Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claudo L. Weaver '65, of Dunster House and Atlanta, Ga., and another Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker, were fined $500 apiece and sentenced to six months in jail in Canton, Miss., on Feb. 10 for "conspiring to intimidate a family...
...Weaver and his companion, Edward Hollender of Baltimore, were accused of threatening to harm a Negro woman's six-year-old child if she continued to work in a Canton store which was the object of a SNCC-organized boyott. The incident allegedly took place Feb. 4, and the pair were arrested...
According to Mary King, a SNCC spokesman, Weaver and Hollender were tried without jury before a Canton judge. She said that Weaver had pleaded nolo contendere and that Hollender had pleaded not guilty to the charges. Both maintained that they were at their residences at the time of the alleged incident...
...Mississippi representative of the Lawyer's Committee is investigating the situation to determine whether outside legal help would be of any benefit to Weaver, Shestack added...
...companion of Weaver's who was charged with the same offense, has been sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine. An observer at the Law School said last night that an appeal of his sentence would probably be unsuccessful since it would be necessary to contest the accuracy of the court testimony rather than the interpretation...