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SNCC, which has organized voter registration in such places as Albany, Ga. and Greenwood, Miss., "is in serious financial trouble," according to Claude Weaver '65, chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee. "If they don't receive more money within the next month, their projects may have to be abandoned," Weaver said...
Several SNCC workers have been shot and many imprisoned since the group began its work in the heavily-Negro delta area of Mississippi. "We are asking for dedicated FBI action to protect workers and registrants in Mississippi," Claude Weaver '65, a member of the BAG steering committee and head of the Harvard Civil Rights Coordinating Committee said last night...
...student pickets were also asking for resumption of the Federal food surplus program in Mississippi, which the Senate dropped after recent skirmishes over integration efforts. Some areas have resumed the distribution of food surpluses, but many still refuse to do so, Weaver said...
...Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin'") and politely tries to hide the fact. (Teuber, incidentally, has been made up to look like a cross between Pinocchio's father, Charley Weaver of the Jack Paar show, and Angelo Winemaker of the TV commercials...
...Weaver's forceful manner, and the contrast it offered to the apparent disillusionment of Goldmark and Gitlin, seemed to capture the audience's imagination and it spent most of the two hours discussion drawing Weaver and Epps out on their views. The questions and comments were almost all aimed at distinguishing the rights movement's pursuit of legal and political equality for the Negro from the more far-reaching demands of such men as author James Baldwin. Weaver and several activists in the audience agreed with those who said that Baldwin's rejection of the United States's whole style...