Word: sncc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Lewis, the national president of SNCC, was addressing the meeting of 600 youths and 500 adults when the police surrounded the building. Worth Long, Dallas County coordinating secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating, estimated in a telephone interview that in addition to the 50 state troopers, about 35 to 40 deputized townsmen and 15 local Selma police officers were outside the church...
Negro leaders' original plan to keep the people in the building overnight stemmed from repeated rumors of potential violence if the Negroes left the safety of the church. James Forman, national director of had called SNCC leaders at the church earlier in the evening and recommended that the Negroes remain there evernight...
...process of law" guaranteed by the Constitution, and to subject them to cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Constitution. Young girls are held incommunicado in rooms lacking either ventilation or sanitary facilities; demonstrators are drenched with high pressure fire hoses and then burned with electric cattle prods; SNCC workers are beaten to unconsciousness while being taken to jail to be arraigned on completely imaginary charges. In addition to this crude sort of lawlessness by police, three Southern governors have openly defied both the Constitution and the Federal Government, forcing the President to use Federal troops to restore order...
Editors note: The difficulties encountered this summer by John Perdew, a Harvard senior working on a SNCC veter registration drive in Albany, Ga., have served to bring home to the Harvard community the extraordinary obstacles facing the civil rights effort in the south. The following two-part report of the trial of a Negro near Albany express in greater detail the farce that the State of Georgia has made of the law. The fact that the defendant had dared sue the Sheriff last spring perhaps explains, although not justifies the viciousness of the county officials...
...term of two to ten years? What a joke? I then had the choice of sacrificing the principles which brought me down here: non-cooperation with the whites, except on our own terms; non-violence (I would have had to plead guilty to throwing a brick); complete reliance on SNCC and its resources. And, since our attorney, C.B. King, a Negro, had not been informed of the violence charges by the police, I had to make the decision without advice as to the legal possibilities of the alternatives. It was a struggle, but I am glad for my sake...