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Rauh began his campaign for support by sprucing up the FDP's image. Seeking to eradicate the popular conception of the Party as a SNCC-CORE enterprise, he requested active support from the NAACP and the National Council of Churches. Clarence Mitchell, NAACP Washington representative, is a close friend of Rauh, and by early August Mitchell had pressed the Association into action: Roy Wilkins pledged to endorse the Freedom delegation before the Platform and Credentials Committees. Bishop Spike, of the National Council of Churches Commission on Race and Religion, also agreed to lend a hand behind the scenes...
Davenport Plumer took first prize, Anne Winters second. Miss Winters is a secretary in the Littauer Center; she is not taking any courses. Third prize went to Worth Long, a 28-year-old SNCC worker enrolled in the Summer School...
...began yelling that he was "an agitator." The police then arrested Hodes, though they did not tell him what the charge was. Several of them bit him in the ribs with their billy clubs, and one police officer stabbed Hodes in the leg with his own SNCC button, the Harvard junior reported last night; "you know," Hodes said, "kid stuff...
Tension is mounting in the Mississippi community, Hodes said, particularly as the local Negro youths are anxious to engage in direct forms of; protest. SNCC officials are trying to channel their energies into the voter registration program...
...local police and "rednecks" are also beginning to respond to the various SNCC programs. Hodes said. He described the community as "as tense as a compressed spring. There will probably be some more shooting during the night...