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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...
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...
...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...