z - ■— - ■ -- - V) Foot! Intercepted bild: A Patriot Tribute \ This picture is The Southern Patriot’s New Year’s greeting IF (By Staff Correspondent) gan Friends of the Student Non­ readers. And little Sherrilynn Bevel, shown here with her mo CLARKSDALE, Miss — Two violent Coordinating Committee Mrs. Diane Nash ^evel, is our nomination for the traditional students from Michigan were ar­ (SNCC), and in Louisville by the symbol of the(new year. rested here during Christmas local SNCC affiliate; the Louis­ Sherrilynn’s parents might have found comfortable lives and s week when they brought a truck­ ville CORE chapter, and SCEF. cessful careers anywhere—Mrs. Bevel is a former beauty queen, her load of food, clothing, and medi­ Clarksdale police returned much husband, the Rev. James Bevel, a talented young minister. cine for Negroes being harassed of the material after the students for trying to vote. were freed. But they have chosen to make their home in Mississippi (he on the staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, she a Ivanhoe Donaldson and Benja­ The arrests brought immediate protests from SNCC, the Southern field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), min Taylor, both 21, were charged because they have faith that this state will yet move forward. with possession of narcotics and Christian Leadership Conference, CORE, SCEF, and other groups. Sherrilynn might have been born in jail, but she wasn’t because held under $15,000 bond each. even a Mississippi judge had qualms about putting an expectant After nationwide protests, bond The NAACP provided legal aid. Meantime, Henry urged that food mother there. It was just last May, when Mrs. Bevel was expecting was reduced to $1,500, and they shipments continue and said: Sherrilynn in September, that she decided against further appeal of were freed after 11 days in jail. “Let tons of material be the a two-year sentence imposed on her for civil-rights activity. Local police claimed there were answser of the civil rights move­ She electrified freedom-lovers everywhere by her statement: narcotics in the medicine. Three ment to this latest harrassment.” —Patriot Photo “. in the long run this will be the best thing I can do for my doctors in Louisville, Ky., where child. This will be a black baby the shipment originated, made born in Mississippi, and thus sworn statements that there were wherever he is born he will be in no narcotics or sedatives in the prison . .” shipment—that it contained ma­ The Souther’a Vol. 21 No. 1 V-J. =—I CD Recently, the judge notified terial like aspirin and vitamins. P CC O M Mrs. Bevel’s attorneys that he Donaldson and Taylor were was ready now to considei’ her taking the relief goods to Aaron January, 1963 case. She is standing by her posi­ Henry, Mississippi NAACP pres­ tion of last spring: she will appeal ident, for distribution in the Delta no further; either Mississippi area. Many Negroes have lost PÄRI0T drops the case, or she will go to jobs, been put off the land, or cut re iS jail. off from surplus foods since voter­ Published by the I Conference Educational Fund, Inc. * Q Uncompromisingly honest, registration drives increased. O Mrs. Bevel admits that her deci­ Food and clothing had been col­ sion is a harder one today than lected in Michigan by the Michi- After Desegregation, What? it was in May because now the baby is here and then she (By Staff Correspondent) church people, and the Southern He cutlined what he described thought of it only as an ab­ NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After Regional Council, an interracial as the “ethical demands” of the straction. But she is convinced desegregation, what? Will the agency dedicated to improving life nation’s democratic and religious the decision is the correct one. breaking of the legal barriers of in the South. heritage which make integration segregation automatically create Meantime, in a year that has The meeting didn’t come up the real goal, and then noted that a good society in the South? brought little that is hopeful and with any final answers to the while desegregation can be ac­ These are questions that have much that is tragic in Mississppi, problem, as no meeting could, but complished by law, integration recently been plaguing many peo­ Sherrilynn and her family remain it raised the questions more cannot. ple in the Southern civil-rights as symbols of life and hope for sharply than they have been movement—as more legal barriers But he also made it quite clear the future in that state. raised before and it articulated fall but the basic patterns of life that he was not suggesting any (Mrs. Bevel wil be a guest of concerns that have been on many in Southern communities remain slowdown in legal attacks on seg­ honor at the annual SCEF recep­ minds. pretty much the same. regation and discrimination. tion in New York in February. Those in attendance included In fact, someone has recently See page A.) many key people in the human “The law Carnot make a man said that Southern communities rights movement across the love me, but it can keep him which are desegregating are be­ South—from national, regional, from lynching me, and I think coming more and more like The Jlo it th ** Ivanhoe Donaldson and local groups. As they go that’s pretty important,” he Northern communities every day. said. Loads Relief Truck back into their home communi­ And looking at de facto seg­ ties, the ferment begun at His main point was that along Highlights regation in the North and the Nashville will spread. with desegregation, which is “en­ persistent racial prejudice in Mississippi Governor Ross Bar­ The theme of the consultation forceable by law,” there must be Send A Reply Northern communities, many nett was ordered to answer in was “The Ethical Demands of efforts to arouse in people, both Southerners have made up their Federal Court to charges that he Don’t let the arrest of the Integration.” Dr. Martin Luther Negro and white, the inner atti­ minds that this is not enough. was guilty of criminal contempt Michigan students stop the re­ King, Jr., set the keynote in the tudes that will lead them to obey Not for this, they say, have in the Ole Miss crisis last Sep­ lief program for Mississippi. opening address. the “unenforceable obligations” of they been risking death, filling tember. Write the U. S. Justice De­ He defined desegregation as a integration. And it was to the Southern jails, and getting And students working to win partment, Washington, D. C., negative thing, the breaking of ways of doing this that the rest lumps on their heads. the vote in Mississippi went into and ask it to intervene in barriers that have made our so­ of the conference addressed it­ During the last week of 1962, court in an effort to get the Feder­ behalf of Donaldson and Tay­ ciety “prohibitive.” But integra­ self. about 150 Negro and white al Government to intervene on be­ lor. Send youi’ own reply to tion, he said, is a creative process Southerners concerned for civil In an effort to keep the con­ half of all Mississippi Negroes, Mississippi by organizing a involving the positive acceptance rights met in Nashville for an in­ ference from bogging down in as it did belatedly in the Ole Miss collection of food, money, and of human beings by each other. formal “consultation” to consider abstractions, the consultation crisis. Seven Mississippi field clothing in your community. “The bells of history are tolling this problem. planners had geared the sessions workers for the Student Nonvio­ Ship to Emergency Welfare fcr segregation,” he said, and he The consultation was sponsored around panel discussions of spe­ lent Coordinating Committee and and Relief Committee, Haven predicted that in less than 10 by the Fellowship of Southern cific situations in three Southern William Kunstler and William Methodist Church, 400 Yazoo years desegregation will be a Churchmen, a Southwide organi­ communities: Higgs, civil-rights attorneys, filed Ave., Clarksdale, Miss. reality throughout most of the zation of socially concerned suit against Attorney General South. Staff members of the American Kennedy and FBI Director J. But the human relations di­ Friends Service Committee Edgar Hoover, demanding posi­ lemma of our nation will still (AFSC) reported on a drive for tive action to stop harassment, be monumental,” he declared, equal employment opportunity Tlie Atlanta Wall intimidation, and physical at­ “unless we launch now the which they have been conducting (The “Atlanta Wall,” a buffer to block housing expansion by tacks on registration workers. The parallel thrust of the integra­ for a number of years in Greens- Negroes, has shocked the nation. This account is written by a white plaintiffs said their purpose was tion process.” (Continued on Page 2) Georgia student who has been active in protests against segregation.) to prove to the defendants that they have more power to act than By JOAN BROWNING two streets in the area running they realize. (Special Correspondent) north and south. Meantime, Attorney General ATLANTA, Ga.—On December White residents of the Peyton- Kennedy persuaded the U. S. 13, 1962, the Public Works Com­ Harlan area have supported the Civil Rights Commission to post­ mittee of the Board of Aidermen barricades and the “buffer zone” pone for the third time scheduled unanimously approved Mayor by stating that they have been hearings on violation of rights in Ivan Alien’s proposal to establish subjected to “blockbusting” tac­ Mississippi. a racial “buffer zone” in a south­ tics by real estate agents.