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Claude Weaver '65 has been working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Laurel, Jackson, and Canton Mississippi. He is currently free on appeal from a six-month prison sentence for allegedly "intimidating a family" in Canton. These are excerpts from his letters to friends in the North...
...myself, and a Vassar girl named C-- drove up to Canton this morning to look the place over. We were looking for a town that was classically Mississippian enough to be the site of the first Community Center. Canton is so classically Mississippian that I can't stand it--cotton and ancient shacks and barefooted (there was a cold drizzle, and the streets were unpaved and muddy) black children. A city cop stopped us, noticing that we had out-of county tags (talk about provincialism), and informed us that we had better not be bringing "any of that freedom crap...
...Canton, Mississippi January...
...nearby Canton, Miss., Weaver said, SNCC and CORE workers are continuing their voter registration drive. On Friday, 300 Negroes stood in line for five hours. Five were allowed to take the literacy test, said, but were not told whether they had passed...
...member of both CENTO and SEATO, which were set up for the purpose of containing Communism. Yet since 1962, Pakistan and Red China have 1) settled their border problems, 2) signed a trade agreement, and 3) made an air treaty under which Pakistan International Airlines will begin flights to Canton and Shanghai this summer, with reciprocal rights for Chinese aircraft at Dacca and Karachi...