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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...
Hoping to dramatize their cause, the student leaders recently appealed for the help of outstanding U.S. Negroes. Into Greenwood last week came Chicago's Dick Gregory, 30, a nightclub-circuit comedian, whose stock in trade is acidulous (and sometimes funny) commentary on segregation, both Southern and Northern. His performance in Greenwood was enough to make Negroes there wish he had stayed in Chicago. The uninhibited jeers and gibes he aimed at the cops and other whites ("You're nothing but a bunch of dirty dogs!") were noisily and embarrassingly out of key with the quiet, deliberately passive tone...
...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...