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...Justice Department has flown James W. Wiley II '65-3 to Selma, Ala, to testify against four Dallas County officials accused of depriving Negroes of their civil rights...
...Wiley, who conducted an adult literacy program for Negroes in Selma this summer, testified Tuesday about his arrest in July which occurred when he sought service at a local restaurant. He was shocked with electric cattle prodders at the time of his arrest, and subsequently spent a week in jail...
...South, and Mississippi in particular, Harvard students were being arrested and beaten up at an alarming rate throughout the summer months. Trouble struck first in Selma, Alabama. James W. Wiley, 2nd, '65 and three other SNCC workers were arrested on July 4 while testing the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights...
When a Harvard Summer News reporter called the sheriff's office in Selma, he was informed there was "no Mr. Wiley in jail here. We got a nigger named Wiley down here though. Is that who you mean?" The holiday weekend and the sheriff's delaying tactics kept Wiley and his co-workers in jail for close to a week...
...mass demonstration and blocking the ingress and egress to the (Harrison County) courthouse." Eight COFO workers were accompanying ten Negroes to the courthouse to vote. The sheriff approached the courthouse steps and ordered all persons not residents of Harrison County to move to the other side of the street. Wiley and the two others refused to comply...