fUed July 23bySNCC intensive regisU""stion efforts on- staff member Robert Zellner,' ly 192 Negroes were registered. also named Public Safety Direc- Dr. King was touring the state in tor Al Lingo. Circuit Judge WU- support of the newly formed liam Thetford. former MissJss1pp1 Freedom Democra- Solicitory Maury Smith, Montgo tic Parry (FOP). mery City Recorder D. Eugene ..------""1 Dr. King was joined during his Loe, Detective Jack Snows and II Jtoallrm."bY CORE NatJonal Director state investigator Willie Painter. NG CAMPAIGN Farmer and SNCC Chair- Zeller charges them with false man John Lewis. Lewis, ad- arrest and malicious prosecu- SPURS VOTERS dressing the same rally, warned tion. He was arrested January that the new civil rights blll 8, 1963 on vagrancy charges ALBANY, GEORG LA. , - Over " won't solve the problems of visiting friends on the campus 1,200 Negroes were registered by 1 1\.1lsS:isS:IPill." of Huntingdon CoUege here, his SNCC workers in Southwest Ge- "We need Negro representa- alma mater. ZeHner said in his orgia last week. tion in Congress from Mfssissi- suit he was visiting "old friend:: Donald Harris, SNCC Project ppi:' he said. and acquaintances" on the cam~ Director, reported the campaign Dr. King was scheduled to ad­ Robert Zellner pus when Painter and Lingo pull- of Attorney C.B. King for Con- dress ralUes in Greenwood, ed up along side him and placed gress "is acting as a definite Jackson. Vicksburg and Meri- workers and himself for breach him under arrest.. spur to Negro registration throu- dian. of the peace. He was charged with yagra!1cy. ghout , ~e 2nd Congressional Dis- Meanwhile, the Freedom Demo- and sentenced to 30 days in ja11. crats held precinct meetings In a two-line order handed down ~~~=~~~;~;~ __ ~ throughout the state, and plann- on July 21, the Court upheld U.s. j ed county conventions. to be foll­ District Judge Frank Johnson's owed by a state convention here refusal to grant the injunction August 6. SNCC worker Bob Zellner had re­ Mrs. Victoria j ackson Gray, quested. defeated Negro candidate forSen­ ator john Stennis' s seat has been The rights workers were ar­ named National Committee­ rested when they crossed the women by the FOP. Rev. Ed­ Georgia- Alabama state line on win King, white chaplain at pre­ May 3, 1963. They were retrac­ dominately Negro Tougaloo Col­ ing the route taken by white Bal­ lege, was named to the National timore postman William Moore. Committeeman post. Moore was slain near Attalla, Rev. King was a candidate for Alabama on April 23, 1963 whUe Lieutenant Governor in a mock walking from Chattanooga. Ten­ " Freedom Vote" election last nessee to Jackson, MiSSissippi fall. More than 80.000 Negroes in an attempt to dramatize the and a few whites cast " Free­ civil rights struggle. His mur­ dom Ballots" for Rev. King and der ha s never been apprehended. mock guberna[Orial candidate Dr. Aaron Henry. The marchers were convicted Only 25,000 of Mississippi' s in state court of the breach of the THREE RULE RIGHTS LA \V CONSTITllflONAL _ Federal judges 450.000 potential Negro voters peace charge C'l nd each fine $200 E. P. Tuttle. Lewis Morgan and F.,A . Hooper (l-r) ruled the 1964 are now registered. Mrs.Gray Alter spending 30 days In laU -- Civi I R Ig h ts L aw constltut. Iona I I nestth lir test 0 I th e pu bll c ac- said a campaign has been Jaunch- mostly ondeathrowatAlabama' s commodations section. The cases involved an Atlanta hotel who ed to registered to register 100. Kilby Prison - they appealed sued to halt enforcement of the rights law and an Atlanta restaurant 000 Negroes on Freedom Regis- to the federal courts. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ~~~=---~~~~~------PAGE 2 JULY 29, 1964 CLARKSDALE, july 20 - A Vernon Missionary Baptist Chur­ ch was bombed. •[12~r~~2!!1.S~~ 2]!!~2~~~~~~21~ill onsummer a traffic w ochrkerarge .was arrested LAUREL, july 22 - Workers were evicted from the local wish weren't a ••• ITTA BENA , july 18, - ClIn­ office. enforcement officer. 1 would beat LAUREL, July 21 - Dynamite ton Loggins, 16, local volunteer, was thrown into - and out of a ••• you up." •••. GREENWOOD, july 22 - Four wa:;; arrested by policemen who Negro meeting hall. A Negro local girls were arrested. said there were no c harges but CANTON, july 20 - The Chris­ night club burned down. they" just locked him up:' tian Union Baptist Church near ••• ••• LELAND, july 22 - A summer ••• here burned to the ground• NATCHEZ, july 21 - Former worker was arrested for forglog COLUMBUS, july 19 - Two ••• SNCC Chairman Charles Mc Dew voter registration workers were GREENViLLe, july 20 - Nine a chec k, and later releaSed. held in jail for four hours be­ shots were fired at a worker' s ••• cause police said they were "sus­ car. JACKSON , july 22 - A summer picious su"angers." •• • worker was beaten, and a SNCC ••• HATTIESBURG, july 20 - A worker was arrested on a traf­ CANTON, july 19 - Two white white volunteer was beaten on a :1c charge. summer volunteers were beaten downtown street after leaving a ••• after being turned away from a bank. • •• white church. GREENWOOD, july 20 - Both ••• barrels of a shotgun were fired CLARKSDALE, july 19- Four at a vote worker' s car. "''''-·~I GA. COURT OVERTURNS workers were r efused entry tour ••• times In four atte mpts to inte­ CJ"i\RKSDALE, July 20 -Three WORKER CONVICTION grate white churches. members of the Clarksdale Youth ••• Action Group were arrested for BILOX I, July 19 - Two work­ trespass outside a Negro cafe. ATLANTA , GA. - The Georgia ers were chased by a man in a ••• Court of Appeals has overturned truck. McCOMB, july 20 - A SNCC the conviction of a white SNCC worker was hit by a white man. worker because of the " systema­ ••• PETER WERNER, a summer BILOXI, july 20. - P .B. Max­ tic exclusion of Negroes from ••• volll!ltecr of Flint, Mich., was well. of Corsicana, Texas, a service on juries." ASIiLAND, july 20 - Pollee beaten by whites after leaving member of the White Community arrested a summer worker on a In an oploion written by judge a bank in downtown Hattiesburg Project. was arrested at a white traffic charge. h.obert H. Hall, the court he ld on july 20. ea ting place where he had work­ ••• on j uly 7 that a white defendant ed for one day for ·'trespassing.'· HERNANDO, july 20 - A sum­ Is entitled to a trial by a jury The restaurant' s owner dis­ mer worker was arrested on a and SNCC Worker George Greene from which Negroes are not sys­ covered the youth was a civil traffic charge and his car was werE: anested on a traffic charge. tematically excluded. The court rights worker. impounded. ••• said the Americus, Georgia trial ••• ••• HOLLY SPRINGS, j uly 21 - judge who sentenced SNCC work­ BATESVILLE, july 20 - Geoff GREENWOOD,july 20 - A SNCC Police arrested a worker on sev­ er Ra lph W, Ailen, 23, of Mel­ Cowan, a summer volunteer, was worker was arrested on a traffic eral traffic c harges. rose, Massachusetts, to two threatened outside a Negro chur­ charge. ••• years in jail for assault during ch by a local policeman who told McCOMB, j uly 22 -The Mount a demonstration last summer ••• erred in refusing to allow evi­ dence that Sumter County jurIes were excluding Negroes from service. Alien was convic ted for " a§.­ sdult with intent to murder" an Americus policeman on Decem­ ber 11,1963. A lIen, SNCC work­ ers Donald Harris, 23, of New York and John Perde w, 21 , of Denver, Colorado and Thomas McDaniel of A merlcus had been lodlcted by a county grand jury on the assault charge and a charge of " resisting arrest," The others have not yet been tried. All were held in jail for 86 days following their arrest lo Americus on August 8,1963. They were c har ged with " attempting to incite insurrection" and faced the death penalty under the 1871 Georgia law, later ruled un­ constitutional by a three-judge federal panel that set the youths free on November I, 1963. They were also c harged with unlawful assembly, rioting, and obstructing a lawful arrest. Har­ ris and Allen were c harged with assault. AU but McDaniel were Ruins of Christian Union Baptist Church in Canton , Miss, The church was burned july 19. denied bail. and his was set \ total of 13 churches have been bumbed since the ~ummer Project began. at $12.000. STUDENT VOICE JULY 29, 1964 PAGE 3 THE WEEK IN PICTURES I

C.B. KING at an election rally at Koininia in Americus, Ga. rive hundred a ttended the rally for the candidate for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District Sunday.

On Monday s At Atlanta, Fulton C04nty. Ga. By STUDENT VOICE. INC. G Raymond Street, N. W.

MRS. vtCTORlA eRA Y. newly elected National CommitteeWO­ THE McCOMB, MISSISS IPPI FREEDOM SCHOOL begins in the man for the MiSSissippI Free­ shadow of bombed - out Freedom House. ')ver 30 students dom Democratic Party. Mrs. registered (or classes the first day, despite a series of shootings Gray was defeated by the inc um­ and bombings in this area. Later, classes were moved to a Negro bem John Stennis in her bid for church. his Senate seat.

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NEWS ROUNDUP To The Editors: McGOMB, MlSSlSSIPPI - Three AMERICUS, GEORGlA - A A number of inaccuracies have , churches have been burned to the white SNCC worker was beaten come to may attention that were ground here in the past week, by a white man after he regist­ in your july 15. 1964 edition. and anomt;r church near Jack­ ered to vote in the Sumter Coun­ In the section called "News son was destroyed 'by fire July ty Courthouse here july 24. Round - up" you state that SNCC 19. A total of 13 churches have john Perdew, 20. of Denver. has recently expanded its voter been burned or bombed in Miss­ ":::olorado. was punched by the registration drive to Gould.Ark­ issippi since the Summer Pro­ unidentified white man as he was ansas since May. This is not ject began. lea ving the courthouse. true. SNCC started working in The most recent burning here The youth said he had little Gouid about eleven months ago. occured July 23, when the Rose trouble registering after Sumter You also state iliat Gould is a­ Hill Baptist Church was burned COWley Sheriff Fred Chappel con­ bout thirty mUes from the Miss­ firmed that he had lived in the issippi Delta. This is also not, down. The Mount Vernon Baptist Rev. Ed King Church burned July 22. and the ,ounry for more than a year. true. Gould is in the heart of Zion Hill Baptist Church was Chappel could identify Perdew the Delta. It is about thirty destroyed July 17 . Neither church because he had arrested Perdew miles from the Mississippi Riv­ had been used (or civil rights and two other SNCC workers er. which means that it is closer KING, LEWIS activity. AU.5!'ust 8, 1963 on charges of in­ to the river than Greenwood, The Christian Union Baptist surrection. Mississippi which 1 am sure you CONTlNUED FROM PAGE 1 Church in Madison County, near is in the delta. A third lnac­ Jackson, burned July 19. lNDlANOLA, MlSS, - Thlrty­ tration Books to demonstrate to three Ruleville Negroes cele­ curacy. or shall 1 say deception the Democratic Convention inAt:­ ~ l ated the return of local leader results when you say that dte lantic City that the lack of par­ o\1rs. Fannie Lou Hamer from COWlty is about 35 to 50% Negro. ticipation by Negroes in Mississ­ GREENWOOD, MlSSlSSIPPI - i month long speaking tour by Lincoln County. according to the ippi politics is the result of dis­ The first arrests under the 1964 going to the Sunflower COlUlry 1960 United States Census Re­ franchisement. not apadty. Civil Rights Act were made here Courthouse to register july 21. port is 49.4% Negro. The city The FOP plans to challenge the 23 when FBI agents jailed three All 33 were processed by the of Gould itseU is a slight bit over seating of che traditional Miss­ white men charged with conspir­ registrar. 77% Negro, Issippi Democratic Party delega­ ing [0 "injure. oppress, threaten The latest attempt brought to 60 A11 of these inaccuracies tend tion at the convention and to urge and intimidate" SNCC worker the number of Negroes who have to create an erroneous impres­ the seating of its own represen­ Silas McGhee, a local Negro made registration, tries since the sion that only makes our worl tatives In their place. The FOP who tried to integrate a Green­ summer project began. here more difficult. U you could maintains th8t the regular Miss­ wood movie theatre. Over 350 ha ve been registered possibly correct this situation in issippi Party's racist policies According to a complain rued in the Freedom Registration for the future we would be most ap­ and repudiation of the National before the U.s. Commissioner in the Freedom Democratic Party, preciative. Democratic Party make unfit for Clarksdale, the three men beat an organization parallel in struc­ 1 remain a faithful reader of continued recognition by the McGhee to prevent him from en­ rive to the regular all- white De­ your fine publication. national party. tering the theatre. mocratic Party of Mississippi. I Yours in Freedom, Resolutions denouncing the re­ William W. Hansen gular party delegates to the con­ Circuit Solicitor, and Deputy vention and urging seating of Solicitor Smith ilien prosecuted ------­ the FOP have been passed by ALABAMA SUIT He was bound over to a COWley Zellner on charges of " false pre- -:ourt and indicted by a grmdJury. Democrats in Michigan, Wiscon­ CONTlNUED FROM PAGE 1 tenses:" He was charged with sin, Minnesota. CalifOrnia, giving an $85 check to a pawnshop The suit charges Zellner was Oregon, the District of Columbia. The charge wa s dropped when he to purchase a camera when he subjected to false arrest and Massachusetts, New York. Col­ appealed to the Circuit Court. didn"t have enough money in his maliciOUS prosecution and that orado and North Dakota. Theford, who was at that time A_tlanta bank. to cover the check. his civil rights were violated.. -...... -.. C.B, KING

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Harris said 475 Negroes re­ gistered in Cordele in Crisp County; 325 in Tifton in Tift COWl­ ry; "more than 300" in Thomas­ vUle in Thomas County; "40 plus" after one day' s work in Bainbridge. Decatur COWley be­ fore SNCC registration work­ ers were chased out of town by local whites, and "from 45 to 60" in Albany. SNCC head­ quarters for Southwest Georgia. The Southwest Georgia SNCC project began in 1961. S~CC workers helped to form the Albany Movement. a militant an­ ti- segregation group that led D!6JoiJS) 't L D~UDI~V widely pubUcized large street de­ """N ' tiJ 'u~S puow.(Dli 9 monstrations here.