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Claudo L. Weaver '65, of Dunster House and Atlanta, Ga., and another Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker, were fined $500 apiece and sentenced to six months in jail in Canton, Miss., on Feb. 10 for "conspiring to intimidate a family...
Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...
According to Mary King, a SNCC spokesman, Weaver and Hollender were tried without jury before a Canton judge. She said that Weaver had pleaded nolo contendere and that Hollender had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Both maintained that they were at their residences at the time of the alleged incident...
Miss King termed Weaver's arrest part of a "purge" of rights workers by the Canton authorities. She noted that every one of the 20-odd CORE and SNCC workers in Canton had been jailed since Jan. 22 on charges varying from publishing libel to burning trash without a permit. Ball in every case was very high, she said. For disturbing the peace...
Against St. Lawrence, Norwich, and Dartmouth this weekend at Canton, N.Y., Gibson is hoping for a first-place finish, but will settle for second. Both Dartmouth and St. Lawrence edged the Crimson at Hanover...