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Princess Anne firemen turn hoses on Maryland

State (0lle,e students to halt demonstrations.

NATCHEZ, MISS. -Sheriff James Anders of Natchezweek his office has "uncovered nothing"the beating of an elderly Negro byKlux Klan, as other beatings, two shootings and the arrests ofSNCC workers were reported in the area.

Archie Curtis, 60, an undertak-IReluctant Judge er, said he and his attendant

Willie Jackson, were whipped onI 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 ofold coed from Connecticut Col- I a resurgence of the Ku Kluxlege for Women, convicted in a Klan and terror tactics aimedracial case and given the maxi- at Negroes in Mississippi:'mum sentence by a county judge, Clifford Walker, 34. was foundwas freed Feb. 22 under a $15, shotgunned to death in his car000 property bond. eight miles from Woodville in

The girl, Mardon R. Walker Wilkerson County March I.of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Walker was employed at thewas sentenced to 12 months in International Paper Company.the common jail and six months Bob Moses, program directorat hard labor. She was also for the Council of Federatedfined $1,000. Organizations, said two other

She was the third white per- Negroes, Albert Whitney andson convicted fIr participating !J1c I James Winston were whipped by

whites during early February."Negroes with decent jobs are

being terrorized," Moses said."There have been 180 cross burn-ings, five killings, several shoot-ings and at least three whippingssince the Ku Klux Klan reorganiz-ed shortly after President Ken- I

nedy was killed," Moses said.Moses said three Negroeswith

bullet holes in their bodies were"stuffed into a car in Wilker-son County with the motor run-ning." The sheriff of the countyattributed their deaths to carbon Imonoxide poisoning, Moses said.

The two vote workers arrest-ed Feb. 29 were released the nextday when they posted $100 pro-perty bonds each. George Greenwas originally charged with auto

I theft and speeding, but the theftcharges were dropped. McAr-thur Cotton was held on vagrancycharges.

Green said a 14-year-old girl,Leona Stills, was shot at Feb.28 by three teen-aged whiteswhile she was walking along aNatchez street. She was not

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PRINCESS ANNE, MD. -Anti-segregation protests, halted by aweekend moratorium called bystUdent leaders after police useddogs, fire hoses and billy sticksto disperse demonstrations, mayresume this week.

Fifty -seven Maryland StateCollege students were in thecol-lege infirmary as a result of in-juries sustained from policetreatment, according to SNCCworker Reginald Robinson.

"At least 14" stUdents suffer-ed from police dog bites, Dr.Neville Barron, college physicianstated. Others were injured fromblows by billy sticks, Robinsonsaid.

Demonstrations were calledbythe StUdent Appeal for Equality(SAFE), affiliated with SNCCfor more tItan a year. Twenty-year-old SAFE head, John Wilsonwas arrested Feb. 26 along withmore than 20 other StUdents, for

Mardol Walker

demonstration by the Judge Dur-wood T. Pye, who has a historyof pro-segregation activity.

He was appointed to the benchin 1955 by segregationist ex-Go-vernor Marvin Griffin. Before

I his appointment, he was an as- Isistant county attorney and se-cretary of the Georgia Education

I Commission, a group created toI maintain segregation in Geor-

gia's schools.

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demonstrating against segrega-t.ed restaurants.

SNCC Chairman john Lewismd CambridgeSNCC leader Mrs.]loria Richardson, asked intQPrincess Anne by SAFE, report-ed no violence from the whitecommW1ity here toward demon-strators. "It's from the statepolice," Lewis said.

Chicago comedian Dick Gre-gory addressed a mass rally hereFeb. 27 urging students to seeka "completely opened city."

Maryland State students, num-bering 600, make up a sizeableportion of this town's 1,300popu-lation.

One student, Marion Brown,20, who was injured by a police

billy club here in a Feb. 22 de-monstration , required surgeryas a result of a blood clot whichdeveloped after being struck on

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CAMBRIDGE NEGROES

RESUME PROTESTSCAMBRIDGE, MO. -Demon-

~ resumed in this, Shore community as 18

arrested here Feb.25 for picketing.

All demonstrators on picketlines in front of the WelfareBoard and State Unemployment

Commission offices! were taken into "protective cus-1 tody " by the Maryland National

-Troops were sent intoI Cambridge by Maryland Gover-nor J. Millard Tawes in July 1963

-whites began attacking de-monstrators and violence brokeout.

According toMrs.GloriaRich-ardson, head of the CambridgeNonviolent Action Committee(CNAC) and member of the stu-dent Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee (SNCC) ExecutiveCommittee, the "economic situ-ation' , in Cambridge is to be

the chief target of demonstra-tions.

"In the second ward which isthe Negro ghetto, tWo-thirds ofall families have incomes of lessthan $3,000, and over 60% of thecity's unemployed are concen-trated in that area," Mrs.Rich-ardson said. "More than 60%of the houseI3 in that ward haveno hot water."

"Twenty-nine percent of theNegro work force is chronical-ly unemployed in Cambridge andmore than one--third who do holdjobs work less than 30 weeks ofeach year. With few exceptions,Negroes in only the lowest payingjobs," Mrs. Richardson stated.

CNAC's demonstrations aimfor an overall economic deve-lopment plan in which Negroesare represented in policy mak-ing decisions on any planningcommission, according to Mrs.Richardson. CNAC also demandsthat if no qualified Negroes areavailable for an' , industrial com-

plex" now being developed,"then Negroes must be trainedfor forthcoming jobs."

SNCC field secretary ReginaldRobinson -active in Cambridgelast summer -and Mrs. Rich-ardson have stated that demon-strations "will continue as longas the white power structure ofthis city shows no willingnessto correct the intolerable con-ditions of Cambridge Negroes."

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CANTON NEGRO CITIZENS face Mississippi law officers as theyattempt to enter the courthouse to try to register on Freedom Day.

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CANTON, MISS. -A 10 porn.,civil curfew has been set by thecity council here after more than400 Negroes tried to registerto vote in two days.

On Feb. 28, only four Negroeswere allowed inside the Madi-son County Courthouse.

Workers for the CoW1cil ofFederated Organizations ,COREand SNCC said over 400Negroes stood in line outside bothdays waiting for a chance toregister.

Registrar L.F. Campbell re-mained inside. while policemenfrom Canton, jackson. Yazoo Cityand Neshoba County guarded theNegroes outside.

Local citizens, deputized es-pecialiy for Freedom Day. Feb.28, were transported to Cantonvia school bus, Volkswagen. andpick-up trucks.

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HA TTIESBUR~ISS.- ..OVer500 Negroes have tried to re~gister to vote in Forrest COlU1tyin the month following a Jan.22"Freedom Day."

On Feb. 22; the one~month an-niversary of the first FreedomDay here, over 200Negroes stoodin line to take Mississippi's re-gistration test, a prerequisite tovoting here.

"The campaign thus far hasbeen a success," according toJohn Lewis, Chairman of SNCCLewis, who was here for the Jan.22 Freedom Day, said civil rightsgroups "won the right to organizeand rlU1 a voting campaign inHattiesburg through the Free~dom Day techniques."

The Freedom Day drive hasbeen highlighted by the presenceof more than 100 ministers andrabbis from the United Presby-terian Commission on Religion ,

and Race, the Episcopal Societyfor Cultural and Raci~l Unity,and the Rabbinical Associationof America. Their participationin the vote drive is sponsoredby the Ne i:ional Council of Chur~ches, in cooperation with thecooperation with the Council ofFederated Organizations (CO-FO), a state -wide coalition oflocal and national civil rightsgroups.

The vote drive has not beenwithout its setbacks, however ,

MACON, GA. -Federal JudgeW .A. BootIe sentenced Mrs. Elzajackson, recording secretary ofthe Albany Movement, to threeyears on probation on Feb. 28.

Mrs. jackson. with five othercivil rights leaders from Albany,was indicted and tried on perjurycharges.

They we~e accused of falselytelling a grand jury they couldnot remembering being presentor were not present at a meet-ing where a boycott of a whitemerchant was discussed.

Her conviction has been appeal-,J.

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a number of vote workers, in-cluding nine ministers, were ar-rested. The first to be jailedwas SNCC worker Robert Mos- !es, COFO program director forthe state.

i\lso jailed was LawrenceGuyot, arrested for "contributingto the delinquency of a minor"and Peter Stoner, jailed when hetried to visit Guyot in the jail.Guyot, a SNCC worker, headsthe COFO Fifth CongressionalDistrict vote drive.

PINE BLUFF, ARK. -Negrocomedian Dick Gregory andSNCG worker William Hansenwere sentenced Feb. 25 to sixmonths in jail and fined $500for a Feb. 17 sit-in demonstra-tion at a segregated truck stop.In addition, Gregory was fined$50 and costs when he appear-ed in court one-half hour late.Both posted $2500 appeal bonds.

Their arrests began a seriesof anti-segregation protests herethat have resulted in the court-ordered closing of theplace, Ray's Barbecue arldinthearrest of more than 50 demon-strators.

Gregory described the jail as"somebody's torture chamber"after his release last weekend.

On Feb. 18, 15 people werejailed and crowds of whites -some identified by newsmen as"professional segregationists" -began to gather outside the eat-ing place. SNCC worker JamesJones was "roughed up" by astate trooper.

On Feb. 19 39 otherswere arrested. Reverend Ben~jamin Grinnage, chairman of thePine Bluff Movement, was shot atduring-~ protest by the uwnerof Ray's Barbecue.

Hansen said afl:er his trialthat the Pine Bluff Movementwould press the city to adopt apublic accommodations law. Hesaid the group would continueanti-segregation protests.

The Pine Bluff Movement be-gan demonstrations on Feb. I1962.

The owner of the eating placeunder fire ha s obtained an injunc-

tion against SNCC, Hansen, Gre-gory the Pine Bluff 'Movementand several local workers.

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-L-- L-~-re.. SNCC tlairman john LewisATLANTA, GA. -"SNCC needs help now more man ever 1J.'LUsaid.

The SNCC Chairman asked .'Freedom lovers everywhere" todirect action and voter registration programs.

Lewis said the Atlanta-based anti-segregation organization neeexisting programs and expand into new areas."

lake regular pledges to SNCC'

funds "if we are to carry out

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JACKSON, MISS. -Plans for aJ .summer Peace Corps type opera-tion for Mississippi" have beenannounced by SNCC officials.

"Scores of students, teachers,technicians, nurses, artists, andlegal advisors will be recruitedto come to Mississippi to staffa wide rage of programsaccord-ing to Bob Moses, director of

~SNCC's Mississippi project. ,

SNCC worker Moses, who ser-ves as program director for theCouncil of Federated organiza-tions (COFO) -an alliance ofcivil rights groups working inthis state -stated that this sum-mer's project would "augmentthe voter registration campaignnow underway throughoUt Mis-sissippi."

The Mississippi Summer Pro-ject -under the auspices of COFQ.will include freedom schools.community centers. researchprojects, and law student pro-jects in addition to voter re-gistration. A "pilot project"in white communities is also

planned.According to SNCC Chairman

John Lewis, the struggle forfreedom in Mississippi can onlybe won through concentratedact-ion within the state and aware-ness throughout the nation of theneed for Federal intervention toinsure the voting rights of Ne-

groes."Plans call for voter registra-

tion workers in "every ruralcounty and important urban areasin the state," Moses said.

Daytime and resident ,'Free-dom Schools" will provide re-medial work for high schoolstudents and "advance adult li-teracy for the purpose of voting,"according to plans. ,

Community centers will "focuson political education and or-ganization." Libraries, similarto the library in SNCC's Green-wood, Miss. office will develop-ed throughout the state form na-tional book drives.

"Skilled workers are neededto carry out a r~searchprojectinquiring into Mississippi's sup-pressive political and economicsystem," Lewis stated. "SNCChopes to launch a massive legaloffensive against the officialle-gal tyranny of the state:' Lewissaid .

Lewis and Moses claim thesummer program will "attemptto involve students from all overthe country." Students over 18years who feel they are qualifiedmay apply to: Mississippi sum-mer Project, 1017 Lynch Street,Jackson, Miss.

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injured.He said Lee Moon, a cab driver

was beaten in Natchez Feb. 18,and a Negro was beaten in AmiteCounty by white men. He saidat one spot in nearby FranklinCounty, whites have drawn a linein the road and forbidden Ne-groes to cross it.

" Amite, Wilkerson and Adams

Counties are involved in a reignof terror," Moses said. A Ne-gro man who had witnessed the1961 slaying of another Negro waskilled in Amite County Feb. I.

Moses said that over 180 cross~es had been burned in southeastLouisiana and southwest Missis-sippi before Christmas. He saidvote workers in Louisiana saidthe cars of the people who setcrosses on fire there had Mis~sissippi license plates.

"The civil rights bill doesn'tbegin to touch the problem oforganized racist terror ," Mosessaid.

Moses said the NAACP, SCLC,CORE and SNCC were "issuinga call for 1,000 students, min~isters and educators to partici~pate in a "Mississippi FreedomSummer" program. (see sum-mer project story)

"Does the country have the

courage to confront Mississip-pi?" Moses asked.

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the head, Robinson reported.According to Robinson, reports

that a student threw acid at apoliceman are "incorrect. " One

student who arrived at the de-monstration with a bucket of lye"persuaded to leave it in thestreet" by Robinson. "Latera policeman walked into it," hesaid.

"Innocent Negro bystanderswere drawn into the demonstra~tions when police turned the firehoses on Negroes standing on thesidewalk," Robinson stated.

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GREENWOOD, MISS. Librarian Barbara Johnson inspectsnew books in a section of the library set up in the SNCC office inGreenwood. Miss.

"Establishing libraries and community centers is an importantpart of our program," SNCC worker Dick Prey said. Prey saidthere are approximately 50,000 volumes in Greenwood now. Mostwill be shipped to other libraries throughout the state." TheGreenwood library, according t('1 Prey, offers "thousands of re-

ference books, school texts, books and periodicals about politicsand civil rights, an excellent selection of modern fiction, and a Iwide variety of children's books. Greenwood is serving as a re-ceiving point for books which SNCC intends to spread over Mis-

I sissippi in the form of small libraries in all the CongressionalDistricts of the state," he said.

Freedom Libraries are already operating in Columbus, Canton and, Meridian. --" c-

Shortly after his appointmenthe imposed a $25,000 fine on theAtlanta branch of the NationalAssociation for the Advancementof Colored People, because of thegroup's refusal to comply witha request for its financial re-cords from the Georgia RevenueDepartment.' In July 1963 he in-structed a Fulton County grandjury that the state's anti-tre~-pass law -used to arrest anti-segregation demonstrators ateating places in the state- wasbeing "flouted, defied and vio-lated."

He ordered, and obtained, in-dictments against 101 personsarrested in racial demonstra-tions here dating back to 1961

During the summer, he triedtWo of these cases both involv-ing white persons. Both weregiven maximum sentences, andone defendant, the ReverendA shton Jones, is still in jail.

The oilier, Thomas TaylorTolg, a white Ohio youili whoworked for SNCC, was releasea

Iunder a $5,000 appeal bond. JudgePye has refused to accept $5,000 in cash to free ReverenaJones, who has been b..hind barssince Aug. 28, 1963.

During Miss Walker's trial,Judge Pye ordered one witness,a former professor of hers whotestified in her behalf,to go tojail for 20 days for contempt 01court.

"One Man -One Vote" are avail-able for $1,00 from SNCC 6Raymond Street, Atlanta, Geor-gia.

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UPHOLDS CONVICTION

BATON ROUGE,LA.,-ASNCCworker, arrested here over twoyears ago, must serve a 6o-dayjail term. the United States Su-preme Court has ruled.

The Court refused to overturna Louisiana conviction for DionT. Diamonq, arre-sted Pel?I. 1962 on trespassing. vagrancyand disorderly conduct charges.

Charges of criminal anarchyplaced against him then werelater dropped. and he was releas-ed -after 59 days in jail -ona $7.000 appeal bo~d.