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Marshall Ganz '65 and more than 30 other civil rights workers and Mississippi residents were arrested in McComb, Miss., yesterday on charges of trespassing. It was the second time in four days that Ganz had been arrested...
...Harvard senior and 12 other civil rights workers were arrested yesterday in McComb, Miss. as Mississippi's "Freedom Vote" project began...
...whom were working for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) during the Freedom Vote, were charged with serving food to McComb citizens in "Freedom House"--COFO headquarters in McComb. Bail on the 13 was set at $100 each...
...Also in McComb, the Associated Press reported that nine men were given suspended sentences after they pleaded guilty to charges of involvement in racial bombings this summer...
...good way to maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy. When you begin protesting that federal troops in McComb might cost Johnson votes in North Carolina, turn to a passage like this one, describing SNCC workers' attempts to feed would-be voters who had been waiting all day to register in Selma...