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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
FRIDAY. AUGUST 27, 1965
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owndes
county
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. -Lowndes
County, Ala., the farming county
where one civil rights worker was
killed and another critically
wounded a week ago, will be made
a target for intensified civil rights
action, the New York Times re-
ported recently.
A Student Nonviolent Coordi-
nating Committee official said
Sunday that ten of SNCC's most
experienced field secretaries will
be sent to Lowndes County and
added that some civil rights work-
ers are discussing the possibility
of filing a law suit to remove all
county officials on the ground that
they were illegally ellected, since
Negroes had been disenfranchised.
The field secretaries will con-
centrate on voter registration,
Stokeley Carmichael, the SNCC
field secretary in charge of the
Lowndes County movement.
Shooting the Cause
He explained that the intensi-
fied action is in part due to the
shotgun shootings Friday of an
Episcopal seminarian, Johnathan
M. Daniels and a Roman Catholic
priest, Rev. Richard Morrisroe,
that left Daniels dead and Mor-
risroe near death.
"We want to show the people
that we are not afraid of Lowndes
County and that they can't run
us out. We want them to know
that if this is the price that has
to be paid, there are people will-
ing to pay it," Carmichael said.
Carmichael said the field sec-
retaries would make a special
effort to round up support for
Negro candidates in a Nov. 9
election of the Lowndes County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee, an arm
of the Federal Department of
Agriculture that shapes farm poli-
cies.
No Negro Members
He said no Negro had ever
served on the committee, whose
members are elected not by regis-
tered voters but by farmers.
Mr. Carmichael also said he
hoped to see at least 4,000 Ne-
groes registered in Lowndes
County by the time the ten ad-
ditional field secretaries are ready
to leave. About 1,000 are already
registered, compared with 2,000
whites, he noted.
VeextI
An Alabama Highway Depart-
ment engineer who serves as an
unpaid special sheriff's deputy,
Tom L. Coleman, 52, has been
charged with the murder. The
priest was last reported still in
critical condition.
New Party
Carmichael also said that there
was talk of forming a new politi-
cal party in the county modeled
after Mississippi's predominantly
Negro Freedom Democratic Party.
But the main emphasis will be
on voter registration, he said.
Lowndes County was one of the
first nine Southern counties to
be designated for a Federal exam-
iner under the Voting Rights Act
of 1965. Negroes outnumber whites
four-to-one in the county, but, as
recently as March, no Negro was
registered to vote.
The ten new field secretaries
would be brought, Carmichael
said, from "some of the toughest
counties in the South." They in-
clude workers from Philadelphia,
Miss., where three civil rights
workers were slain last summer,
and southwestern parts of the'
same state where the Ku Klux
Klan has bitterly resisted the civil
rights movement.
Suspect Freed
In other Lowndes County ac-
tion, Coleman, the murder suspect,
was freed on $12,500 bond.
Attorney General Richmond
Flowers, a political opponent of
arget
Gov. George C. Wallace, charged
that the killing of the seminarian
was "another Ku Klux Klan mur-
der." He said the accused was
"strongly believed to be a Ku
Klux Klan member."
No official comment by Wallace
was reported.
Added Charges
Flowers also accused Col. Al
Lingo, Alabama Public Safety
Commissioner, of refusing to co-
operate with his office in investi-
gating the crime and of trying to
"whitewash" the case. He said that
Lingo had refused to share in-
formation on the killing with
either his office or the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
The SNCC intensification of its
civil rights program bore out a
prediction by the Montgomery
Advertiser and Alabama Journal.
In a recent lead editorial, the
paper said:
"There will not now be fewer
agitators in Lowndes, there will
be more."
"A killing such as that at
Hayneville," the editorial said, "is
indefensible in the mind of any-
one who truly subscribes to our
moral law and our statutory law.
"This is true despite the folly
and fanaticism of the provocation
by priestly incendiaries."
"They knowingly entered a dan-
gerous situation," the editorial
continued, "and did what they
could to make it more dangerous.
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