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Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union collected $260 in an Election Day campaign to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC...
Four student organizations were joint sponsors of the effort to raise money for SNCC, which is engaged in running voter registration and community education schools in rural areas of the South. The sponsoring groups were the National Student Association, the Northern Student Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Campus Division of Americans for Democratic Action...
McDew spoke at Harvard in early December about a SNCC drive to register Negro voters in Mississippi. Students here contributed $1300 for the project
McDew and Robert Zellner, a SNCC field representative, were arrested Feb. 17 when they visited another SNCC worker in the Baton Rouge Jail. They were first charged with vagrancy, Niebuhr explained, but when they showed police that they carried more than $100 between them, the criminal anarchy charge was substituted...
Last month, however, the Justice Department filed a suit against a similar voting law in Lousiana, charging it violated the "equal protection" clause in the Constitution. A suit is also expected to be filed in Mississippi, but SNCC will continue to run its schools since much work remains to train Negroes to pass even a fair test...