Word: zellner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...organizers of the Nashville-based Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (who had come to McComb to spur Negro voting) to march upon city hall. The students filed two abreast to the city hall steps, began to pray-and were all arrested. A white S.N.C.C. leader among them, Robert Zellner, 22, of Atlanta, was beaten and kicked in the face by white toughs, who were not arrested. Chief of Police George Guy explained: "I didn't see who they were...