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...trial in Jackson for the murder of Medgar Evers, Lewis Allen was shot-gunned to death last Friday night in a small Mississippi town--Liberty. Allen, 42-years-old and a father of four, was active in voter registration for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Commitee. As a SNCC worker, he must have known the dangers he was facing in Mississippi; Allen witnessed the killing of a fellow SNCC member, Herbert Lee, in 1961. Last March four other voter registration workers were wounded by gunfire...
Claude L. Weaver '65 and two other students were released from a Jackson, Miss., Juli Saturday upon payment of their three $1000 hall bonds. The three Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers had been held since December 26 on a strong-arm robbery charge, stemming from a dispute ever a cab fare...
Money for Weaver's ball was raised Wednesday by the members of the Dunster House Senior Common room; the money for his companions came from the operating funds of SNCC...
...sure that there is a civil rights issue involved," said Shestack. "It might just be a dispute between a cab driver and his customers." He indicated, however, that he did not think the authorities would have carried the complaint so far if Waver and the others had not been SNCC workers...
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...