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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Does Not Plan To Act in Perdew Case; Monro Asks Fund Drive | 10/7/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Does Not Plan To Act in Perdew Case; Monro Asks Fund Drive | 10/7/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World & National News | 9/28/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World & National News | 9/28/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: State Police Surround Negro Rally After Day of Strife in Selma, Ala. | 9/24/1963 | See Source »

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