Show Southern Prompted Student Social Revolution By BOB CLARE This is the first in a series of articles dealing with the southern student freedom The series will present some of the civil rights events transpiring this last year and explore approaches to the problem at the When four students took their seats at a variety-lunch counter reserved for in February of the South entered into a period of social THE PAST TWO YEARS have been marked by violence and national publicity and and a growing solidarity among students determined to create racial equality in a hostile Within two months after the first in the Raleigh Conference formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to direct and coordinate an overall offensive of the southern students in a dramatic program of social Moving quickly in support of the southern the national staff of the United States National Student Association involved actively in the Capturing the imagination of student the movement initiated programs of direct action in areas including public recreational houses of transportation and voter REPORTS COMING OUT of the South describing student action are colored with an emotion which is hard for the northerner and the westerner to there is no new form of intimidation yet to be administered to participants in non-violent Students have been and arraigned on charges ranging from disturbing the peace to criminal JAMES FORM Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee executive was arrested April 27 in for to move while participating in a discrimination protest demonstration outside the Peachtree was released on In students from a local college sought to worship in five segregated They were barred from four and welcomed by an Episcopal where they received THE MINISTER of the Methodist according to an news to discover Jesus would and then called the Three Negroes were arrested and released three days later upon posting Field Secretary Robert Zellner was also arrested in Talladega for to violate the laws as he stepped from his car to receive a letter from one of the Talladega students prior to leaving for the annual conference in EARLIER IN THE Charles was arrested and charged with vagrancy and criminal anarchy when he brought books and food to Dion another in the East Baton Rouge Diamond was arrested the day before as he stepped onto the campus of Southern Diamond was invited to speak on campus by Student Body President Murphy Bail was set at for McDew and for IN white and Negro students participating in a variety store lunch counter were beaten and one student was The student knifed was charged with disorderly According to Connie Southern Project director for none of the students fought The McComb |