Word: mccomb
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...operator for the Illinois Central Railroad, he is head of his union local, a Baptist Sunday school teacher and deacon, a Boy Scout committee chairman. But he is also president of his county's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-and that, in McComb, Miss, (pop. 12,020), can apparently be enough to put a man behind bars...
...recent step-up in non-violent demonstrations, including last week a prayer meeting in McComb, Miss., which resulted in the arrest of 114 students, has greatly depleted SNCC's resources. It now has 17 full-time people in the field, and $1000 in the bank, according to Paul Potter, National Affairs vice-President...
Potter, who was beaten up in McComb while working with the SNCC organizers of the prayer meeting, said yesterday that NSA will hold a meeting in New York within 10 days to prepare final plans for the Southern Student Freedom Fund, as the project is called...
Last Wednesday Thomas Hayden, former editor of the Michigan Daily, and Paul Potter, an officer of the National Student Association, were beaten up by a member of an angry mob in McComb, Miss., as a reward for their efforts to compile a neutral report on school integration. The incident, aside from adding to countless instances in which local Southern authorities have failed to provide adequate protection for such serious observers, sharply illustrates the scandal of national press coverage in the South...