Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi Negroes who have been registering voters in Greenwood, Miss., will describe their experiences tonight at 7 p.m. at 2 Divinity Ave. As field workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, they were instrumental in organizing the widespread registration campaign throughout the state...
SNCC, which has organized voter registration in such places as Albany, Ga. and Greenwood, Miss., "is in serious financial trouble," according to Claude Weaver '65, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. "If they don't receive more money within the next month, their projects may have to be abandoned," Weaver said...
This October, SNCC began a similar campaign in Greenwood, Miss., encountering strong resistance from segregationists there. During one week in February, after SNCC had begun to register as many as 150 voters a day, four of the organization members were shot at, and one was nearly killed...
...their signs and leaflets the students deplored "police brutality" and Federal inaction" in Greenwood, Miss., where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has been connecting a voter registration campaign since last summer...
...most part, the Greenwood police let Gregory yell unmolested. They were plainly wary of tangling with a celebrity. During one demonstration, the police intercepted a band of marchers and systematically hauled them onto a bus to be sent to jail. A cop grabbed Gregory, but Police Commissioner B. A. Hammond instantly rushed in, ordered the man to let go. When all the other Negroes had been stuffed aboard, the bus rolled away, leaving Comedian Gregory standing there all alone...