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SOUTHWEST GEORGIA -A four-county "Freedom Day" reb.22 has resulted in "at least100" attempts to register to votehere.

Vote attempts were made inTerrell, Sumter and DoughertyCounties. In Lee County, whereregistration books were closed,150 Negroes gathered at NewPiney Grove Baptist Church fora vote rally.

Like tl!ttiesburg,Mississippi's]an. 22 Freedom Day, South-west Georgia's was a victory.

"We have never picketed andleafleted downtown without havingarrests before today" SNCC'sSouthwest Georgia project headCharles Sherrod said in -!'1--~

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Released From Jail

PINE HLUl-r, ARK. -Anti-

segregation Cle'rnonstrations have

have halted here for 72 hourswhile mediators attempt to ne-gotiate a settlement betweenRay's Barbecue and members ofthe Pine Bluff Movement.

Dick Gregory, jailed withSNCCArkansas Project Director wil-liam Hansen on Feb. 17, leftthe Phillips County jail to makecontact with Federal officials andto complain about jail conditions.

"Its like somebody's secrettorture chamber," Gregory said.

Demonstrations began here onFeb. 17, when Hansen and gr~-gory were jailed.

On Feb.18, ISpeoplewerejail-ed, and crowds of whites -someidentified by newsmen as '.pro-fessional segregationists" -be-gan to gather at the segregatedeating place.

SNCC worker James Jones waspunched by a state trooper..

On Feb. 19, 39 others were

jailed.Reverend Benjamin Grinnage,

chairman of the PineBluffMove~ment, was fired at during a de-monstration on the evening ofFeb. 20.

A group of protesters were metby two white men, one -who iden-tified himself as the owner -carrying a 12 gauge shotgun andone carrying a .38 caliber pistol.

The owner told the group "Iam the owner. This is privateproperty. Why do you want tointegrate me? If you come upon the sidewalk, I'll shoot you.I'm a mental patient. I've kill-ed 1,000 Japs. God didn't meanfor it to be like this."

ATLAN'IA-- GA. -ol~girl, a student atConnecticut College for Women,was sentenced here Feb.20 to sixmonths in the common jail and12 months on the publicworks.

She was fined $1,(XX). Her a~peal bond was set at $15,00J.

The girl, Mardon Walker, for-merly an exchange student atSpelman College here, was ar-rested during a Jan. 13 sit-inattempt at a segregated restau-rant.

She was charged with violationof Georgia's trespass law, pass-ed in 1960 after student anti-segregation demonstrations be-

gan.The judge, Fulton County Su-

perior Court Judge Durwood T .Pye, requires that appeal bondsbe posted with unencumbered-property located in Fulton Coun-

ty.I Georgia's Supreme Court re-

~-- an earlier bail of $20,000

Pye set for an elderlyman, the Reverend Ashton

, 67, jailed during a churchCONTiNUED ON PAGE 4

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DICK GREGORY

COURT HEARS THEIR PLEA -Tougaloo College coeds IdaHannah. Bette Poole and Julie Zaugg began kneel-in attemptsat segregated Jackson churches. They have appealed to the Fed-eral courts in attempt to halt police arresting church integrationattempts.

WILLIAM HANSEN

-1--A(;KSONVILLE.FLA.- TheUnited States Fifth Court of Ap-peals has taken .'underconsider-ation" a request made last weekto stop jackson. Miss. policefrom interfering with attemptsto integrate all-white churches.

Attorneys for three studentsat Tougaloo College arrested inOct. 1963 during kneel -in de-monstrations argued that policepowers cannot be used to enforcesegregation.

The three, Bette Poole of chi-cago, Id a Hannah of Carthage,

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He aimed his gun at the de-.monstrators. andReverendGrin-

Most of the charges have nage asked them to stand still.centered around an economic The owner asked "Is that theboycott called by rights workers leader... and when Reverend

...I against merchants who insist on Ginnage said "yes:' he fired.1 n s B eg .1 n IRegIstratIon U p Slncel addressing Negro customers as one shot at him.

-I "boy" or "nigger... Members of the Pine BluffIFoo d Clothes Ar r .lvel Movement complained about the

M I ., lack of police protection during

a r y a n a late ~ight and afternoon demon-

stratlons.Gregory reportedly called ]us-

tice Department officials inWashington. and requested an onthe spot investigation of jail con-ditions here.

In Little Rock. Governor OrvalFabus told a news conference"We don.t intend to let any groupof demonstrators take over any

, business or the streets of anyI town in Arkansas..'

Sit

InRlJLEV!b~.MISS. -Since 10

tons of food and clothing -shipp-ed here by the Greater BostonFriends of the Student Nonvio-lent Coordinating Committee -

were distributed last Tuesday.Feb. 11. over 300 people havetried to register to vote.

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SNCC worker Charles Mc-Laurin said another 150 Negroeswere eager- to go but were hind-ered by a lack of transportation.

McLaurin, and SNCC workerCharlie Cobb, said conditionshere are .'most desperate."

Cobb said in one area of Sun-flower County, home of SenatorJames 0. Eastland, "many peopleare without clothes and some arestarving."

PRINCESS ANNE, MD. -Anti-segregation protests sponsoredby the Student Appeal for Equa-lity (SAFE) at Maryland StateCollege here are growing despitea lack of police protection.

During Feb. 21 sit inSAFE leader john Wilson was"roughed up" by white youthsat a segregated restaurant here.

Gloria Richardson. head of thenearby Cambridge NonviolentAction Committee (CNAC) indi-cated "all Eastern Shore restau-rants are supposed to be inte-grated. II

Mrs. Richardson. a member ofSNCC's Executive Committee.said she would join the PrincessAnne protests.

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\l1ississippi, both Negroes, andJulie Zaugg, white, of Lake For-rest, Ill., were sentenced to ayear in prison and fined $1,000.

The-defense attorneys arguedthat a church is a public place:lnd the state cannot use its po-wers to enforce segregationthere.

A white native of Atlanta, who:ried to integrate a church therelast summer, is still being held injail under a $5,000 bail. The Re-verend Ashton jones, a 67-yearold minister, has been in an At-lanta jail since Aug. 28, 1963.

-£~NTON-M~ -Two civil

,rights workers who were jailedFeb. 7 on a charge of ..con-spiracy to intimidate a family"were released Friday, Feb. 21with others held here.

Appeal bond for the two-ClaudeWeaver, 20, a Student NonviolentCoordinating Committee (SNCC)worker, and Ed Hollander. 23,of th.e Congress of Ra.cial Equal-

Iity -was set at $500 each. pro-perty or surety.

At the Feb. 10 trial they were Iaccused of telling a Canton wo- !

man that if she acceptedemploy-ment in a store under boycott,they would "harm" her six-yearold child.

Weaver a formerHarvardUni-versity student from Atlanta,testified that he and Hollanderhad not left their residence atthe time they were accused ofthreatening the woman.

\Since jan. 22. more tha~ 20-I odd civil rights apd voterre-

gi$tration workers h~ve beenarrested in Canton on chargesranging from "burning trashwithout a permit" to "publishinglibel."

Atlanta SNCC spokesman havetermed the Canton arrests a"purge, since virtually all SNCCand CORE workers who have goneinto the city have been arrested,one bv one."

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JACKSON, MISS. -Formerbaseball star Stan Musial has

canceled an appearance ata se-

gregated meeting scheduled forFbe. 24.

Musial, now director of the,President's Committee on phy-sical Fitness, told the membersof the Jackson Touchdown Clubhis new duties with the Presi-dent's Committee forced him tocancel the date.

John Lewis, Chairman of theStudent Nonviolent CoordinatingCommittee (SNCC) had asked theSt. Louis Cardinals vice-presi-dent to cancel in a letter.

Musial's message to the touch-down Club made no mention ofLewis' request.

SNCC workers in Jackson weretold no Negroes 'could attendthe Touchdown Club's Hall ofFame dinner, at which Musialwas to be the featured speaker.

In recent weeks, several otherprominent persons have canceledJackson appearances because ofthe city's segregation policies.

Pianist Gary Graffman, sche-duled to make a Feb. 29 appear-ance in Jackson, has also an-nounced he will cancel.

Graffman canceled after pro-tests from the Cultural and Ar-tistic Committee at TougalooSou-thern Christian College, headedby Tougaloo student AustinMoore.

Other groups that have can-celed include trumpeter Al Hirt.the Hootenanny show, NASA'sjames Webb. and stars of ty'~"Bonanza" and "Beverly Hill-billies" shows.

MISSISSIPPI STAFF

ATLANTA,GA. -"SNCC needs funds now more than ever before" SNCC Chairman john Lewis said.Lewis said SNCC was asked "friends and supporters to pledge a monthly contribution to SNCC."He suggested $1.00 per month for students and $5.00 per month for adults."The $1.00 month contribution is about 3 1/2 cents a day for freedom," Lewis said.SNCC workers direct voter registration and action projects in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mis-

sissippi, North Carolina and Virginia.The anti-segregation group depends entirely on voluntary contributions for operating expenses,

Lewis said."Pledges for freedom will help us through the year," he added.

TO BEGIN TOUR

ATLANTA, GA. -Seven mem-bers of the Mississippi SNCC

staff will begin fund raising andspeaking tours "across thecountry" to raise funds fora summer project inMississippi,according to SNCC Northern co-ordinator Dinky Romilly.

Miss Romilly, who coordinatesfund raising activities for SNCC,said the four will handle tf1reegeographic regions; the East andWest Coasts and the Midwest.

"Interested people who wouldlike to sponsor a speaker to raiseneeded funds for the summer pro-ject are urged to contact me atthe Atlanta office immediately,"Miss Romilly said.

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FEBRUARY 25,1964PAGE 4

ATerrell County: Over 4 O Ne-

-c- in Daw-where pickets urged Ne-' to register. There were

f>-!!!!!1e~untV: Over 60 have

~ in the past

three weeks. and on Freedom

.', voter registration pickets---were downtown

--of the day. There were

,.

DoughtertY CountY: Leafletingand picketing were carried on

--and an afternoon rally

was held. Two pickets walked

in front of the county courthouse.two across the street, and four

:; city hall. There were no ar-

rests.

Lee County: Registrationbookswere closed, but during the past

three weeks. many have tried

to register. An evening mass

meeting was held here. well at-

tended by 150 Negroes. '.It was

a real victory," a participant

said.

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integration attempt last summer.The state Supreme Court order-ed Pye to set Reverend Jones'appeal bond at not higher than$5,000. Reverend Jones is stillbehind bars, however, becauseJudge Pye, who reset his bailat the $5,000 maximum, refusedto accept $5,000 in cash to freethe minister.

Miss Walker, who was in-dicted by a grand jury after herJanuary arrest, complained shewas beaten by white female pri-soners in the countY jail duringher last arrest.Carl Smithwick , the ~County jail warden, to place Iher in solitary confinement for !her own protection.

Judge Pye was obviously an-gered by a petition filed in U.S.District Court here Feb.17 to re-move 17 sit-in cases to Federaljurisdiction. The judge sentenc-ed a character wimess for MissWalker to 20 days in jail forcontempt of court after the wit-

1ness, Melvin V. Drimmer, a Spel-man College history professor,was accused by the judge o1'making remarks insulting to thecourt.

ATLANTA NAACP PRESIDENT Dr. C. Miles Smith (right, back-ground) watches pickets Curtis Clark, a busi.lessman, andDr. MarkJackson urge Atlantans to celebrate a "Sacrificial Easter ..'

The Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference, a coalition of civilrights groups in Atlanta, has asked the community to refrain from~llbut "necessary" purchases.

I WASHINGTON, D.C. -TheUnited States Supreme Courtneard arguments on Thursday,1 .Feb. 20 ill defense of a workertor the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC)charged with encouraging a stu-dent boycott at Southern Univer-sity in Baton Rouge, La.

SNCC worker Dion T. Dia-mond was arrested Feb. 1. 1962after two days of speaking on the

f Southern University campus. He

Miss Walker is the third whiteperson given the maximum sen-tence in a racial case by JudgePye.

Reverend Jones and TomTaylor Tolg, a 24-year-old whitecollege student from Ohio, arethe two. Tolg is free on appealbond.

Trials for 28 others, mostly INegroes, have been rescheduledfor March 2.

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was charged with trespassing,vagrancy and disorderly con-duct:' Charges of "criminalanarchy," carrying a maximumten-year sentence, were iaterplaced against him, and he washeld for 59 days Wlder a $7,000bond in the Baton Rouge Parish

jail.

Two SNCC workers who triedto visit him there were also char-ged with "criminal anarchy."

.'One Man -One Vote'. are avail-able for $1.00 from SNCC hRaymond Street, Atlanta, Geor-gia.

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In a surprise move. 25 jailedmembers of the "Quebec ~

Washington -Guantanamo Peace

Walk" were relea~ed from theAlbany jail Saturday afternoon

Feb. 22. They had been in and

out of the jail for several weeks.

after they refused to adhere to

a parade route set out by Albany

police Chief Laurie Pritchett.Their release was viewed as

another victory here.The Albany story -and the

history of the voter registrationdrive in Southwest Georgia -has

been one of denial of the right

to picket, the right to distribute

leaflets, and the right to organize.

SNCC workers have had to con-

tend with arrests and h1timida~

l tions from local policemen in

U their three- year fight to register

I Negro voters. Just as on Hattiesburg's Free~

dom Day. SNCC workers here

Feb. 22 were "allowed" to ex-

ercise their rights by local law

officers.

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