Word: sncc
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Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...
Members of several Harvard student organizations met yesterday to plan action on the stay-out. Included in the group were students associated with the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee, the Association of Africa and Afro-American Students, the Young Democrats, CORE, Tocsin and SNCC...
Claude L. Weaver '65, of Dunster House and Atlanta, Ga., is being held in a Mississippi jail for the second time in two months on a charge resulting from his participation in civil rights activities sponsored by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
George Raymond, director of SNCC's Canton project, said last night that the charges against Weaver and Hollander are completely false. He claimed that Mrs. Smith was bribed by local authorities to testify against Weaver and Hollander. "The white community tries to prevent us from making progress by seeking to discredit us among our own people," he said...
...SNCC and CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, are conducting a comprehensive civil rights program in Canton which includes selective patronage, voter registration, and the establishment of a community center for Negroes...