Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate project of the Committee, which is still in the planning stages, will be a drive to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, chief coordinating unit of southern student action. SNCC is currently involved in a test program of voter registration in McComb, Miss., a rural area in the southern part of the state...
Thus Bryant did not encourage five young Negroes when they decided to sit at McComb's Greyhound and Woolworth lunch counters in August. All were arrested, and one, Brenda Travis, 16, was treated as an adult and sentenced to eight months in jail, where she spent a month...
...tenth-grade class at Burgland High School and was turned away by Principal Commodore Dewey Higgins. Angered, 120 of her schoolmates walked out, assembled at a Negro Masonic hall, and were advised by organizers of the Nashville-based Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (who had come to McComb to spur Negro voting) to march upon city hall. The students filed two abreast to the city hall steps, began to pray-and were all arrested. A white S.N.C.C. leader among them, Robert Zellner, 22, of Atlanta, was beaten and kicked in the face by white toughs, who were not arrested. Chief...
...railroad yards next morning came two McComb policemen to arrest Curtis Bryant. Although he had neither planned nor been present at the students' march, he was thrown into jail on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor-Brenda Travis, who was sent to reform school for an indefinite term by Judge Hansford Simmons...
Last week FBI agents were checking into Pike County's brand of justice, Brenda's classmates were required to sign no-demonstration pledges to get back in school, and two white out-of-state sympathizers were pulled from their car and beaten on McComb's Summit Street. With surprising candor, two of the county's top lawmen gave the real reason why N.A.A.C.P. Leader Bryant was jailed. "Bryant puts himself in the class of the white people," said Sheriff Clyde Simmons. Said Police Chief Guy: "We're trying to rook him in on the damn...