Word: naacp
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Fourteen student civil rights workers were arrested yesterday in Indianola, Miss., for distributing leaflets without a permit while campaigning for Aaron Henry, Mississippi NAACP president, who is running for governor of Mississippi...
Money collected by the Perdew Fund will be used to engage the best counsel available for Perdew, Monro said. He added that he was not criticizing the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which has been handling the case. But he noted that that organization has many cases to deal with, and might not be able to give each individual case the attention it requires for successful defense...
...president of the state NAACP, Aaron Henry, will be a candidate for governor of Mississippi next month, Allard Loewenstein, chairman of his advisory committee, announced in New York yesterday...
Henry was chosen by a recent convention of civil rights groups in Jackson, and he has the support of all prominent Negroes in the state. The campaign will be led by Robert Moses, chairman of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, and Charles Evers, brother of the NAACP field secretary who was murdered early last summer...
...suit identical to the NAACP complaint was filed yesterday on behalf of a sixth prisoner, Zev Aelony, by his lawyer, Morris Abram. Aelony is a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality. It is planned that the two suits will be consolidated, and considered together...