Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William W. Hodes '66, a SNCC volunteer working in Greenwood, Miss., was arrested for disorderly conduct, Saturday, beaten in a rather offhand manner by the local police, and released later that day on $100 bond...
When the crowd started to disperse, and Hodes started back toward the SNCC headquarters in the Negro section, a police car pulled up and five officers emerged. They accused Hodes of creating the disturbance and warned him not to do it again...
...began yelling that he was "an agitator." The police then arrested Hodes, though they did not tell him what the charge was. Several of them bit him in the ribs with their billy clubs, and one police officer stabbed Hodes in the leg with his own SNCC button, the Harvard junior reported last night; "you know," Hodes said, "kid stuff...
Wiley and three other Negro SNCC workers were charged with trespassing after warning in Selma July 4 when they refused to leave a segregated restaurant after the manager had requested they...
According to reports from SNCC's Atlanta headquarters, there were no federal authorities in Selma beyond the local...