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...money will go to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to support its voter registration drive in McComb, Miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Drive Here Will Aid Negro Voting Registration | 11/27/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Students Planning New Civil Rights Committee | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

Timothy Jenkins and Marian Wright, students at Yale Law School, and Thomas Hayden, one of two northern students beaten up while working with SNCC in McComb two weeks ago, addressed the group...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: Students Planning New Civil Rights Committee | 11/6/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Contributing to Delinquency | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Contributing to Delinquency | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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