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...Mississipian Bill Higgs graduated from Harvard Law School with modest grades, unpretentious ambitions, and an unshaken faith in racism. He served an Army stint and disappeared quietly into a Jackson, Mississippi law practice. Today he is one of Washington's most militant lobbyists for integration, an attorney for SNCC, and the author of several titles of the present civil rights bill. As his close friend, Roy Wilkins, noted here last week: "When a Southerner changes, he's very thorough about...
Claude L. Weaver '65, and two fellow SNCC workers go before a grand jury in Jackson, Miss., this morning. According to Weaver they will almost certainly be indicted on charges of armed robbery, stemming from a Dec. 26 dispute over a cab fare...
...nearby Canton, Miss., Weaver said, SNCC and CORE workers are continuing their voter registration drive. On Friday, 300 Negroes stood in line for five hours. Five were allowed to take the literacy test, said, but were not told whether they had passed...
...since 1920," he says. "The eruption happened because of the NAACP. Officers of the NAACP began the first sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina." Has the rise of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee undercut the NAACP's importance in the Movement? "Hell, SNCC's our baby! We raised them! We got 117,000 new members last year, they have only 150. How can you call them a Movement? They're just a club...
...telephone interview with the CRIMSON last night Weaver flatly denied the charges against him and said that he would continue working for SNCC in Canton "unless something major happens...