Atlanta Inquirer Historical Tribute to John Lewis
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From The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper • November 24, 1962 • Page 9 :
Members of the staff and Executive Committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) cluster around a 1963 Buick station wagon which was presented to the anti-segregation group by a well wisher after a benefit concert for SNCC in Chicago. From left to right: Clarence Glenn, Louisville; John Lewis, Nashville; Paul Brooks, Chicago; Cordell Reagon, Nashville; Ruby Doris Smith, Atlanta; James Forman, SNCC Executive Secretary, Atlanta; Colis Liddell, Jackson, Mississippi; Frank Holloway, Atlanta; Bernard Lafayette, Nashville; Mary McCollum, Nashville; Wilson Brown, Birmingham; John O’Neal, Carbondale, Illinois; and Dorothy Miller, Atlanta. The Executive Committee of SNCC met in Atlanta last week to discuss the future program of SNCC, which has conducted direct action and voter registration drives in rural Mississippi, Alabama, and Southwest Georgia.
From The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper • June 29, 1963 • Page 12 :
SNCC Still Faces Danger In Vote and Anti-Bias Drive
New SNCC Chairman Gets Carried Away
John Lewis is hauled away by two Nashville, Tennessee policemen. Lewis, elected Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman two weeks ago, has been in Danville, Virginia and Cambridge, Maryland, two recent racial hot spots. The Troy, Alabama native has indicated that SNCC “will continue and enlarge its nonviolent direct action and voter registration program in the deep South.”
From The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper • June 29, 1963 • Page 12 :
Electric Prod Poles
Electric Prod Poles used on anti-segregation demonstrators in Gadsden, Alabama and Birmingham, Alabama. The pole above – carrying from 8,000 to 10,000 volts – is similar to those used by policemen against demonstrators in Alabama, representatives from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, working in Gadsden, charged this week that state troopers also used the steel poles to best Negro women and children.
From The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper • June 29, 1963 • Page 12 :
New SNCC Chairman Experienced Leader
At a recent meeting, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) voted to accept the resignation of its chairman Charles McDew, freeing him to further his education at an Eastern university under a Brandeis fellowship.
Elected to succeed McDew as the civil rights group’s third chairman was John Lewis of Nashville, Tennessee. Marion Berry was SNCC’s first chairman.
Lewis, a native of Troy, Alabama and 23 years old, has been active as a student leader since 1960 having served as chairman of the Nashville Nonviolent Movement for the past two years. He has been arrested 24 times in civil rights demonstrations, and was savagely beaten as a Freedom Rider.
Of the leadership transition, SNCC’s executive secretary, James Forman, declared: “We regret Chuck McDew’s resigning, but we know we have an excellent chairman in John Lewis.”
From The Atlanta Inquirer newspaper • June 29, 1963 • Page 12 :
Two Danville, Virginia Men exhibit the wounds they received from police during anti-segregation demonstrations there last week. The two were among a group of 300 Negroes hosed and beaten by policemen while they were gathered on the Danville Courthouse steps. Photo by Danny Lyon.
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