Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dunster House Senior Common Room has raised $1000 for the bond of Claude L. Weaver '65, a worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) being held in Jackson, Miss., on a strong-arm robbery charge. A legal technicality may, however, make the fund raising futile...
...security bond is one underwritten by certified bonding company, while a property bond would in this case require ownership of land in Hinds County, Miss. SNCC has not been able to get any local bonding companies to write a bond for the three Negroes...
Rudolph said that the money raised in Dunster would be sent by check to the Sheriff's office in Jackson, together with money from SNCC funds for bonds on two of Weaver's co-workers...
According to Carsie Hall, an attorney for the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC), the three students, all Negroes, left a Jackson cafe in a taxi driven by Dewey Short (allegedly known as "Short-change"), and were told the fare would be $1 for the trip. When they arrived, however, Dewey insisted on a $1.50 fare...
Bail for the three was set at $1000 a piece. However, according to Julian Bond, spokesman for SNCC, every local bonding company approached so far originally agreed to write the bond but subsequently refused when it learned of the students' affiliation with SNCC. "We have the choice of putting up the leaving them there, and we certainly don't intend to leave them there," said Bond...