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According to Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, coordinator of the drive, the supplies will aid 20,000 Negroes in rural Leflore County who were left stranded when the County Board of Supervisors decided to discontinue distribution of surplus food in the fall of 1962. The food had been provided by the Federal government at no cost...
...attribute this discontinuation to the fact that we had been working on voter registration there," Mrs. Zellner said. Those Negroes who had registered also lost their jobs as field hands...
...response has been extraordinary." Mrs. Zellner said, "especially from the suburban women." Contributions have come from 31 communities in the Boston area. Robert E. Wright '65, chairman of the campus SNCC committee called the Harvard drive "pretty successful." He said that running the drive during exam period had affected the intake...
...Zellner was unaware of yesterday's arrests at the time...
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...