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The Student Voice, March 2, 1964 VOL. SNO. 8 The Student Volce, Inc. 6 Raymond Street, N.W.. Atlanta 14, Ga. MARCH 3, 1964 . NATCHEZ, MISS. -Sheriff James Anders of Natchez week his office has "uncovered nothing" the beating of an elderly Negro by Klux Klan, as other beatings, two shootings and the arrests of SNCC workers were reported in the area. Archie Curtis, 60, an undertak- IReluctant Judge er, said he and his attendant Willie Jackson, were whipped on I d I the night of Feb. 15. IR e e a s e s C o e In Atlanta, SNCC asked At- torney General Robert F. Ken- ATLANTA, GA. -An 18-year- I nedy to investigate "reports of old coed from Connecticut Col- I a resurgence of the Ku Klux lege for Women, convicted in a Klan and terror tactics aimed racial case and given the maxi- at Negroes in Mississippi:' mum sentence by a county judge, Clifford Walker, 34. was found was freed Feb. 22 under a $15, shotgunned to death in his car Princess Anne firemen turn hoses on Maryland 000 property bond. eight miles from Woodville in The girl, Mardon R. Walker Wilkerson County March I. State (0lle,e students to halt demonstrations. of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Walker was employed at the was sentenced to 12 months in International Paper Company. the common jail and six months Bob Moses, program director at hard labor. She was also for the Council of Federated fined $1,000. Organizations, said two other She was the third white per- Negroes, Albert Whitney and son convicted fIr participating !J1cI James Winston were whipped by whites during early February. "Negroes with decent jobs are , being terrorized," Moses said. "There have been 180cross burn- ings, five killings, several shoot- ings and at least three whippings since the Ku Klux Klan reorganiz- ed shortly after President Ken- I PRINCESS ANNE, MD. -Anti- demonstrating against segrega- segregation protests, halted by a t.ed restaurants. nedy was killed," Moses said. weekend moratorium called by SNCC Chairman john Lewis Moses said three Negroeswith stUdent leaders after police used md CambridgeSNCC leader Mrs. bullet holes in their bodies were dogs, fire hoses and billy sticks ]loria Richardson, asked intQ "stuffed into a car in Wilker- to disperse demonstrations, may Princess Anne by SAFE, report- son County with the motor run- resume this week. ed no violence from the white ning." The sheriff of the county Fifty -seven Maryland State commW1ity here toward demon- attributed their deaths to carbon I College students were in thecol- strators. "It's from the state monoxide poisoning, Moses said. lege infirmary as a result of in- police," Lewis said. The two vote workers arrest- juries sustained from police Chicago comedian Dick Gre- Mardol Walker ed Feb. 29 were released the next treatment, according to SNCC gory addressed a mass rally here demonstration by the Judge Dur- day when they posted $100 pro- worker Reginald Robinson. Feb. 27 urging students to seek wood T. Pye, who has a history perty bonds each. George Green "At least 14" stUdents suffer- a "completely opened city." of pro-segregation activity. was originally charged with auto ed from police dog bites, Dr. Maryland State students, num- He was appointed to the bench I theft and speeding, but the theft Neville Barron, college physician bering 600, make up a sizeable in 1955 by segregationist ex-Go- charges were dropped. McAr- stated. Others were injured from portion of this town's 1,300popu- vernor Marvin Griffin. Before thur Cotton was held on vagrancy blows by billy sticks, Robinson lation. I his appointment, he was an as- I charges. said. One student, Marion Brown, sistant county attorney and se- Green said a 14-year-old girl, Demonstrations were calledby 20, who was injured by a police cretary of the Georgia Education Leona Stills, was shot at Feb. the StUdent Appeal for Equality billy club here in a Feb. 22 de- I Commission, a group created to 28 by three teen-aged whites (SAFE), affiliated with SNCC monstration , required surgery I maintain segregation in Geor- while she was walking along a for more tItan a year. Twenty- as a result of a blood clot which gia's schools. Natchez street. She was not year-old SAFE head, John Wilson developed after being struck on was arrested Feb. 26 along with CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 more than 20 other StUdents, for CONTINUEO ON PAI.JE 4 PAGE 2 ~ARCH 3. 1964 STUDENT VOICE CAMBRIDGE NEGROES RESUME PROTESTS CAMBRIDGE, MO. -Demon- ~ resumed in this PINE BLUFF, ARK. -Negro , Shore community as 18 comedian Dick Gregory and arrested here Feb. SNCG worker William Hansen were sentenced Feb. 25 to six 25 for picketing. All demonstrators on picket months in jail and fined $500 lines in front of the Welfare for a Feb. 17 sit-in demonstra- tion at a segregated truck stop. Board and State Unemployment Commission offices In addition, Gregory was fined ! were taken into "protective cus- $50 and costs when he appear- 1tody " by the Maryland National ed in court one-half hour late. -Troops were sent into Both posted $2500 appeal bonds. Their arrests began a series I Cambridge by Maryland Gover- of anti-segregation protests here nor J. Millard Tawes in July 1963 that have resulted in the court- -whites began attacking de- ordered closing of the monstrators and violence broke place, Ray's Barbecue arldinthe out. arrest of more than 50 demon- According toMrs.GloriaRich- strators. ardson, head of the Cambridge Gregory described the jail as Nonviolent Action Committee "somebody's torture chamber" (CNAC) and member of the stu- after his release last weekend. dent Nonviolent Coordinating CANTON NEGRO CITIZENS face Mississippi law officers as they Committee (SNCC) Executive On Feb. 18, 15 people were attempt to enter the courthouse to try to register on Freedom Day. jailed and crowds of whites - Committee, the "economic situ- ation' , in Cambridge is to be some identified by newsmen as "professional segregationists" - the chief target of demonstra- began to gather outside the eat- tions. "In the second ward which is ing place. SNCC worker James . Jones was "roughed up" by a the Negro ghetto, tWo-thirds of state trooper. all families have incomes of less than $3,000, and over 60% of the On Feb. 19 39 others city's unemployed are concen- were arrested. Reverend Ben~ jamin Grinnage, chairman of the trated in that area," Mrs.Rich- ardson said. "More than 60% Pine Bluff Movement, was shot at of the houseI3 in that ward have during-~ protest by the uwner HA TTIESBUR~ISS.- ..OVer CANTON, MISS. -A 10 porn., no hot water." 500 Negroes have tried to re~ civil curfew has been set by the of Ray's Barbecue. "Twenty-nine percent of the Hansen said afl:er his trial gister to vote in Forrest COlU1ty city council here after more than Negro work force is chronical- in the month following a Jan.22 400 Negroes tried to register that the Pine Bluff Movement ly unemployed in Cambridge and would press the city to adopt a to vote in two days. "Freedom Day." more than one--third who do hold On Feb. 22; the one~month an- On Feb. 28, only four Negroes public accommodations law. He jobs work less than 30 weeks of niversary of the first Freedom were allowed inside the Madi- said the group would continue each year. With few exceptions, Day here, over 200Negroes stood anti-segregation protests. son County Courthouse. Negroes in only the lowest paying in line to take Mississippi's re- Workers for the CoW1cil of The Pine Bluff Movement be- jobs," Mrs. Richardson stated. gistration test, a prerequisite to gan demonstrations on Feb. I Federated Organizations ,CORE CNAC's demonstrations aim and SNCC said over 400 1962. voting here. for an overall economic deve- "The campaign thus far has Negroes stood in line outside both The owner of the eating place lopment plan in which Negroes been a success," according to days waiting for a chance to under fire ha s obtained an injunc- are represented in policy mak- John Lewis, Chairman of SNCC tion against SNCC, Hansen, Gre- register. ing decisions on any planning Lewis, who was here for the Jan. Registrar L.F. Campbell re- gory the Pine Bluff 'Movement commission, according to Mrs. 22 Freedom Day, said civil rights mained inside. while policemen and several local workers. Richardson. CNAC also demands groups "won the right to organize from Canton, jackson. Yazoo City that if no qualified Negroes are and rlU1 a voting campaign in and Neshoba County guarded the available for an' , industrial com- Hattiesburg through the Free~ Negroes outside. ALBANY LEADER Local citizens, deputized es- plex" now being developed, dom Day techniques." "then Negroes must be trained The Freedom Day drive has pecialiy for Freedom Day. Feb. RECEIVES 3 YEARS for forthcoming jobs." been highlighted by the presence 28, were transported to Canton of more than 100 ministers and via school bus, Volkswagen. and SNCC field secretary Reginald MACON, GA. -Federal Judge Robinson -active in Cambridge rabbis from the United Presby- pick-up trucks. W.A. BootIe sentenced Mrs. Elza terian Commission on Religion , last summer -and Mrs. Rich- jackson, recording secretary of a number of vote workers, in- ardson have stated that demon- the Albany Movement, to three and Race, the Episcopal Society strations "will continue as long for Cultural and Raci~l Unity, cluding nine ministers, were ar- years on probation on Feb. 28. as the white power structure of Mrs. jackson. with five other and the Rabbinical Association rested.
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