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.