Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand jury in Jackson, Miss., refused Monday to indict Claude L. Weaver '65 on a charge of "strong-arm robbery." Weaver and two other workers for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee were arrested Dec. 26 and held until Jan. 11, when they were released after posting three $1000 bail bonds...
...Weaver's companions, however, were indicted and face jail terms of one to five years if convieted...
...Weaver said that the situation is "very vague," but that there are rumors he and his companions "are in considerable danger. Ordinarily armed robbery nets a few years, but there are rumors the State is trying to get the full 15 years...
...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...
Although the Madison County national guard had been mobilized and had, according to Weaver, been drilling with fixed bayonets, there was no violence, and the whole "freedom day" demonstration was "quiet and orderly." On Saturday a 10 p.m. civil curlow was imposed under a law Weaver said had been "rammed through the Legislature...