Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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James W. Wiley, 2nd, '65 and three other Negro SNCC workers were charged with trespassing after warning when they refused to leave a segregated restaurant after the manager had requested them to do so. Wiley was also charged with resisting arrest...
Yesterday afternoon police arrested 50 more Negroes, including John Lewis, national SNCC official. The mass arrest--reportedly involving the extensive use of nightsticks and electric cattle prods--marked the first day of a Freedom week launched yesterday by civil rights organizations in Selma...
Delegates from across the state listened to H. Stuart Hughes, professor of history, Noel Day, co-chairman, of the Massachusetts Freedom Movement, Peggy Day, representatives from SNCC, and several PAX-endorsed candidates for state offices. Their topics ranged from the process of demilitarization to the prospects for civil rights...
Sometimes, however, he is involved against his will. Two years ago, while asking permission to visit a SNCC field worker who had been badly beaten by a prison trusty, King himself was viciously caned by the county sheriff, the same one who had harassed him in court. Unlike King, the sheriff had no trouble reconciling King's roles as lawyer and Negro--he just ignored the former. "Yeah, I knocked hell out of him," he told a reporter later, "and I'll do it again. I'm a white man and he's a damn nigger...
Students in Adams and Leverett Houses have proposed that Harvard students also forego one meal for SNCC. No official move for a fast has been organized, however, and no estimate of possible saving has been made...