Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greater Boston Friends of SNCC, an ad hoc organization with offices at fair skin and long hair they are ordained 1039 Massachusetts Ave., sent a form letter to approximately 200 local residents, asking for money to fight "the legal harassments of Southern justice." Almost $1000 out of an eventual goal of $3000 has already been raised, according to Martin H. Peretz, teaching fellow in Government...
Peretz, one of the organizers of the group, said that the Friends of SNCC hoped "a large percentage of the money goes to Perlew," and that they would shortly expand their drive to include the University...
...contrast, students at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., have already sent $2300 to the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, stipulating that it be used to defend Donald Harris, a senior who is among the four SNCC workers in the Americus jail. Kenneth G. McDermott, vice-president of the student council, reported that $200 to $300 is being raised daily by the university newspaper, which is printing the names of contributors and the amounts of their contributions
Foreman also asked Attorney General Robert Kennedy to invoke the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to free from jail some of the demonstrators arrested in Selma since the beginning of a drive to register voters earlier this month. SNCC officials charged that some demonstrators were forced to sleep on concrete floors and others were fed only bread and water while in jail...
Officials of several civil rights groups are now on their way to Selma to inspect the situation. SNCC officials issued an invitation to any interested groups to come observe conditions in Selma while the registration drive continues...