Number of Results:1423
| Result Number | Newspaper Title | Article Title | Date | Page Number | People In Article | Subjects In Article | Brief Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Canopy | Two Summers in Mississippi | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23 No. 8, 1-4p. | Young Democrats Convention, Freedom Democratic Party Summer Project of 1964, Freedom Democratic Party Summer Project of 1965, civil rights, voter registration | Details the difference between the summers of 1964 and 1965 in Mississippi. Explains how the events in the summer of 1964, with civil rights and Northern activists, made the voter registration in summer 1965 in Mississippi possible. | ||
| 1 | Southern Patriot | SCLC: The New Trends | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8 1-4p. | Bevel, Jim; Young, Andy; King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther; Baker, Ella; Boyte, Harry | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil rights, Vietnam War, Human rights, Voter registration | Details the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's 9th annual meeting (1965) in Birmingham, AL. Issues that were discussed include non-violent protest, the Vietnam War, basic human rights for blacks and whites, and black voter registration. |
| 2 | Southern Patriot | How to Avoid Another Berkeley: | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, 1-4p. | Weissman, Steve; Humphreys, Dr. C. C.; Loudermilk, Jim | Louisiana State University, free speech. student rights, student protests, Vietnam War, Southern Student Organizing Committee, California's Free Speech Movement | Speaker Steve Weissman talks of Louisiana State University, discussing free speech, the Vietnam War, civil rights, student protests, and the repression of southern college students. Also discusses the controversy surrounding Steve Weissman and his tour of |
| 3 | Southern Patriot | School Protest | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p.1 | Civil Rights, desegregation, tokenism, black protest arrest | More than 200 people, mostly high school students, were arrested for protesting facilities in all black high schools in Forrest City, AR. | |
| 4 | Southern Patriot | Oppose HUAC | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p.4 | House Un-American Activities Committee, Ku Klux Klan, Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Thirty of leading churchmen called for presidential commission to investigate Ku Klux Klan instead of the planned investigation of the House Un-American Activities Committee. | |
| 5 | Southern Patriot | All-Night Sit-In | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p. 2 | job discrimination, sit-in, civil disobedience | In Powaton County, VA. 70 people marched on the monthly County Board of Supervisors to protest job discrimination and other grievances. Some staged an all-night sit-in at the courthouse. | |
| 6 | Southern Patriot | Review of the Month | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p. 2 | Hamer, Fannie Lou; Gray, Virginia; Devine, Annie | Freedom Democratic Party, Civil Rights, voter registration, 1964 Civil Rights Act, desegregation, 1965 Voting Rights Act, tokenism | The Freedom Democratic Party's call for the unseating of Mississippi congressmen was overturned, showing the nation was not ready for true equal rights for African Americans. Also, the FDP said it was entering candidates in the 1966 election to challenge |
| 7 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Personal Stories S | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p.2 | Belfrage, Sally; Sutherland, Elizabeth; McNeill, Robert | 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, Freedom Summer, Letters From Mississippi, God Wills Us Free, Civil Rights, desegregation | Details three books: Freedom Summer by Sally Belfrage, about her experiences during the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, Letters From Mississippi, a collection of excerpts from letters written during the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project collected by Elizab |
| 8 | Southern Patriot | A Reader's Dialogue: One Peace | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 23, No. 8, p.2 | Parris, Bob; Steade Commage, Henry; Raisman, Victor H.; Cerney, Isobel M. | Civil Rights, world peace, Vietnam War, anti-war protest, Washington Summer Action Project | Details readers concerns and approval of the Southern Patriot's involvement with the Vietnam anti-war protest and reporting issues other than civil rights. Two letters to the editor, 'Job Not Done Yet' and 'Issues Are One', showcase two differing reader o |
| 9 | Southern Patriot | A Talk With Bob Parris: One Fr | 1965-10-00 | Vol. 34, No. 8, p.3 | Parris, Bob | Vietnam War, freedom movement, Civil Rights, world peace, foreign policy, teach-in, anti-war protest | An interview with Bob Parris where he discusses the Vietnam War and the use of the Civil Rights movement as a platform to protest it. He discusses why it is wrong to go to war and it's similarities to segregation in the South. |
| 10 | Southern Patriot | Death to Death | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9 | Ward, Horace | death penalty, abolition | In 1966 the abolition of the death penalty will come before the Georgia legislature. Senator Horace Ward proposed a study on the issue. |
| 11 | Southern Patriot | One Student Who 'Overcame' | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p.1 | Wittkamper, Greg | School integration, Koinonia Farm Community, segregation, Americus High School | The story of Greg Wittkamper who attended Americus High School and endured constant hostility for living in the integrated Koinonia Farm Community with his family. |
| 12 | Southern Patriot | Community Still Divided: Ameri | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p.1-3 | Fartson, Warren; Moll, Dr. Lloyd; Turner, Lena; Hopkins, Charlie Lee; Lamar, Willie; Bell, Mary Kate; Allen, Ralph; Harris, Dan; Perdue, John; Aelony, Zev; Barnum, John; Ingram, Rose Lee; Jordan, Clar | Americus, Georgia, race relations, voter registration, racial violence, voting rights bill of 1965, school integration, Rose Lee Ingram Case of 1948, Koinonia Farm Freedom Movement, John Birch Society | Explains the integration and development of black community leaders into the main government of Americus, GA. Details the efforts and resistance to their work. |
| 13 | Southern Patriot | HUAC Founders: Violence Goes U | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 1-4 | Penn, Lemuel; Weltner, Charles; Buchanan, John; Luizzo, Vida; Jackson, Jimmie Lee; Daniels, Jonathan | Ku Klux Klan, House Un-American Activities Committee, civil rights violation, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Highlander Center, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Southern Conference Educational Fun | HUAC investigation of Klan violence and their inability to provide an unbiased opinion on the topic. |
| 14 | Southern Patriot | News in Brief | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 2 | Wallace, George; Flowers, Richmond; Odour, Ralph; Haley, Richard | Alabama constitution, constitutional amendment, Civil Rights, murder, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, police brutality, CORE, school boycott, discrimination in agriculture, SNCC, Arkansas Voice, voter fraud | Alabama state constitution challenged for number of governor terms, in Nashville -- a demonstration against police beating of Kenyan man, in Talluluh -- L. A. Riots due to school boycott, Alabama and Mississippi tried to elect blacks to improve crop allo |
| 15 | Southern Patriot | One Student Who "Overcame" | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 1 | Wittkamper, Greg | school integration, Koinonia Farm Community, segregation, Americus High School | Story of Greg Wittkamper, who attended Americus High School and endured constant hostility for living in the integrated Koinonia Farm Communtiy with his family. |
| 16 | Southern Patriot | How It's Done | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9 p. 2 | school desegration, Nottoway County, Virginia, Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee | Blacks in Nottoway County in Southside Virginia successfully enrolled black students in the all white school. | |
| 17 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Facts, Humor, and | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9 p. 3 | Templin, Ralph; Hughes, Langston; Holt, Len | Democracy and Nonviolence, Simple's Uncle Same, An Act of Conscience, Labor Fact Book 17, The Student Voice, Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer | Book reviews of Democracy and Nonviolence, Simple's Uncle Same, An Act of Conscience, Labor Fact Book 19, and Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer. |
| 18 | Southern Patriot | Shuttleworth Attacked | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 2 | Shuttleworth, Rev. Fred L. | SCEF, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, church fraud, Revelation Baptist Church | Charges of fraud and mishandling of church funds were leveled against Reverend Shuttleworth at Revelation Baptist Church in Cincinnati, OH. However, the board of deacons found no truth in these charges. |
| 19 | Southern Patriot | MFDP Wins Victory in Defeat | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9 p.4 | Grey, Victoria; Eastland, James; Guyot, Lawrence; Abernathy, Representative; Stennis, Senator | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention in 1964, challenge to unseat representatives | The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party failed to unseat representatives but still succeeded in bringing the issue to the national stage. |
| 20 | Southern Patriot | The Evidence | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9, p. 4 | Southern Regional Council, School desegregation, American Civil Liberties Union, Racial double standard, | Explains "School Desegregation: Old Problems Under a New Law," which tells 94.8% of students are still segregated. "Southern Justice" explains the judicial double standard for blacks and whites. | |
| 21 | Southern Patriot | Two Summers in Mississippi | 1965-10-01 | 1,4 | Young Democrats Convention, Freedom Democratic Party Summer 1964, Freedom Democratic Party Summer 1965, Civil Rights, Voter Registration | Details the difference between the summers of 1964 and 1965 in Mississippi. Explains the events in summer 1964, with civil rights and Northern activists making the voter registration in summer 1965 Mississippi possible. | |
| 22 | Southern Patriot | Today's Great Issues: A Call t | 1965-11-00 | Vol. 23, No. 9 p. 4 | Katzenbach, Attorney General | Vietnam War, foreign policy, Southern Conference Educational Fund, racial murder, voter registration, economic reprisals for blacks | The lack of discussion about foreign policy in the South. White men throughout the South being acquitted of black murders. Restriction of voter registration throughout the South. Lack of economic equality for blacks and economic reprisals for civil rights |
| 23 | Southern Patriot | The Wansley Sotry: A Case Coll | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10 p. 1-4 | Wansley, Thomas C.; Kunstler, William; Hirchkop, Phillip; Jester III, Rayston; Cundiff, Judge O. Raymond; Wood, Reverend Virgil | death penalty, rape, Virginia State Court of Appeals, robbery, mistrial, racial justice | The trial of Thomas C. Wansley in Lyrchburg, Virginia for the rape of two women and the robbery of a change purse fell apart due to lack of evidence and changing witness accounts. Also it was brought to national attention for the use of the death penalty. |
| 24 | Southern Patriot | The Movement Stirs Folk Reviva | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 1-3 | Reagon, Bernice; Garawan, Guy; Lomax, Alan; James, Dr. William; Peacock, Willie; Black, Sam; McGee, William; Sherrod, Charles; Young, Reverend Andrew; Bishop, Ruby | Black folk music, folk music, black culture, Freedom Movement, Highland Center, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Newport Folk Foundation, spirituals, Edwards Festival, Tuskegee Institute | Explains the revival of black folk music and culture throughout the South. Focuses on the Highlander Center in Knoxville, Tennessee and their efforts to organize festivals and events to revive the style. |
| 25 | Southern Patriot | How To Help | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 1 | eviction, black voting, emergency aid, Operation Freedom | Tells readers where to send emergency aid to blacks evicted from the South for voting. | |
| 26 | Southern Patriot | Evicitions: Economic Pressures | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 1-2 | McCrackin, Maurice; McFerren, John; Carter, Bertha Mae; Eastland, James | black eviction, black voter registration, civil rights, sharecropping, Operation Freedom, school integration, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1965 Voting Rights Act, Wilcox County, Alabama | Evictions of black across the South for registering to vote and integrating school systems. Focuses on Wilcox County, Alabama and wants it declared a disaster area. |
| 27 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 2 | Gelders Stern, Emma; Sugarman, Tracy; Baker, Ella; Shuttleworth, Fred L.; Baum, Betty; Grossman, Nancy | Civil Rights Movement, SCEF, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Patricia Crosses Town, I Have A Dream, school integration, desegregation, Black Belt Schools: Beyond Desegregation, Equal Opportunity in Farm Programs: An Appraisal of Services Rendere | Books recently published. "I Have A Dream" by Emma Gelders, "Patricia Crosses Town" by Betty Baum, "Black Belt Schools: Beyond Desegregation" from the Southern Regional Council, and by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights "Equal Opportunity in Farm Program |
| 28 | Southern Patriot | Boycott Wins, New Party Starts | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 2 | Strange, Hubert; Brewster, Willie; Liuzzo, Viola; Reeb, Reverend James | boycott, Natchez, Mississippi, NAACP, racial violence, school bombing, church burning, house bombing, voter registration, desegregation, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lowndes County Freedom Organization | Boycotts across the South were successful in gaining better treatment for blacks. Violence still continues which led to the formation of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a black political party separate from the Democratic Party. |
| 29 | Southern Patriot | Docket Cleared | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 2 | civil rights, U.S. District Court | Roughly 1000 cases against civil rights demonstrators were dropped in St. Augustine, Florida in 1964. Those few that weren't dropped were moved from the state to federal court for trial. | |
| 30 | Southern Patriot | A Footnote In History | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 3 | Marland, William C. | West Virginia Governor, segregation | Death of former West Virginia Governor William C. Marland, who was in office in 1954 when the Supreme Court declared segregation unconstitutional. He stood behind their ruling. |
| 31 | Southern Patriot | How Lawyers Made the Law Serve | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p.3 | Smith, Ben | lawyers, Civil Rights, National Lawyers Guild, constitutional law, New Deal, Vietnam War, Constitutional Law | Excerpt from Ben Smith's speech at the annual Lawyer's Guild Convention about Northern and Southern civil rights lawyers and their ability to create change for the black population. |
| 32 | Southern Patriot | Terrorism, Threats Plague Moun | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, No. 10, p. 4 | Civil Rights, Appalachian South, racial violence, Appalachian Economic and Political Action Conference, vandalism, Highlander Center, Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Party, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Mountain Project, vagrancy, eviction | Efforts in the Appalachian mountains to promote Civil Rights have been plagued by violence and acts of terrorism from several extremist groups. They also did not receive help from the local police. | |
| 33 | Southern Patriot | Drive Begins For TruckingJobs | 1965-12-00 | Vol. 23, Nop. 10, p. 4 | Operation Breadbasket, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, trucking | Operation Breadbasket in Atlanta, Georgia announced its next campaign was to win fair employment for blacks in the trucking industry. | |
| 34 | Southern Patriot | "How to Avoid Another Berkely" | 1965-10-01 | 1,4 | Weissman, Steve. Humphreys, C.C., Dr. Laudermille, Jim. | Louisiana State University, Free Speech, Student Rights, Student Protest, Vietnam War, Southern Student Organizing Committee, California's Free Speech Movement | Speaker Steve Weissman talks at Louisiana State University discussing free speech, the Vietnam War, civil rights, student protests and repression of Southern college students. Also discusses the controversy surrounding Steve Weissman and his tour of the S |
| 35 | Southern Patriot | SCLC: The New Trends | 1965-10-01 | 1,4 | Bevel, Jim. Young, Andy. Baker, Ella. Boyte, Harry. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil Rights, Vietnam War, Human Rights, Voter Registration | Details the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1965 9th annual meeting in Birmingham, AL. Issues discussed include non-violent protests, the Vietnam War, basic human rights for blacks and whites, and black voter registration. |
| 36 | Southern Patriot | School Protest | 1965-10-01 | 1 | Civil Rights, Desegregation, Tokenism, Black Protest Arrest | More than 200 students, mostly high school, were arrested for protesting facilities in all black high school in Forrest City, AR. | |
| 37 | Southern Patriot | Oppose HUAC | 1965-10-01 | 4 | House Un-American Activities Committee, Ku Klux Klan, Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Thirty Leading churchmen called for presidential commission to investigate Ku Klux Klan instead of the planned investigation of the House Un-American Activities Committee. | |
| 38 | Southern Patriot | All-Night Sit-In | 1965-10-01 | 2 | Job Discrimination, Sit-in, civil disobedience | In Powatan County, VA, 70 people marched on the monthly County Board of Supervisors to protest job discrimination and other grievances. Some staged an all night sit-in at the courthouse. | |
| 39 | Southern Patriot | Review of the Month | 1965-10-01 | 2 | Hamer, Fannie Lou. Gray, Victoria. Devine, Annie. | Freedom Democratic Party, Civil Rights, Voter Registration, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Desegregation, 1965 Voting Rights Act, Tokenism | The Freedom Democratic Party calls for the unseating of Mississippi congressmen who overturned acts, showing the nation was not ready for true equal rights for African Americans. Also, the FDP said it was entering candidates in the 1966 election to challe |
| 40 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Personal Stories | 1965-10-01 | 2 | Belfrage, Sally. Sutherland, Elizabeth. McNeil, Robert. | 1964 MS Summer Project, Freedom Summer, Letters from Mississippi, God Wills vs. Free, Civil Rights, Desegregation | Details three books: Freedom Summer by Sally Belfrage about her experiences during the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project; Letters from Mississippi collected by Elizabeth Sutherland which are excerpts from letters written during the Summer Project; and God W |
| 41 | Southern Patriot | A Readers Dialogue: On Peace a | 1965-10-01 | 2 | Parris, Bob. Commage, Henry Steele. Raisman, Victor H. Cerney, Isobel M. | Civil Rights, World Peace, Vietnam War, Anti-War Protest, Washing Summer Action Project | Details readers concerns and approval of the Southern Patriot's involvement with the Vietnam anti-war protest and reporting issues other than civil rights. Two letters to the editor "Job Not Done Yet" and "Issues Are One" show two readers' differing opini |
| 42 | Southern Patriot | A Talk with Bob Parris...One F | 1965-10-01 | 3 | Parris, Bob. | Vietnam War, Freedom Movement, Civil Rights, World Peace, Foreign Policy, Teach-ins, Anti-war Protest | An interview with Bob Parris where he discusses the Vietnam War and the use of the Civil Rights movement as a platform to protest it. He discusses why it is wrong to go to war and its similarities to segregation in the South. |
| 43 | Southern Patriot | Death to Death | 1965-11-01 | 1 | Ward, Horace | Death Penalty Addition | In 1966 the abolition of the death penalty will come before the Georgia legislature Senator Horace Ward proposed a study on the issue. |
| 44 | Southern Patriot | Community Still Divided: Ameri | 1965-11-01 | 1, 2, 3 | Fortson, Warren. Turner, Lena. Hopkins, Charlie Lee. Lamar, Willie. Bell, Mary Kate. Allen, Ralph. Harris, Don. Perdue, John. Aelony, Zev. Barnum, John. Ingram, Rose Lee. Jordan, Clarence. Barnum, Mab | Americus, GA, Race Relations, Voter Registration, Racial Violence, Voting Rights Bill 1965, School Integration, Rose Lee Ingram case of 1948, Koinonia Farm Freedom Movement, John Birch Society | Explains the integration and development of black community leaders into the main government of Americus, GA. Details the efforts and resistance to their work. |
| 45 | Southern Patriot | HUAC Flounders: Violence Goes | 1964-11-01 | 1, 4 | Penn, Lemuel. Weltner, Charles. Buchanan, John. Luizzo, Vida. Jackson, Jimmie Lee. Daniels, Jonathan | KKK, House Un-American Activities Committee, Civil Rights Violation, SCLC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Highlander Center, MS Freedom Democratic Party, Southern Conference Educational Fund | HUAC investigation of Klan violence and their inability to provide and unbiased opinion on the topic. |
| 46 | Southern Patriot | One Student Who "Overcame" | 1965-11-01 | 1 | Wittkamper, Greg | school integration, Koinonia Farm Community, Segregation, Americus High School | Story of Greg Wittkamper who attended Americus High School and endured constant hostility for living in the integrated Koinonia Farm Community with his family. |
| 47 | Southern Patriot | News in Brief | 1965-11-01 | 2 | Wallace, George. Flowers, Richmond. Odour, Ralph. Haley, Richard. | AL constitution. Civil Rights murders. SCLC. Police Brutality. CORE. School Boycott. Discrimination. SNCC. AR Voice. Voter Fraud. Discrimination in Agriculture. | AL state constitution challenged for number of governor terms. Nashville demonstration against police beating of Kenyan Man. Tallaluh, LA riots due to school boycott. AL and MS tried to elect blacks to improve crop allotments. AR fraud in school board ele |
| 48 | Southern Patriot | How It's Done | 1965-11-01 | 2 | School desegregation, Nottaway county VA, VA Students Civil Rights Committee | Blacks in Nottaway County in Southside VA successfully enrolled black students in the all white school. | |
| 49 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Facts, Humour, and | 1965-11-01 | 3 | Templin, Ralph. Hughes, Langston. Holt, Len. | Democracy and Nonviolence, Simple's Uncle Sam, An Act of Conscience, Labor Fact Book 17, The Student Voice, Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer | Reviews of Democracy and Nonviolence, Simple's Uncle Sam, An Act of Conscience, Labor Fact Book 17, and Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer |
| 50 | Southern Patriot | Shuttleworth Attacked | 1965-11-01 | 2 | Shuttleworth, Fred L. Rev. | SCEF, SCLC, Church fraud, Revelation Baptist Church | Charges against Reverend Shuttleworth of Revelation Baptist Church in Cincinnati, OH of fraud and mishandling of church funds. However, the board of Deacons found no truth in these charges. |
| 51 | Southern Patriot | MFDP Wins Victory in Defeat | 1965-11-01 | 4 | Grey, Victoria. Eastland, James. Guyot, Lawrence. Representative Abernathy, Senator Stennis. | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention in 1964, challenge to unseat representatives | The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party failed to unseat representatives but still succeeded in bringing the issue to the national stage. |
| 52 | Southern Patriot | Today's Greatest Issues: A Cal | 1965-11-01 | 4 | Attorney General Katzenbach. | Vietnam War, foreign policy, Southern Conference Educational fund, Racial Murder, Voter Registration, economic reprisals for blacks. | The lack of discussion about foreign policy in the South. White men throughout the south being acquitted of black murders. Restriction of voter registration throughout the south. Lack of economic equality for blacks and economic reprisals for civil rights |
| 53 | Southern Patriot | The Wansley Story: A Case Coll | 1965-12-01 | 1, 4 | Wansley, Thomas C. Kunstler, William. Hirchkop, Phillip. Jester, Rayston III. Cundiff, O. Raymond Judge. Wood, Virgil Rev. | Death penalty, Rape, VA Stat Court of Appeals, robbery, mistrial, racial justice. | The case of Thomas C Wansley of Lunchburg, VA for the rape of two women, and the robbery of a change purse fell apart due to lack of evidence and changing witness accounts. Also, it was brought to the national attention for the use of the death penalty. |
| 54 | Southern Patriot | The Movement Stirs Folk Reviva | 1965-12-01 | 1,3 | Reagan, Bernice. Garawan, Guy. Lomax, Alan. James, Willis Dr. Peacock, Willie. Block, Sam. McGee, William. Sherrod, Charles. Young, Andrew Rev. Bishop, Ruby. | Black folk music, black culture, freedom movement, highlander center in Knoxville, TN, cultural festivals, civil rights movement, Student nonviolent coordinating committee, Newport Folk Foundation, Spirituals, Edwards Festival, Tuskegee Institute | Explains the revival of black folk music and culture throughout the South. Focuses on the Highlander Center in Knoxville, TN and their efforts to organize festivals and events to revive the style. |
| 55 | Southern Patriot | How To Help | 1965-12-01 | 1 | Eviction, Black Voting, Emergency Aid, Operation Freedom | Tells readers where to send emergency aid to blacks evicted from the South for voting. | |
| 56 | Southern Patriot | Evictions: Economic Pressures | 1965-12-01 | 1, 2 | McCradein, Maurice. McFerren, John. Carter, Mae Bertha. Eastland, James. | black eviction, black voter registration, civil rights, sharecropping, Operation Freedom, school integration, SCLC, 1965 Voting Rights Act | Evictions of blacks across the south for registering to vote and intergrating school systems. Focuses on Wilcox county AL and wants it declared a disaster area. |
| 57 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1965-12-01 | 2 | Sterne, Emma Gelders; Sugarman, Tracy; Baker, Ella; Shuttleworth, Fred L.; Baum, Betty; Grossman, Nancy. | "I Have A Dream", Civil Rights, SCEF, SCLC, Patricia Crosses Town, school integration, desegregation | Books recently published: "I have a dream" by Emma Gelders Sterne, "Patricia Crosses Town" by Betty Baum, "Black Belt Schools: Beyond Desegregation" from the southern regional council and by the US Commission on Civil Rights, "Equal Opportunity in Farm Pr |
| 58 | Southern Patriot | Boycott Wins, New Party Starts | 1965-12-01 | 2 | Stranger, Hubert; Brewster, Willie; Liuzzo, Vida; Reeb, James Rev. | boycott, Natchez miss, NAACP, racial violence, school bombing, church burning, house bombing, voter registration, desegregation, Lowndes County Freedom Org., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee | Boycotts across the south were successful in gaining better treatment for blacks. Violence still continues which led to the formation of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, a black political party sepearte from the Democratic Party. |
| 59 | Southern Patriot | Docket Cleared | 1965-12-01 | 2 | Civil Rights, US District Court | Roughly 1,000 cases against civil rights demonstrators were dropped in St. Augustine, FL in 1964. Those few that weren't dropped were moved from State to Federal court for trial. | |
| 60 | Southern Patriot | A footnote in History | 1965-12-01 | 3 | Marland, William C. | West VA Governor, Segregation | Death of former West VA governor William C. Marland, who was in office in 1954 when the Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional. He stood behind their ruling. |
| 61 | Southern Patriot | How Lawyers Have Made the Law | 1965-12-01 | 3 | Smith, Ben | lawyers, civil rights, national lawyers guild, constitutional law, new deal, Vietnam war | Excerpts from Ben Smiths speech at the annual Lawyers guild convention about northern and southern civil rights lawyers and their ability to create changes for the black population. |
| 62 | Southern Patriot | Terrorism, Threats Plague Moun | 1965-12-01 | 4 | Civil rights, Appalachian south, racial violence, Appalachian economic and political action conference, vandalism, highlander center, KKK, Nazi Party, SCLC, Southern Mountain Project, Vagrancy, eviction | Efforts in the Appalachian mountains to promote civil rights have been plagued by violence and act of terrorism from several extremist groups. They also did not receive help from the local police. | |
| 63 | Southern Patriot | Drive Begins for Trucking Jobs | 1965-12-01 | 4 | Operation Breadbasket, SCLC, trucking | Operation Breadbasket in Atlanta, GA announced its next campaign was to win fair employment for blacks in the trucking industry. | |
| 64 | Southern Patriot | HUAC Threat | 1965-12-01 | 4 | Willis, Edwin; Buchanan, John | House Un-American Activities Committee, KKK, Civil Rights | Edwin Willis said HUAC might be investigation civil rights groups after the Klan probe. He said HUAC had "its jurisdiction in all areas of subversive activities." |
| 65 | Southern Patriot | Movement on the Campus...Hos S | 1966-01-01 | 1, 4 | Meredith, James; Herton, Myles; Shero, Jeff; Thasher, Sue; Hamlett, Ed; Stilley, Ronda; Spencer, Howard, Guerrero, Gene; Cotton, Tom | Student Protest, Civil Rights, Civil Disobedience, Vietnam War, Southern Student Organizing Committee, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Segregation, Free University, Highlander Center, Campus Activism, Censorship | Students on college campuses across the South are organizing and protesting many problems in society such as segregation, and the Vietnam War. This generation is far more active and vocal than those in the past. |
| 66 | Southern Patriot | Error Confessed | 1966-01-01 | 1, 3 | Lewin, Nathan; Rabinowitz, Victor; Robinowitz, Joni; King, Slater; Jackson, Elza; Thomas, Robert; Wells, Samuel B.; Bell, Griffin; Labat, Egar; Smith, Benjamin E.; Morgan, Charles Jr.; Davis, Edward; | Albany Movement, jury selection, US Court of Appeals, civil rights movement, bias, jury tampering, NAACP Attorney | The US government confessed error in the conviction of 6 members of the Albany movement in 1963. The juries were biased and contained no black people, meaning they did not receive a fair trial. |
| 67 | Southern Patriot | In a Land Where MURDER is Resp | 1966-01-01 | 1 | Younge, Samuel, Jr.; Segrest, Marvin | SCLC, Alabama racism, Tuskegee Institute, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Civil Rights, Racial Murder, Anti-Violence Law, Lynching | Map of the state of AL depicting all the people murdered for their involvement with the civil rights movement. |
| 68 | Southern Patriot | MFDP in Race | 1966-01-01 | 1 | Eastland, James; Guyot, Lawrence; Collier, Clinton; Hayes, Ralthus; King, Ed; Whitley, C. L. Jr. | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party announced it will be running candidates in all five of the state's districts. |
| 69 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1966-01-01 | 2 | Meyer, Howard N.; Korngold, Ralph; Filler, Louis; Sterling, Dorothy; Quarles, Benjamin; Terrell, Mary Church; Johnson, James Weldon; Washington, Booker T.; DuBoi W.E.B. | Ulysses S. Grant; Civil War; Presidency; Toussaint Louvertur; Haitian Revolution; Abolition | Summarizes "Let Us Have Peace: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant" by Howard N. Meyer, "Citizen Toussaint" by Ralph Korngold; "Wendal Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom" edited by Louis Filler and "Lift Every Voice" by Dorothy Sterling and Benjamin Quarles. |
| 70 | Southern Patriot | Birmingham on March Again | 1966-01-01 | 2 | Shuttleworth, Fred; Dahmer, Vernon; Younge, Samuel Jr. | Civil Rights Protest, Demonstration, Voter Registration, SEEF, firing bombing, Tuskegee Institute, segregation, eviction, racial murder, SNCC, tent city | People in Birmingham, AL began protesting voter registration and lack of jobs for blacks in civil service positions. Vernon Dahmer was killed in a fire bombing and Samuel Younge Jr. was shot. Evictions still continue across the Black Belt. |
| 71 | Southern Patriot | North Carolina Leader Loses Jo | 1966-01-01 | 2 | Johnson, Ray; Johnson, Ethel | Civil Rights, Seaboard Airline Railroad; discrimination, 1964 Civil Rights Act | Ray Johnson is asking for his job back with back pay after being terminated for writing letters to federal agencies accusing the railroad of gross discrimination against black workers. |
| 72 | Southern Patriot | Compensation Asked for Hurrica | 1966-01-01 | 2 | Louisiana Homes Compensation Committee, Hurricane Betsy, Federal Aid | The Louisiana Homes Compensation Committee asked for federal help for those affected by Hurricane Betsy in New Orleans, LA. They said flood control was neglected so others should pay to clean up the disaster. | |
| 73 | Southern Patriot | Deeds not Words in Tennessee | 1966-01-01 | 3 | Hortenstine, Virgie | Fayett-Heywood County Work-camps, voter registration, Operation Freedom, civil rights movement, freedom schools, literacy program | In west TN work-camp programs bring blacks and whites together to improve social conditions. Also, Operation Freedom organized literacy schools and programs to educate the poor. |
| 74 | Southern Patriot | Tenth Anniversary Tribute | 1966-01-01 | 3 | Parks, Rosa; Morgan, Juliette; Gandhi | Montgomery Bus Protest, civil rights martyr, freedom movement | Commemorates the tenth anniversary of Rosa Parks' bus protest. Also explains that Juliette Morgan is largely unknown but was one of the first white persons to recognize the significance of these events and eventually died in 1957. They call her a martyr. |
| 75 | Southern Patriot | The Bond Case: It's Meaning to | 1966-02-01 | 1, 2, 3 | Bond, Horace Julian; Heard, Eliza; Shapiro, Herbert; Lewis, John; Bond, Horace Mann | Southern Freedom Movement, Bond Case, Civil Rights, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Vietnam War, Foreign Policy | Case over Julian Bond not being seated to a special GA legislature for agreeing to a statement against the Vietnam War put out by SNCC. Discusses the controversy around the issue and those fighting for him. |
| 76 | Southern Patriot | The Delta, After Greenville: P | 1966-02-01 | 1, 4 | Puryear, R. W.; Foster, Issac; Lawrence, Ida Mae | Greenville AFB, Poor Peoples Conference, poverty, civil rights, eviction, tent city, squatter | A group of 70 poor people were evicted from Greenville AFB in Edward, MS after occupying the vacant buildings during a snowstorm. They went to Mt. Beulah to seek refuge and form a new life. |
| 77 | Southern Patriot | Dombrowski Retires as SCEF Exe | 1966-02-01 | 1, 4 | Dombrowski, James A.; Shuttlesworth, Fred; Braden, Carl; Braden, Ann; Longstrth, Emily; Baker, Ella; Fletcher, Frank; Posey, Buford; Collins, Virgina; Smith, Ben | Civil rights, Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), Southern Mountain Project, poverty, Deep South Project, Highlander School, segregation | James Dombrowski is retiring as executive director of the SCEF, promoting its move to Louisville, KY from New Orleans, LA. He leaves a long legacy of social activism and leaves the SCEF in the hands of Carl and Ann Braden. |
| 78 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: A Lawyer's Story | 1966-02-01 | 2 | Kunstler, Bill; Kinoy, Arthur | civil rights, lawyer, Southern Freedom Movement, Freedom Riders, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Mississippi Summer Project, NAACP | Bill Kunstler's book "Deep in My Hear" discusses his experience as a lawyer in the Southern Freedom Movement from 1961-1965. |
| 79 | Southern Patriot | Newsbrief: Direct Action in Wa | 1966-02-01 | 2 | Thomas, Eugene; Eaton, William Orville; Liuzza, Vida; Wilkins, Collie Leroy; Coleman, Thomas L.; Daniels, Johnathan; Ashoton, Steve; Jordan, Vernon | SNCC, bus boycott, home rule, poverty, wage dispute, civil rights, NAACP, civil rights legislation, jury selection, racial murder, racial violence, libel, Southern Regional Council, voter registration, SCLC | Bus boycott in Washington DC to protest raise in fares. In Choctaw Couty, AL domestic demand wage increase to 67 cents an hour. Race discrimination outlawed in jury selection in Lowndes County, AL. |
| 80 | Southern Patriot | Free Speech | 1966-02-01 | 3 | Aptheker, Herbert; Wilkinson, Frank; Moore, Don | free speech, academic freedom, HUAC, US Communist Party | North Carolina legislature repealed law barring controversial speakers from college campuses. |
| 81 | Southern Patriot | Dissent in the South | 1966-02-01 | 3 | Hayden, Tom | Vietnam War, Southern Coordinating Committee, segregation, civil rights, free speech, academic freedom | Students across the South on college campuses are debating and protesting the Vietnam War. |
| 82 | Southern Patriot | Atlanta Slums Under Attack | 1966-02-01 | 3 | Black, Hector; King, Martin Luther, Jr. Rev.; Bond, Julian; Ulmer, Robin; Pertilla, Alton | poverty, eviction, slum, SCLC, SNCC, Southern Student Organizing Committee, civil rights, Greenville AFB | The slums of Atlanta became the target of many civil rights groups seeking to improve living conditions for the inhabitants that often don't even have heat. |
| 83 | Southern Patriot | Life in Prison | 1966-02-01 | 4 | Hopkins, Charles Lee; Lamar, Eddie James | civil rights, racial murder, riot | The 22 year old black man Charles Lee Hopkins was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a white man when he blindly fired into a mob. |
| 84 | Southern Patriot | A Partial Victory | 1966-02-01 | 4 | Hunter, Charlie; King, C.B.; Hardin, John; Hunter, Willie; Ingram, Rosa Lee | racial murder, black jury, segregation, jury bias | Charlie Hunter was convicted of murder and sentenced to six years on prison by a predominantly black jury for shooting a white police officer in Ellaville, GA. |
| 85 | Southern Patriot | New Hope For Wansley | 1966-02-01 | 4 | Wansley, Thomas; Harvey, Ruth; Cundiff, O. Raymond; Hirchkop, Phillip; Kunstler, William | rape, civil rights, right to counsel, mistrial | The case against Thomas Wansley of the rape of two white women was taken from State of VA by the US Courts. The case was still continuing to collapse. |
| 86 | Southern Patriot | In Eastland's Backyard: Hope i | 1966-03-01 | 1, 4 | Eastland, James; Brooks, Lela Mae; Clayton, Claude; Kunstler, William; Knay, Arthur; Katzenback, Nicholas; Alexander, Bryce | Sunflower county, MS, civil rights, racial violence, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, voter registration, poverty, chain gangs, discrimination, segregation | Blacks in Sunflower County, MS won the appeal to end the four month waiting period in order for them to vote. This is in opposition to Sen James Eastland, a segregationist who resides in Sunflower. |
| 87 | Southern Patriot | No More Poll Tax: 28-year Stru | 1966-03-01 | 1, 2 | Jordan, Joe; Holt, Len; Butts, Evelyn; Marshall, Thurgood; Segar, Bob; Dawley, Ed | poll tax, civil rights, Southern Freedom Movement, poverty, ACLU, Voting Rights Act of 1965, voter registration, school segregation | The US Supreme Court brought an end to poll tax due to attorney Joe Jordan. Discusses the history of poll tax legislation in the South. |
| 88 | Southern Patriot | The Trends Among the Young | 1966-03-01 | 1 | campus activism, SNCC, slums | States that a large minority of young people on college campuses are becoming included with community organizing. | |
| 89 | Southern Patriot | Louisana Students Organis in S | 1966-03-01 | 1, 3 | Barrett, Kathy; Suarez, Matt; Hill, Lon; Dubinsky, Ed | slums, campus activism, student organization, civil rights, picket lines, boycott, community organizing, desegregation, Vietnam War, CORE, SCEF, Mississippi Summer Project, block clubs, New Orleans Community Organizing Project, poverty | College students from New Orleans are finding ways to be active and help improve their local communities through education and improving living conditions. |
| 90 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: "You Can't Go Home | 1966-03-01 | 2 | Heffner, Red; Heffner, Malva; Heffner, Carla; Eastland, James | civil rights, Mississippi Freedom Summer Council of Federated Organizations, racial violence, KKK | "So the Heffners left McComb" is the story of the Heffner family, driven from their Mississippi town for trying to prevent the KKK from taking over their community. |
| 91 | Southern Patriot | Experiment in Atlanta | 1966-03-01 | 2 | civil rights, poverty, federal services, human relations council | The Atlanta Council on Human Relations created a "Citizens Information Service"" to help mainly poor people utilize both public and private services available to them. | |
| 92 | Southern Patriot | Aid for Appalachia | 1966-01-01 | 3 | Blossom, Bertie; Wood, Roxie; White, Joe | Appalachian Relief Committee, poverty relief, unemployment, civil rights | The Appalachian Relief Committee is aiding people in the southern mountains by providing them with quality clothing. |
| 93 | Southern Patriot | U of Arkansas Students Fight S | 1966-03-01 | 2, 3 | Chidester, Phil; Laudermilk, Jim; Weissman, Steve; Tiberis, Dough; Jones, Jim; Hanson, Bill; Valliant, Ann | segregation, academic freedom, free speech, campus regulation, integration, picket line, Mississippi Summer Project, SNCC, SSOC | Students at the University of Arkansas are organizing to protest and improve various issues including free speech, segregation and outdated campus rules and regulations. |
| 94 | Southern Patriot | They Put a City on Trial | 1972-06-01 | 1 | Houston, Margaret; Corbett, Peggie | Sisters of Charity, Black Workers Coalition, dilapidated housing, condemned housing, demolition, blocking traffic, arrest | A group known as the Dirty Dozen Demolition Crew was arrested in Louisville, KY for tearing down dilapidated housing projects and placing the debris in the street. |
| 95 | Southern Patriot | People's Protest Frees Prisone | 1972-06-01 | 1, 8 | Stroud, Jay; Chavis, Ben, Joyner, Irv; Shepard, Anne; Kirby, George; Grant, James; Ferguson, James; Harmon, John; Chavis, Elizabeth | mistrial, conspiracy, grocery store burning, insurrection, black liberation movement, bail reduction, protest, SCLC, high bond, court bias, Rights of White People | Ten black activists and one white woman were freed after a mistrial after the prosecuting attorneys illness and protests against their high bond. |
| 96 | Southern Patriot | Rank and File Miners Take Camp | 1972-06-01 | 1, 8 | Boyle, Tony, Yablonski, Jack; Miller, Arnold; Trbovich, Mike; Patrick, Harry; Payne, Robert; Nedd, Charles; Lewis, John L.; Kafton, Karl | reform movement, VMW, corrupt leadership, special election, Miners for Democracy, grass roots union movement, black lung disease, fund tampering, mine safety, miner health, unity | The miners in WVA are taking their reform movement to the coalfields as they try to remove corrupt leadership from their unions. |
| 97 | Southern Patriot | Mother Jones Speaks for Today | 1972-06-01 | 2 | Thompson, Fred | strike, labor movement, autobiography | Review of _The Autobiography of Mother Jones_ published by Charles H Kerr and Co. |
| 98 | Southern Patriot | Election Notes | 1972-06-01 | 2 | McClellan, John; Pryar, David H.; Eastland, James; Meredith, James; Connor, Eugene; Hammond, Kenneth; Yarborough, Ralph; Sanders, Barefoot; Lee, Howard; Chisholm, Shirley; Hechler, Ken; Kee, James | primary election, re-election | An overview of primary and local elections across the South. |
| 99 | Southern Patriot | Weapons Against the War | 1972-06-01 | 2 | A Rich Man's War and A Poor Man's Fight, paperback, Vietnam history, anti-war organizing, NARMIC slide show, automated warfare | Both the paperback book _A Rich Man's War and A Poor Man's Fight_ and the NARMIC Slide Show are effective weapons against the Vietnam War. | |
| 100 | Southern Patriot | Franklin Workers Build Wide Su | 1972-06-01 | 3 | Champagne, E. J.; McClarity, Herbert; Spock, Benjamin; Smith, Benjamin; Evers, Charles | union, racial unity, strike, municipal workers, strike breakers, support, boycott, job security, union representation, impeachment | Municipal workers in Franklin, LA have gained considerable support for their strike through their small but effective local union. |
| 101 | Southern Patriot | Who's Getting Youth "Up and In | 1972-06-01 | 3 | Lee, Ray; Davis, Angela; Johnson, Fred | Vietnam War demonstration, Vietnamese mining, Jackson Youth Caucus, Republic of New Africa, Spring Youth Fair, Kudzu | The Jackson Youth Caucus in MS have been protesting against the Vietnam War, but were not at the mayor's office sponsored Spring Youth Festival. |
| 102 | Southern Patriot | Strikers Win in Mississippi | 1972-06-01 | 4 | Poultry Packers Inc., strike, picket line, Mississippi Poultry Workers Union, wage increase, breakdown bay, collective bargaining | Workers at Poultry Packers Inc in Forest, MS won their strike for higher wages and pay during plant breakdown. | |
| 103 | Southern Patriot | Why the Poultry Workers Struck | 1972-06-01 | 4 | long hours, plant breakdown, pay, vacation time, walk out, strike | An employee from Poultry Packers Inc explains why workers went on strike. | |
| 104 | Southern Patriot | ...But Alabama Workers Lose A | 1972-06-01 | 4 | racial unity, female strike, strike breaking, union support, speed-up, pay cutbacks, suspension, firing, interrogation, layoff, union corruption | Workers at a dress factory in Carrollton, AL lost their strike due to lack of support and corruption within their union. | |
| 105 | Southern Patriot | Contented Workers? Women Say " | 1972-06-01 | 5 | Hayes, Robert | work stoppage, Celanese Fiber Company, wildcat strike, speed-up, unsafe working conditions, strike breaking, violence, no-strike provision, increased workload, picket line, contempt citation, oppression | Female workers at the celanese Fiber Company in Rock Hills, SC have gone on strike to protest speed-up and unsafe working conditions. |
| 106 | Southern Patriot | Sounding Board | 1972-06-01 | 5 | Shannon, Randy; Grant, Jim; McIntyre, Lionel | racism, bussing, smokescreen, black liberation, Gallup poll, black power, school desegregation | Lawrence writes to the editor commending the article about bussing and racism. |
| 107 | Southern Patriot | Sounding Board | 1972-06-01 | 5 | Hicks, Judy; Ehlich, Paul | scientific racism, misinformation, genetic IQ, poverty, population stabilization | Reader comments on the inaccuracies in the March 72 article "The Revival of Scientific Racism". |
| 108 | Southern Patriot | New Image | 1966-03-01 | 2 | KKK, communism, Christianity | A new group of the Ku Klux Klan is organizing under the grouping Knights of the Green Forest saying they want to "Fight communism and restore Christianity". | |
| 109 | Southern Patriot | Witch Hunt Fails to Go | 1966-03-01 | 4 | Simkins, Modjeska | HUAC, civil rights, smear campaign | Mrs. Modjeska Simkins from Columbia, SC successfully fought a smear campaign accusing her of being subversive. |
| 110 | Southern Patriot | Aid to Mountain Families | 1966-03-01 | 4 | Appalachian Relief Committee, poverty, clothing drive | The Appalachian Relief Committee is asking for funds to continue shipping clothes to poor families in the southern mountains. | |
| 111 | Southern Patriot | News in Brief: Winds of Change | 1966-03-01 | 4 | Penn, Lemuel; Scott, Andrew J.; Reese, F. D. | civil rights, black voting, 1964 Civil Rights Act, school desegregation, segregation, 1965 Voting Rights Act, voter qualification, jury bias, unemployment, SNCC, church burning, embezzlement | Blacks across the south increased in voter participation. Issues of jury bias in several appeals cases. Blacks are now being hired for the Birmingham police department. A church was burned in Sidon, MS. |
| 112 | Southern Patriot | Southern Student Movement Seek | 1966-04-01 | 1, 4 | SSOC, civil rights, freedom movement, organizing white communities, black nationalism, SNCC, Southern Mountain Project, Vietnam War, Black Panther movement, integration | The annual spring conference of the Southern Student Organizing Committee decided it needed to try to organize more white communities and focus on the growing protest against the Vietnam War. | |
| 113 | Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Groups Against Vi | 1966-04-01 | 1 | Bond, Julian | SCEF, Highlander Center, SCLC, SNCC, Vietnam War | Numerous civil rights groups speak out against the Vietnam War. |
| 114 | Southern Patriot | Meetin in Nashville: Peace Sen | 1966-04-01 | 1, 3 | Jacobs, John; Wilder, Dwight; Green, Andrew Lee; Kaufman, Arnold; Boyton, Amelia; Steward, Anna Lee | Vietnam War, peace movement, Women's International League for Peace, civil rights, Southern Coordinating Committee, Operation Open Debate, desegregation, anti-war | The meeting held in Nashville by the Southern Coordinating Committee discussed the issue of the Vietnam War and the need for peace. They also said the peace effort needed to be tied to the civil rights movement. |
| 115 | Southern Patriot | Song Festival Troupe Draws Cro | 1966-04-01 | 2 | Romaine, Anne; Hillary, Mable; West, Hedy; Ritchie, Edna; Brown, Pearly; Turner, Gil; Reagan, Bernice; Chandler, Len; Joyner, Charles; Fletcher, Frank; Seager, Pete | art, music, folk songs, Southern Student Organizing Committee, integration, black spirituals, hill music, Foggy Mountain Boys | The Southern Song Festival, organized by the Southern Student Organizing Committee, drew crowds across the south performing traditional music, from black to white to mountain music. |
| 116 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Citizen's "Duty" i | 1966-04-01 | 2 | Iyer, Raghaven; Lichtman, Richard; Wassserstrom, Richard; Buchanan, Scott | civil disobedience, study of democratic institutions | Review and synopsis of "Civil Disobedience" a paper produced by lawyers, philosophers, educators and civil rights advocates. |
| 117 | Southern Patriot | Rigor Mortis | 1966-04-01 | 2 | Flower, Richmond; Liuzzo, Vida | Ku Klux Klan, racial murder, HUAC | Richmond Flowers did not receive help from the House Un-American Committee to expose the Klan for the murder of Vida Luizzo. |
| 118 | Southern Patriot | Knoxville, Tenn, is a "City of | 1966-04-01 | 3 | Hawkins, Henry; Stevens, Carol; Allen, Mary Ann; Kelly, Charles; Johnson, John J.; Pollard, H. C.; Shuttleworth, Fred | civil rights, vagrancy, disorderly conduct, Appalachian Economic and Political Action Conference, Southern Mountain Project, Highlander Center | Three civil rights worker were arrested and charged with vagrancy, disorderly conduct, and reckless driving in Knoxville, TN. The two girls were white and the man was black. |
| 119 | Southern Patriot | HUAC Smears Integration Moveme | 1966-04-01 | 3 | Welter, Charles | SLCS, HUAC, KKK, McCorman Act | The SCLC condemned the HUAC for their Klan investigation and called for the abolishment of the committee. |
| 120 | Southern Patriot | In the Delta: Bolivar Head Sta | 1966-04-01 | 4 | Head Start Program, federal funding, Office of Economic Opportunity, poverty, Child Development Group of Mississippi, Community Action Program, civil rights | The Head Start Program in Bolivar County, MS is run without federal aid because the citizens want to be consulted in their programs. | |
| 121 | Southern Patriot | Editor's Note | 1966-05-01 | 1 | Southern Freedom Movement, Civil Rights, Race Relations | Editor apologizes for length of articles dedicated to race relations and other new topics will be covered in the new edition. | |
| 122 | Southern Patriot | Above the Law? | 1966-05-01 | 1 | Eastland, James | SCEF, civil rights, conspiracy | SCEF is fighting the reversal of a lower court decision dismissing a damages suit against Sen. James Eastland for taking part in a conspiracy for false arrests and raids against the SCEF in 1963. |
| 123 | Southern Patriot | An Editorial Report the SNCC T | 1966-05-01 | 1, 2, 3 | Lewis, John; Carmichael, Stokely; Forman, Jim; Robinson, Ruby Daris; Sellers, Cleveland; Hamlett, Ed | SNCC, civil rights, freedom movement, black power, Black Panthers, poverty, militancy, community organizing, disillusionment, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, independent politics, race relations, rumor, integration | The changes within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee notes disillusionment, false reports, delays in their efforts and their future plans. |
| 124 | Southern Patriot | Students, Labor form an Allian | 1966-05-01 | 1, 2 | Harvey, Oliver; Berson, Bob; Tornquist, Elizabeth; Brandon, Peter | American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, SSOC, labor, black employment, CORE, Taft Hartley Act, automation | The students at Duke University fight to improve labor conditions and employment for black workers. |
| 125 | Southern Patriot | No Monolith | 1966-05-01 | 2 | politics, SNCC, civil rights | SNCC issued a statement against forming all black political parties. | |
| 126 | Southern Patriot | A Time to Help | 1966-05-01 | 3 | SNCC, civil rights, dissent | Asks for readers to support the SNCC monetarily as it comes under attack for its militancy. | |
| 127 | Southern Patriot | Afro-American Festival Seeks W | 1966-05-01 | 3 | Parris, Bob | militancy, international race relations, black nationalism, civil rights, black arts, assimilation | The meeting in New Orleans discussed the need for blacks to advocate their national history in America and associate with other black nations around the world. |
| 128 | Southern Patriot | Why Some Don't Vote in Alabama | 1966-05-01 | 3 | black voting, civil rights, eviction, voter registration | Blacks in Dallas County, AL were evicted for voting or registering to vote. | |
| 129 | Southern Patriot | Two Meetings...Two Reports | 1966-05-01 | 4 | Collins, Virginia; Hamlett, Ed | African American Festival, civil rights, SSOC, black/white relations | Introduces the two articles about two meetings taking place in the south. |
| 130 | Southern Patriot | One White Southerrner Looks at | 1966-05-01 | 4 | race relations, civil rights, integration, labor, voter registration, Mississippi Summer Project, black consciousness, black independence, poverty, black nationalism | Ed Hamlett discusses the meeting in Pensacola, FL where people discussed community organizing and the emerging sense of black nationalism among African American organizers. | |
| 131 | Southern Patriot | Libel Conviction Upset | 1966-06-01 | 1 | Ashton, Steve; London, Ephraim; Combs, Ben Jack | libel, college activism, free speech, civil rights | The conviction of Steve Ashton of criminal libel for writing a pamphlet on the condition of mine strikers in Hazard, KY was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. |
| 132 | Southern Patriot | Return to Campus: SNCC Seeking | 1966-06-01 | 1, 4 | civil rights, Southern Student Conference, black college, student protest, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, student rights, campus regulations, academic freedom | A group of 20 predominantly black colleges met under the SNCC to discuss student rights and activity on college campuses across the South. | |
| 133 | Southern Patriot | Revolt in the Rio Grande: Farm | 1966-06-01 | 1, 3 | strike, civil rights, protest, farm workers, union, National Farm Workers Association, Roman Catholic Church, wage increase, green card, customs, immigrants | Thousands of melon farmer workers in Texas are striking to gain higher wages in order to be able to afford to live in America and improve conditions for their families. | |
| 134 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes; Biography of an Id | 1966-06-01 | 2 | Tourgée, Albion; Olsen, Otto H. | civil rights, integration,, reconstruction, slavery, Civil War, carpetbagger | Review of _Carpetbagger's Crusade: The Life of Albion Winegar Tourgée_ by Otto H. Olsen. |
| 135 | Southern Patriot | Free Speech Fight: UNC Test St | 1966-06-01 | 2, 4 | Dickson, Paul; Pollit, Dan; Schunior, Chuck; Berson, Bob | free speech, campus speech, communism, student protest, militancy, accreditation, Students for a Democratic Society, HUAC, Committee of Free Inquiry | A law in North Carolina dictating the people who plead the 5th Amendment in communism or subversive investigation were not allowed to give speeches was challenged at the University of North Carolina by the Students for a Democratic Society. |
| 136 | Southern Patriot | A Poverty Worker's Fight | 1966-06-01 | 2 | Collins, Virginia; Fields, Clifford | poverty, police brutality, protest, civil rights, Office of Economic Opportunity, arrest | Virginia Collins was fired form her job and then arrested for allowing a meeting against police brutality held at her anti-poverty program center. |
| 137 | Southern Patriot | Small Growers Help | 1966-06-01 | 3 | wages, crops, National Farm Workers Association, small farmers | Small growers in the Rio Grande agreed to a $1.25 an hour wage for farm workers in spite of competition from large growers with packing sheds. | |
| 138 | Southern Patriot | A Guide to Negro History | 1966-06-01 | 3 | Salk, Erwin A. | black history, slavery, revolt, reference | The book _Layman's Guide to Negro History_ by Erwin A Salk is a useful resource to teachers, librarians, students, and movement leaders. |
| 139 | Southern Patriot | Students Leaflet at Draft Exam | 1966-06-01 | 4 | Brosi, George | SSOC, Vietnam War, SDS, student protest, Vietnam test, rally, picket, leaflet | Students at several colleges across the South distributed leaflets and Vietnam tests to protest the Vietnam War. |
| 140 | Southern Patriot | March Brings Upsurge: Court Ru | 1966-06-01 | 4 | Meredith, James; Kunstler, William M. | civil rights, voter registration, federal prosecution, fair trial, Senate Bill 3170, free speech | The Supreme Court dealt a blow to civil rights workers when they refused to remove certain cases from state to federal court in order for the defendant to receive a fair trial. |
| 141 | Southern Patriot | Jury System Revamped: Albany R | 1966-09-01 | 1 | Lewis, Nathan; King, Slater; Jackson, Elza; Thomas, Robert; Chatman, Thomas; Wells, Samuel B.; Rabinowitz, Joni; Robinowitz, Victor | U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, civil rights, Albany movement, Albany cases, jury bias, SCEF | The US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 6 civil rights workers accused of lying to the federal grand jury in 1963 were free. The decision also helped to change the jury system in the south after the Albany cases. |
| 142 | Southern Patriot | Election in West Tennessee Ret | 1966-09-01 | 1 | magistrates, black election, voter registration, West Tennessee Voter's Project, civil rights | Nine black magistrates were elected in west TN after years of struggle for voter registration. | |
| 143 | Southern Patriot | Southwest Georgia Roundup: Bak | 1966-09-01 | 1, 4 | Johnson, Warren L.; Campbell, J. R.; Simpkins, Issac; Batiste, Ramona; King, C. B. | racial violence, lynching, SNCC, school boycott, head start program, racism, white supremacy, militancy, voter registration, Cordele Movement, unemployment, desegregation | The movement in southwest GA to improve conditions for black residents is thriving, due in part to community activism and that a large portion of blacks own their land, making the less economically effected by white supremacy efforts. |
| 144 | Southern Patriot | Peace Movement Battles HUAC | 1966-09-01 | 2 | Eastland, James O.; Kunstler, William M.; Kinay, Arthur; Vivian, C. T.; Weltner, Charles | free speech, civil rights movement, world peace, HUAC, Vietnam War, SCEF, ACLU | The ACLU filed suit against the HUAC saying it was unconstitutional for the committee to question people about their involvement in Vietnam War opposition. |
| 145 | Southern Patriot | Appeals Court Reverses Poret, | 1966-09-01 | 2 | Labat, Edgar; Poret, Clinton A.; Bell, Griffin B.; Smith, Benjamin E. | solitary confinement, death penalty, jury bias, 14th amendment, SCEF | The convictions of Labat and Poret were overturned because they did not receive a fair trial due to jury bias. |
| 146 | Southern Patriot | "Hurry Sundown" Reissued in Pa | 1966-09-01 | 2 | Gilden, K. B. | "Hurry Sundown", civil rights, WWII Veterans, race relations, farming mechanization | Review of "Hurry Sundown" a novel about a black and white WWII veteran that overcame adversity together. |
| 147 | Southern Patriot | Theater of the Ghetto | 1966-09-01 | 3 | Nicholas, Denise; Jones, Leroi; Moses, Gilbert | Free Southern Theater, Desire Project, arts, acting, civil rights, poverty | The Desire Project in New Orleans organized by the Free Southern Theater Project gives local African Americans a chance to see free theater discussing modern social issues such as poverty, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. |
| 148 | Southern Patriot | SCLC Replies to NVDA Critics | 1966-09-01 | 4 | Vivian, C. T.; Young, Andrew; DuBois, Rachale; Farris, Carl; Kennedy, Edward; King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. | SCLC, Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA), civil rights, nonviolent protest, poverty, Vietnam War | The SCLC replied to criticism over the nonviolent direct action movement explaining that it is the most radical approach to fight social problems. |
| 149 | Southern Patriot | Wansley Case Removed From Virg | 1966-10-01 | 1 | Wansley, Thomas; Jester, Rayston III; Hirschkop, Phillip; Kunstler, William | rape, contempt, fair trial, death penalty, federal authority | The four year case of Thomas Wansley for rape was temporarily removed from a Virginia Court so he could receive a fair trial. |
| 150 | Southern Patriot | Slums Cause Outbreak | 1966-10-01 | 1, 4 | Moody, Edward; Allen, Ivan; Prather, Harold; Castleberry, J. C.; Carmichael, Stokely; McGill, Ralph; Patterson, Eugene; Black, Hector; Harding, Vincent; Bond, Julian | poverty, violence, SNCC, ghetto, slum, race relations, city maintenance, unemployment, police shooting, riot, arrest, protest, free speech | Riots in the Atlanta slums occurred over the police shooting of Harold Prather for supposed car theft. SNCC got involved and was accused of causing the violence. |
| 151 | Southern Patriot | Protests Halt Strip Mining | 1966-10-01 | 1, 2 | strip mining, environmental, issues, water pollution, unemployment, petition, disability, Appalachian, protest | The residents of Hemp Hill, KY were able to stop strip mining from entering their community through petitions due to fear of damage to the water supply | |
| 152 | Southern Patriot | 2,400 May Be Jobless: Head Sta | 1966-10-01 | 2 | Meredith, Roxy; Colmer, William, Stennis, John; Johnson, Paul; Guyot, Lawrence | head start, Child Development Group of Mississippi, Office of Economic Opportunity, poverty, federal funding, Mississippi Action Program, Freedom Democratic Party | Issues over where federal funding will come from in order to keep the head start program afloat in Mississippi. |
| 153 | Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Collection | 1966-10-01 | 2 | Gilmore, Russell | civil rights collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, abolitionists' papers | The State Historical Society in Wisconsin is continuing the Civil Rights Collecting project began in 1964 to amass documents such as letters, diaries, and pamphlets. |
| 154 | Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Collection | 1966-10-01 | 2 | Gilmore, Russell | civil rights collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, abolitionists' papers | The State Historical Society in Wisconsin is continuing the Civil Rights Collecting project began in 1964 to amass documents such as letters, diaries, and pamphlets. |
| 155 | Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Collection | 1966-10-01 | 2 | Gilmore, Russell | civil rights collection, Wisconsin Historical Society, abolitionists' papers | The State Historical Society in Wisconsin is continuing the Civil Rights Collecting project began in 1964 to amass documents such as letters, diaries, and pamphlets. |
| 156 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes; History of Nonviol | 1966-10-01 | 2 | Lynd, Staughton | paficism, civil rights, nonviolence | Review of "Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History" by Staughton Lynd, a Yale Historian, about the history of nonviolence in America dating back to the Revolution. |
| 157 | Southern Patriot | The News in Brief | 1966-10-01 | 3 | Arnall, Ellis; Maddox, Lester; Johnson, Jim; Mahoney, George P.; Rarick, John R.; Morrison, James H.; Mansfield, Mike; Howe, Harold II; Coleman, Thomas L.; Morrisroe, Richard; Thomas, Eugene; Liuzzo, | Georgia election, democratic party, White Citizens Council, segregation, medical care | Political issues throughout the country. |
| 158 | Southern Patriot | Patriot Expands | 1966-11-01 | 1 | civil rights, poverty | The Southern Patriot explains it is expanding to help meet the need for better communication. | |
| 159 | Southern Patriot | Anatomy of a Black Panther: Wh | 1966-10-01 | 3 | Logan, Sidney, Jr.; Myles, Frank; Ross, Emory; Flowers, Richmond; Moore, Alice; Strickland, Willie Mae; Logan, Robert; Henson, John | black power, 1966 Civil Rights Bill, SNCC, Lowndes County Freedom Organization, poverty, race relations, white supremacy, community improvement, black panther | The people of Lowndes County, AL are exerting their black power and exacting change through running for political office and showing their ability to fight racism. |
| 160 | Southern Patriot | Rights Leaders Distrust "Riot" | 1966-11-01 | 1 | Tuck, William; Willis, Edwin; Pool, Joe; Ashbrook, John; Waggonner, Joe; Watson, Albert | HUAC, subversive elements, civil rights, communism, SLCL, CORE, SNCC, SCEF, poverty, slums | HUAC announced that it wanted to investigate subversive elements in cities across America. Many civil rights groups feel they are being targeted by the committee for communism. |
| 161 | Southern Patriot | Free After 58 days: 12 Jailed | 1966-11-01 | 1, 6 | Moore, Howard; Williams, Dwight; Wilson, Johnney; Little, T. C.; Allen, Ivan | black imprisonment, draft protest, riot, racism, sit-ins, police violence, Vietnam War, civil rights, segregation, SNCC, Atlanta project | A group of 12 black men were imprisoned for 58 days for protesting draft into the Vietnam War. |
| 162 | Southern Patriot | Racists Renw Attempts to Destr | 1966-11-01 | 1, 7 | Carmichael, Stokely; Horton, Myles; McNeil, Scott; Walker, Cas; Bryant, Baxton | Highlander Folk School, KKK, Highlander Center, civil rights, black power, fire bombing ACLU | The Klan and other segregationist groups are trying to end the Highlander Center through fire bombings and challenging their legal right to exist. |
| 163 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review | 1966-11-01 | 2 | Eastland; Stennis; Clayton, Claude F. | OEO, Federal Funding, Child Development Group of Mississippi, voter rights, Freedom Democratic Party | The OEO will not continue to fund the head start program in Mississippi. The federal court of Appeals order new municipal elections after voiding the 1965 ones, which blacks were not allowed to vote in. |
| 164 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: A Voice From Dixie | 1966-11-01 | Beecher, John | "In Egypt Land", sharecropping, black power | Poem "In Egypt Land" by John Beecher published in _To Live and Die in Dixie_. | |
| 165 | Southern Patriot | A Movement "Shopper's Guide" | 1966-11-01 | 2 | Jordan, Clarence | Koinonia Farm, Farming Co-Op, civil rights, unemployment, Freedom Quilting Bee, eviction, voter registration | Explains where goods can be purchased to support cooperative farming and civil rights communities. |
| 166 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Board Looks at "Black Pow | 1966-11-01 | 3 | Shuttlesworht, Fred L.; Smith, Lillian | black power, SCEF, integration, unity, SNCC, CORE, militancy, HUAC | The SCEF at it's semi-annual meeting discussed the issue of black power and unity with civil rights organizations. It also condemned HUAC and paid tribute to the late author Lillian Smith. |
| 167 | Southern Patriot | Bardstown Passes Fair Housing | 1966-11-01 | 3 | fair housing legislation, SCEF, discrimination, civil rights | The Small town Bardstown, KY became the first community to pass fair housing legislation in the South. | |
| 168 | Southern Patriot | Six New Members Join SCEF Boar | 1966-11-01 | 3 | Edwards, George; Foote, Elizabeth; Price, Georgia; Rigg, Margaret; Smith, Corinne Freeman; Peebles, Jack; Campbell, Clarice; Lowenthal, Rosalyn | SCEF | Six new board members were added to SCEF in October. |
| 169 | Southern Patriot | Seven Northern Leaders Study M | 1966-11-01 | 3 | King, Martin Luther, Jr. | civil rights movement, racial justice, SNCC, CORE, black power | Leaders in the Northern Civil Rights movement face a crises over the new black power and it separation of the cause. |
| 170 | Southern Patriot | Attack Weakens Us All | 1966-11-01 | 3 | Carmichael, Stokely | SNCC, CORE, militancy, civil rights movement, SCEF | SCEF adopted a resolution expressing outrage on the attacks of militant civil rights organizations. |
| 171 | Southern Patriot | "The Issue is White Supremacy" | 1966-11-01 | 3 | black power; prejudice; white supremacy; Niagara Movement; NAACP; SCEF; integration; interracial action; violence; civil rights; free speech | Explains the issue is not black power but white supremacy. | |
| 172 | Southern Patriot | Delta Journa: "Can't Hardly Ge | 1966-11-01 | 4 | Franklin, Jessie; Turner, Lee; Walker, Jimmy; Walker, Prentiss; Collins, JD; McSwine, BT; Molman, James; Carmichael, Stokely; King, Martin Luther, Jr. | unemployment; poverty; head start; Freedom Democratic Party; police violence; civil rights; low wages | Explains life in the Mississippi Delta, with issues of unemployment, low wages, and civil rights. |
| 173 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Bond Answe | 1966-11-01 | 6 | Bond, Julian; Carmichael, Stokely | SNCC, civil rights, peace, Vietnam War | Julian Bond explains to critics why he let the SNCC. |
| 174 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: A Question | 1966-11-01 | 6 | Maddox, Lester | Ku Klux Klan; civil rights; poverty; politics | Brady explains the Klan saying is not based on race but economics and politics. |
| 175 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Order | 1966-11-01 | 6 | Maddox, Lester | riots; violence | Paschall (author) describes the incidents in Atlanta after the election of Maddox as governor of Georgia. |
| 176 | Southern Patriot | A Southern Profile: Mississipp | 1966-11-01 | 7 | Guyot, Lawrence; Moses, Bob; Green, Dewey, Jr.; Zinn, Howard; Humphrey, Hubert; Ryan, William Fritz | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; bus boycott; SNCC; KKK; integration; poverty; Hattiesburg Project; voter registration; segregation; Sunflower County | Biography of Lester Guyot, civil rights leader in Mississippi who is chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. |
| 177 | Southern Patriot | "A Long Road Still Ahead" | 1966-11-01 | 8 | Shulltesworth, Fred L.; Vivian, C. T.; King, Martin Luther, Jr. | freedom movement; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; voter registration; poverty; unemployment; SCLC; slums | The tenth anniversary of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights was marked by its accomplishments and what was still left to be achieved to improve the quality of life in Alabama. |
| 178 | Southern Patriot | Tempers Flare in Tallulah on J | 1966-11-01 | 8 | Wyche, Zelma; Sobel, Richard; Dawkins, Ben | Tallulah Civic and Voter's League; prison march; CORE; Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee; integration; lunch counter; habeas corpus | Zelma Wyche was sentenced to ten years for supposedly assaulting a white doctor even though no one knew who shoved the man. The LCDC is appealing the decision. |
| 179 | Southern Patriot | Sarah Collins Needs Our Help | 1966-11-01 | 8 | Collins, Sarah; Collins, Addie | church bombing; poverty; blindness | Calls for readers to help send Sarah Collins to a special summer camp for the blind. Since she was injured in a church bombing 3 years prior in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 180 | Southern Patriot | More "People Power" Strengthen | 1966-11-01 | 8, 2 | Reynolds, Issac; Perez, Leander | CORE; Vietnam War; black power; school desegregation; civil rights; co-op; employment; police brutality | CORE is remaining strong in Louisiana and continues to fight for community improvement. However, there has been a shift to almost all black organizers, with only one white person remaining. |
| 181 | Southern Patriot | Lowndes Party Girds for Future | 1966-12-01 | 1, 8 | Jones, Andrew; Carmichael, Stokely; Strickland, Willie Mae; Moore, Alice; Logan, Sidney, Jr.; Ross, Emory; Myles, Frank; Logan, Robert; Henson, John; Cox, Courtland; Coleman, Tom | Lowndes County Freedom Organization; SNCC; Black Belt; white economy; unemployment; intimidation; politics; election; black power; Black Panthers | Election in Lowndes County, Alabama received an effort by the Lowndes County Freedom Party to wrest power from the white ruling class. However, due to their economic control the white candidates were re-elected. |
| 182 | Southern Patriot | Klan Steps Up Activity | 1966-12-01 | 1, 6 | Sensabough, Amos; Alexander, Fred; Alexander, Kelly; Chambers, Julius; Hawkins, R. A.; Jones, J. Robert | bombing; NAACP; murder; beating; cross burning; Ku Klux Klan; sit-in; SCEF; civil rights; John Birch Society; Citizens Council | The Klan is experiencing a resurgence as they increase the number of violent acts across the South. Also, their membership now mainly consists of poorer whites. |
| 183 | Southern Patriot | Bearded Driver Integrates Cabs | 1966-12-01 | 2 | Frasier, Jack; Peebles, Jack | civil rights; integration; SCEF; vandalism | A cab driver in New Orleans was hired at the black cab company, Night Hawk Company, because white companies wouldn't hire him due to his facial hair. |
| 184 | Southern Patriot | King Assials Viet Spending | 1966-12-01 | 2 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Lapp, Dr. Ralph; Sumrall, John O.; Carmichael, Stokely; Bond, Julian; Motley, Earl; Wynche, Andrew | Vietnam War; poverty; civil rights; military drafts; riot; SNCC | King criticized the amount of money spent on the Vietnam War. Lawyers in Jackson, Mississippi charged the draft board of targeting civil rights workers. Carmichael charged with inciting a riot in Selma. Andrew Wynche was released on bond in Louisiana afte |
| 185 | Southern Patriot | The Black Man's Power | 1966-12-01 | 2 | Killens, John Oliver | racism; black psyche; nonviolence; self-defense | Review of _The Black Man's Burden_ by John Oliver Killens. |
| 186 | Southern Patriot | Black Strength Growing | 1966-12-01 | 3 | Amerson, Lucius; Rockefeller, Winthrop; Johnson, James; McNair, Robert E.; Hollings, Ernest F.; Galuponikus (Galifianakis?), Nick; Wallace, George | racism, bigotry, black voters, Voter Education Project; election, politics, black leaders | Many blacks across the south gained power in November elections as the walls of racism are being broken down and blacks gain more voting strength. |
| 187 | Southern Patriot | High Court Will Hear Case Agai | 1966-12-01 | 3 | Eastland, James O.; Sarwine, J. G.; Pfister, James | immunity; SCEF; civil rights; Senate Internal Security Subcommittee; raids | The US Supreme Court will decide whether Senator Eastland is protected by congressional immunity from the suit filed by SCEF claiming he led raids on their headquarters. |
| 188 | Southern Patriot | The Mississippi Results | 1966-12-01 | 3 | Williams, Robert; Collins, Rev. J. D.; Kellum, Bill; McLawrin, Charles; Walker, Prentiss | run-off elections; elections; politics; embezzlement; poverty; SNCC; Freedom Democratic Party | Twelve blacks ran for election in Mississippi and one gained office. Another went to a run-off election. |
| 189 | Southern Patriot | Storm Damages Freedom City | 1966-12-01 | 4 | McKenna, Rev. Warren; Thomas, Art; Bradford, John; Lawrence, Ida | Poor Peoples Conference; poverty; eviction; Freedom City; Office of Economic Opportunity; migrant workers; storm damage | Freedom City, the community founded by poor blacks evicted by the US Air Force, was damaged by storms on November 10th. Twenty-one of the housing units were damaged or destroyed. |
| 190 | Southern Patriot | Pikeville Magistrates Fight Ta | 1966-12-01 | 4 | Justice, Taylor; Bentley, Foster; Newsome, Darwin; Prater, Burbage; Auxier, Jean | tax inequality; budget; equal school systems; tax increase | In Pikeville Kentucky four republican magistrates were jailed because the proposed taxes were unequal and the new school budgets were declared illegal. |
| 191 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: School Des | 1966-12-01 | 6 | desegregation; school beatings; abuse; federal funding | In Baker County Georgia federal funding is being withheld due to the beatings of black students, one of whom had to be hospitalized for two weeks. | |
| 192 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Maddox | 1966-12-01 | 6 | Maddox, Lester; Watson, Tom | election; racism; poverty; populist movement; unity | The election of Lester Maddox as governor of Georgia is viewed as keeping the poor white and black populations separate. |
| 193 | Southern Patriot | An End to HUAC | 1966-12-01 | 6 | Stone, I. F. | SCEF; HUAC; opposition | A documentary "Plain and Fancy Lying by HUAC Members in the Debate on the Chicago Cases" by I.F. Stone addresses the problems in the House Un-American Activities Committee. |
| 194 | Southern Patriot | A Reader Asks: "Where Do You S | 1966-12-01 | 7 | Carmichael, Stokely; Meredith, James | SNCC; SCEF; militancy; protest; black power; riot; integration | Reader questions the _Southern Patriot_ on its position about its coverage of SNCC and its shift toward militancy. |
| 195 | Southern Patriot | Our Editor Replies: "On the Si | 1966-12-01 | 7 | McCrackin, Maurice | SNCC; media; black power; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Vietnam War; militancy; civil rights | The editor establishes the _Southern Patriot_'s position on SNCC and attributes the change in media coverage of the group. |
| 196 | Southern Patriot | White Students Begin to Speak | 1966-12-01 | 8 | Edmundson, Bill; Bailey, Bob; King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Beecher, John | Students for a Democratic Society; racism; John Birch Society; politics; election; civil rights | White students in Birmingham, Alabama are beginning to speak out against the racism in local and collegiate systems. |
| 197 | Southern Patriot | Bar Lawyers From Court | 1967-01-01 | 1 | Jelinek, Don; Foreman, James; Carmichael, Stokely; Sobol, Richard; Hirschkop, Philip; Kunstler, William; Perry, Marshall; Bergesen, B. E. | Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee; civil rights; lawyer; freedom rides; sit-ins; SNCC | Southern segregationists are now harassing civil rights lawyers by having them barred from the courtroom. |
| 198 | Southern Patriot | Spirit of 63 Lingers in Danvil | 1967-01-01 | 1 | Aiken, A. M.; Donaldson, Ivanhoe; Zellner, Bob; Foss, Daniel | protest; incarceration; civil rights; trial; contempt of court; appeal | A new local judge is avenging the 1963 decision to remove civil rights cases to federal court by now giving out steep sentences and fines. |
| 199 | Southern Patriot | Rape and the Death Penalty: A | 1967-01-01 | 1, 8 | Chatman, Jerry; Simon, Tobias; Cash, W. J.; McGee, Willie; Wansley, Thomas; Giles, John; Giles, James; Johnson, Joseph; Howard, Joseph C.; Maxwell, William | lynching; death penalty; rape; discrimination; Ku Klux Klan; interracial sex; NAACP; double standard; Legal Defense Fund | Surveys the proportion of death penalties given out to black men convicted of rape of white women in the state of Florida. |
| 200 | Southern Patriot | The 90th Congress | 1967-01-01 | 2 | Powell, Adam Clayton; Vivian, C. T.; Maddox, Lester; Callaway, Howard (Bo); Clay, Cassius | civil rights; HUAC; ghetto; SCEF; election; desegregation | The 90th congress refused to seat New York Democrat Adam Clayton Powell or discuss abolishing HUAC. Lester Maddox was elected governor of Georgia. Standards for school desegregation in New Orleans were established. |
| 201 | Southern Patriot | Workers Reject Race-Baiting | 1967-01-01 | 2 | Communism; labor; union; race baiting; Ku Klux Klan; Citizens Council; Vietnam War; unity | People in Mississippi and Tennessee are no longer being deterred by race baiting and the fear of communism to prevent union representation in the South. | |
| 202 | Southern Patriot | Sunflower Elections Set | 1967-01-01 | 2 | Eastland, James O.; Nystrom, Sandra | election; black voting; segregation | Special elections will be held in Sunflower County, Mississippi to have a fair vote because blacks were essentially barred from the previous one. |
| 203 | Southern Patriot | Summer of Hope in Retrospect | 1967-01-01 | 2 | Sugarman, Tracy | Mississippi Summer Project | Review of Tracy Sugarman's _Stranger at the Gates_ about her experience with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. |
| 204 | Southern Patriot | Not Violence, but Politcal Act | 1967-01-01 | 3 | McCrackin, Maurice; Carmichael, Stokely | SNCC; SCEF; black-white relations; militancy; violence; civil disobedience; pacifism; CORE; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Lowndes County Freedom Party; civil rights | The editor explains the direction of SNCC and the civil rights movement not as violent protest by as a way of self-defense. |
| 205 | Southern Patriot | Georgia: The Bond Victory - De | 1967-01-01 | 4 | Bond, Julian; Maddox, Lester; Arnall; Ellis | election; SNCC; campaign; NAACP; write-in campaign; segregation; poverty; ACLU; John Birch Society | Julian Bond won his right to sit in the state legislature, but this was overshadowed by the dispute over the governorship. |
| 206 | Southern Patriot | Louisiana: Greatest Battles St | 1967-01-01 | 4 | civil rights movement; school integration; poverty; voter rights; CORE; slum; desegregation | The civil rights movement in Louisiana is facing many issues including poverty, lack of proper schooling and housing and lack of black voter influence. | |
| 207 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi: Casualty of the G | 1967-01-01 | 5 | Johnson, Lyndon | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Child Development Group of Mississippi; civil rights; head start program; federal funding; poverty; unemployment; ghetto; voter registration | Mississippi is struggling due to lack of government funding and aid, and the overall poverty most residents suffer on a regular basis. |
| 208 | Southern Patriot | Alabama: The More Things Chang | 1967-01-01 | 5 | Amerson, Lucius; Clark, Jim; Wallace, George; Thomas, Eugene; Liuzzo, Viola; Coleman, Thomas; Daniels, Jonathan; Younge, Sammy | politics; 1965 Voting Rights Act; black vote; voter registration; school integration; segregation; Ku Klux Klan; racial murder; poverty; militancy | As change occurs in Alabama to help improve the lives of poor blacks, workers face more resistance from segregationists. |
| 209 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Confusing | 1967-01-01 | 6 | John Birch Society; SNCC; civil rights | Reader points out a mistake in the December 1966 edition. | |
| 210 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: A Last Cha | 1967-01-01 | 6 | SNCC; civil rights | A reader expresses excitement over the civil rights movement. | |
| 211 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Another Vi | 1967-01-01 | 6 | black power; peace | Norman Kilpatrick, reader, expresses his dislike of the paper's view of the black power movement, and asks to be removed from the mailing list. | |
| 212 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Will Go To | 1967-01-01 | 6 | Collins, Sarah | blindness; camp | Anita Stein, reader, expresses happiness in the appeal for funds to send Sarah Collins, blinded in a church bombing, to a camp for the blind. |
| 213 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Basic Diff | 1967-01-01 | 6 | McCrackin, Maurice; Carmichael, Stokely; East, P. D. | pacifism; militancy; Vietnam War | Bob Childers, reader, asks the _Southern Patriot_ to establish its differences with McCrackin in its previous dialogue with him. |
| 214 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Guns, But | 1967-01-01 | 6 | Johnson, Lyndon B. | poverty; Vietnam War; federal spending | Charles Atkinson, reader, expresses displeasure with the amount of federal spending on the Vietnam War versus the amount spent on helping the poor and homeless. |
| 215 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Expands New York Office | 1967-01-01 | 6 | Melish, Rev. William Howard; Rosenblum, Sandra; Hanisch, Card; Baker, Ella J. | SCEF; Vietnam War; House Un-American Activities Committee; SNCC; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | The New York office of the SCEF is expanding in order to allow workers to focus more on the Vietnam War. |
| 216 | Southern Patriot | Anti-HUAC Project | 1967-01-01 | 8 | Bloomfield, Barbara; Lewis, John; Vivian, C. T.; Walker, Wyatt T.; Braden, Carl; O'Connor, Harvey | SCEF, House Un-American Activities Committee; civil rights movement | A southern office of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee is being sponsored by SCEF and the National office. |
| 217 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Suit Attacks Draft | 1967-01-01 | 8 | Sumrall, John Ottis; Jolliff, James; Johnson, Paul | military draft; militancy; bias; racism; NAACP; Vietnam War | A twenty-year-old black Mississippian is bringing suit saying that the draft board shows bias towards drafting civil rights workers to curb the movement. |
| 218 | Southern Patriot | Southern Activists Fight HUAC | 1967-01-01 | 8, 6 | McCormack, John M.; Abernathy, Ralph; Bond, Julian; Guyot, Lawrence, Jr.; Horton, Myles; King, Reverend Martin Luther, Jr.; McKissick, Floyd B.; Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Vivian, C. T.; Walker, Wyatt Te | HUAC; civil rights; petition; ghetto; communisim | A petition, signed by 250 civil rights activists, asked congress to stop HUAC from investigating civil rights activities. |
| 219 | Southern Patriot | Virginia Racist Reveals How H | 1967-02-01 | 1 | Glass, Carter, III; Kunstler, William; Tuck, William; Wansley, Thomas; Cundiff, O. Raymond | House Un-American Activities Committee; civil rights; communism; corruption | A Virginia newspaper correspondent was forced to admit that he received files on William Kunstler directly from the HUAC which were used to link the lawyer to communism. |
| 220 | Southern Patriot | Black-White Union Keeps School | 1967-02-01 | 1, 8 | Christenberry, Herbert W.; Perez, Leander H.; McKeithen, John J.; Gibson, Eloise; Rhodes, Buddy; Parker, John H.; Oliver, Clem; Hay, George | segregation; school integration; picket line; white involvement; 14th Amendment; 1964 Civil Rights Act; private school; federal funding; PTA | In Louisiana, parents fought to integrate schools. It was unique here because of the large number of white parents included. |
| 221 | Southern Patriot | Legislative Attack Looms | 1967-02-01 | 1, 6 | Lane, Cas; Rutter, J. R.; Walker, Cas; Roger, Leonard | Highlander Folk School; vandalism; closure; SCEF; attack; Ku Klux Klan; fire; investigation | The Highlander Folk School in Tennessee is now facing attack from the state legislature, which is seeking a legal way to close the school. |
| 222 | Southern Patriot | CDGM Receives New Grant | 1967-02-01 | 2 | Cox, W. Hardd; Dahmer, Vernon; Prather, Harold; Carmichael, Stokely | Child Development Group; Office of Opportunity; federal funding; civil rights; firebomb; voter rights; SCEF; raids; ghetto; police shooting; riot; SNCC; Puerto Rico | Overview of news and events of the previous month. |
| 223 | Southern Patriot | Eastern SCEF Friends to Presen | 1967-02-01 | 2 | Bond, Julian; Grey, Victoria; West, Don | SCEF, MFDP | Julian Bond will be the main speaker at a dinner by the New York Area Friends of the SCEF. |
| 224 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: A Play for the Dis | 1967-02-01 | 2 | Hansberry, Lorraine; Nemiroff, Robert | civil rights | Review of Lorraine Hansberry's play "The Sign in Sidney Brunstein's Window." |
| 225 | Southern Patriot | Only in AmericusL Integration | 1967-02-01 | 2 | Wittkamper, David; Jordan, Len; Henry, Linda | school integration, koinonia farm | Two white boys from Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia decided to attend the black school thus integrating in reverse. |
| 226 | Southern Patriot | Where Farmers Build Economic P | 1967-02-01 | 3 | Landry, Robert | co-op farming; employment; education; Office of Economic Opportunity; federal funding; share-cropping | The Grand Marie Vegetable Cooperative has helped poor farmers in Louisiana cut out the middle man and make more profits from their crops. |
| 227 | Southern Patriot | Abuses in Southern Prisons: Pr | 1967-02-01 | 3 | Rockefeller, Winthrop; Faubus, Orval; McCoy, Kirby | abuse; state prison; sit down strike; solitary confinement; malnutrition; boycott; ACLU; child imprisonment; starvation; federal funding | Highlights the problems and abuses in southern prisons due to lack of funding and abusive guards. |
| 228 | Southern Patriot | Demonstrations in New Orleans. | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Collins, Virginia | protest; South Africa; exports; black labor; SCEF | Protests in New Orleans for trade with South Africa. |
| 229 | Southern Patriot | New Rape Verdicts Stir Public | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Elliott, Charles W.; Huddleston, Byhilia; Hanby, Roscoe; Bradley, Harold | rape; justice; racism' bias; death penalty; petition; pardon; protest | In Tennessee and Virginia, protesters are petitioning for the release of black men sentenced to death row for the rape of white women in spite of no evidence of a crime. |
| 230 | Southern Patriot | Maxwell Wins Appeal | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Maxwell, William | appeal; rape; death penalty; bias; double standard; NAACP | William Maxwell won an appeal to his death sentence for a conviction of the rape of a white woman. |
| 231 | Southern Patriot | ...And in Charleston, W.VA. | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Vietnam War; peace | A vigil was held in Charleston, West Virginia for peace in Vietnam. | |
| 232 | Southern Patriot | Nashville's Police Face Invest | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Hall, Ramsey; Jackson, Joseph W.; Kemp, Hubert O.; Shriver, Thomas; Merrit, Gilbert | police shooting; civil rights; protest; petition; racism; violence; vendetta; student protest; SSOC | People in Nashville, Tennessee are protesting the police shooting of a young, white, Vanderbilt student. |
| 233 | Southern Patriot | Maryland'd Dual Justice | 1967-02-01 | 4 | Howard, Joseph C. | double standard; justice; racism; rape | A black assistant to the attorney general of Maryland spoke out against the double standard of justice for black men accused of rape of white women. |
| 234 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: On Honesty | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Saunders, William; Jenkins, James | civil rights; Vietnam War; racism; equality | Two black readers, William Saunders and James Jenkins, call for the end of black involvement in the Vietnam War and better conditions in black communities. |
| 235 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Asks Help | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Newbell, Louise | Appalachia; head start program; clothing | Reader asks for help in donating clothes to needy children in the Appalachians. |
| 236 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: In Praise | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Debs, Eugene Victor | military draft; Vietnam War; SCEF; dissent | Reader commends the SCEF for fighting against the Vietnam War. |
| 237 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Clears The | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Carmichael, Stokely | nonviolence; black power | Reader, F. W. Stover, commends the _Southern Patriot_ for their January article about nonviolence and black power. |
| 238 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Nothing to | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Carmichael, Stokely; Katz, Aaron | SNCC; unity; black Muslims; civil rights; vilence | A reader, Aaron Katz, complains that the _Southern Patriot_ did not criticize the SNCC or Stokely Carmichael for not encouraging black-white unity. |
| 239 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Wrong | 1967-02-01 | 6 | Alloy, Evelyn | black power, nonviolence | The reader, Evelyn Alloy, congratulates the _Southern Patriot_ on its second analysis of black power. |
| 240 | Southern Patriot | Anit-HUAC Petition | 1967-02-01 | 6 | McCormack, John | HUAC; ghetto; protest | Names from the petition to stop the HUAC investigation of ghetto uprisings that were not listed in the January issue of the _Southern Patriot_ |
| 241 | Southern Patriot | Nonviolent Revolution: An Idea | 1967-02-01 | 7 | Parks, Rosa; Lawson, James; McCrackin, Maurice | freedom movement; violence; civil rights; SNCC; Nonviolent Direct Action; human rights; boycott; imprisonment; poverty | Third in an editorial series explaining the issue of nonviolence within the freedom movement. |
| 242 | Southern Patriot | Many Challenge War, Draft | 1967-02-01 | 8 | DuVernay, Raymond; Smith, Ben; Schutz, Simuel; Sumrall, John; Levy, Howard; Gardiner, Tom; Flower, Marion Charles; Camus, Albert; Brysky, Clemens G.; Simmons, Mike | protest; draft; Vietnam War; NAACP; prison; SNCC; civil rights; voter registration; draft resistance; pacifism | Many blacks are challenging the draft into the Vietnam War based on the fact that they do not agree with war itself or do not want to fight a "white man's war." |
| 243 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Hopes Center in Su | 1967-03-01 | 1, 8 | Clayton, Claude F.; Kunstler, William; Kinay, Arthur; Stavis, Marton; Eastland, James O.; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Harris, Joel; Brooks, Lela Mae | freedom movement; Sunflower city; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP); voter exclusion; poverty; racism; SNCC; donations | The Sunflower Community in Mississippi is trying to improve the living conditions of black residents through local election, but the will need outside help to counteract economic threats by white creditors. |
| 244 | Southern Patriot | Lonely Struggle in Appalachia | 1967-03-01 | 1, 8 | Davis, Darlene; Jones, Jo | union; unemployment; International Ladies Government Workers Union; poverty; tax incentives; strike; Levi Strauss and Company; worker conditions; work regulation; picket line; anti-unionism | The female workers are on strike at the Levi Strauss and Company factory in the North Georgia Mountains due to the company's efforts to break their union. The women were fighting for better working conditions and equal treatment. |
| 245 | Southern Patriot | A Conspiracy to Destroy SNCC? | 1967-03-01 | 2 | Carmichael, Stokely | SNCC; court directed destruction; ghetto protest; draft protest; indictment; fines; high bail | SNCC leaders have been jailed in connection with Atlanta protests about black ghettos and the arrest of Stokely Carmichael in Selma, Alabama could bring an end to SNCC due to high fines and lack of bail bondsmen willing to set the bail. |
| 246 | Southern Patriot | Students and Black Campuses | 1967-03-01 | 2 | Cobb, Charlie; Cox, Cortland; Bevel, Diane | student activism; SNCC; radicalization; draft; civil rights | Black students across the south are trying to get their campuses to become more involved with the civil rights movement and encourage the radicalization of students. |
| 247 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: LUAC Prob | 1967-03-01 | 2 | Jackson, Wharlest; Evers, Charles; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Giles, John; Giles, James; Jelinek, Don | communist investigation; poverty programs; rape; bombing; Vietnam War; appeals court; school integration | Louisiana Joint Committee on Un-American Activities investigates communism in state poverty programs. Black man killed in truck bombing in Natchez, Mississippi. The Maryland Court of Appeals was ordered to re-examine the convictions of James and John Gile |
| 248 | Southern Patriot | Unemployed Fathers Fight Welfa | 1967-03-01 | 3 | Perkins, Carl D.; Bethell, Tom | Welfare; federal cutbacks; eastern Kentucky mountains; poverty; Happy Pappy Program; starvation; United Appalachian Communities | The men of the eastern Kentucky mountains face no income if the Happy Pappy Program, which is often their only source of income, is cut due to a lack of federal funding. |
| 249 | Southern Patriot | White People Seek Out Movement | 1967-03-01 | 3 | Taxler, Ike; Davis, Frank; Hines, Hazel; Lawson, Dorice; Lawson, Woodrow; Allison, Preston | Log Loader; poverty; uneducated; white poor; head start program; Freedom Democratic Party; militancy; welfare programs | The white poor of Mississippi are seeking out help from the civil rights movement run by black workers. |
| 250 | Southern Patriot | Whites Oppose Danville Trials | 1967-03-01 | 4 | Aileen, Archibald M.; Carter, John W.; Taylor, Leigh | violence; peaceful protest; nonviolence; court decision; Danville Trials | The 1963 Danville, Virginia court trials, which were the center around the attack of black peaceful protesters, show the white moderates in the area have not learned from recent civil rights events. |
| 251 | Southern Patriot | A New Approach to the White So | 1967-03-01 | 4 | Thrasher, Sue; Wells, Lyn; Webb, Lee; True, Jim | civil rights; white organizing, poor white southerners; poverty; Southern Mountain Project; racial alliance; black-white issue; SSOC; SNCC; SDS | The white community is seeking a new way to be involved with the civil rights movement and address the black-white issue between civil rights workers. |
| 252 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: "Inhuman a | 1967-03-01 | 6 | Braden, Anne | nonviolent revolution; civil rights movement | Reader, Juanita Nelson, basically agrees with Braden's February 1967 article, but calls for more use of nonviolence and more acceptance. |
| 253 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Appeal Fro | 1967-03-01 | 2 | Hamer, Fannie Lou | voter registration; Sunflower, Mississippi; car | Mrs. Frannie Hamer asks for a car to help her aid voter registration in Sunflower County, Mississippi. |
| 254 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Peace | 1967-03-01 | 6 | Bond, Julian; Carmichael, Stokely; McKissick, Floyd; Powell, Adam Clayton; Pepper, William F. | Vietnam War; poverty; welfare programs; cost of war; unemployment | Reader, Ben Levy, calls for peace in Vietnam not only because of the destruction, but also because of the great cost, and how that is affecting the impoverished throughout the country, especially those in the South. |
| 255 | Southern Patriot | Grenada Struggle Continues | 1967-03-01 | 6 | Johnson, Robert; Hudson, James; Jones, Versie L.; Carrol, Grady; Alexander, Robert; Gillon, U.S. | equal employment; economic boycott; SCLC; school integration; voter registration | Problems in Grenada, Mississippi still continue with school integration, equal unemployment, and voter registration. |
| 256 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: At The Hea | 1967-03-01 | 6 | Braden, Anne; McCrackin, Maurice; Weinberger, Eric | SNCC; economic position; black power; violence | Reader Tim Hall addresses Anne Braden's answer to Maurice McCrackin's letter, by explaining that he agrees with her viewpoint, and that Mr. McCrackin's opinion does not cover the whole scope of the issue. |
| 257 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: A Good Iss | 1967-03-01 | 6 | Haessler, Carl | December _Southern Patriot_; new Formal | Mr. Haessler, former managing editor of the _Federal Press_, commends the _Southern Patriot_ on their December edition. |
| 258 | Southern Patriot | "Stand Up Together Or Hang Sep | 1967-03-01 | 7 | Hamer, Fannie Lou; Kinoy, Arthur | segregationist election; HUAC; Vietnam War; ghettos; Sunflower, Mississippi | Arthur Kinoy calls for all Americans to support the efforts of black civil rights leaders because it is essential to improve the country as a whole. |
| 259 | Southern Patriot | Supreme Court Hearing Puts Eas | 1967-03-01 | 7 | Eastland, James O.; Kinoy, Arthur; Sarwine, J. G. | civil rights records; SCEF; HUAC; raids; First Amendment Violation; record removal; immunity | SCEF is suing Eastland for illegal raids on SCEF headquarters and then removing their records from the state. The issue, though, is whether is his immune because he is a US senator. |
| 260 | Southern Patriot | Florida Peace Tour | 1967-04-01 | 1, 2 | Gardiner, Tom; Nolan, David; Hodes, Nancy; Finchel, A. Richard | arrest; peace workers; SSOC; SCEF; free speech; Vietnam War; U.S. China Policy; Southern Campus Young Democrats; campus revolt | Three peace workers were arrested in Miami, Florida after trying to speak at Miami-Dade Junior College about free speech, the Vietnam War, and the U.S. China policy. |
| 261 | Southern Patriot | Jury Gives Wansley Life | 1967-04-01 | 1, 4 | Wansley, Thomas ; Carmichael, Stokely; Cundiff, O. Raymond; Hirschkop, Philip; Kunstler, William; Mangum, Charles; Read, Lee | rape; mistrial; death penalty; SCEF; SCLC; interracial rape; jury bias; racism | Thomas Wansley, originally sentenced to death for the rape if two white women, was given life in prison after another trial. |
| 262 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: All Schoo | 1967-04-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Powell, Adam Clayton; Bond, Julian; McKissick, Floyd: Jackson, Joseph W.; Hall, Thomas Windley | school integration; SCEF; US Court of Appeals; 1966 Voting Rights Law; third political party; church burning | Six southern states were ordered to integrate schools. Louisiana lost appeal to be exempted from the 1966 Voting Rights Law to help illiterates vote. Movement leaders announced plans to create "Third force" political party. Lowndes County churches burned. |
| 263 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: The People of John | 1967-04-01 | 2 | Carawan, Guy | Southern Freedom Movement; John's Island, South Carolina; Civil Rights and Liberties Handbook; law; poverty | Review of Guy Carawan's "Ain't You Got A Right To The Tree Of Life?" Encourages readers to purchase the Civil Rights and Liberties Hanbook. |
| 264 | Southern Patriot | LUAC Farce Opens in Layfayette | 1967-04-01 | 3, 6 | Rogers, Jack N.; Zippert, John; Knowles, Jesse, Senator; Montgomery, Harold, Senator; Angers, Bob; Moore, Danny Roy, Senator; Powell, Adam Clayton | House Un-American Activities Committee; Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee; communism; poverty; welfare programs; CORE | Hearings from Lafayette, Louisiana by the Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee investigating communism in local poverty programs. The proceedings are told as a play due to their unbelievable nature. |
| 265 | Southern Patriot | Youth Is Focus At SCEF Recepti | 1967-04-01 | 4 | Bond, Julian; Zellner, Bob; Grey, Victoria | SCEF; Southern Freedom Movement; Sunflower, Mississippi; Grass Roots Organizing Work | The SCEF reception in New York focused on youth involvement in the Southern Freedom Movement. |
| 266 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Death | 1967-04-01 | 6 | McCrackin, Maurice | Vietnam War; non-violence; SNCC; black power | Reader discusses shift in American youth since 1960, due to the Vietnam War, causing an end to the use of non-violence. |
| 267 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Open Lette | 1967-04-01 | 6 | Logan, Robert; Fries, David J. | Lowndes County Freedom Organization; racism; unemployment | Reader David J. Fries explains the story of Robert Logan, a black man fired from his job at Sears Roebuck for running for political office in Lowndes County, Alabama. |
| 268 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Mr. McCrac | 1967-04-01 | 6 | McCrackin, Maurice | SCEF; SNCC; integration; non-violence | Mr. Maurice McCrackin re-asks what is the SCEF's position on the SNCC's lack of use of non-violence and their position on integration. |
| 269 | Southern Patriot | On the Mason Dixon Line: Open | 1967-04-01 | 7 | integration; open housing; desegregation; racial violence | In Louisville, Kentucky an effort to create an open housing law has started a new campaign. | |
| 270 | Southern Patriot | "We Shall Overcome Our Hatred" | 1967-04-01 | 7 | Carmichael, Stokely; Lewis, John L.; Maddox, Lester | SNCC; black power; human rights; racial violence | John McCarthy, correspondent, calls white readers to overcome their prejudices in order to facilitate integration. |
| 271 | Southern Patriot | King: On Political and Economi | 1967-04-01 | 7 | King, Martin Luther, Junior | black power; civil rights movement; white backlash; protest | Excerpt fro, an interview with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. where he discusses oppression of the black community, and how to organize the black community to gain the most economic and political power. |
| 272 | Southern Patriot | "Sails of Black Folks": Views, | 1967-04-01 | 8 | Echols, Lonnie; Brown, Otis; Brooks, Lela Mae; Gibson, Elvin; King, Annie Mae | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Sunflower County, Mississippi; SNCC; poverty; taxes | Blacks in Sunflower, Mississippi participated in a primary for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which had not happened since Reconstruction. |
| 273 | Southern Patriot | Ten Negroes in 14 Months: Birm | 1967-04-01 | 8 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L. | Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; police killings; racial violence; protest | Civil rights leaders in Birmingham, AL fight to change the political system in city that allowed the police to kill ten black people in fourteen months with no investigations. |
| 274 | Southern Patriot | Lynchburg Rebels Agaisnt its N | 1967-05-01 | 1 | Wansley, Thomas; Glass, Carter, III; Kunstler, William | interracial rape; communism; criticism; protest | A student editor sparked new interest and anger over the verdict of the Thomas Wansley trial when she criticized local newspapers' coverage of the trial. |
| 275 | Southern Patriot | The Sunflower Election: Negroe | 1967-05-01 | 1, 8 | Stavis, Morton; Bronstein, Al; Wells, Lou; Harris, Joe; Guyot, Lawrence; Brooks, Lela Mae; Hamer, Fannie Lou | Sunflower County, Mississippi; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; discrimination; racism; white political power; unemployment | The black population of Sunflower County, Mississippi is becoming disillusioned with the political system when the white segregationists were returned to power in the local election. |
| 276 | Southern Patriot | Behind the Headlines: Police A | 1967-05-01 | 1, 4 | Carmichael, Stokely; Killens, John O.; Jenkins, Adrian | police violence; protest; picket line; poverty; slums; student protest; SNCC; violence; riot | Students in Nashville marched to protest the dilapidated conditions of the city slums and ghettos. This sparked action from the local police. |
| 277 | Southern Patriot | Wave of Terrorism in Lowndes | 1967-05-01 | 2 | Hammond, Harrell; Logan, Sidney; Logan, Robert; Smith, Charlie | Lowndes County Christian Movement; poverty program; church burning; Lowndes County Freedom Party | Church in Lowndes County, Alabama burned on March 13th, and then two weeks later, another church burned. |
| 278 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Board Backs King's War St | 1967-05-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Rose, Frank M. | Vietnam War; SCEF; SNCC | At their semi-annual meeting, the board of the Southern Christian Educational Fund (SCEF) voted to fully support Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s opposition to the Vietnam War. |
| 279 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: Black Cam | 1967-05-01 | 2 | Brown, Ben; Rose, Frank; Labat, Edgar; Poret, Clifton; Ali, Muhammed; Sumrall, John; Aiken, A. M.; Hirschkop, Philip; Carmichael, Stokely | black colleges; student protest; draft board; communism; rape; death-row; racial arrest; farm workers strike | News for the month of may. |
| 280 | Southern Patriot | Student Power: A Tale of Two C | 1967-05-01 | 3 | Jones, J. B.; Jones, Mack; Johnson, Lee Otis; Alexander, Franklin | SNCC; Texas Southern University; Southern University; boycott; student protest; DuBois Clubs;student power | Students at two southern black colleges erupted in protests over student power. |
| 281 | Southern Patriot | LUAC Probe (Part 2) | 1967-05-01 | 3 | Zippert, John; Hoover, J. Edgar | Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee; anti-poverty program; CORE; communism | The Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee released a report about the hearings held in southwest Louisiana. |
| 282 | Southern Patriot | Levy Court Martial Begins | 1967-05-01 | 3 | Levy, Howard; Morgan, Charles | Vietnam War; protest; court martial; ACLU; military freedom | Howard Levy, army doctor who spoke out against the Vietnam War, began his court martial on March 10th at Fort Jackson. |
| 283 | Southern Patriot | Second Chance for the South | 1967-05-01 | 4 | school segregation; local loopholes; school system; desegregation | A recent decision by the US Court of Appeals called for the immediate end to school segregation. This can be seen as a second chance for the South. | |
| 284 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Jackson Ja | 1967-05-01 | 6 | King, Annie Mae | prison; racial violence; police brutality | Poem about imprisonment in Jackson Mississippi Jail. |
| 285 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Open Housi | 1967-05-01 | 6 | Miller, Lola | Vietnam War; open housing; desegregation | Lola Miller, reader, expresses her disgust at the resistance from other whites to open integrated housing in Kentucky. |
| 286 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: She Says t | 1967-05-01 | 6 | Braden, Anne; Shields, Dorothy L. | black power; civil rights movement; NVDA | Reader Dorothy Shields feels the question of the _Southern Patriot's_ support of the black power movement has not been answered. |
| 287 | Southern Patriot | Reflections on the Great Socie | 1967-05-01 | 6 | Wright, Marian; Frazier, Jack | poverty; starvation; Appalachians | Reader Jack Frazier explains the problems with poverty and starvation in the South and in the Appalachian mountains. |
| 288 | Southern Patriot | One Year Later: The Effects of | 1967-05-01 | 7 | Braden, Anne | black power; SNCC; freedom movement; integration; black-white relationship; NAACP; SCLC | Editor Anne Braden analyzes the black power movement and how it has changed over a year. She focuses on the black-white relationship shift in civil rights groups. |
| 289 | Southern Patriot | Suffer the Little Children | 1967-05-01 | 7 | Francois, Bernard | school demonstration; police tactics; police dogs | the police in New Orleans demonstrated to school children the training of their German Shepherds and their bite strength while also saying the police were their friends. |
| 290 | Southern Patriot | Four Miners Face Prison | 1967-05-01 | 8 | Turner, Clayton; Gibson, Berman; Hensley, Bige; Stacey, Herb; Engle, Charles | United Mine Workers; union; picket line; imprisonment; unemployment; poverty; forced confession | Four miners in Hazard, Kentucky, who were convicted of conspiring to blow up a bridge through forced confessions, are facing prison time and their families are destitute due to lack of work. |
| 291 | Southern Patriot | The SCEF Suit: Supreme Court G | 1967-08-01 | 6 | Eastland, James; Sourwine, J. G.; Dombrowski, Jim; Stavis, Morton; Van Tassel, Harriet | SCEF; illegal raid; damage suit; "Operation Tip-Top"; subversive activity | The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the $250,000 damage suit against J.G. Sourwine for the 1963 Raid of SCEF headquarters in Louisiana. |
| 292 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Drift | 1967-08-01 | 6 | Stone, I. F. | civil rights; violence; police brutality; fascism; poverty; ghetto | Reader believes the violence and indifference toward the American black population shows a shift in the country toward a more fascist state. |
| 293 | Southern Patriot | How Injunctions Crush Peacful | 1967-08-01 | 7 | Walker, Wyatt Tee; Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; King, Martin Luther, Jr. | contempt conviction; free speech; violence; nonviolent direct action; Birmingham Movement; unconstitutional law; injunction | The Supreme Court upheld the contempt convictions from 1963 demonstrations in Birmingham, thus showing how state and city legal systems are breaking up peaceful protests across the South. |
| 294 | Southern Patriot | SWAFCA Creates Econimic Streng | 1967-08-01 | 1, 8 | Smitherman, Joe; Wallace, Lurlee; Mesher, Shirley; Johnson, Joe | South West Alabama Farmers Co-operative Association; Black belt; tenant farming; co-operative farming; federal grant; boycott; black voting power | The SWAFCA (South West Alabama Farmer's Co-operative Association) was awarded a federal grant to encourage black farmers to stay on their land in Alabama's "black belt", and help them make their farms more profitable. |
| 295 | Southern Patriot | Projects Strengthen Southern P | 1967-08-01 | 8 | Gardener, Tom | Vietnam Summer Project; SSOC; protest; draft information center; peace movement | The nationwide Vietnam Summer Projects brought large numbers of new people into the Southern Peace Movement, which will help throughout the rest of the year. |
| 296 | Southern Patriot | Texas Students Face Murder Cha | 1967-08-01 | 8 | Kuba, Louis | death penalty; Texas Southern University Students; police officer death; riot | 5 Texas Southern University students are charged with murder, with the district attorney seeking the death penalty, in the death of officer Louis Kuba. However, none of the students fired the bullet that killed him, but because of Texas law, those conside |
| 297 | Southern Patriot | Special Issue | 1967-09-01 | 1 | SCEF; charges against members; SCEF staff; sedition | The _Southern Patriot_ explains that this issue will focus on letting readers get to know the SCEF staff, and due to the cost if their sedition trial, the paper will be cut back to four pages. | |
| 298 | Southern Patriot | A community of Organizers and | 1967-09-01 | 1, 4 | Southern Freedom Movement; desegregation; voting rights; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens Council; Southern Mountain Project; Grass Roots Organizing Work; Southern Peace Education Project; Anti-HUAC Project | An overview of the current SCEF Southern Freedom Movement Projects. | |
| 299 | Southern Patriot | Expanded SCEF Program Scores M | 1967-09-01 | 1, 4 | Braden, Carl; Braden, Anne; McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Mullay, Joe; Ratliff, Thomas; Stephenson, James B.; Dreiser, Theodore; Ray, Jink; Holcomb, Robert; Eastburn, Harry | Sedition charges; SCEF staff; Appalachian volunteers; Pike County, Kentucky; constitutionality; communism; Independent Coal Operators Association; coal interest | Addresses the sedition charges against four SCEF staff members and what prompted the state if Kentucky to press them. |
| 300 | Southern Patriot | "Organizers...Should Spend a W | 1967-09-01 | 2 | solitary confinement; eavesdropping; rumors; poverty; riots | McSurely explains his expereience in jail, and how it helped him to understand his opponent in the state government. | |
| 301 | Southern Patriot | A program for the White South | 1967-09-01 | 2 | Grass Roots Organizing Work Project (GROW); poverty; black-white relationship; education | Bob and Dottie Zellner explain the purpose behind GROW. | |
| 302 | Southern Patriot | People's History | 1967-09-01 | 2 | Lewis, John L.; Cromwell, Suzanne | civil rights movement; black history; ignorance; Mountain Education Program; poverty | Suzanne Cromwell states that organizers need to learn black history, which is kept from them by the state and local powers, in order to successfully help people. |
| 303 | Southern Patriot | Reporting on the Movement | 1967-09-01 | 3 | Analauage, Robert | civil rights movement; voters registration; black power; violence; poor white community; ignorance | Robert Analauage explains how the freedom movement has changed over time, and his experiences with the changes in the black-white relationship. |
| 304 | Southern Patriot | The South Revisted | 1967-09-01 | 3 | SNCC; poverty; head start programs; Ku Klux Klan; strike; stereotype; civil rights workers | Zellner explains his experience in returning to Mississippi, and the shift in people to be more accepting of civil rights workers. | |
| 305 | Southern Patriot | Education in Struggle | 1967-09-01 | 3 | Carmichael, Stokely; Brown, H. Rap | ignorance; education; sit-ins; oppression; revolution; Southern Mountain Project | Calls on the SCEF to establish programs to better educate people about the movement and explain the struggle older workers face in order to gain equality. |
| 306 | Southern Patriot | Court Orders Sourwine to Pay S | 1967-11-01 | 1 | Sourwine, Julien G. | Eastland Committee; raids | The Supreme Court ruled that Sourwine had to pay SCEF $777 in court costs relating to the 1963 raid of their New Orleans, Louisiana offices. |
| 307 | Southern Patriot | Poole Rides Again - Dallas Lef | 1967-11-01 | 1 | Poole, Joe; Baker, Doug; Foley, Bob | Students for a Democratic Society; House Un-American Activities Committee; Dallas Draft Information Center; notes from underground; poverty; Vietnam War | Joe Poole and HUAC have launched an attack against several local radical groups including the Students for a Democratic Society and the Dallas Draft Information Center. |
| 308 | Southern Patriot | Witch Hunters Swarm in the Sou | 1967-11-01 | 1, 7 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, Joe; Ratliff, Thomas; Carmichael, Stokely; Kunslter, William M.; Kinoy, Arthur; Stavis, Morton; Combs, Dan Jack; Willis, Edwin | freedom movement; poverty program; McClellan Committee; Freedom Democratic Party; SNCC; SCEF; SSOC; Appalachian volunteers; communism; black-white organizing; militancy; federal funding | Three congressional committees have begun investigations of the freedom movement and the poverty program, which can be seen as an attack on the organizers. |
| 309 | Southern Patriot | The Mississippi Trial | 1967-11-01 | 2 | Schwerner, Michael; Goodman, Andrew; Chaney, James; Cox, W. Harold; Giles, James; Giles, John; Ray, Jink; Coleman, Johnny | conspiracy; school integration; SNCC; rape; coal mining; death penalty; unconstitutionality; | Overview of the past month's news. |
| 310 | Southern Patriot | H. C. Nixon Dies | 1967-11-01 | 2 | Nixon, Herman Clarence | Southern Conference for Human Welfare | Announced the death of H. C. Nixon at the age of 80 in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 311 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: A Movement Novel | 1967-11-01 | 2 | Champlin, David; Fairburn, Ann; Emerson, Thomas I.; Haber, David; Darsen, Norman | Five Smooth Stones; ghetto; civil rights movement; "Political and Civil Rights in the United States" | Miriam Nicholas reviews Ann Fariburn's _Five Smooth Stones_. Also published was "Political and Civil Rights in the United States" by three law professors. |
| 312 | Southern Patriot | Four Miners Seek Clemency | 1967-11-01 | 2 | Engle, Charles; Turner, Clayton; Stacy, Herbert; Hensley, Bige; Combs, Dan Jack; Boudin, Leonard B.; O'Dwyer, Paul; Sipser, I. Philip | clemency; coal miners; picket movement; conspiracy | Four Kentucky coal miners, who were convicted of conspiring to blow up a bridge, are asking to have their prison sentences suspended so that they may support their families. |
| 313 | Southern Patriot | Nashville Bishop Opposing Draf | 1967-11-01 | 3 | Golden, Charles F. | draft resistance; Vietnam War; Selective Service Act | The Methodist Bishop Charles F. Golden risks fines and imprisonment to help people resist the draft. |
| 314 | Southern Patriot | New Orleans and the War | 1967-11-01 | 3 | Levy, Murray; Minnis, Jack; Smith, Ben; Lacy, Fred; Anisgard, Alan | war demonstration; Women's Strike For Peace; protest; Vietnam War; draft protest; media bias | Protests in New Orleans, Louisiana against the Vietnam War and the draft were organized by the Women's Strike for Peace. |
| 315 | Southern Patriot | Unhappy Success Story of Fayet | 1967-11-01 | 4 | poverty; freedom movement; voter registration; desegregation; violence; voting rights; Tennessee Voters' Council; militancy; black election; black magistrate | In Fayette County, Tennessee the struggle for civil rights has been successful to a small degree, but it has not achieved all of its intended goals. | |
| 316 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Problems i | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Killough, Lorrie | Hardeman County, Tennessee; poverty; starvation; federal funding | Reader Lorrie Killough explains the plights of residences and civil rights workers in Hardeman County, Tennessee. |
| 317 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Smith | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Smith, Ben; Rabinowitz, Victor | National Lawyer's Guild | Victor Rabinowitz, reader, calls attention to the campaign of Ben Smith for the 29th district representative to the Louisiana State House. |
| 318 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Kentucky S | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Nunn, Louie; Ratliff, Thomas; McAlister, George | student organizing; student protest; Vietnam War; draft; strip mining; Appalachian volunteers | Students in Kentucky scared political candidates by questioning them on controversial topics such as the draft. |
| 319 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Politics o | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Rieth, Walter | draft resistance; political action; returned draft cards | Reader Walter Rieth explains how he feels the only way to truly resist the draft is to openly defy the system. |
| 320 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Depressing | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Cromwell, Suzanne; Grob, Marshall | "People's History"; September's _Southern Patriot_; United States History | Reader Marshall Grob confirms that lack of education is a problem in the North just as it is in the South. |
| 321 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Organizing | 1967-11-01 | 6 | Moroze, Lewis M. | Newark, New Jersey; white-black relationship | Reader Lewis Moroze explains the issues facing the city of Newark, New Jersey in terms of the white-black relationship. |
| 322 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: SCEF in Action | 1967-11-01 | 7 | Braden, Carl | SCEF; racial unity; economic problems; political problems; volunteers; community organizers | Carl Braden explains the purpose of the SCEF, and how they plan on continuing their efforts in the future. |
| 323 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: Progr | 1967-11-01 | 7 | DeBray, Regis; Lippman, Walter; Carmichael, Stokely; Minnis, Jack | _Revolution in the Revolution_; revolutionaries; politics; protest; social programs | Jack Minnis explains that the social programs developed by freedom organizers need to focus on the acquisition of power from the state in order to be successful. |
| 324 | Southern Patriot | What We're Doing in Kentucky | 1967-11-01 | 7 | Ratliff, Thomas; Mulloy, Joe; Sourwine, J. G.; Adlerman, Jerome; McSurely, Al; McSurely, Margaret | seized materials; stolen papers; SCEF; privacy; coal mining; political organizing; witch hunt | The McSurelys explain what materials were taken from them on the night that they were arrested, and what they were doing in eastern Kentucky. |
| 325 | Southern Patriot | Why MFDP Plans to Demand Seat | 1967-11-01 | 8 | Guyot, Lawrence | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP); Sunflower, Mississippi; party seat; politics | The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party will go to the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, Illinois in August 1968 to demand they be the democratic party for the state of Mississippi. |
| 326 | Southern Patriot | An "Honest Mistake" | 1967-11-01 | 8 | Wynn, Hyawatha; Eskildsen, Bessie | life imprisonment; rape; pardon; innocence; jury bias | Hiawatha Wynn was pardoned from the life imprisonment after being convicted of raping a white woman after another man confessed to the crime. |
| 327 | Southern Patriot | Battle for Open Housing | 1967-11-01 | 8 | Geiger, Berley | Charleston, West Virginia; open housing bill; ghetto; housing shortage; integration; eviction; peaceful protest | The city council in Charleston, West Virginia is struggling to decide about allowing open housing, which will alleviate over crowding and prevent roughly 2,000 families from being displaced. |
| 328 | Southern Patriot | Another SCEF Case in Supreme C | 1968-01-01 | 1 | Ratliff, Thomas; McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Mulloy, Joe; Braden, Carl; Braden, Anne; Combs, Bert T.; Gordon, James | SCEF; seized papers; sedition; constitutional violation; ghetto uprising | The U.S. government admitted that the documents seized during the raid on the McSurely's home were given to McClellan while in the care of Thomas Ratliff. |
| 329 | Southern Patriot | Revolt, Repressions at Grambli | 1968-01-01 | 1, 8 | Jones, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Daggs, Gale; Zanders, Willie M.; Kidd, Paul; Sobol, Richard; Dawkins, Ben | Grambling College; black college; repression; sports; academics; ghetto rebellion; student protest; boycott; expelled students; first amendment; free speech; dissent | The article examines the problems of Grambling College, which focuses more on athletics instead of academics, and how it expelled students who tried to question the administration. |
| 330 | Southern Patriot | Hostile Students are Won Over | 1968-01-01 | 1, 8 | Gardner, Tom; Wells, Lyn; Smith, Bruce; Hodes, Nancy | student violence; SSOC; Appalachian State; mob; discussion; draft counseling | The story of four peace travelers as they toured North Carolina college campuses. |
| 331 | Southern Patriot | Laurel Strike is Broken | 1968-01-01 | 1, 4, 5 | Taft, Robert; Hayes, Hulse; Kirk, Claude; Zellner, Bob; Minnis, Jack; Analauage, Robert; Jolly, J. D.; Ruffin, Susie; Ramsey, Claude; Collins, E.K.; Roley, Ronald F. | Laurel, Mississippi; strike; efficiency experts; militancy; union; picket lines; black employees; Ku Klux Klan; Masonite Corporation; strike breakers; black involvement; black caucus; local 5-443; conspiracy | The seven month strike at the Laurel, Mississippi plant of the Masonite Corporation showed black employees how little the company cared for them, and exposed issues in the state system that was designed to block unions in Mississippi. |
| 332 | Southern Patriot | Free Kentucky Miners | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Hensley, Bige; Turner, Clayton; Stacy, Herb; Engel, Charles | presidential plea; coal miners; conspiracy; demancy petition | People from Hazard, Kentucky are asking President Johnson to free the four miners who were sentenced to jail for conspiring to blow up a bridge associated with a roving picket movement. |
| 333 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi - Black Officials | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Clark, Robert | black election; bonding issues; insurance companies; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP); NAACP; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | Twenty-three black people took office in Mississippi in spite of a bonding road block. |
| 334 | Southern Patriot | Muhammad Ali Appeals | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Ali, Muhammad | appeal; draft violation; draft evasion; conscientious objector | Muhammad Ali is appealing his conviction of draft evasion on the basis that black people are excluded from draft boards in Kentucky. |
| 335 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: On Sojourner Truth | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Bernard, Jacqueline; Truth, Sojourner | _Journey Toward Freedom_; biography; slavery; freedom | Review of Jacqueline Bernard's _Journey Toward Freedom_. |
| 336 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Two Views of Appal | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Cowdill, Rebecca; Fetterman, John | _My Appalachia_; _Stinking Creek_; poverty; Vietnam War | Reviews of _My Appalachia_ by Rebecca Cowdill and _Stinking Creek_ by John Fetterman. |
| 337 | Southern Patriot | Wansley Case Will Be Reviewed | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Wansley, Thomas; Hirschkop, Philip; Cundiff, Raymond O.; Kinoy, Arthur | rape; contempt; life imprisonment | The Virginia Supreme Court will review the case of Thomas Wansley and also the contempt conviction of his lawyer. |
| 338 | Southern Patriot | Organizers' Library | 1968-01-01 | 2 | Ratliff, Thomas; McSurely, Al; McSurely, Margaret | SCEF; Organizers' Library Series; seditious material | SCEF's Organizers' Library Series was among the items seized as "seditious material" by prosecutor Thomas Ratliff. |
| 339 | Southern Patriot | SWAFCA Members Reap First Harv | 1968-01-01 | 3 | South West Alabama Farmers' Cooperative Association (SWAFCA); violence; intimidation | The SWAFCA reaped its first harvest and its farmers found success by changing crops from failing cotton. | |
| 340 | Southern Patriot | Louisville Alderman Adopt Open | 1968-01-01 | 3 | open housing law; demonstrations | The Louisville Board of Aldermen adopted a strong open housing law due in part to demonstrations where hundreds were arrested in spring. | |
| 341 | Southern Patriot | Prosecution Had Freezing Effec | 1968-01-01 | 3 | Combs, Bert T. | Kentucky Sedition Law; communism; free speech; unconstitutionality; first amendment; Appalachian volunteers; imprisonment; Dombrowski vs. Pfister; federal funding | Judge Bert T. Combs explains how the Kentucky Sedition Law violates the constitution, specifically the first amendment. |
| 342 | Southern Patriot | The Anatomy of a Conspiracy | 1968-01-01 | 3 | Ratliff, Thomas; Duffy, Lavern; Brick, John; Scott, Thadeus; McClellan, John L. | seized documents; conspiracy; senate investigation | A blow-by-blow account of how seized documents ended up in the hands of Senator John L. McClellan. |
| 343 | Southern Patriot | AVs Fire Mulloy for Draft Stan | 1968-01-01 | 3 | Mulloy, Joe; Mulloy, Karen | Appalachian Volunteers (AV); draft refusal; sedition | Joe Mulloy was fired from the Appalachian Volunteers for his refusal to be inducted into the army on the ground of conscience. |
| 344 | Southern Patriot | The MFDP Statement | 1968-01-01 | 5 | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP); Laurel, Mississippi; Masonite Corporation; free speech; union; Ku Klux Klan | The MFDP is investigating the strike in Laurel, MS because if the company can break the strike it will set worker rights back by 30 years. | |
| 345 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: On Courage | 1968-01-01 | 6 | courage | Reader Julius Lester enclosed a copy of Yeutushenko's poem "Talk". | |
| 346 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Movement F | 1968-01-01 | 6 | Brown, Rap; Lacey, Fred | Masonite Corporation; strike; union; scabs; SNCC; MFDP | Reader Fred Lacey explains how the freedom movement failed to help union members at the Laurel strike. |
| 347 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Report Fro | 1968-01-01 | 6 | Brown, Otis; Humphries, Betty | Sunflower County Improvement Association; farming; cotton; poverty; slum; federal funding; head start program | An overview of the general state of Sunflower County, Mississippi and how they used federal funding to help residents in need. |
| 348 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Freedomcra | 1968-01-01 | 6 | poverty; Freedomcraft Candy Cooperative | Asking readers to purchase candy to support the cooperative. | |
| 349 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The War Wi | 1968-01-01 | 6 | Tuck, Tom; Gorman, James C. | Louisville Peace Council; Fort Knox; soldier protest; Vietnam War | Reverend James Gorman is asking readers to direct any soldiers against the war stationed at Fort Knox to the Louisville Peace Council so that they can assist them. |
| 350 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: Rap Brown and | 1968-01-01 | 7 | Brown, Rap; Carmichael, Stokely; Braden, Anne | SNCC; free speech; federal charges; school burning; petition | Braden gives an editorial on the Rap Brown case, and asks readers to sign a petition asking that eh be allowed to leave the island of Manhattan. She says that the federal governments is trying to silence him. |
| 351 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: Violence | 1968-01-01 | 7 | Nussbaum, Perry E.; Kochtitsky, Robert B.; Johnson, Allen J.; Delmar, Dennis; Carter, Willie Joe; Ware, George; Stephens, Ernest; Rutherford, William A.; Innis, Ray | violence; Ku Klux Klan; police shooting; SNCC; ghetto; riot; SCLC; CORE; Pike County, Kentucky; teacher pay | A review of the past month's news. |
| 352 | Southern Patriot | TSU Five Defense Fund | 1968-01-01 | 7 | Nichols, Floyd | SNCC; Houston; Texas Southern University; murder; violence | Houston's SNCC chapter is asking for donations to help defend the 5 TSU students who were charged with murder after a protest became a violent riot. |
| 353 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: Somet | 1968-01-01 | 7 | Minnis, Jack | civil rights; racial discrimination; equal employment; economic problems; poverty; living wage | Minis discusses the difference between black and white incomes, and how a large percentage of black families live below the basic level of necessary income to simply live. |
| 354 | Southern Patriot | SDS Confronts Tulane - Literat | 1968-01-01 | 8 | Gordon, Eric; Carter, Hodding; Analauage, Robert | paternalism; Students for a Democratic Society; Tulane University; obscenity; confiscation; student protest; draft protest | The Students for a Democratic Society had materials they placed in the Tulane University bookstore confiscated because they were considered obscene. The students tried to protest but are meeting resistance from the administration. |
| 355 | Southern Patriot | U.S. Puts Brown Away | 1968-01-01 | 1, 8 | Brown, Rap; Mitchell, Lansing L.; Kunstler, William M.; Belli, Melvin; Bailey, F. Lee | federal trial; media coverage; Dillard University; New Orleans Movement for a Democratic Society; free speech; militancy; judge bias | Rap Brown was changed by the federal government with violating has bail when he traveled to cities for speaking engagements. However,the bias of the judge was shown when he made comments about what Brown was saying. |
| 356 | Southern Patriot | Sen. Kennedy Pays Annual Visit | 1968-01-01 | 1, 3 | Kennedy, Robert; Edelman, Peter; Tiller, John; Wooten, George; Duff, Tommy; Johnson, Cliston | poverty; starvation; child hunger; federal funding; poverty programs; food stamps; welfare | Senator Robert Kennedy toured parts of the rural South to see conditions of poverty and hunger. He was met by resistance from people who felt the federal programs were not doing enough to help them. |
| 357 | Southern Patriot | Memphis Garbage Workers Strike | 1968-03-01 | 1, 5 | Ciampa, Jack; Loeb, Henry; Jones, T. O.; Hoffman, Robert; Middlebrook, Harold | strike; garbage workers; Memphis, Tennessee; police violence; discrimination; union; low wages; unsafe working conditions; NAACP; community unity | Garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee went on strike to protest discrimination against blacks, low wages, lack of safety controls, and the lack of union recognition by the city. The police fought the strikers with violence trying to make them return to wo |
| 358 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Charlie Cobb's Rag | 1968-03-01 | 2 | Cobb, Charlie; Carmichael, Stokely; Young, Sammy; Analauage, Robert | SNCC; violence | Review of the book _Charlie Cobb's Rage_. |
| 359 | Southern Patriot | Black Protest: Documentary His | 1968-03-01 | 2 | Grant, Joanne; Gettleman, Marvin E. | black protest movement; documentary; commentary | Review of Joanne Grant's "Black Protest" about the black protest movement in America. |
| 360 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: OEO Refun | 1968-03-01 | 2 | Evers, Charles; Boyd, J. D.; Aptheker, Herbert; Wilkinson, Frank; Murton, Thomas O.; Wansley, Thomas; Dodson, Andrew | South West Alabama Farmers' Cooperative Association(SWAFCA); Farmers Home Administration; Alcorn College; police shooting; open housing; ghetto; communist speakers; free speech; discrimination | The past month's news and events. |
| 361 | Southern Patriot | Kentuckians Confer on War and | 1968-03-01 | 2 | Berry, Wendell; Sedler, Robert; Tuck, Dave; Mulloy, Joe | Vietnam War; draft; University of Kentucky; free speech; student rights; Students for a Democratic Society; Peace Action Group; Louisville Peace Council | A conference of the Vietnam War and the draft was held at the University of Kentucky where issues were discussed and ideas to end the war were suggested. |
| 362 | Southern Patriot | Do High School Students Have R | 1968-03-01 | 3 | Bennett, Kaye; Bennett, Edwin | dissent; military; Lamar High School; Vietnam War; draft; racism; Students for a Democratic Society; student protest | Lamar High School in Houston, Texas suspended students for publishing and circulating a small magazine the administration considered controversial. |
| 363 | Southern Patriot | Poor Folks Talk: A Dialogue in | 1968-03-01 | 3 | Minnis, Jack; Zellner, Bob | Grass Roots Organizing Work; poverty; food stamps; black-white relationship | Excerpts from a dialogue taken in New Orleans, LA at SCEF's Grow Projects workshop. |
| 364 | Southern Patriot | Draft Resistance Builds Across | 1968-03-01 | 4, 6 | Mulloy, Joe; Merton, Thomas; Gorman, James; Pratt, Don; Williams, Gary; Shea, James; Levin, Alan; Henderson, Walter; Carpenter, Arthur; Guerrero, Gene; Abbot, Steve; Vlasits, George | Vietnam War; draft; secession; black resistance; conscientious objector; draft board bias; Louisville Peace Council; draft refusal; anti-war literature; SSOC; sit-ins | Covers the building draft resistance across the South. Several examples of people who have personally fought the draft or are battling the draft boards are used to prove the scope of involvement. |
| 365 | Southern Patriot | Progress Report: Marrowbone Fo | 1968-03-01 | 5 | Easterling, Jake; Easterling, Edith | Marrowbone Folk School; community school | The Marrowbone Folk School has been completed in spite of resistance and intimidation. |
| 366 | Southern Patriot | Southerners Back Brown's Right | 1968-03-01 | 5 | Brown, H. Rap; Clark, Ramsey | free speech; SNCC; federal prison; excessive bail; bond violation; militancy; government conspiracy; bill of rights violation | Groups across the South have supported Rap Brown and his imprisonment in New Orleans, Louisiana in a federal prison for supposed bail violation. |
| 367 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Radical Hi | 1968-03-01 | 6 | McGee, Willie; Knight, Newt; Schwenkmeyer, Frieda | Masonite Corporation; radicalism; Jones County; poverty; Dixiecraft | Reader Frieda Schwenkmeyer discusses the radical history of Jones County, Mississippi. |
| 368 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: A Faithful | 1968-03-01 | 6 | Goodman, Ernest | the _Southern Patriot_; ideology; unity | Reader Ernest Goodman comments on the _Southern Patriot_ being published for twenty-five years, and how he finds the paper as a useful guide toward the changes in Southern society. |
| 369 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: In Virgina | 1968-03-01 | 6 | Brooks, Toby | prisoners; convicts; poverty | Toby Brooks presents a poem about convicts working on the roadside in Virginia. |
| 370 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Black Sold | 1968-03-01 | 6 | Edwards, George S. | U.S. Air Force; black ghetto; discrimination; court martial | A member of the U.S. Air Force refused to accept an assignment to Japan because he felt his fight was in the American black ghettos. He is facing court martial. |
| 371 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Revolt at | 1968-03-01 | 6 | Black, William | Fort Jackson; Vietnam War; soldier resistance; meditation | Soldiers at Fort Jackson have begun to have doubts concerning the Vietnam War, and were arrested when they tried to express their feelings in the base chapel. |
| 372 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: The Poor Peopl | 1968-03-01 | 7 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Braden, Carl | Poor People's Campaign; Vietnam War; poverty; protest; evasion; poor white community | Martin Luther King Jr. has linked the Poor People's Campaign to the Vietnam War, claiming it is used as an excuse to avoid domestic issues. |
| 373 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: The " | 1968-03-01 | 7, 6 | Trippet, Frank; Dodds, Thomas; Eastland, James O.; Clark, Joe; McCarthy, Eugene; Kennedy, Bobbie; Minnis, Jack | state politics; commercial interests; government; electoral politics | Jack Minnis discusses government and state politics and how people need to vote for a new constituency. |
| 374 | Southern Patriot | Working in Eastern Kentucky | 1968-03-01 | 7 | Thomas, Morton | SNCC; CORE; Appalachia; coal miners; United Mine Workers; urban migration; factory; politics | Morton Thomas tells his story of traveling and working throughout Kentucky with various civil rights groups, specifically the SNCC. |
| 375 | Southern Patriot | Tenants Without Rent | 1968-03-01 | 8 | Oldman, Carvie; Henderson, R. R. | poverty; public housing; Durham Housing Authority; rent protest; white superiority; rent strike | Tenants in Durham, North Carolina protested their lack of input in the Durham Housing Authority by withholding their rent. |
| 376 | Southern Patriot | Nashville Moves Against Repres | 1968-03-01 | 8 | Kunstler, William; Kinoy, Arthur; Wise, Stan; Briley, Beverly; Ellington, Buford | repression; ghetto; economic withdrawal; militancy; SCEF; SSOC; riots; police brutality; Public Safety Committee; free speech | People in Nashville, Tennessee are taking the offensive by resisting the efforts of the local police and the National Guard to repress the local black community. |
| 377 | Southern Patriot | On King's Death | 1968-04-01 | 1 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Shuttlesworth, Ruby; Braden, Carl; King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. | assassination; racism; Vietnam War; SCEF | This is a statement from the SCEF on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th. |
| 378 | Southern Patriot | Background for Murder | 1968-04-01 | 1, 5 | Lawson, James L.; Payne, Larry; Loeb, William; Swearengen, James E.; Gray, Joseph; Taylor, Jimmy; Cooke, Sam; Withers, Ernest; King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. | assassination; demonstration; march; violence; police violence; looting; riot; Beale Street, Memphis | Robert Analauage writes about a riot that took place in Memphis, Tennessee previous to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination. The local police did little during the riot to protect the black community from the violence and looters. He claims that this |
| 379 | Southern Patriot | Kentuckians Bring Suit to Abol | 1968-04-01 | 1, 5 | Braden, Anne; Braden, Carl; Nunn, Louie B.; Blume, Norbert; Davis, Georgia | Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee (KUAC); SCEF; subversive groups; free speech; civil rights movement; labor rights; minority rights | Several in Kentucky have filed suit to end the Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee, which targeted civil rights activists and groups and labeled them as subversive. |
| 380 | Southern Patriot | "The Crafts of Freedom" | 1968-04-01 | 2 | Morris, Jesse; Maslow, Ellen | "Liberty House"; poverty; hand made crafts; Appalachia; Poor People's Corporation; cooperative | The "Liberty House," a store in New York's Greenwich Village is selling handmade items from the poor people of the South. |
| 381 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: New Autobiography | 1968-04-01 | 2 | Du Bois, W. E. B.; Washington, Booker T.; Melish, William Howard | black liberation; black history; black power; Tuskegee Institute; Atlanta University | William Howard Melish reviews W.E.B. Du Bois' _Autobiography_. |
| 382 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: Campuses | 1968-04-01 | 2 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Sessum, Cecil Victor; Dahmer, Vernon; Amerson, Lucius; Coleman, Johnny; Huffman, James; Higgins, A. C.; Harris, Curtis E.; Sellers, Cleve | assassination; student protest; demonstrations; march; Florida Teachers' Strike; murder; life imprisonment; draft conviction | A review of the past month's news. The main focus is on student uprisings and King's assassination. |
| 383 | Southern Patriot | Brooks Gets 4 Years for Draft | 1968-04-01 | 2 | Brooks, Fred; Petway, Carlton; Boult, Rober, Jr.; Phillips, Jan | SNCC; draft refusal; Vietnam War; black power | SNCC leader Fred Brooks was sentenced to four years imprisonment for refusing induction into the U.S. Army. |
| 384 | Southern Patriot | Southern Groups' Statement on | 1968-04-01 | 2 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Brown, Rap | militancy; black liberation; non violence; Vietnam War | Several southern human rights groups met and drafted a statement calling for an end to the persecution of Rap Brown and other militant leaders on the eve of King's funeral. |
| 385 | Southern Patriot | Panther is Three Years Old | 1968-04-01 | 3 | Miles, Frank; McGill, Lillian; Analauage, Robert | Lowndes County Freedom Party; black panther; tent city; Lowndes County Co-op; Lowndes County Christian Movement; head start; gerrymander | The Lowndes County Freedom Party celebrated its third anniversary, and gives and overview of the new programs and amenities it has helped provide to local residents. |
| 386 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy, Prat are Convicted | 1968-04-01 | 3 | Mulloy, Joe; Pratt, Don; Sedler, Robert A. | draft refusal; Louisville Peace Council; conscientious objector; sedition; SCEF | Joe Mulloy and Don Pratt were sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $10,000 each for violating the Selective Service Act. They are appealing the conviction. |
| 387 | Southern Patriot | Mingo Residents Fight Voter Fr | 1968-04-01 | 3, 4 | Spence, Oakey; Washington, James, Jr.; Varney, T. I.; Chafin, Tom; Green, Edith; Celler, Emmond; Crowell, Suzanne | Mingo County, West Virginia; voter fraud; Poor People's Conference; the Green Amendment; Free Elections Committee | Residents of Mingo County, West Virginia are fighting massive voter fraud where the registration list 137% of the census population. They are meeting resistance from the local government though. |
| 388 | Southern Patriot | Why Bluefield State Students R | 1968-04-01 | 4 | Bratten, Carolyn; Barker, Alan; Saunders, Alonzo; Christie, Sidney; Smith, Hulett | Bluefield State College, West Virginia; student protest; racial discrimination; civil rights; hazing; militancy; suspension; free speech | Explains why students at Bluefield State College rebelled due to declining black student population, lack of free speech, ans suspensions without hearings. |
| 389 | Southern Patriot | Brown Refused Bail in Virginia | 1968-04-01 | 4 | Brown, Rap; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Kunstler, William M.; Hirschkop, Philip J. | federal court; riot; outbreak; ghetto; assassination; SNCC; habeas corpus | Rap Brown was refused bail in Richmond, Virginia amid the upheaval from the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 390 | Southern Patriot | Dr. King and the Militants | 1968-04-01 | 5 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Lawson, James L. | Black Organizing Project; violence; riot; militancy; black power; unity | Interview with black Memphis students before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on how their new militant ideas differed from his non-violent method. |
| 391 | Southern Patriot | Portrait of a Mountaineer | 1968-04-01 | 5 | Fulcher, Robert; King, Martin Luther, Jr. | poverty; poverty programs; black-white relationship; unity; common bond; Poor People's Campaign; racism | Story of Robert Fulcher, a poor white West Virginia mountain native, that saw his common bond with his black neighbors through poverty and became included to the point of an invitation to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral. |
| 392 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Dr. King: | 1968-04-01 | 6 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Lippman, Walter | violence; Vietnam War; political power; non-violence | Reader Hugh B. Hester comments that Dr. King is as much a victim of the Vietnam War and the over use of presidential power as a soldier killed overseas. |
| 393 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Kangaroo C | 1968-04-01 | 6 | Mulloy, Joseph; King, Martin Luther, Jr. | draft refusal; Selective Service Act; conscientious objector; Vietnam War; civil rights movement | Reader Arthur Corse comments on the court trial of Joseph Mulloy for draft refusal, and how the federal government did not give him a fair trial or sentence. |
| 394 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Visi from | 1968-04-01 | 6 | Freed, Donald | Federal Bureau of Investigation; civil rights movement; Peace and Freedom Movement | Reader Donald Freed explains his experience of being questioned by the FBI. |
| 395 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: Deeds | 1968-04-01 | 7 | King, Martin Luther, Jr. | SCEF; black-white unity; black power; racism | Jack Minnis explains that the white people moved by the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. must follow their thoughts and words up with actions to truly achieve his goal of black-white unity. |
| 396 | Southern Patriot | Instead of Gun Running | 1968-04-01 | 7 | Brown, Rap | genocide; arms; guns; combat; McClellan Committee; anti-riot laws; oppression; racism | The essay explains how the people living in black neighborhoods can prevent violence through means other than guns and arming themselves. |
| 397 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: The Measure of | 1968-04-01 | 7, 5 | Minnis, Jack; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Parks, Rosa; Braden, Anne | murder; assassination; black-white unity; change; poor participation; political power; Vietnam War; redistribution of wealth; House Un-American Activities Committee | Anne Braden explains her opinion that Dr. King was a great man not for his actions, but because he was willing to stand up for an unpopular cause in spite of criticism or government persecution. |
| 398 | Southern Patriot | Students Are Scapegoats in Uns | 1968-04-01 | 8 | Boruff, A. J.; Keel, Gary; Owens, Robert L.; Tigher, Hope, III; Scott, Joseph | murder; explosives; arrest; student arrest; shooting; Student Social Action Committee; black power; militancy | Students at Knoxville College in Tennessee are being used as scapegoats for the unsolved murder of a cab driver on the night of police induced anger on the campus. |
| 399 | Southern Patriot | Tulane Free Speech Movement Fl | 1968-04-01 | 8 | Stibbs, John H.; Longenecker, Herbert E.; Phelps, Ashton; Gordon, Eric | free speech movement; Tulane University; vulgar images; sexual themes; student protest; obscenity | Students at Tulane University started a brief free speech movement after the administration refused to allow them to publish pictures in the school paper that the administration deemed obscene. |
| 400 | Southern Patriot | Knoxville 4 Free on Bail | 1968-05-01 | 1 | Tigner, Pete; Keel, Gary; Scott, Joseph; Wallace, Donald; Boruff, A. J.; Lockridge, John; Waggoner, Bernard; Blackburn, Clarence | murder; Knoxville College, Tennessee; conspiracy; explosives; student protest; classroom boycott | Four Knoxville College students are free on bail after being charged with the murder of a white cab driver after several student and community protests. |
| 401 | Southern Patriot | Klansman Leads Struggle | 1968-05-01 | 1, 8 | Jacobs, Lloyd; Overby, Claude; Overby, Ruby; Bounds, Lee | Ku Klux Klan; NAACP; prison reform; poverty; picket lines; jail conditions; black-white unity; prison riot | Klan leader is joining both races in order to march for prison reform due to horrific conditions in the North Carolina jails. |
| 402 | Southern Patriot | White Kentuckian Joins the Mar | 1968-05-01 | 1, 4 | Johnson, Cliston; Fulcher, Robert; Abernathy, Ralph | Poor People's Committee; unemployment; coal mining | Jobless Kentuckian Cliston Johnson joined the march in Washington, D.C. of the Poor People's Committee because he felt the poor white masses should also join the campaign. |
| 403 | Southern Patriot | PPC Asked: Demand End of Repre | 1968-05-01 | 1, 7 | Brown, Rap | Steering Committee Against Repression; peace group; civil rights; Poor People's Campaign; black militant leaders | The Steering Committee Against Repression met and drafted a set of demands to the federal government to end repression against people fighting for social change. |
| 404 | Southern Patriot | "Demilitarize the Police" | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Braden, Carl; Sellers, Cleveland; Abernathy, Ralph; Mulloy, Joe; Pratt, Don | SCEF; police weapons stockpile; Vietnam War cost; poverty; Poor People's Campaign; SCLC; SNCC | Review of SCEF board demands including the demilitarization of the Louisville police force that is stockpiling arms and an end to the Vietnam War. |
| 405 | Southern Patriot | U.G.A. Cancels SSOC Meeting | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Cowen, Lindsay; Jones, Marshall | Southern Student Organizing Committee; room cancellation; student protest; picket line | The University of Georgia canceled the room reservation for the fifth annual conference of the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) which caused backlash when they were unable to meet on campus. |
| 406 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Contemporary St. P | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Jordan, Clarence | racism; Koinonia Farm; peace | Review of Clarence Jordan's translation of St Paul's letters in the "The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles." |
| 407 | Southern Patriot | Emigration to Canada | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Toronto Anti-Draft Program; Canadian immigration | Details about the booklet "Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada" published by the Toronto Anti-Draft League. | |
| 408 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review: Hunger Co | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Wilson, Marvin | civil rights; hunger; malnutrition; anti-picketing law; racism; union recognition; class boycott; student demonstration | A review of the past month's events. |
| 409 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy Free | 1968-05-01 | 2 | Mulloy, Joe; Pratt, Don | bond; draft refusal | Joe Mulloy and Don Pratt are free on bail after being sentenced for refusing induction into the army. |
| 410 | Southern Patriot | The Cone Union Drive - One Yea | 1968-05-01 | 3 | Marley, Blondzie; Younts, J. B.; Torrain, Walter; Torrain, Linda; Crisman, James; Rumley, Jim | Cone textile mills; union drive; workers' rights; Textile Workers' Union of America; strike; black-white unity | The drive to unionize cotton mills in North Carolina has failed due to the lack of support from the Textile Workers' Union of America and a lack of black-white unity. |
| 411 | Southern Patriot | Sellers Gets Five Years | 1968-05-01 | 3 | Sellers, Cleve; Edenfield, Newell; Owens, Danny | SNCC; draft refusal; racism; Vietnam War | Cleve Sellers was sentenced to five years in prison after refusing the draft. He stated the only people that could sentence him were black people. |
| 412 | Southern Patriot | John Collier Dies | 1968-05-01 | 3 | Collier, John;; Williams, Aubrey W. | American Indians; SCEF | John Collier, former U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, died May 8th in Taos, New Mexico at the age of 84. |
| 413 | Southern Patriot | Tenants Faced With Eviction | 1968-05-01 | 3 | Henderson, Rosa; Hunter, Vernice; Acton, Randall; Davis, Jean | public housing; eviction; garbage; Public Housing Tenants Association | Tenants of public housing in Louisville, Kentucky are facing eviction for issues over garbage in the area. However, they explain they face the same issues as those who live in private homes and they are not faced with eviction. |
| 414 | Southern Patriot | Poverty Kills Two Soldiers | 1968-05-01 | 4 | Tate, Charles; McDaniel, Andrew | Poor People's Campaign; Vietnam War | Two young, poor black boys from Memphis, Tennessee were killed in Vietnam after enlisting in the army because they could not find work elsewhere. |
| 415 | Southern Patriot | Notes From MIssissippi | 1968-05-01 | 4 | Jones, Suzie; Hamer, Fannie Lou | poverty; SCLC; black teachers; police violence; sharecroppers; unity | Notes the efforts of the poor people in Mississippi to help their neighbors in need of food and assistance. |
| 416 | Southern Patriot | Hispano Leaders Put in Jail | 1968-05-01 | 4 | Tijerina, Reies; Clark, Ramsey | Poor People's Campaign; Hispano | Reies Tijerina and twelve others were arrested in Washington on an old kidnapping charge and held on $250,000 bail. |
| 417 | Southern Patriot | Women on the Move | 1968-05-01 | 4 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. | Women on the Move for Equality Now; plaque dedication | The group Women On the Move for Equality Now (W.O.M.E.N.) placed flowers on the balcony where King was shot. |
| 418 | Southern Patriot | How to Get Out of the Draft | 1968-05-01 | 5 | Fife, Darlene; Colby, Mike; Carpenter, Arthur; McCorble, Mikey | draft avoidance; draft canceling; New Orleans Movement for a Democratic Society; Vietnam War; Draft Registers' Union | Explains the ways other men have successfully avoided the draft, and introduces organizer Darlene Fife, who is involved with draft canceling. |
| 419 | Southern Patriot | Revolt at Kentucky State [Arti | 1968-05-01 | 5 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; McClellan, James; Westmoreland, Carl | Kentucky State College; arson; student protest; student suspensions; student violence | A revolt at Kentucky State College sparked arrests and suspension after violence and fires broke out. |
| 420 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: To Martin | 1968-05-01 | 6 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Kunstler, William M. | Poetry | Poem about Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 421 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Why Ghetto | 1968-05-01 | 6 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Braden, Carl; Porter, Sylvia | Memphis Tennessee uprising; ghetto; stores; looting; riots; high prices; high interest rates; poverty | Article explains that stores attacked by looters may be targeted due to high prices and interest rates that causes poor people to feel like they are being taken advantage of. |
| 422 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Atlanta Pr | 1968-05-01 | 6 | police; black colleges; violence; Vietnam War; race; poverty; President of Atlanta University Center | President of Atalanta University Centers asks the local police to stay out of black college campuses to prevent violence and allow students a safe place to express new ideas. | |
| 423 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: Lesso | 1968-05-01 | 7 | Luce, Philip; Minnis, Jack; McClellan, James | Poor People's Campaign; federal funding; budget cuts; HUAC; poverty | The Poor People's Campaign is fighting for the US government to meet all of its demands. However, the House Un-American Activities Committee and senator McClellan are speaking out against the group. |
| 424 | Southern Patriot | White Response to Black Revolt | 1968-05-01 | 7 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. | assassination; black rebellion; Center for Emergency Support; violence; mass arrest; food collection; assistance | The white people of Washington, D.C. responded to black rebellions in the city in the wake of King's death by providing support and relief. |
| 425 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: White Racism i | 1968-05-01 | 7 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr; Braden, Carl | white racism; black power; unity; poverty; infighting; SCLC; Vietnam War; low wage labor; Southern Mountain Project; Grass Roots Organizing Work | Editorial about white racism as a symptom of the greater problem of the U.S. political system that keeps groups from organizing by forcing them apart. |
| 426 | Southern Patriot | Poor Face Welfare Cut | 1968-05-01 | 8 | Bonin, Garland; Delair, Audrey; Kiefer, Nat; Gill, Williams | hunger; poverty; food stamps; malnutrition; federal funding; Welfare Rights Movement | People in Louisiana are facing cuts to their welfare funding, specifically to the food stamp program. |
| 427 | Southern Patriot | Why School Bonds are Defeated | 1968-05-01 | 8 | poverty; Appalachia; education; Council for Better Education; public knowledge; private meeting; school bonds | The poor students in Bluefield, West Virginia lack a quality education due to a lack of funding and the board not allowing the school bonds to be issued. | |
| 428 | Southern Patriot | Knoxville, Tenn: Tigner Charge | 1968-06-01 | 1 | Tigner, Pete; Boruff, A. J. | murder; Knoxville College; mistrial | Pete Tigner charged with the murder of cab driver A. J. Boruff at Knoxville College. |
| 429 | Southern Patriot | Louisville, KY: Police Cause O | 1968-06-01 | 1, 4 | Schmied, Kenneth; Clifford, Michael; Reid, Manfred; Hawkins, Sam; Kuyu, Bob; Cortez, James | ghetto; black rebellion; interracial living; race relations; open housing; Black Unity League of Kentucky; SNCC; militancy; black power; police violence | The black community of Louisville, Kentucky rose to stop police violence and improve conditions in city ghettos. Police responded with violence killing protesters, which sparked involvement in white activists. |
| 430 | Southern Patriot | Gainesville, Fla: Black Milita | 1968-06-01 | 1, 3 | Dawkins, Jack; Thomas, Carol; Adkins, James C.; Waller, Joe; Wilcox, Levy | militancy; black leaders; arrest; repression; black peoples' movement; demonstration; AFL-CIO; ghetto; racism; fire bombing; black power | Gainesville, Florida is controlling black militant leaders through arrests, high bonds, and the threat of long prison sentences. |
| 431 | Southern Patriot | Poor People Begin Getting Toge | 1968-06-01 | 1, 6 | Carmichael, Stokely | Poor People's Campaign (PPC); poverty; integration; unity; voter fraud | Poor people from across the nation are beginning to unite in spite of race due to the common problems they all face. |
| 432 | Southern Patriot | Summer Reading: Some Heroes of | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Sterne; Emma; Gelders, Joseph; Braden, Anne; Zellner, Robert; Juarez, Benito | southern whites; freedom; civil rights | Review of Emma Sterne's "They Took Their Stand" about white activists in the South. |
| 433 | Southern Patriot | ...And Some Villians | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Sherrill, Robert; Wallace, George | segregationists; southern politicians | Review of "Gothic Politics in the Deep South" by Robert Sherrill. |
| 434 | Southern Patriot | King's Last Book is Re-issued | 1968-06-01 | 2 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; King, Coretta Scott | King's last published book _Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?_ has been re-issued in paperback with a foreword from his Widow. | |
| 435 | Southern Patriot | A Black Power Testament | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Barbour, Floyd B. | black power | Review of _The Black Power Revolt_ edited by Floyd B. Barbour. |
| 436 | Southern Patriot | Law Reporter to Cease Publicat | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Vanderbilt University School of Law; civil rights | The Race Relations Law Reporter from the School of Law at Vanderbilt University has ceased publication. | |
| 437 | Southern Patriot | Unsatisfactory Study of HUAC | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Goodmen, Walter | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | Review of Walter Goodmen's "The Committee." |
| 438 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy, Pratt Free on Bail | 1968-06-01 | 2 | Mulloy, Joe; Gordan, James; Pratt, Don; Mulloy, Karen | SCEF mountain organizer; draft refusal; Appalachian Volunteers; picket line | Joe Mulloy and Don Pratt are free on bail after the Sixth Court of Appeals set aside $10,000 of their bond. |
| 439 | Southern Patriot | New Case Against Strip Mining | 1968-06-01 | 3 | Caudill, Harry | strip mining; land destruction; coal companies; land slides | Strip mining is attacked by local residents and other opponents who site land destruction and broad form deed interpretation. |
| 440 | Southern Patriot | Florida Students Fight Repress | 1968-06-01 | 3 | Jones, Marshall; Dawkins, Jack; Thomas, Carol; Lewin, Alan | University of Florida; student movement; tenure; censorship; black militants; contempt of court; non-violent resistance | Students at the University of Florida are fighting for the tenure of Marshall Jones after he was accused of supporting student radicals. |
| 441 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum | 1968-06-01 | 6 | picket line; Louisville rebellion; breach-of-the-peace arrest; human rights; poverty; prison condition | Reader Mary Britting explains the degradation she experienced while in prison after being arrested in the Louisville uprising. | |
| 442 | Southern Patriot | Two Student Leaders Suspended | 1968-06-01 | 4 | Dallas, Flinn; Davidson, Fred C.; Simpson, Dave | University of Georgia; movement for Co-ed equality; sit in; female equality; radical student movement | Two students at the University of Georgia, who were involved in a campus wide protest for equal treatment for women on campus, were suspended for their involvement. |
| 443 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: People Cov | 1968-06-01 | 6 | Baker, Patricia | Poor People's Campaign (PPC); Native American Rights | A Native American woman, Patricia Baker, expresses her trust in the _Southern Patriot_ after participating in the Poor People's Campaign March in Washington, D.C. |
| 444 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Wantes Gua | 1968-06-01 | 6 | Frazier, Jack | Poor People's March on Washington; Share the Wealth Plan; Guaranteed Minimum Income | Reader Jack Frazier feels there should be a guaranteed minimum and maximum income, not just a minimum. |
| 445 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: A Set-Up f | 1968-06-01 | 6 | Braden, Carl; Minnis, Jack; Abernathy, Ralph; Amery, Al | white racism; government; education | Reader Al Amery commends the _Southern Patriot_ for their publication. |
| 446 | Southern Patriot | The Poor People's Forum: Sugge | 1968-06-01 | 6 | Allen, Donna | Poor People's Campaign; poverty; human rights; political power | Reader Donna Allen explains how she feels the poor should approach congress to gain more rights. |
| 447 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: Effec | 1968-06-01 | 7 | Kennedy, Bobby; McCarthy, Eugene | capitalism; economic stimulus; change; organized labor; government | Editorial on how the death of Bobby Kennedy marks the end of the fight for the continuation of modern capitalism. Jack Minnis urges all readers to continue Kennedy's fight. |
| 448 | Southern Patriot | Honesty in Organizing | 1968-06-01 | 7 | Mulloy, Joe | Appalachian Volunteers (AV); Vietnam War; local issues; trust; strip mining; draft quota; honesty | Editorial about the issues faced by organizing groups how the beliefs and feelings of the organizing head can affect the whole cause. |
| 449 | Southern Patriot | Brown's "Crime" and Punishment | 1968-06-01 | 7 | Brown, Rap; Carmichael, Stokely; Kunstler, William; Mitchell, Lansing | gun charge; political trial; SNCC; office bombing; conspiracy; arson; federal investigation | Rap Brown was targeted by the government for being a militant black leader, and they used the law and court system to control his movements. |
| 450 | Southern Patriot | Report from Resurrection City | 1968-06-01 | 8 | Tijerina, Reies; Overdorf, Jim; Byrd, Robert | Highlander Center; Appalachia; sedition; unity; Native American relations; race relations; poverty | People from Eastern Kentucky traveled to Resurrection City and experienced unity with other groups of the nation's poor people. |
| 451 | Southern Patriot | Appalachian Meeting Attracts 6 | 1968-06-01 | 8 | Young, Andrew; Atcheley, Clifford; Fleming, Billy Ray; Fulcher, Robert; Johnson, Cliston | Poor People's Campaign; black-white unity; Community Action Federation; racism; Appalachians; welfare; non-violence; head start | A group of both black and white Appalachian residents met as part of the Poor People's Campaign to discuss issues with welfare and other governmental programs. |
| 452 | Southern Patriot | Poll Watchers Attacked | 1968-06-01 | 8 | Chafin, Thomas; Adkins, Steve; Meyers, W. A., Sr.; Hamilton, C. J.; Artis, Harry | Mingo County Fair Elections Committee; violence; intimidation; bought votes; voter fraud; kickbacks | The residents of Mingo County still face issues of voter fraud as those trying to collect evidence of the violations were attacked and threatened. |
| 453 | Southern Patriot | Coalition of Poor People | 1968-09-01 | 1 | Tijerina, Reies | Poor People's Campaign; National Poor People's Coalition; Resurrection City; Racial unity | Reies Tijerina announced the formation of the National Poor People's Coalition after the end of the Poor People's Campaign. |
| 454 | Southern Patriot | Politics of Coalition Behind t | 1968-09-01 | 1, 8 | Evers, Charles; Ramsey, Claude; Guyot, Laurence; Kennedy, Robert; Carter, Hodding, III | 1968 National Democratic Convention; Loyal Democrats of Mississippi; black-white unity; black delegates; discrimination; voter fraud; Loyalist Coalition | Issues of equality is the Mississippi Democratic Party as the only delegates are white and they face issues of fraud and discrimination at the polls. |
| 455 | Southern Patriot | SNCC Alters its Structure | 1968-09-01 | 1 | Stanford, Max; Newton, Huey; Carmichael, Stokely; Sellers, Cleve; Ferguson, Herman; Brown, Rap | SNCC; restructuring; repression; militant black leaders; persecution; racism | At their annual staff meeting in June, the SNCC restructured its organization to better fight repression and the persecution of militant black leaders. |
| 456 | Southern Patriot | Labor Revolt Brews on Sugar Pl | 1968-09-01 | 1, 3 | Eastland, James O.; Walter, Jim | farm labor; organized labor; field workers; National Labor Relations Board; bargaining rights; exclusion from coverage; minimum wage | Laborers in Louisiana sugar plantations are stirring to revolt against the corporate farmers due to lack of organizing rights and lack of making a minimum wage. |
| 457 | Southern Patriot | Strip Miners Win Decision | 1968-09-01 | 1 | Caudill, Harry; Hill, Edward P. | Court of Appeals, anti-strip mine battle | Land owners in Eastern Kentucky lost their appeal against the strip miners that were given the right to destroy the top layer of land. |
| 458 | Southern Patriot | Repression Continues in Housto | 1968-09-01 | 1, 2 | Johnson, Lee Otis; Johnson, Helen | Texas Southern University; trespassing; police brutality; militancy; riot; McClellan Committee | Police brutality in Houston continues against organizers as the Johnsons were arrested and Helen was severely beaten in jail. The Texas Southern University 5 case is also at a standstill when the prosecution asked it be moved to a small town to guarantee |
| 459 | Southern Patriot | News in Review: Campaigners Le | 1968-09-01 | 2 | Abernathy, Ralph; Overby, Frank | poverty; civil rights movement; garbage worker strike; prison conditions; solitary confinement; South East Alabama Self Help Association; Vietnam War; federal spending | Review of the past month's events. |
| 460 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: "Look Out, Whitey" | 1968-09-01 | 2 | Lester, Julius | black power; government; civil rights movement | Review of Julius Lester's "Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama." |
| 461 | Southern Patriot | Pike Officials Told - Return S | 1968-09-01 | 2 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Mulloy, Joe; Mulloy, Karen; Braden, Carl; Braden, Anne; Ratliff, Thomas; McClellan, John | US Court of Appeals; seized papers; SCEF; McClellan Committee; sedition; unconstitutional | The US Court of Appeals ordered Pike County, Kentucky officials to return materials seized on a raid on organizers' homes where they were charged with sedition. |
| 462 | Southern Patriot | The Grimke Sisters: Heroines o | 1968-09-01 | 2 | Lerner, Gerda; Grimke, Angelina; Grimke, Sarah | woman's history; abolition; feminism; liberation | Review of Gerda Lerner's _The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina - Rebels Against Slavery_. |
| 463 | Southern Patriot | Kentuckians Fight KUAC Probe | 1968-09-01 | 3 | Schoering, Edwin A.; McCall, John Tim; Nunn, Louis | Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee (KUAC); black rebellion; Louisville uprising | KUAC faces opposition as residents fight to bring an end to the committee and stop them from investigating the rebellion in Louisville. |
| 464 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy Appeals Draft Sentence | 1968-09-01 | 3 | Mulloy, Joe; Sedler, Robert A. | U.S. Court of Appeals; draft board; conscientious objector; Vietnam War; draft refusal | Joe Mulloy is appealing his conviction of draft refusal on the basis that the draft board did not give his case proper consideration. |
| 465 | Southern Patriot | Ali Appeals to Supreme Court | 1968-09-01 | 3 | Ali, Muhammad; Mulloy, Joe | Selective Service System; racism; draft refusal; conscientious objector; U.S. Supreme Court | Muhammad Ali is appealing to the Supreme Court to overturn his conviction of draft refusal based on the racism of the Selective Service System. |
| 466 | Southern Patriot | Women's Place | 1968-09-01 | 3 | Stinson, Ford; Fulco, Frank; Walker, Lillian | women's rights; female jurors; freedom | A bill in Louisiana was overturned that would have made it easier for women to serve on juries. |
| 467 | Southern Patriot | Apartheid in Wallace Country | 1968-09-01 | 4 | Byrd, Calvin; Zellner, Bob | racism; Mobile County, Alabama; poverty; Cajuns; segregation; education; integration; illiteracy | The people of Mobile, Alabama still face issues of discrimination and segregation between their three ethnic groups: Black, White and Cajun. |
| 468 | Southern Patriot | "Enlightened Despot" Rules Mor | 1968-09-01 | 4 | Doran, Adron; Vance, Kenneth; Arends, Robert | free speech; Morehead State University; ROTC; violence; repression; dissent | Morehead State University president rules his college with an iron fist and fired four faculty members over a free speech fight. |
| 469 | Southern Patriot | Gainesville's Most Dangerous P | 1968-09-01 | 5 | Thomas, Carol; Waller, Joe; Wilcox, Levi; Lee, Joe Frank; Dawkins, Jack | jail; black militants; resisting arrest; violence; ghetto; demonstrations; poverty; racism; black-white unity; solitary confinement | Carol Thomas was sentenced to six months in jail for resisting arrest without violence. She is being used as a scapegoat by the city to try to end demonstrations and organizers. |
| 470 | Southern Patriot | How to Lose Welfare Benefits - | 1968-09-01 | 5 | Fleming, Billy Ray; Atcheley, Clifford; Mitchell, Dewey; Smith, Hulett | welfare, camp-in | The men had their welfare benefits cut off because they missed part of their work program while demonstrating to improve welfare benefits. |
| 471 | Southern Patriot | Letter From Alachua County Jai | 1968-09-01 | 5 | Thomas, Carol; Waller, Joe; Wilcox, Levi | solitary confinement; prison conditions; hunger strike; riot | Carol Thomas writes a letter form jail explaining the conditions and how the government is creating laws to punish demonstrators. |
| 472 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: On Organiz | 1968-09-01 | 6 | Mulloy, Joe; Minnis, Jack; Spragens, John | organizers; Louisville uprising; conspiracy charges | Reader John Spragens expresses his appreciation for the June edition of the _Southern Patriot_. |
| 473 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Racist Ter | 1968-09-01 | 6 | Montgomery, Sarah | gypsies; racism; racist term | Reader Sarah Montgomery informs the _Southern Patriot_, and its readers, that the word "gyp" is a racist term for gypsies. |
| 474 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Superficia | 1968-09-01 | 6 | McCarthy, Eugene; Minnis, Jack; Commager, Henry Steele | research | Reader Bernice Noar expresses upset over Jack Minnis' article about Eugene McCarthy in the June edition of the _Southern Patriot_. |
| 475 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: An Economi | 1968-09-01 | 6 | Braden, Carl; Durr, Virginia | white racism; poverty; black power | Reader Virginia Durr agrees with Carl Braden's article about white racism and how poverty is the true issue. |
| 476 | Southern Patriot | Reader Reports: How Cuba Wiped | 1968-09-01 | 6 | Batista, Fulgencio; Prio, Carolos; Wallace, Sonja De Vries | Cuba; integration; black-white relations; Guantanamo Naval Base; insurrection; racism; mulatto | Reader Sonja De Vries Wallace observes the integrated society of Cuba. |
| 477 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: The Question o | 1968-09-01 | 7 | Braden, Carl | poverty; laborers; unity; electoral process; election fraud; political action; SCEF | Braden explains the purpose of the SCEF, that it is to improve the lives of the American people through political action. |
| 478 | Southern Patriot | Draft Resistance Unions | 1968-09-01 | 7 | Coleman, Les | draft resistance; draft refusal; community resistance | Excerpts from Les Coleman's article about draft resistance organizations |
| 479 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: "Not | 1968-09-01 | 7 | Bonaparte, Charles J.; Minnis, Jack | Federal Bureau of Investigation; news coverage | Minnis gives a brief history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on their 60th "birthday." |
| 480 | Southern Patriot | What Poor People Are Demanding | 1968-09-01 | 7 | Terry, Peggy | anti-union laws; taxes; voting age; pay; Appalachia; guaranteed annual income | Peggy Terry lists demands that have been set forth by the Southern Mountain People to be sent to the government. |
| 481 | Southern Patriot | Louisville Finds Scapegoats | 1968-09-01 | 8 | Cortez, James; Hawkins, Sam; Kuyu, Robert | Louisville rebellion; scapegoat; SNCC; demonstration; jail; protest | The authorities in Louisville, Kentucky are using three agitators as scapegoats for the May rebellions in the city ghettos. |
| 482 | Southern Patriot | Un-American - That's SCEF | 1968-09-01 | 8 | House Un-American Activities Committee; SCEF; propaganda | HUAC defines what it is to be Un-American and attacks the SCEF. | |
| 483 | Southern Patriot | Thousands Petition Senate -- S | 1968-09-01 | 8 | Eastland, James O.; Humphrey, Hubert | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; human rights groups; senate investigation | Thousands of Americans are protesting the senate investigation of MFDP and other human rights groups because they feel they threaten political power. |
| 484 | Southern Patriot | New Politics in Alabama | 1968-10-01 | 1, 3 | Wallace, George; Cashin, John; Vance, Robert; Vann, David; Branch, William; Flowers, Richmond; Zyllman, Jack | revolt; National Democratic Party of Alabama; politics; Alabama Independent Democratic Party; voter registration; radicalism | A new political party in Alabama has formed, the National Democratic Party of Alabama, to fight the current political machine. |
| 485 | Southern Patriot | Workers Strike Back | 1968-10-01 | 1, 8 | Sellers, Granville; Peebles, Jack | Masonite Corporation; black-white race relations; union; Ku Klux Klan; Wackenhut Corporation; SCEF; leaflet; working conditions | Workers at the Masonite Corporations in Laurel, Mississippi are continuing their battle for improved working conditions and the right to unionize. |
| 486 | Southern Patriot | Texas Jails its Militants | 1968-10-01 | 1 | Jackson, Larry; McMillan, Ernest; Stroud, Josh | SNCC; SDS; Afro-Americans for Black Liberation; organizing; jail; anti-labor law | Officials in Texas are using arrests to control organizations and organizers in their state. |
| 487 | Southern Patriot | Judge Frees Carol Thomas | 1968-10-01 | 1 | Thomas, Carol; Murphree, John A. H.; Duncan, Ted | jail; release; militancy; high bond | Carol Thomas was freed from jail in Gainesville, Florida after serving half of her six month sentence for resisting arrest without violence. |
| 488 | Southern Patriot | Memorial for Sourwine | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Sourwine, Julien G.; Eastland, James O.; Dombrowski, James A.; Smith, Benjamin E.; Waltzer, Bruce; Kinoy, Arthur | Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee (LUAC); SCEF; raid; subversive activity | SCEF has decided to use the funds from suing Sourwine totaling $777 to start the J.G. Sourwine Memorial Fund to help people facing government intrusion. |
| 489 | Southern Patriot | Shuttlesworth's Church Burns i | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L. | Greater New Light Baptist Church; mortgage | The Greater New Light Baptist Church burned its mortgage after only three years. The pastor is Fred L. Shuttlesworth. |
| 490 | Southern Patriot | Official Bring More Charges Ag | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Sellers, Cleveland; Edenfield, Newell; Black, Hugo | SNCC; jail; draft refusal; concealed weapon | Cleveland Sellers was arrested after posting bail on his draft refusal charges for carrying a concealed weapon in Louisianna |
| 491 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Algiers Motel Inci | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Hersey, John; Cooper, Carl; Pollard, Auburey; Temple, Fred | ghetto; murder; Algiers; hotel | Review of "The Algiers Motel Incident" by John Hersey. |
| 492 | Southern Patriot | Biography of a Neglected Hero | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth; Meyer, Howard N. | First South Carolina Volunteers; abolition; women's rights | A review of _Colonel of Black Regiment_ written by Howard N. Meyer. |
| 493 | Southern Patriot | The Trial of Gurley Flynn | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Lamont, Carliss; Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley | communism; American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | A review of "The Trial of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn by the American Civil Liberties Union" edited by Carliss Lamont. |
| 494 | Southern Patriot | Magazine Articles | 1968-10-01 | 2 | Cowan, Paul; Menninger, Karl; Hentoff, Nat | Mississippi Summer Project; dissent | Presents a review of recent magazine articles. |
| 495 | Southern Patriot | BOO Workers Battle Chemical Gi | 1968-10-01 | 3 | Wendell, L. B. | Union Carbide Chemical Plant; strike; organized labor; bargaining rights; mass picketing; violence | BOO workers at the Union Carbide Chemical Plant are striking due to low wages, work jurisdiction, and sub-contracting. |
| 496 | Southern Patriot | Calif. Grape Boycott Spreads i | 1968-10-01 | 4 | Reagan, Ronald | California grape pickers; SCEF; strike; United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee; boycott; violence; minimum wage; collective bargaining | The _Southern Patriot_ calls for people across the South to boycott California grapes to support striking grape pickers against the growers. |
| 497 | Southern Patriot | SCLC Convnetion Report | 1968-10-01 | 4 | Abernathy, Ralph; Guevara, Che; Young, Andrew; Jackson, Jesse | SCLC; unemployment; poverty; racism; annual convention; youth | Report of the events and speeches at SCLC's annual convention in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 498 | Southern Patriot | Houston Militant Sentenced to | 1968-10-01 | 4 | Johnson, Lee Otis | SNCC; Black Panther Party; arrest; repression; police brutality | Lee Otis Johnson was sentenced to thirty years in prison for one marijuana cigarette. |
| 499 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: On the Wom | 1968-10-01 | 6 | Lester, Julius; Allen, Donna | Women Strike for Peace; women's rights | Reader Donna Allen thanks the _Southern Patriot_ for printing her article in the June edition, and corrects one error. |
| 500 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Readers Re | 1968-10-01 | 6 | Braden, Carl; Minnis, Jack; Amery, Al; Schmitz, Adele | Readers Al Amery and Adele Schmitz comment on previous stories that have ran in the _Southern Patriot_. | |
| 501 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Report Fro | 1968-10-01 | 6 | Thomas, Carol | St. Petersburg, Florida; police brutality; arrest; high bond; black militant; solitary confinement | Carol Thomas comments on the political and police issues in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
| 502 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Letter fro | 1968-10-01 | 6 | Johnson, Lee Otis | racism; discrimination; black rights | Lee Otis Johnson writes a letter from jail explains his beliefs on racism in America. |
| 503 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: The Great | 1968-10-01 | 6 | McSurely, Al | sedition laws; scare tactics; | The article contains excerpts from a speech given by Al McSurely concerning the raid and arrest of himself, his wife and other organizers in Pike County, Kentucky. |
| 504 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle: A Com | 1968-10-01 | 7 | Wynn, Douglas; Clark, Ed; Clark, Joe; Rawh, Joe; Minnis, Jack | Mississippi Challenge; Democratic National Convention; SNCC; politics | Jack Minnis compares the two challenges by Mississippi activities to the all white state democratic party at the National Convention in both 1964 and 1968. |
| 505 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead: Racist Violenc | 1968-10-01 | 7 | Braden, Carl; King, A. D. | violence; police brutality; repression; Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee; rebellion; high bond | Violence in Kentucky against organizers for equal rights, and black people in general, has increased in the last three months. Also, the police are using arrests and high bonds as other forms of repression. |
| 506 | Southern Patriot | Wallace in New Orleans | 1968-10-01 | 8 | Higson, Mike; Wallace, George; Wallace, Lurleen; Perez, Leander; Lundberg, Ferdinand | American Independent Party; demonstration; racism; picket; politics | George Wallace gave a speech in New Orleans; he was trying to convince people he was different. Columnist Mike Higson disagrees and says Wallace is "just another chip off the same block." |
| 507 | Southern Patriot | Kentucky Miners Free | 1968-10-01 | 8 | Engle, Charles; Hensley, Bige; Turney, Clayton | picket; parole; poverty; clemency | The miners that were jailed in Hazard, Kentucky are all now free on parole after being convicted for plotting to blow up a bridge and sentenced to six years in jail. |
| 508 | Southern Patriot | St. Louis Puts Black Liberator | 1969-02-01 | 1, 8 | Hardy, Donald; Koen, Charles; Powell, Adam Clayton; Carmichael, Stokely; Hutchins, Phil; Dent, Leon | militancy; Black Liberators; SNCC; electoral politics; paramilitary structure; repression; raid; arrest | Four members of the Black Liberators and two SNCC members were put on trial in St. Louis for minor offences. |
| 509 | Southern Patriot | MCClellan Postpones Hearing: S | 1969-02-01 | 1, 4 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, John; Mulloy, Joe; Braden, Anne; Braden, Carl; Ratliff, Thomas; Holcomb, Robert | SCEF; McClellan Committee; hearing postponement; raid; seized documents; poverty; rebellion | The appearances of the McSurelys before the McClellan committee has been postponed again in order for McClellan to consolidate his position. SCEF plans to challenge the committee. |
| 510 | Southern Patriot | Whitley is Elected Chairman of | 1969-02-01 | 1, 8 | Whitely, Clifton; Guyot, Lawrence; Hammer, Fannie Lou; Clark, Robert; Higson, Mike | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; SCEF; loyalists; poverty; black politicians; Sunflower City | The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) elected Clifton Whitley as their chairman and sets the program for the next year. They plan on running candidates as independents. |
| 511 | Southern Patriot | McClellan: The Man Behind the | 1969-02-01 | 1, 4, 5 | McClellan, John; McMath, Sid; Pearson, Drew; Ross, Robert Tripp; Moses, Ham; McCarthy, Joe | McClellan Committee; investigation; law and order; anti-lynching legislation; fair employment legislation; ghetto; rebellion; anti-labor; Taft-Hartley Act; fifth amendment; minimum wage; oil industry; rural electric co-operatives; Vietnam War; McCarthyism | A brief biological and political history of Senator John McClellan from Arkansas, who is the chairman of the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations. |
| 512 | Southern Patriot | Rev. Howard Melish Returns to | 1969-02-01 | 2 | Melish, WIlliam Howard; Melish, John Howard; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Lodge, Henry Cabot; Sidener, Herman S.; Thomas, Robert K. | Grace Church; SCEF; free speech; National Council of American-Soviet Friendship | Reverend William Howard Melish is returning to Grace Epsicopal Church after spending twenty years fighting for free speech. |
| 513 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Has Two New Representativ | 1969-02-01 | 2 | McManus, Jane; Rosenblum, Sandra; Ruman, Marilyn; Hanish, Carol; Baker, Ella J. | SCEF; the _Guardian_; House Un-American Activities Committee; protest | Marilyn Ruman and Jane McManus will work for the SCEF as representatives. |
| 514 | Southern Patriot | Memorial to Lil Landau | 1969-02-01 | 2 | Landau, Lil; Marcantonio, Vito | SCEF; human rights; voting rights; unity | A living memorial has been established in Lil Landau's name. |
| 515 | Southern Patriot | Mine Safety Fight Begins at Gr | 1969-02-01 | 3 | Nader, Ralph; Buff, I. E.; Hechler, Ken; Nunn, Louie; Hubbard, Walter, Jr.; Anderson, Clinton; Kirkpatrick, H. N.; Handley, Cletus; Gibson, Thomas | mining; Appalachian coal fields; mine safety; black lung disease; United Mine Workers of America | A grassroots movement has begun to improve coal mining safety and helping to prevent occurrences of black lung disease. |
| 516 | Southern Patriot | Supreme Court Won't Hear HUAC | 1969-02-01 | 4 | Shelton, Robert; Krebs, Allen M.; Teague, Walter Darwin, III; Kinoy, Arthur | U.S. Supreme Court; House Un-American Activities Committee; free expression | The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear three cases challenging the HUAC. |
| 517 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Mr. Swg Re | 1969-02-01 | 6 | Swig, Benjamin H.; Eliashaw, Stella | Roosevelt Hotel; strike; union | Letter from Benjamin Swig about a strike at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. |
| 518 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Wilmington | 1969-02-01 | 6 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Terry, Charles; Babiarz, John | People Against Racism; rebellion; assassination; jail; national guard; arrest | Pamphlet explaining how the city of Wilmington, Delaware reacted to the uprising of the black community after King's Death. |
| 519 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Lee Otis J | 1969-02-01 | 6 | Johnson, Lee Otis | political prisoner; appeal; fund assistance | Johnson writes to ask for monetary help to fund his legal costs. |
| 520 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: On the Wom | 1969-02-01 | 6 | Allen, Donna; Rossi, Alice; Hacker, Sally | women's rights; gender roles | Reader Sally Hacker addresses what she believes to be the proper gender roles for both men and women. |
| 521 | Southern Patriot | Crusading Journal Forced to St | 1969-02-01 | 6 | Hillegas, Jan; Higson, Mike | Freedom Information Service Newsletter; funding; radical; Council of Federated Organizations | The _Freedom Information Service_ newsletter had to stop publication due to lack of funding. |
| 522 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle | 1969-02-01 | 7 | Martin, Edward F.; Minnis, Jack | Democratic Party; New Deal; hunger; subsidy; agriculture; business; finance; conspiracy | Jack Minnis examines the record of the Democratic Party since 1932. |
| 523 | Southern Patriot | On the Drug Question | 1969-02-01 | 7 | McSurely; Margaret | illegal drugs; arrest; opium; escape; oppression | Margaret McSurely writes an editorial on why drug use can sap an organizer's (and organization's) will to fight. |
| 524 | Southern Patriot | The Story of Sammy Younge | 1969-02-01 | 7 | Younge, Sammy, Jr; Forman, James; Braden, Anne | Southern Freedom Movement; Tukegee Institute; racial killing; SNCC; black college | Anne Braden gives a synopsis of _Sammy Younge Jr._ by James Forman. |
| 525 | Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Lawyers Under Att | 1969-02-01 | 8 | Simon, Tobias; Taylor, Daniel T., III; Kunstler, William M.; Hirschkop, Phil H.; Kinoy, Arthur | civil rights; lawyers; disbarment; courtroom conduct | Two civil rights lawyers are facing disbarment in Kentucky and Florida. |
| 526 | Southern Patriot | Black Students Head Boycott at | 1969-02-01 | 1, 8 | Dolci, Carl J.; Schwertz, Joseph S. | desegregation; Fortier High School, New Orleans; discrimination; boycott; Black Student Union; black history; SNCC | Black students at Fortier High School in New Orleans are leading a boycott against discrimination and lack of a black student league. |
| 527 | Southern Patriot | Wallace Forces Seek to Rebuild | 1969-03-01 | 1 | Turnipseed, Tom; Jones, Bill; Johnson, Jim; Courtney, Kent; Walters, Bob; Smoot, Dan | Association of Wallace Voters; American Independent Party; politics | A group calling themselves the Association of Wallace Voters is meeting to try to continue the American Independent Party. |
| 528 | Southern Patriot | Militant Black Organization Em | 1969-03-01 | 1, 8 | Kenyatta, Zeke; Waller, Joe; Fullwood, Charles | garbage worker strike; black militants; Junta of Militant Organizations; unity; black history; SNCC | The Junta of Militant Organizations, a militant black group, has emerged in St. Petersburg, Florida in the aftermath of the garbage workers' strike. |
| 529 | Southern Patriot | 17-Year-Old Girl Sentenced to | 1969-03-01 | 1 | murder; robbery; death penalty; Shaw University; Rocky Mount, North Carolina | A seventeen-year-old girl in Rocky Mount, North Carolina was sentenced to death for the murder and robbery of a white merchant. | |
| 530 | Southern Patriot | Police in Kentucky Town Harass | 1969-03-01 | 2 | prostitution; gambling; Western State University; student questioning; police threat | Police in Bowling Green, Kentucky have been harassing students at Western State University instead of focusing on eliminating prostitution and gambling. | |
| 531 | Southern Patriot | Two Books About Slavery | 1969-03-01 | 2 | Lester, Julius; Sterne, Emma Gelders; Giovanopoulos, Paul | slavery; slave ship; Federal Writers' Project | A review of Julius Lester's _To Be A Slave_ and Emma Gelders Sterne's _The Long Black Schooner_. |
| 532 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review | 1969-03-01 | 2 | Cortez, James R.; O'Leary, John F.; Levy, Howard B.; Dahmer, Vernon; Wilson, Charles; Duvernay, Ramond; Young, Dorothy; Shelton, Robert | high bond; mine safety regulations; school segregation; sleep-in; appeal; bombing; draft refusal; House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); student demonstration. | A review of March's events. |
| 533 | Southern Patriot | Durhams' ACT - A Voice of the | 1969-03-01 | 3 | Hicks, Basie; Hicks, Doug; Matlock, Cuba; Sharron, Shirley; Boyte, Harry C.; Landerman, Dick; Boyte, Sara | ACT; poverty; neighborhood council; SNCC; black liberation movement; federal funding; black-white relations; public housing | ACT, a new organization in Durham, North Carolina is trying to help poor white residents gain a voice in the community. |
| 534 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Belle Says "Goodby | 1969-03-01 | 4 | Carpenter, Cassell | obscenity; _Kudzu); antebellum upbringing; SNCC; Mississippi Summer Project; violence; Ole Miss; Young Democrats Club; Milsaps College; SSOC; arrest | Cassell Carpenter, raised in Natchez, Mississippi, went from Southern Belle to being charged with obscenity for her work in the _Kudzu_. |
| 535 | Southern Patriot | Wentworth Strike Won | 1969-03-01 | 4 | Wentworth Manufacturing Company; strike; black-white unity; contract; SCLC; integration | Workers at the Wentworth Manufacturing Company in two small South Carolina towns won their negotiations after a four month strike. | |
| 536 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: More About | 1969-03-01 | 6 | McSurely, Margaret; Edmonds, Joseph | women's rights; poverty; legal equality | Reader Joseph Edmonds commends the _Southern Patriot_ for discussing the issue of women's rights. |
| 537 | Southern Patriot | The People's Form: Drug Questi | 1969-03-01 | 6 | marijuana; research; drugs | Reader Barry Greever is disappointed with the oversimplification of the drug issue in the October edition of the _Southern Patriot_. | |
| 538 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Three Forc | 1969-03-01 | 6 | Drukman, Mason | black/white liberals; black power; white radicals; repression | The mayor of Gary, Indiana explains the forces within the civil rights movement and how they can help black gain equality. |
| 539 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum | 1969-03-01 | 6 | Margolin, Julius | trade union; work organization | Community leader Julius Margolin commends trade unions on their work. |
| 540 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle | 1969-03-01 | 7 | Minnis, Jack | Tennessee Valley Authority; coal; Camp Breckinridge; competitive bidding; Island Creek Coal Company; mine safety; Bureau of Mines | Editorial about coal mining in Tennessee and the involvement of the TVA. |
| 541 | Southern Patriot | Southern Women Talk Freedom | 1969-03-01 | 7, 6 | Webb, Marilyn; Wells, Lyn | women's rights; SSOC; gender roles; New South; women's liberation groups; equality; women's movement; international rights | Editorial over a weekend conference of the Southern Women in Atlanta. They met to discuss their rights and roles in daily life. |
| 542 | Southern Patriot | "The Time For Movilizations Ha | 1969-03-01 | 7 | King, Martin Luther, Jr. | education; confrontation; human rights; demonstration; resistance; SSOC | SSOC explains how the movement has reached a turning point in terms of mobilized protests and public resistance. |
| 543 | Southern Patriot | Southern GI Movement Spreads | 1968-03-01 | 8 | Madison, Albert; Davis, Johnny; Toomer, Alfred; Levitan, Louis | soldier movement; servicemen's union; Fort Jackson; Vietnam War; radical; _Short Times_; teach-in; repression | Troops from across the South are beginning to organize and protest war, racism and GI rights. |
| 544 | Southern Patriot | Cola Miners' Strike Shakes Wes | 1969-04-01 | 1, 8 | Moore, Arch; Rockefeller, John D., IV; Buff, I. E.; Wells, Hawley; Rasmussen, Donald; Hechler, Ken; Boyle, W. A.; Brooks, Charles | coal mining; labor militancy; black lung disease; strike; United Mine Workers; rebellion | Miners in West Virginia struck to demand help with the treatment and prevention of black lung disease. The senate passed a bill on the issue but ignored the miners' demands. |
| 545 | Southern Patriot | WRO Meets in Jackson to Decide | 1969-04-01 | 1, 2 | Ginny Guild; National Welfare Rights Organization; organizing; Appalachia; welfare issues; federal funding; Work Incentive Program; workshop; local base | The National Welfare Rights Organization met in Jackson, Mississippi to discuss approaching the Nixon administration and build a base in the South. | |
| 546 | Southern Patriot | Race-or-Class Debate Rages Amo | 1969-04-01 | 1, 4 | Joyce, Frank; Bevel, Charles; Gothard, Lou; Braden, Carl; Richardson, Dale; Zellner, Bob; Youngblood, Doug; Fields, Carl; Lloyd, Baldwin; Mulloy, Karen; Adams, Frank; Sulivan, Anibal | Highlander Center; Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing; racism; unity; counter-revolution; economy; radical; male chauvinism; socialism; Southern Mountain Project; Vista | A three-day conference at the Highlander Center in Knoxville, Tennessee discussed issues of racism and the power structure of the United States. The main topic was how to place power in the hands of the common man. |
| 547 | Southern Patriot | Ben Shahn: 1898 - 1969 | 1969-04-01 | 4 | Shahn, Ben | SCEF; black hospital; integration; hospital discrimination; SCEF | Obituary of Ben Shahn, activist known for his fight against hospital discrimination. |
| 548 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1969-04-01 | 2 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Bethell, T. N.; Patterson, Lillie; Kaiser, Inez Yeargan; Hilton, Bruce | coal; poverty; soul food; church civil rights group | List of articles and books that have been recently published. |
| 549 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Summer Tours | 1969-04-01 | 2 | McManus, Jane | SCEF; fundraiser | SCEF is raising money by sponsoring a series of summer tours to Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America. |
| 550 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review | 1969-04-01 | 2 | Ray, Jame Earl; King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Nunn, Louie B.; King, Slate; Gitleman, Merton; Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Taylor, Daniel T., III | murder; conspiracy; Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee; free speech; Albany Movement; ACLU; appeal | Review of the events that have happened in April. |
| 551 | Southern Patriot | Black Students Disrupt Califor | 1969-04-01 | 3 | Fuller, Howard | black student rebellion; Duke University; UNC Chapel Hill | Overview of the black student rebellion at the predominantly white campuses in North Carolina. |
| 552 | Southern Patriot | Students Reject Duke Settlemen | 1969-04-01 | 3 | Scott, Bob | Duke University; National Guard; student rebellion; tear gas; marches, SSOC | The black students of Duke University, asking for high black enrollment rates and an African American Studies program, were dissatisfied with the efforts made by the school. |
| 553 | Southern Patriot | Governor Orders Police onto Ch | 1969-04-01 | 3 | arrest; cafeteria workers' strike; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Black Student Movement; boycott; police occupation | Seven students were arrested at UNC Chapel Hill for supporting a cafeteria workers' strike. | |
| 554 | Southern Patriot | Why Virginia Miner Joined the | 1969-04-01 | 3 | Tiller, John; Lewis, John L. | Vietnam War; Matewan Massacre; mining; VMW; police violence; Poor People's Campaign | John Tiller, a white miner from Appalachian Virginia, explains why he became included with the Vietnam War protest. |
| 555 | Southern Patriot | Southwest Georgia Battle Reach | 1969-04-01 | 5 | Young, Dorothy; Young, Yvonne; Gray, Bowie; Jackson, Robert; Burke, James; Houston, G. L. | Worth County, Georgia; boycott; school integration; student boycott; arrest; school policy; conspiracy; fraud; voter registration; delinquency | The residents of Worth County, Georgia are at a standstill over the fraud and conspiracy in their community. The main issue is the arrest and imprisonment of fourteen-year-old Dorothy Young for delinquency. |
| 556 | Southern Patriot | AVs Purge Edith Easterling | 1969-04-01 | 5 | Easterling, Edith; Walls, David; Mulloy, Joe; Ramsey, Tom | Appalachian Volunteers (AV); Office of Economic Improvement; anti-poverty; Marrowbone Folk School; Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee (KUAC); sedition | Edith Easterling was fired from the Appalachian Volunteers after the arrest of 5 other people for sedition. AV says the firing was not personal. |
| 557 | Southern Patriot | Clothes for Appalachia | 1969-04-01 | 5 | Appalachian Relief Committee; Marrowbone Folk School; clothing | The Appalachian Relief Committee makes a plea for Spring and Summer clothes, toys and games for needy families. | |
| 558 | Southern Patriot | New Orleans Women Wage School | 1969-04-01 | 6 | Schwertz, Joseph S.; Norman, Rhoda; Zellner, Dottie; Payzant, Tom; Dolce, Carl; Rosenberg, Samuel | Fortier High School; school boycott; school integration; women's action committee; Roosevelt Hotel Strike; student strike | The student boycott of Fortier High School caused significant reaction from both local women's groups and the school administration. |
| 559 | Southern Patriot | McSureley's Defy McClellan Ord | 1969-04-01 | 6, 8 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, John; Lamont, Carliss; Braden, Carl; Braden, Anne; Eastland, James; Kunstler, William M. | records; seized documents; Bill of Rights violation; McCarthy trials; subpoena | The McSurelys defied McClellan's order and did not bring the papers seized from their house in an illegal raid to their hearing. |
| 560 | Southern Patriot | Silencing Rap Brown | 1969-04-01 | 7 | Brown, Rap; Kunstler, William M.; Yates, William B., III | SNCC; persecution; fugitive warrant; arson; first amendment; militancy | The federal government is silencing the militant Rap Brown by forcing him to stay in Manhattan. He has been targeted for his speeches. |
| 561 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle | 1969-04-01 | 7 | Guthrie, Woodie; Perlo, Victor; Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.; Kent, Frank R. | fraud; reading habits; civil rights movement; difficult reading material; learning | Jack Minnis explains that reading information about the people they are fighting against in the movement can be educational. |
| 562 | Southern Patriot | The Great Speckled Bird - Atla | 1969-04-01 | 8 | Phillips, B. J.; Patterson, Eugene | _The Great Speckled Bird_; alternative newspaper; underground paper; obscenity; Georgia Power | _The Great Speckled Bird_, and underground Atlanta newspaper, celebrated it's one-year anniversary. |
| 563 | Southern Patriot | Workers Challenge Laurel Power | 1969-05-01 | 1, 8 | Bush, Hazel; Ishee, Herbert; Landrum, Fred | working class; Mississippi Democratic Party; Masonite Corporation strikers; Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; GROW; state police; petition; working people's candidate; militancy | A group of strikers from the Masonite Corporation in Laurel, Mississippi have decided to fight the local power structure by forming their own political party and running for office in the upcoming municipal election. |
| 564 | Southern Patriot | LUAC Admits It Was Wrong | 1969-05-01 | 1, 6 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Dombrowski, James; Smith, Ben; Waltzer, Bruce | Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee (LUAC); SCEF; apology; subversion; raid; seized documents | LUAC apologizes for its attacks on the SCEF and the report it distributed based on documents seized from SCEF in an illegal raid. |
| 565 | Southern Patriot | Couple Cited | 1969-05-01 | 1 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, John | contempt; documents; Senate Subcommittee; indictment; McClellan Committee; investigation | The senate voted to bring contempt of Congress charges against Alan and Margaret McSurely for refusing to hand over documents to the McClellan Committee. |
| 566 | Southern Patriot | Clarksville Strike Enters Seco | 1969-05-01 | 1, 8 | Neuhoff, Lorenz; Stanfill, Bill; Chester, Howard | Frosty Morn Meat Packing Plant; strike; boycott; black-white unity; labor organization; negotiation; wage increase | The strike at the Frosty Morn meat packing plant in Clarksville, Tennessee is entering its second year because the management refuses to negotiate with workers. The strike has spread to two other plants and caused a boycott of the product from consumers. |
| 567 | Southern Patriot | SDS Action Divides SSOC Staff | 1969-05-01 | 2 | SSOC; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); meeting; split; liberal; black liberation movement; reorganization | The SSOC called a meeting to reorganize their organization after a split with SDS over the lack of a "mass base" and being a "liberal" not "radical" organization | |
| 568 | Southern Patriot | New Orleans Teachers' Strike B | 1969-05-01 | 2 | Wessel, William; Dolce, Carl | strike; American Federation of Teachers; collective bargaining vote; teacher sit-in; arrest; Fortier High School; black militants | A twelve-day strike in New Orleans ended when local teachers lost support from the local union. They did not win their requests. |
| 569 | Southern Patriot | Memphis Public Workers Organiz | 1969-05-01 | 3 | Trotter, J. B.; Paire, Mary E.; Dakins, Wally; Scruggs, Surfus,, Jr.; Spragens, Robert; Gillespie, Gil | garbage strike; public workers; hospital workers' strike; promotion; working conditions; minimum wage | The sanitation strike in Memphis, TN encouraged other public employees to strike. |
| 570 | Southern Patriot | Memphis Militants Come Under A | 1969-05-01 | 3 | Lawson, James; Turks, Roy | protest; garbage strike; sit-in; Community on the Move for Equality; militancy; arrest; liberation; SCLC; the Invaders | The most militant black group in Memphis, the Invaders, has come under attack from local officials for the recent protests and demonstrations. |
| 571 | Southern Patriot | Who Rules the South | 1969-05-01 | 4 | Spencer, Howard; Kenyatta, Muhammad; King, Edwin; Thompson, Allen C.; Rogers, Nat. S.; Hearin, Bob; Robinson, Sidney; Clark, Charles; Patman, Wright; Hederman, Tom | black resistance; black-white tension; black militants; boycott; city planning board; banking; insurance company; industry; lawyers; education | Explains the white power structure, run by the city planning board, of Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 572 | Southern Patriot | Jackson: Repression and Respon | 1969-05-01 | 5 | Spencer, Howard; Kenyatta, Muhammad | black militancy; white racism; Jackson Human Rights Project; Black and Proud Liberation School; arrest; indictment; rape; black history; Tougaloo Movement; student protest; burglary | Statement on the repression of black militancy in Jackson, Mississippi issued by the Georgetown Defense Committee. |
| 573 | Southern Patriot | Trials of Bluefield Students B | 1969-05-01 | 5 | Turner, Lewis Tyrone; Hardway, Wendell; Travis, William; James, Edgar; Crockett, Paul; Johnson, Nathaniel Bernard; Banks, Shannon Dwight; Cunningham, Abishi; Jackson, Carrolton | Bluefield State College; bombing; dynamite; arrest; trial; dissent | Six students at Bluefield State College are on trial now for supposedly dynamiting the stairwell of a campus building. The trials have stifled the dissent. |
| 574 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Day Care C | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Hinds County, Mississippi; day care center; welfare; federal funding | Reader Betty Weeden asks for momentary help for two cooperative day care centers in rural Hinds County, Mississippi. | |
| 575 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Discrimina | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Chasan, Bruce; Hatfield; Mark | draft; Ole Miss; boycott; repression; draft discrimination | Reader Mike McMurray wants to address the issue of draft discrimination in the South. |
| 576 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Scholarshi | 1969-05-01 | 6 | black journalists; scholarships | Reader Frank Adams alerts others to an available scholarship. | |
| 577 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Questions | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Brown, Judith | enjoyable work; perception of contradictions; attention to humane data | Reader Merton Thomas questions authors of recent womens articles. |
| 578 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Cassell Ca | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Carpenter, Cassell | shunning | Reader commends the story of Cassell Carpenter and tells her to stay strong in her fight. |
| 579 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Grape Stri | 1969-05-01 | 6 | grape strike; union recognition; boycott; United Farm Workers | The United Farm Workers asks for volunteers to help with the table grape boycott. | |
| 580 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Mervin Har | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Harris, Mervin; Cimring, Annette | GROW; human rights | Mervin Harris, a political and humanist activist, died in Los Angeles on March 14th. |
| 581 | Southern Patriot | News in Review | 1969-05-01 | 6 | Hutchings, Phil; Koen, Charles; Kunstler, William; Jones, J. Robert; Melish, John Howard | SNCC; acquitted; violence; Ku Klux Klan; House Un-American Activities Committee; National States' Rights Party | Review of May's events. |
| 582 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle | 1969-05-01 | 7 | Ash, Roy | U.S. Economy; labor costs; company profit;; Litton Industries | Editorial about how U.S. businesses are leaving the country in order to find cheaper labor. |
| 583 | Southern Patriot | Books: The N.Y. Teachers' Unio | 1969-05-01 | 7 | Zitron, Celia Lewis; O'Casey, Sean | United Federation of Teachers; collective bargaining; job security; textbooks | Overview of New York's United federation of Teachers, and their use as a collection bargaining agent for city teachers. |
| 584 | Southern Patriot | Black, Youth Revolt Shakes Up | 1969-05-01 | 7 | Farris, Mary; Randolf, Ronnie | Council of Southern Mountains; Appalachia; poor black population | At the Council of Southern Mountains' annual meeting, the youth and black influence helped to change the direction of the meeting and provide aid to the poor in Appalachia. |
| 585 | Southern Patriot | Laurel Election Creates Flux | 1969-06-01 | 1 | Independent Workers Party; local election; working class candidate | In Laurel, Mississippi the local working class made history by running three candidates under the Independent Workers Party in the city election. | |
| 586 | Southern Patriot | Gainesville Militants Win A Vi | 1969-06-01 | 1, 5 | Caswell, Harold; Phillips, Orrie; Bell, Griffin B.; Morgan, Lewis R.; Dombrowski, James; Kunstler, William M.; Bender, Bill | militancy; arson; riot; resisting arrest; trial; first amendment | In Gainesville, Florida the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that local militants were entitled to hearings. |
| 587 | Southern Patriot | SSOC Dies | 1969-06-01 | 1 | SSOC; dissolved; SDS | The SSSOC was dissolved on June 8th in Edwards, Mississippi after receiving criticism from the SDS. | |
| 588 | Southern Patriot | Greensboro Shows Mailed Fist | 1969-06-01 | 1, 8 | Grimes, Willie; Harris, Wyle; Johnson, Nelson; McCullough, Willie; Fuller, Howard; Scott, Bob; Murchison, Joseph; Simkins, George | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; sit-in; Woolworth's; Dudley High School; black militants; riot; student rebellion | In Greensborough, North Carolina students at the NC A&T college campus rebelled against police for breaking up a demonstration at Dudley High School. This led to a shooting and gassing of students and multiple arrests. |
| 589 | Southern Patriot | The Month in Review | 1969-06-01 | 2 | Evers, Charles; Lee, Howard; Evans, Ahmed; Roseboro, Robert Louis; Carts, Gus; Laney, Michael | election; student rebellion; Orangeburg Massacre; acquittal; fire bombing; Southern Legal Action Movement; death penalty; Black Panther Party | A review of the events that happened in June. |
| 590 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy Loses | 1969-06-01 | 2 | Mulloy, Joe; Mulloy, Karen | U.S. Court of Appeals; draft refusal; conscientious objector | The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the five year prison sentence for Joe Mulloy and his refusing his induction into the U.S. Army. |
| 591 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1969-06-01 | 2 | Bates, Ruby; Price, Victoria; Carter, Dan T.; Bledsoe, Thomas | lynching; rape; poverty; prostitutes; "Scottsboro Boy"; Highlander Folk School | Review of "Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South" published by Louisiana State University Press. |
| 592 | Southern Patriot | How White Louisvillian Support | 1969-06-01 | 2 | Stickford, Keith | University of Louisville; Black Student Union; student demands; black recruitment; representation; arrest; nonviolence; poverty; scholarships; Ad Hoc Committee | Black students at the University of Louisville set fort a list of demands to the school to improve their representation within the black studies program. They have received support from the white community. |
| 593 | Southern Patriot | New Mexicans Struggle for Land | 1969-06-01 | 3 | Tijerina, Reies Lopez; Burger, Warren | agricultural cooperative; La Raza; land; justice; railroad development; courthouse raid; educational reform; welfare; poverty | The residents of New Mexico struggle to gain justice and the right to their land as they fight the whites that moved into the territory with the expansion of the railroad. |
| 594 | Southern Patriot | Co-op Revives Raza Tradition | 1969-06-01 | 3 | Tijerina, Reies Lopez; Martinez, Juan | Tierra Amarilla; violence; land rights; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidaldgo; welfare; poverty; co-operative farming | The people of Tierra Amarilla are reviving their farming tradition by creating an agricultural co-operative. |
| 595 | Southern Patriot | Laurel: A New Kind of Campaign | 1969-06-01 | 4 | Ishee, Herbert; Owens, John; Bush, Hazel | general election; workers' party; independent political movement; Chamber of Commerce; Skit; campaigning; harassment; taxes | The candidates of the workers' party in Laurel, Mississippi campaign differently than traditional candidates and try to prompt people to vote for change within the city power structure. |
| 596 | Southern Patriot | Mine Safety Bills Multiply | 1969-06-01 | 4 | Hechler, Ken; Randolph; Jennings; Nader, Ralph; Corcoran, John; Cook, Marlow; Boyle, W. A. | coal mine health; mine safety; United Mine Workers of America; mine inspection | Several bills are now before congress about coal mine safety and health, and the sponsors are attacking each other. |
| 597 | Southern Patriot | Rights of Man | 1969-06-01 | 4 | GROW; southern working class; _Rights of Man_; Laurel, MS; workers' independent ticket; racism | The GROW staff has begun editing the newspaper _Rights of Man_ targeted towards the southern working class. | |
| 598 | Southern Patriot | McClellan to Blame SNCC for Ri | 1969-06-01 | 4 | Javits, Jacob; Muskie, Edmund; McClellan, John L. | McClellan Committee; riot; militancy; SNCC; House Committee on Internal Security | The McClellan Committee drafted a report blaming the 1967 riots in Houston and Nashville on militant agitators. It linked SNCC members to the incident. |
| 599 | Southern Patriot | Nashiville Housing Programs Un | 1969-06-01 | 5 | Edmonds, John T. Fillebrown, T. Scott; Briley, Beverly; Meyers, Sherri | Nashville Housing Authority; slumlord; Nashville Committee for Decent Housing; urban renewal; living conditions; poverty; public housing | Nashville's public housing program is being attacked by activists and community organizers due to slum conditions and rents often higher than previous land lords. |
| 600 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Asks for Unity | 1969-06-01 | 5 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; MacNair, Everett; Edwards, George; Reid, Manfred | SCEF; repression; Vietnam War; welfare; minimum wage | At a recent SCEF meeting the board asked members to unite on issues facing the US. |
| 601 | Southern Patriot | Cortez in Prison | 1969-06-01 | 5 | Cortez, James R.; Taylor, Daniel T., III | SNCC; weapon possession; militancy | James R. Cortez is sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for possession of a sawed-off shotgun. His lawyer is appealing the sentence. |
| 602 | Southern Patriot | Interracial Coalitions: Proble | 1969-06-01 | 6 | Collins, Walter | Laurel, Mississippi; GROW; interracial movement; interracial organizing; hostility; black-white relations; black power; police brutality; racism; strike | Speech given at SCEF's New York Annual Meeting about interracial relations and problems from his experiences in Laurel, Mississippi. |
| 603 | Southern Patriot | A Black GI Speaks Out | 1969-06-01 | 6 | King, Martin Luther | Vietnam War; black liberation struggle; discrimination; Fort Polk; black identity; Viet Cong; marijuana | A black army member tells his experience in Vietnam, and the sense of identity over there. |
| 604 | Southern Patriot | The Black Manifesto | 1969-06-01 | 7 | Forman, James | Black Manifesto; Black Economic Conference; welfare rights; co-operative; Vietnam War; wealth redistribution; poverty; malnutrition; oppression | The Black Manifesto was presented to churches and synagogues across the nation asking for federal funding to help the impoverished of the nation. |
| 605 | Southern Patriot | The Continuing Struggle | 1969-06-01 | 7 | Williams, Harrison | collective bargaining; California grape workers; National Labor Relations Act; strike; union | Editorial about the California grape workers strike and labor relations in the country. |
| 606 | Southern Patriot | Alabama Prisons Stop Drug Test | 1969-06-01 | 7 | Long, Irl | Alabama prison; drug-testing; prisoners' welfare | Alabama prisons have stopped drug testing after abuses to prisoners' welfare. |
| 607 | Southern Patriot | Knoxville Case Continues: Tign | 1969-05-01 | 8 | Boruff, A. J.; Pearson, Murray; Tigner, Pete; McDade, George; Moore, Howard | Knoxville College; militant students; conviction; assault; Student Social Action Committee; testimony; appeal | Pete Tigner was sentenced to ten years for felonious assault on A. J. Boruff at the Knoxville College uprising. He was found guilty solely on the testimony of Murray Pearson, a fellow student. |
| 608 | Southern Patriot | Protests Free Five N. C. Youth | 1969-09-01 | 1, 8 | King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Lassiter, Thomas; Scott, Bob; Bickett, William Y.; Penny, Leon | hard labor; damage; harshness; pardon; fairness; black youth; Ku Klux Klan; Committee for Equal Justice; interracial poverty program | Five black youth, sentenced to twelve years hard labor for less than $100 in damage to a Klan building, were pardoned by the governor after mass protests. |
| 609 | Southern Patriot | Clarksville Strike Ends | 1969-09-01 | 1 | Newhoff, Lorenz, Jr. | Frosty Morn meat-packing plant; strike; pay raise; boycott; union representation | The Frosty Morn meat-packing plant strike in Clarksville ended with a contract between workers and management, spurred on by a nationwide boycott. |
| 610 | Southern Patriot | Atlantans Fight New Bus Fare I | 1969-09-01 | 1, 8 | Bolden, Dorothy; Maynard, William P. | bus fare; Atlanta Transit System; Citywide Bus Committee; SDS; fare increase; boycott | The residents of Atlanta are fighting a five cent bus fare increase, when the company raise it the previous year. |
| 611 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Holiday Cards | 1969-09-01 | 2 | Rigg, Peg; Furlong, Laura | SCEF; Christmas Cards | Two southern artists have designed holiday cards to be sold by the SCEF. |
| 612 | Southern Patriot | To Our Readers | 1969-09-01 | 2 | type setting; newsprint; title | The _Southern Patriot_ wants readers' reactions to the new type set and the paper is now printed on newsprint instead of coated paper. | |
| 613 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1969-09-01 | 2 | Graham, Hugh Davis; Gurr, Ted Robert; Bond, Julian; Ginger, Ann Fagan | violence; union members; black candidates; socialism; draft law | Reviews of _Violence in America_ by Hugh Davis Graham and Ted Robert Gurr; _Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Expereinces_, _New Man or No Man_, and _The New Draft Law: A Manual for Lawyers and Councilors_. |
| 614 | Southern Patriot | "Grass Roots People Did It" | 1969-09-01 | 3 | Saunders, Bill; Moultrie, Mary; Simmons, Rosetta; McCord, William; Thurmond, Strom; Rivers, Mendel; Finch, Robert; Abernathy, Ralph; Bennett, Isaiah | militant organizers; Charleston hospital workers' strike; union organization; SCLC; black community; community pride | A group of grass roots organizers in Charleston, South Carolina was able to form a union in and call a strike of black hospital workers. |
| 615 | Southern Patriot | A. B. M.: Southerners Vote Yes | 1969-09-01 | 3 | Sternglas, Ernest J. | ABM; atomic fallout; infant mortality | Southern Senators vote yes on A.B.M., showing they do care about their people and are heading scientific reports about atomic fallout. |
| 616 | Southern Patriot | Ahmed Evans Faces Death | 1969-09-01 | 4 | Evans, Fred Ahmed | black liberation struggle; death penalty; police shootout | SCEF and the _Southern Patriot_ have been asked to aid Fred Ahmed Evans, who is sentenced to death for a shoot-out between police and militants that killed four and wounded eleven. |
| 617 | Southern Patriot | Repression, Florida Style | 1969-09-01 | 4 | Wilcox, Levi; Davis, Moses; Davis, Clinton, Austin, Edward; Kirk, Claude | Florida Black Front; Mothers Welfare Rights Organization; conspiracy; extortion; bond-reduction; arrest; oppression; poor people's march | Three militant black leaders were arrested in Florida and had high bail set after asking black churches to end involvement with white politics. |
| 618 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Worker Convicted for Refu | 1969-09-01 | 4 | Collins, Walter; Mulloy, Joe; Sellers, Cleve | draft refusal; GROW; social organizing repression; voter registration; Mississippi Summer Project | SCEF organizer Walter Collins was sentenced to five years prison for draft refusal. |
| 619 | Southern Patriot | Fight on Dirksen Amendment Bre | 1969-09-01 | 4 | Miller, Scott; Dirksen, Everett | Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee; constitutional amendment; Dirksen Amendment | Kentucky Senator Scott Miller is leading the fight against Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen's effort to amend the constitution. |
| 620 | Southern Patriot | Lee Otis Johnson Still Behind | 1969-09-01 | 5 | Johnson, Lee Otis; King, Ester; Lipschulz, Abbie; Read, Clark; Vance, Carol; Marshall, Thurgood | black militancy; prison appeal; SNCC; marijuana conviction; national campaign; political prisoner | The campaign to free black militant Lee Otis Johnson from jail has increased. |
| 621 | Southern Patriot | Litton: How the Rich Become Su | 1969-09-01 | 5 | McNamara, Robert; Rubel, John H. | Litton Industries; Ingalls Shipbuilding Yards; union-busting; tax avoidance; Fast Deployment Logistics | Editorial on Litton Industries and how it is making vast profits. |
| 622 | Southern Patriot | Fall Anti-War Actions | 1969-09-01 | 5 | Vietnam War; Washington demonstrations; Vietnam Moratorium Committee | A massive "fall offensive" has been planned by anti-war groups across the country, culminating in Washington demonstrations in mid-November. | |
| 623 | Southern Patriot | United Front Against Fascism | 1969-09-01 | 6, 7 | Newton, Huey | Black Panther Party for Self-Defense; fascism; Resurrection City; criticism; Progressive Labor Party; united front; police control; SNCC | Overview of the National Conference for a United Front Against Fascism in Oakland, California, hosted by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. |
| 624 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Urges United Front | 1969-09-01 | 6 | fascism; Black Panther Party | SCEF calls for a united front against fascism for all readers. | |
| 625 | Southern Patriot | William Kunstler | 1969-09-01 | 6 | ghetto; police brutality; black community | Quote by William Kunstler about white police control of black communities. | |
| 626 | Southern Patriot | Roberta Alexander | 1969-09-01 | 6 | Newton, Huey P. | Black Panther Party; male supremacy; unity | Quote by Roberta Alexander about women in the Black Panther Party. |
| 627 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Guaranteed | 1969-09-01 | 7 | Forman, James | Black Manifesto; guaranteed annual income; poverty | Reader Otto Nathan wants attention brought to the issue of a guaranteed national annual income. |
| 628 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: SDS Split | 1969-09-01 | 7 | Shapiro, Nancy | SDS; socialist revolution | Reader Nancy Shapiro explains that the split in the SDS has been misrepresented in the press. |
| 629 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: PAR Replie | 1969-09-01 | 7 | Kerner, Otto | People Against Racism; Kerner Report; racism; white supremacy | People Against Racism (PAR) explains their stand on racism and speaks out against the Kerner report. |
| 630 | Southern Patriot | The People's Forum: Tax All Wa | 1969-09-01 | 7 | Mulloy, Joe; Nixon, Richard; McGovern, George | Vietnam War; draft refusal; draft evasion; war tax; war profits | Reader John Tiller calls for an 85% tax on all industrialists that made profits from war materials. |
| 631 | Southern Patriot | Black Officials | 1969-09-01 | 8 | Evers, Charles | black political officials; local elections; voting restrictions; Voting Rights Act | Black candidates across the South are being elected to political office. |
| 632 | Southern Patriot | SNCC Reorganizes | 1969-09-01 | 8 | Brown, Rap | SNCC; Student National Coordinating Committee; political party; agrarian reform | SNCC moved its main office and changes its name to Student National Coordinating Committee. |
| 633 | Southern Patriot | Four Marines Face 86 Years | 1969-11-01 | 1, 8 | Backstrom, Perry; Terry, Oscar; McCall, Arthur; Nickson, Charles; Talton, Joe | conspiracy; brig; Camp Lejeune uprising; Vietnam; riot; black marines; trial | Four black marines face up to 86 years in the brig from charges relating to a fight and rumors of a riot on the base. |
| 634 | Southern Patriot | Blacks Move Ahead in Greene Co | 1969-11-01 | 1, 8 | Williams, Oscar; Kirksey, Peter J.; Herndon, J. Dennis; Posey, James A.; Abernathy, Ralph; Burton, Frenchie | black politicians; NAACP; SCLC; black voters; integrated schools; SNCC; black community; eviction | In Greene County, Alabama the election of black officials to the local government has upset the white ruling class. |
| 635 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1969-11-01 | 2 | Allen, Robert L.; DuBois, W.E.B. | black liberation movement; black nationalism; black freedom fighter | Review of _Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History_ by Robert L. Allen. |
| 636 | Southern Patriot | Southern Labor | 1969-11-01 | 2 | strike; Distributive Workers' Union; Planters Peanut Company; General Electric; leaflet | Strikes in Suffolk, Virginia of peanut workers and in Louisville, Kentucky by General Electric employees. | |
| 637 | Southern Patriot | "Black Monday" In Memphis | 1969-11-01 | 3 | Smith, Maxine; Sugarman, Miriam; Abernathy, Ralph; Epps, Jesse | "Black Monday," Memphis March; boycott; NAACP; black teachers; decentralization; Black Coalition; police brutality | Details the actual events that led up to a Memphis march on November 10th that resulted in rock-throwing and the use of tear gas. |
| 638 | Southern Patriot | Coffee House Fight Goes On: 9 | 1969-11-01 | 3 | Beard, Murray; Gilbert, Steve | Fort Knox; GI Coffee House; arrest; contempt; harassment; nationwide sick call; eviction; picketing | A controversial coffee house in Brandenburg, Kentucky has been the base for war protesters, nine of whom have been jailed. |
| 639 | Southern Patriot | New Movement in Fayette | 1969-11-01 | 4 | Bryant, Baxton | poverty; black community; assault; voter registration; white political control; marches; picketing; boycott; black representation; arrest; free speech | In Fayette County, Tennessee a new black movement against the white ruling class has started, including a boycott of local white businesses. |
| 640 | Southern Patriot | Elections Fail in Canton | 1969-11-01 | 4 | Nichols, John; Jones, Hermit A. | black community control; election legality; black voter registration; city annexation; polling places | Black candidates in Canton, Mississippi failed to be elected, but are questioning the legality of the election and are asking why polling places were moved. |
| 641 | Southern Patriot | One Man Against the Klan | 1969-11-01 | 5 | Good, Jona | Ku Klux Klan; threats; racism; rebellion; hatred | Jona Good has taken a stand against the Ku Klux Klan in his North Carolina town. |
| 642 | Southern Patriot | Voting Rights Bill | 1969-11-01 | 5 | Comer, William M. | black voting rights; congressional stalling; voter registration; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; literacy tests | Mississippi Congressman William M. Colmer has successfully stalled the bill to protect black voting rights. |
| 643 | Southern Patriot | News In Review | 1969-11-01 | 6 | Ali, Muhammad; Mulloy, Joe; Johnson, Lee Otis; Tomash, Sam; Hardy, Meredith | appeal; draft refusal; conscientious objector; marijuana sale; militants; automobile accident | A review of November events and news. |
| 644 | Southern Patriot | Clarence Jordan Dies | 1969-11-01 | 6 | Jordan, Clarence; Fuller, Millard; Jordan, Florence | prophet; Koinonia Farm; civil rights | Obituary and biography of Reverend Clarence Jordan. |
| 645 | Southern Patriot | The Road Ahead | 1969-11-01 | 7 | Memphis demonstration; black women beaten; school desegregation; voter registration; tent city; Operation Freedom; McFerren's Grocery | Editorial about the Memphis demonstrations and the effect on upstart McFarren's Grocery. | |
| 646 | Southern Patriot | Roots of Southern Struggle | 1969-11-01 | 7 | Stephenson, Gladys; Fleming, Will; Stephenson, James; McCord, Jim; Gordon, William; Johnson, James; Frantz, Laurent | police invasion; black community; violence; lynching; mob; arrest; police shooting; civil rights violation | Gives an overview of the violent happenings in Columbia, Tennessee on Feb. 25-26 1946. |
| 647 | Southern Patriot | Lawlessness and Disorder | 1969-11-01 | 7 | Southern Regional Council; lawlessness; disorder; racial discrimination; government | The Southern Regional Council released a report entitled "Lawlessness and Disorder: 14 Years of Failure in Southern School Desegregation." | |
| 648 | Southern Patriot | S.C. Women Win Six-Month Strik | 1970-01-01 | 1, 8 | Cunupp, Maxine; Willis, Artimisha; McDow, Tammy; McDow, Edna | Hosiery Corporation; strike; black-white unity; textile manufacturers; harassment; union; demonstration; violence; leaflet; unfair labor practices | Women in Rock Hill, South Carolina at the Hosiery Corporation won a six-month long strike in spite of not gaining union recognition. |
| 649 | Southern Patriot | Miners React to Murder in Yabl | 1970-01-01 | 1, 8 | Yablonski, Joseph W.; Boyle, W. A.; Rauh, Joseph; Mitchell, John; Jackson, Farall | miners; murder; campaign; wildcat strike; violence; threats; Landrum-Griffin Act; Mafia; reform; rebellion | Miners in Charleston, West Virginia question the murder of Joseph W. Yablonski and his wife and daughter and its relation to his recent campaign for UMW president. |
| 650 | Southern Patriot | "Hurricane Relief Was a Disast | 1970-01-01 | 1, 5 | Beall, R. S.; Barlow, Ralph; Mason, Gilbert; Sirman, Velma; Brooks, Owen; Dunn, Felix; Ramsay, Claude | Hurricane Camille; relief funds; federal relief; local economy; relief discrimination; Red Cross; government failure; criticism; donation withheld; cleanup contracts; Small Business Administration Loans; insurance settlements; rate increase | Victims of Hurricane Camille faced issues of discrimination, bias and fraud in receiving disaster relief. |
| 651 | Southern Patriot | Supreme Court Will Hear Mulloy | 1970-01-01 | 2 | Mulloy, Joe; Sedler, Robert A.; Collins, Walter | U.S. Supreme Court; draft refusal; political activist; draft board 47 | The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal against Joe Mulloy's five year jail sentence for draft refusal. He is claiming that Draft Board 47 is incompetent. |
| 652 | Southern Patriot | Austin Activists Under Attack | 1970-01-01 | 2 | University of Texas; riot; property damage; student protest; conspiracy; Chuck Wagon protest; police harassment; arrest; dissent | Student activists at the University of Texas in Austin have been arrested for their protests and as a form of dissent control. | |
| 653 | Southern Patriot | News in Review | 1970-01-01 | 2 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Terry, Oscar; Lassiter, Herbert; Backstrom, Perry; Kidd, Paul; Allison, Bill | McClellan Committee; contempt of Congress; trial postponed; illegal confinement; brig; marines; school boycotts; school integration | A review of January's news and events. |
| 654 | Southern Patriot | Federal Agencies in Appalachia | 1970-01-01 | 3 | federal government; Appalachia; income; Economic Development Administration; Small Business Administration; economic control; Office of Economic Opportunity; Area District Development; National Forrest Service; Army Corps of Engineers; TVA; Appalachian Re | Editorial about the role of the federal government and its agencies in Appalachia, and how they hurt the region. | |
| 655 | Southern Patriot | SNCC Activists Start Serving T | 1970-01-01 | 4 | Stone, Dan; Tillman, J. P.; Simmons, Micheal; Moore, Bob; Wilson, Johnny; Foxx, Larry | prison term; draft protest; Selective Service Act; militancy; picket; Atlanta Induction Center; SNCC | Five SNCC veterans will serve their 3 1/2 year prison sentences for a draft protest in 1966 in Atlanta. |
| 656 | Southern Patriot | GE Strike: Support in Portsmou | 1970-01-01 | 4 | General Electric; strike; un-unionized; racism; interracial committee; labor rally | General Electric strikers have found support form the people of Portsmouth, Virginia. | |
| 657 | Southern Patriot | The Governor's Men | 1970-01-01 | 4 | Williams, John Bell; Carmichael, Gilbert E.; Brunin, Ed; Hearin, Robert M.; Johnson, Russ M.; Dantzler, A. H.; Biddy, J. Harold; Levingston, Sidney; Scribner, J. R.; Layton, Kenneth C. | black and poor coalition; Mississippi power structure; Hurricane Camille; Governor's Emergency Council; building codes; discrimination; corruption; criticism | A coalition of black and poor people are highly critical of Mississippi's power structure's plan for the Gulf Coast. |
| 658 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Couple Charged with Embra | 1970-01-01 | 6 | Honey, Mike; Allen, Martha; McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Schroering, Edwin A., Jr.; Richardson, Charles R.; Reid, Manfred; Braden, Anne | protest; persecution; embracery; "Black Six", Southern Committee Against Repression; ghetto uprising; conspiracy | Mike Honey and Martha Allen are being charged with embracery, or trying to influence the jury, for protesting the trial of the "Black Six", associated with a 1968 ghetto uprising. |
| 659 | Southern Patriot | A Free Press Issue | 1970-01-01 | 6 | Honey, Mike | free speech; first amendment; newsletter; indictment | Martha Allen explains how her first amendment rights to free speech have been violated. |
| 660 | Southern Patriot | GI's Form War Crimes Commissi | 1970-01-01 | 6 | Horner, Richard; Czaplyski, Larry; Johnson, Timothy; Kleine, Terry | Fort Gordon; Vietnam War; soldier crimes; leaflet; Article 92 | A group of four GIs were arrested at Fort Gordon for forming a war crimes commission to expose the atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam. |
| 661 | Southern Patriot | Southern Co-ops (2) | 1970-01-01 | 7 | Boucree, Thaddeus; Blance, Maison | change; community action program; integration; fair treatment; co-operative; Eltwear | Editorial about Father Thaddeus Boucree and the co-operatives in Elton, Louisiana. |
| 662 | Southern Patriot | Girl, 18, Still on Death Row | 1970-01-01 | 7 | Hill, Marie; Scott, Bob; Stein, Adam; Bland, Bob | black slums; murder; appeal; gas chamber; death penalty; solitary confinement | Marie Hill, an eighteen year old black girl declared mentally retarded at the age of twelve, is still sentenced to death as she appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 663 | Southern Patriot | Tenants Win Housing Control | 1970-01-01 | 1, 8 | Willis, William R.; Edwards, Earle; McCray, Ernest; Stalls, Sonny; Watson, Ivy; Robinson, Jesse; Mitchel, Annie; Johnson, Steve | militant rent strike; all-black community; Harlem Tenants Association; poverty; low income housing; U.S.Sugar Corporation; tenements; Clewiston Housing Authority; Farmers Home Administration; rental housing; federal funding | Tenants in the all black south Florida community of Harlem won control of their housing from the U.S. Sugar Corporation through a militant rent strike. |
| 664 | Southern Patriot | Officials Close GI Coffee Hous | 1970-02-01 | 1, 8 | Levy, Howard; Gardner, Fred | anti-war movement; repression; GI coffee house; Fort Jackson; racism; the UFO; arrest; restraining order; protest; UFO Offense Coalition; demonstration; petition | The GI Coffee House, the UFO, has been closed and the staff arrested as a form of repression to stop the anti-war movement in Columbia, South Carolina. |
| 665 | Southern Patriot | Four Marines Get Token Sentenc | 1970-02-01 | 1 | Backstrom, Perry; McCall, Arthur; Terry, Oscar; Nickson, Charles | black marines; conspiracy; rioting; court martial; breach of peace; assault | Four black marines were sentenced to only months in the brig instead of a possible 86 years for a fight in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 666 | Southern Patriot | Black Six Trial Bounced Back t | 1970-02-01 | 1, 7 | Allen, Martha; Honey, Mike; Richardson, Charles; Tachaw, Eric | "Black Six"; jail; embracery; protest; freedom of the press; jury tampering; picketing; leaflet; free speech | The arrests of Martha Allen and Mike Honey for embracery in Munfordville, Kentucky helped get the trial of the "Black Six" moved back to Louisville. |
| 667 | Southern Patriot | Letters: To Senator Edward Ken | 1970-02-01 | 2 | Carswell, G. Harold; Thomas, Carol | Judicial Committee; employment policy | Letter about Judge Carswell's racist employment policy in his family business. |
| 668 | Southern Patriot | Letters: To the US Dept of Jus | 1970-02-01 | 2 | Herring, Ralph; McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret | contempt of Congress; upbringing | Letter about Margaret McSurely's upbringing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and how she is not a threat to the U.S. Government. |
| 669 | Southern Patriot | Letter: To the Patriot | 1970-02-01 | 2 | Ku Klux Klan; resurgence; Klan sympathizers | Letter about Klan activities and resurgence in Princeton, New Jersey after the Nov. 69 _Patriot_ article on the subject. | |
| 670 | Southern Patriot | UN to Probe Panther Attacks | 1970-02-01 | 2 | Weis, G. | United Nations; Black Panthers; police violence | The UN has agreed to look into police attacks on the Black Panthers after being asked by the SCEF. |
| 671 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-02-01 | 2 | Rose, Thomas; DuBois, W.E.B.; Killens, John Oliver; Horowitz, David; Domhoff, G. William | violence; repression; civil rights movement | Review of _Violence in America_ by Thomas Rose; _An ABC of Color_ by W.E.B. DuBois; and "Corporations and the Cold War" and _Studies in Imperialism and the Cold War_. |
| 672 | Southern Patriot | APPALACHIA - Who Profits | 1970-02-01 | 3 | Corcaran, John; Hunter, Louis; Caudill, Harry | income; Fordson; coal industry; Consolidation Coal Company; United Mine Workers; conspiracy; mine safety; Work Incentive Program; tax structure; strip mining; Penn Virginia; poverty; welfare | Editorial about the amount of money made by coal companies in Appalachia versus the average salary of its residents. |
| 673 | Southern Patriot | Movement Lawyer Speaks Out | 1970-02-01 | 4 | White, Marion OVerton | civil rights lawyers; school desegregation; harassment; NAACP; political control | Civil rights lawyer Marion Overton White speaks out about school desegregation and explains his experiences and philosophy. |
| 674 | Southern Patriot | Self-Help Housing in Louisiana | 1970-02-01 | 4 | Lapeyrolerie, Frank; Wolfe, Henry, Jr.; Branch, Aubrey | shacks; tenements; private home ownership; poverty; Louisiana Summer Project of 1969; F.H.A. loan; self-help house; Operation Breadbasket; co-operative | Families in Louisiana are leaving dilapidated shacks owned by sugar plantations by building their own homes through the assistance of South East Louisiana Self-Help Housing Association. |
| 675 | Southern Patriot | UNC Cafeteria Workers Win Mont | 1970-02-01 | 5 | Young, Ted; Hobby, Wilbur; Pierce, Jim; Lee, Howard | cafeteria strike; University of North Carolina; minimum wage; racism; saga food services; picket line; American Federations of State, County and Municipal Employees; student support; student demonstration | Cafeteria workers at the University of North Carolina won their month long strike over working conditions with the help of student support. |
| 676 | Southern Patriot | "Freedom of the Press is Guara | 1970-02-01 | 6 | Allen, Martha; Honey, Mike | Vietnam War opposition; poverty; socialism; protest; mass media; freedom of press; government control; First Amendment; Alien and Sedition Acts; media ownership; repression; government ownership | Editorial about how the government interferes with and represses mass media and the violation of the First Amendment. |
| 677 | Southern Patriot | West Point "Desegregation" Pro | 1970-02-01 | 7 | Buffington, John; Wilson, Billy | West Point School Board;desegregation; school closing; arson | The school board in West Point, Mississippi is dealing with desegregation by closing the junior-senior school. |
| 678 | Southern Patriot | Muslim Farm Under Attack | 1970-02-01 | 7 | Johnson, Frank; Wyatt, Ray; McClung, Robert; Wyatt, Wallace; Holmes, Jimmy; Billingsley, Orzell; Strickland, Ed; Brewer, Albert | Nation of Islam; farming; violence; threats; Progressive Land Developers, Inc.; Restore Integrity to Development; conspiracy | The Nation of Islam, which attempted to operate two cattle farms in St. Clair County, Alabama sparked a wave of hysteria from local residents and officials. |
| 679 | Southern Patriot | State, Justice Dept. Cooperate | 1970-03-01 | 1, 8 | White, J. H.; Fairley, Kenneth; Murphy, George | mass arrest; Mississippi Valley State College; protest; grass roots; class boycott; Parchman Prison; habeas corpus; militancy; Highway Patrol | 900 black students were arrested in mass after a strike at Mississippi Valley State College. |
| 680 | Southern Patriot | Kentucky's Teacher Strike | 1970-03-01 | 1 | court injunction; teacher strike; pay raise; cigarette tax; coal tax | The state of Kentucky used court injunction to break a statewide teacher strike; they were demanding pay raises. | |
| 681 | Southern Patriot | Death of a Movement Soldier | 1970-03-01 | 1, 7 | Featherstone, Ralph; Brown, Rap | freedom campaign; militant black movement; murder; SNCC; riot; Kerner Report | Discusses the death of Ralph Featherstone, who was killed on his way to support Rap Brown at his trial. |
| 682 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1970-03-01 | 2 | Johnson, Timothy; Horner, Charles Richard; Czaplyski, Lawrence; Kleine, Terry; Miller, Charles F.; Head, Robert; Fife, Darlene; Mulloy, Joe; Sedler, Robert; Collins, Robert; Boone, Richard C.; Stephen | Fort Gordon; GI War Crimes Commission; Nola Express; obscenity; draft refusal; appeal; Ku Klux Klan; lay off; conspiracy; Alabama Action Committee | A review of the events and news in March |
| 683 | Southern Patriot | Merita Bread Workers Rebel Aga | 1970-03-01 | 3 | Griffith, Bill; Martin, Elliot; McMillan, James | Merita Bakeries; union; secession; strike; violence; black white relations; racism; international union; arrest | Workers at the Merita Bakeries in Charlotte, North Carolina voted to secede from their international union, which caused a strike when the company tried to ignore local leadership. |
| 684 | Southern Patriot | Voorhees College Locks Out Stu | 1970-03-01 | 4 | McNair, Robert; Morris, J. Kenneth; Graham, Harry; Williams, Willie; Cambrill, Jerry; Potts, John | Voorhees College; police occupation; Black Awareness Coordinating Committee; student boycott; federal funding | Students at Voorhees College in South Carolina were locked out by local police and the National Guard after boycotting white leadership of the black school. |
| 685 | Southern Patriot | OLE MISS: Black Militancy, Whi | 1970-03-01 | 4 | Trister, Michael; Strickler, George; Bradley, John; Sullivan, Charles L. | Ole Miss; black grievances; arrest; North Mississippi; Rural Legal Services; Up With People | Whites students at Ole Miss are beginning to understand and support the grievances of the black students after over 60 students were arrested. |
| 686 | Southern Patriot | 21 Chareged Under Anti-Riot La | 1970-03-01 | 4 | Tigner, Pete; Boling, Edward J.; Bozeman, Barry | University of Tennessee; anti-riot law; violence; police brutality; arrest; student protest; repression | 21 people, including 15 students from the University of Tennessee, were arrested under the anti-riot law after demonstrating against the new university president selection. The only violence came from the police. |
| 687 | Southern Patriot | Movement Doctors Under Attack | 1970-03-01 | 5 | McCaskill, Luther W.; Henry, Aaron; Gatch, Donald | abortion; murder; acquittal; NCAAP; militancy; drug law violation; malnutrition; hunger; medical draft deferment | Two southern doctors are under attack from the legal system for standing up for the poor black populations civil rights. One was indicted for murder for performing abortions and the other for speaking out against malnutrition. |
| 688 | Southern Patriot | The Fight to Save Head Start | 1970-03-01 | 5 | Williams, John Bell; Finch, Robert; Henry, Aaron; Montgomery, Bernice; Stevens, Francis; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Page, Matthew | Head Start; governor veto; funding; picket; petition; racism; teacher qualifications | Residents all over Mississippi are fighting to save the head start program from being out by Governor John Bell Williams. |
| 689 | Southern Patriot | Mendenhall: Old-Time Violence | 1970-03-01 | 6 | Huemmer , Doug; Brown, Curry; Perkins, John; Brooks, Owens; Evers, Charles | violence; police brutality; job discrimination; Tougaloo College; arrest; beating; boycott | Marches continue in Mendenhall, Mississippi after the brutal beating of Tougaloo students by local police. |
| 690 | Southern Patriot | Spring Mobe | 1970-03-01 | 6 | Vietnam War; "Spring Offensive;" war protest; New Mobe; war cost | The _Southern Patriot_ urges readers to purchase reading material from the New Mobe about the true cost of the Vietnam War. | |
| 691 | Southern Patriot | Embracery is "Fantastic" | 1970-03-01 | 6 | Allen, Martha; Honey, Mike; Countryman, Vern | protest; embracery; repression; discrimination; freedom of the press | A professor at the Harvard Law School has called the embracery charge against Martha Allen and Mike Honey "fantastic" because it proves discrimination and repression by the local government. |
| 692 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-03-01 | 7 | Shaw, Clay; Garrison, Jim; Kennedy, John F.; Wallace, George; Brener, Milton E.; Kinoy, Arthur; Dombrowski, James; Smith, Benjamin E. | conspiracy; constitutional rights violation; lack of evidence; damage suit | Presents a review of "The Garrison Case: A Study in the Abuse of Power" by Milton E. Brener. |
| 693 | Southern Patriot | Bar Asks Taylor Suspension | 1970-03-01 | 7 | Taylor, Daniel T., III; Kunstler, William M.; Pound, J. Mile; Colson, William G. | Kentucky Court of Appeals; suspension; disbarment; civil rights cases; harassment; unethical conduct | Daniel T. Taylor III received a one year suspension from practicing law after being found guilty of unethical conduct. It is a lesser penalty than disbarment, which was originally asked for by the State Bar Association. |
| 694 | Southern Patriot | Subpoenas & the Media | 1970-03-01 | 7 | Mitchell, John; Caldwell, Earl | news media; confidential information; government subpoenas; radical groups; jail; free speech; Black Panthers; resistance | Editorial about the rash of government subpoenas for media information about radical civil rights groups. The _Southern Patriot_ states they will defy any subpoenas for their records. |
| 695 | Southern Patriot | Muldraugh Coffee House Fights | 1970-03-01 | 8 | Portugal, Dave; Schermerhorn, Susan; Rodes, Dan; Gordon, James F.; Ridenour, David | GI coffee house; Fort Knox; indictment; jail; appeal; injunction; boycott; leaflet; demonstration; violence; free speech | In Muldraugh, Kentucky a local GI coffee house is under attack again for protesting, and leafleting at a local burger shop. |
| 696 | Southern Patriot | Virginia Unions Build Coalitio | 1970-03-01 | 8 | Abernathy, Ralph; Taylor, Elna; Freeman,Bill; Robinson, Cleveland; Gardner, Tom | union; strike; Louise Obici Memorial Hospital; General Electric; coalition; SCLC; University of Virginia | Members of the union in Suffolk, Virginia traveled to Waynesboro, Virginia to show support for striking non-professional hospital workers. They formed an active coalition between the two radical, independent labor unions. |
| 697 | Southern Patriot | Fifth Circuit Court Hears Laur | 1970-04-01 | 1, 8 | Smith, Benjamin E.; Coleman, J. P.; Thornberry, Walter; Ingraham, John; Hays, Hulse; Youngdahl, James E. | U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Masonite Plant; labor laws; National Labor Relations Board; trusteeship; strike; violence | The union from the Masonite plant in Laurel, Mississippi went to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a lower court ruled against them in their dispute with their own union and Masonite. |
| 698 | Southern Patriot | Atlanta City Workers Strike | 1970-04-01 | 1, 8 | Massell, Sam; Stokes, Joel; Truelove, Gene; Holman, Raymond Travis; Baker, Thomas; Maddox, Lester; Simmons, James; Wilson, John C. | garbage worker strike; employee benefits; wage increase; firing; scab; police violence | Garbage workers in Atlanta went on strike when city officials refused to raise their wages. It resulted in violence and arrests. |
| 699 | Southern Patriot | 2000 Tennesseans March Against | 1970-04-01 | 1 | Brown, Rap; Bryant, Baxton; Lawson, James; Kamis, Peter; Bible, Carroll; Rubin, Jerry; Ochs, Phil | political repression; march; protest; civil rights; "Knoxville 22" | More than 2,000 people in Nashville, Kentucky marched on the state capitol to protests political repression by local and state officials. |
| 700 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1970-04-01 | 2 | Cooper, Danny; Allison, William; Free, Jerry; Johnson, Paul; Collins, Walter; Hodes, William; McIntyre, Lionel | racial prejudice; military racism; draft refusal; conscientious objector; criminal trespass; Black Manifesto; radical pacifism; the Peace Makers; National Tenants Organization | A review of the events and news from April. |
| 701 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-04-01 | 2 | Ginger, Ann Fagan; Garry, Charles R.; Newton, Huey P. | Black Panthers; racist jurors; mistrial | Review of _Minimizing Racism in Jury Trials_ by Charles R. Garry, based on the proceedings of The People of California v. Huey P. Newton. |
| 702 | Southern Patriot | Behind Rap Brown's Trial: Hist | 1970-04-01 | 3 | Featherstone, Ralph; Brown, Rap; Payne, William; Tubman, Harriet; Richardson, Gloria; Adams, Elaine; Stafford, Emerson; Carmichael, Stokely; Wise, Stanley; Yates, William B., III | trial; racism; arson; militancy; black population; SNCC; protest; semi-martial law; Black Action Federation; speech; shooting; Kerner commission | Editorial about the history of the Civil Rights struggle in Cambridge, Maryland and how Rap Brown came to speak there. |
| 703 | Southern Patriot | N.C.: Fired Without Explanatio | 1970-04-01 | 4 | Appleton, Clyde; Pow, Alex S.; Turner, W. Newton | Western Carolina University; picket; professor firing; tenure | Clyde Appleton, a music professor at Western Carolina University, was terminated without reason even though he was recommended for tenure by the rest of the music faculty. |
| 704 | Southern Patriot | Florida: Loyalty Oath Revised | 1970-04-01 | 4 | Lamborn, Lee; Connell, Stella | University of Florida; loyalty oath; firing; repression; constitutionality | Three University of Florida employees were fired mid-term for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. |
| 705 | Southern Patriot | Tenn: Free Speech Issue | 1970-04-01 | 4 | Ellington, Buford; Serron, Luis; Boling, Edward | University of Tennessee; October 15 Moratorium; free speech; anti-riot law; war protest | Luis Serron, a sociology professor, was fired from the University of Tennessee for allowing his students to attend, and to speak at, the October 15 Moratorium. |
| 706 | Southern Patriot | Listener-Owned Radio in Housto | 1970-04-01 | 4 | Lee, Larry; Gardner, Don | Pacifica station; KPFT-FM; cooperative; communication; news | A new listener owned radio station, KPFT-FM of Pacifica station; has started in Houston, Texas. |
| 707 | Southern Patriot | Wrecking Appalachia | 1970-04-01 | 5 | Butler, Jim; Nunn, Louie; Johnson, Luther M.; Grim, Elmore; Gibson, Dan; Sturgill, Bill | Bethlehem Steel; strip mining; environmental destruction; land destruction; Kentucky State Department of Reclamation; coal mining; mineral rights | Narrative of a radio excerpt about the destruction of Appalachia that is caused by strip mining in Kentucky. |
| 708 | Southern Patriot | Wilcox Co. Co-ops | 1970-04-01 | 6 | Thomas, Daniel H.; Edwards, William J.; Jones, Irene | black voter registration; cooperative; economic independence; sewing co-op; Freedom quilting bee | In Wilcox County, Alabama, black citizens are gaining more power at the polls and more economic independence through co-operatives. |
| 709 | Southern Patriot | Black Commissioners On The Job | 1970-04-01 | 6 | Herndon, J. Dennis; Branch, William McKinley; Drake, Jack; Gilmore, Thama | Housing Authority; economic development; black commissioners; Greco Grant; Community Action Program; voter registration | In Eutaw, Alabama, four black commissioners have been working to help their local communities. |
| 710 | Southern Patriot | Virginia Workers Organize | 1970-04-01 | 7 | Freeman, Bill; Stevens, George; Bryant, Irving | union; General Electric strike; solidarity; racism; discrimination; women's rights; Verona Westinghouse Plant | Editorial about striking union workers across the state of Virginia fighting discriminatory hiring practices. |
| 711 | Southern Patriot | Panthers Under Attack | 1970-04-01 | 7 | Black Panthers; fascist crimes; arrests; police brutality | The _Southern Patriot_ is encouraging readers to order the special edition of the Black Panthers' newspaper stating it is documentation of "Fascist crimes by the USA.: | |
| 712 | Southern Patriot | Fourteen Join Mulloy Appeal | 1970-04-01 | 7 | Mulloy, Joe; Budd, Ralph; Sheerer, Benjamin B. | draft refusal; U.S. Supreme Court | Fourteen draft registrants have filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking that the sentence against Joe Mulloy be overturned. |
| 713 | Southern Patriot | Anatomy of a Strike that Faile | 1970-04-01 | 8 | Martin, Elliot | Harris-Teeter Food and Drug Chain; strike; low wages; working conditions; picket; leaflet; Black Solidarity Committee; strike fund; trade-unionism; militancy; organized labor | An editorial about why the strike at the Harris-Teeter Food and Drug chain failed. |
| 714 | Southern Patriot | Right Wing WIns Charlotte Scho | 1970-05-01 | 1, 6 | McMillian, James; Scott, Jane; Kerry, Coleman W.; Huntley, Ben; Kelly, Betsy; | right wing politics; school busing; board of education; desegregation; concerned parents association | In Charlotte, North Carolina, two seats for the local school board were won by the right wing politicians against federally mandated integration. |
| 715 | Southern Patriot | Repression Builds in Florida | 1970-05-01 | 1, 8 | Canney, Robert; Hicks, Elizabeth; Waller, Joe | jail; repression; anti-war rally; police brutality; protest; Junta of Militant Organizations; strike; white racism; student demonstration | Repression through the use of arrest and high bails has been increasing in Florida against militant activists. |
| 716 | Southern Patriot | Jackson's Night of Agony | 1970-05-01 | 1, 8 | Peoples, John A.; Evers, Charles; Gibbs, Philip L.; Green, James Earl; Antoine, Gregory; Jones, Lloyd; Clark, Robert; Davis, Russell; Brown, Benjamin | Jackson State College; police shooting; student demonstration; brick throwing; police brutality; Millsaps College; business boycott | At Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi local police opened fire on students with no warning, killing two and injuring more, after a city dump truck was burned. |
| 717 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-05-01 | 2 | Tubman, Harriett; Conrad, Earl; Belden, Jack | Underground Railroad; anti-slavery; Chinese revolution; police raid | Review of Earl Conrad's biography _Harriett Tubman_, and Jack Belden's _China Shakes the World_. |
| 718 | Southern Patriot | Books By SCEF Associates | 1970-05-01 | 2 | Dombrowski, James A.; Bryant, Irving; Madison, James; Whitman, Wanda Wilson; Jordan, Clarence L. | SCEF; philosophy; songs; Bible; Koinonia Farm | Four members of the SCEF have recently published books: "The Early Days of Christian Socialism in America" by James Dombrowski; "The Fourth President: James Madison" by Irving Bryant; "Songs That Changed The World" by Wanda Wilson Whitman; and "The Cotton |
| 719 | Southern Patriot | Women Organize | 1970-05-01 | 3 | Reed, Evelyn; Collins, Virginia; Dunbar, Roxanne; Atkins, Martha | Southern Female Liberation Meeting; women's rights; Southern Female Rights Union; women's history; self-defense | More than 200 women met in Edward, Mississippi for the Southern Female Liberation meeting, where they discussed history, rights and other liberation topics. |
| 720 | Southern Patriot | 24 Workers Fired for Union Act | 1970-05-01 | 3 | Hissam, Bill | union; Textile Workers Union of America; Universal Textured Yarns, Inc.; | Twenty-four black employees at the Universal Textured Yarns, Inc. plant were fired for voicing opinions about the union. |
| 721 | Southern Patriot | SCEF Officers Re-Eliected | 1970-05-01 | 4 | Hicks, Frederic L.; Edwards, George | SCEF officers | All the SCEF officers were re-elected except George Edwards who was replaced by Frederic L. Hicks as treasurer. |
| 722 | Southern Patriot | Here We Stand | 1970-05-01 | 4 | Hampton, Fred; Clark, Mark; Horner, Richard | Indochina War; military action; troop withdrawal; Supreme Court make up; Black Panthers; arrest; Florida repression; Junta of Militant Organizations; disloyalty; strip mining; H. R. 14864 | Editorial about the stand taken by the SCEF board of directors at their semi-annual meeting on Cambodia, the Supreme Court, The Black Panthers, repression in Florida, the Horner Case, strip mining and H. R. 14864. |
| 723 | Southern Patriot | KPFT Bombed | 1970-05-01 | 4 | Marlos, Adie | KPFT-FM; explosion; transmitter; threats | KPFT-FM, a listener supported station in Houston was blasted off the air when their transmitter was destroyed by dynamite. |
| 724 | Southern Patriot | McSurelys to Stand Trial | 1970-05-01 | 4 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, John | trial; contempt of Congress; seized papers; raid; sedition; McClellan Committee | The McSurelys will stand trial on June 22nd for contempt of Congress stemming from refusal to surrender documents to the McClellan committee. |
| 725 | Southern Patriot | Community Center Burns to the | 1970-05-01 | 5 | Stumbo, John M. Clark, Charles; Fasure, Palmer | Teaberry Outpost; fire; 979 Community Action Council; Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization; The Hawkeye | The Teaberry Outpost, publisher of the independent newspaper _The Hawkeye_ was burned to the ground in Mud Creek, Kentucky. |
| 726 | Southern Patriot | Struggle for School Lunches | 1970-05-01 | 5 | Tharkelson, Howard; Clark, Charles | Teaberry Outpost; federal school lunch program; poverty level; national regulations; National Welfare Rights Organization; Appalachian Volunteers | In Floyd county, Kentucky the issue of federal school lunch programs is a major problem because school administrators decide which child receives lunch, not based on income level. |
| 727 | Southern Patriot | Atlanta Strike Aftermath | 1970-05-01 | 6 | Massell, Sam | strike; pay raise; city workers; firing; arrest; repression | City workers in Atlanta, Georgia ended their strike after city officials agreed to a one-step pay raise. However, strikers are facing harassment and being passed over for promotions and over time. |
| 728 | Southern Patriot | Protests Disrupt Military Coll | 1970-05-01 | 7 | Hahn, T. Marshall; Westmoreland, William | student protest; Cambodian invasion; Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Kent State Killings; Corps of Cadets; arrest; repression | Students at the traditionally conservative southern military college, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, have disrupted the normal business of the school with massive protests over the Cambodian invasion and the Kent State Killings. |
| 729 | Southern Patriot | USC Studnets Radicalized by Ev | 1970-05-01 | 6 | McNair, Robert; Jones, Thomas A. | University of South Carolina; the UFO Coffeehouse; radicals; student demonstrations; police brutality; beating | The traditionally apathetic students at the University of South Carolina have become more open and energetic for change, "radicalized", as a result of local events including the closure of the radical coffeehouse UFO, the inability for UFO patrons to use |
| 730 | Southern Patriot | UFO Sentences: Six Years | 1970-05-01 | 6 | the UFO coffeehouse; anti-war; six year prison sentence; common-law offense; radicalism; Fort Jackson | Three operators of the GI anti-war coffeehouse, the UFO, were sentenced to six years in prison for the common-law offense of keeping and maintaining a public nuisance. | |
| 731 | Southern Patriot | The Evidence | 1965-11-01 | 4 | Southern Regional Council; school desegregation; American Civil Liberties Union; racial double standard | Explains "School Desegregation: Old Problems Under a New Law" which tells 94.8% of students are still segregated. "Southern Justice" explains the judicial double standard for blacks and whites. | |
| 732 | Southern Patriot | Correction | 1970-05-01 | 6 | Serron, Luis | firing; sociology professor | Dr. Luis Serron was identified as fired from the University of Tennessee in the April edition of the _Southern Patriot_. He was actually fired from Eastern Tennessee State University. |
| 733 | Southern Patriot | Students Cancel Davidson ROTC | 1970-05-01 | 7 | Davidson College; ROTC; student protest; Cambodian invasion; Kent State Killings | Students at Davidson College forced the cancellation of a ROTC drill to protest the Kent State killings and the spreading Indochina war. | |
| 734 | Southern Patriot | Don't Forget Orangeburg | 1970-05-01 | 7 | Schwerner, Michael; Goodman, Andy; Chaney, James; Reeb, James; Liuzzo, Viola; Younge, Sammy; Forman, Jim; Conrad, Earl | Kent State killing; Indochina War; Orangeburg Massacre; student killings; police brutality; murder; shooting; race relations | An editorial about racial murder and a mention to not forget the massacre in Orangeburg where three black sudents were killed and twenty-five more were injured. |
| 735 | Southern Patriot | Democracy Disripts the CSM | 1970-06-01 | 1, 8 | Smith, J. B.; Lloyd, R. Baldwin; Kirby, Richard; Gibson, Dan; Jones, Loyal | Council of Southern Mountains; board of directors; member activity; poverty; black involvement; community programs; federal funding; strip mining | There is turmoil in the Council of Southern Mountains as members seek to gain more control of their organization. |
| 736 | Southern Patriot | Mulloy Wins in Supreme Court | 1970-06-01 | 1, 6 | Mulloy, Joe; Ali, Muhammad; Reid, Manfred; Sedler, Robert A.; Stewart, Potter; McSurely, Margaret; McSurely, Alan; Braden, Anne; Braden, Carl; Collins, Walter | U.S. Supreme Court; overturned conviction; conscientious objector; draft board; draft bias; draft review board; strip mining; draft refusal; sedition | Joe Mulloy's conviction of draft refusal was overturned by the U. S. Supreme Court, stating the draft board could not deny review by simply refusing to reopen the file. |
| 737 | Southern Patriot | Rebellion in Oxford | 1970-06-01 | 1, 6 | Chavis, Ben; Marrow, Henry; Chavis, William; Teel, Robert; Cox, Saim; Scott, Bob | black community anger; Klan killings; black student movement; black power; the Soul Kitchen; riot; murder; school boycott; SCLC; fires; Ku Klux Klan | In Oxford, North Carolina rebellion broke out after the murder of a black community leader, Henry Marrow, who was killed by Ku Klux Klan officer Robert Teel and his 18 year old son. |
| 738 | Southern Patriot | Last Hurrah for Wallace | 1970-06-01 | 2 | Wallace, George | primary election; racism | In the primary election in Alabama, George Wallace had 48.5% of the population vote against him. |
| 739 | Southern Patriot | Students Think Appleton Was "B | 1970-06-01 | 2 | Appleton, Clyde | West Carolina University; firing; protest; student activism | Clyde Appleton, fired from West Carolina University for his social activism, was voted best professor of 1970 by the students. |
| 740 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-06-01 | 2 | Kominsky, Morris | facism; World War III | Reive of Morris Kominsky's _Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damn Liars_. |
| 741 | Southern Patriot | Jackson: Blaming the Victims | 1970-06-01 | 2 | Waites, Alex; Williams, John Bell; Anderson, Reuben; Banks, Fred, Jr. | racism; Jackson State College; massacre; police shooting; arrest; Highway Patrol; boycott | In Jackson, Mississippi the governor was quick to blame the victims for causing the Jackson State massacre. |
| 742 | Southern Patriot | Greensboro Garbage Strike | 1970-06-01 | 2 | Gore, Gene; Pierce, Jim | garbage worker strike; union; militancy | In Greensboro, North Carolina city sanitation workers have gone on strike for the second time in three months. |
| 743 | southern patriot | Ecology for Fun & Profti | 1970-06-01 | 3 | Taylor, Rufus; Hack, Orion D.; Hickel, Walter; Jacobs, Cecil | Bad ische Aninlin und Soda-Fabrik; ecology; industrialism; tax incentive; I. G. Farben; Hilton Head; tourism; pollution | In Beaufort, South Carolina the local citizens successfully fought a German chemical plant from building on the coast and polluting the area's beaches. |
| 744 | Southern Patriot | KY Abortion Law Challenged | 1970-06-01 | 4 | Swinford, Mac; Craddock, Patricia; Pozzuto, Fran; Crossen, Phillip; Scott, Peter; Windelsdorf, Margarget; Allison, Marie | abortion law; legal challenge; women's liberation; legal abortion | A women's liberation group, a doctor, and a minister had their legal challenge to the Kentucky abortion law thrown out of court. They have vowed to appeal the decision in a higher court. |
| 745 | Southern Patriot | Florida: Farm Workers Organize | 1970-06-01 | 4 | Juarez, Rodolfo S.; Kirk, Claude | farm workers; Organized Migrants in Community Action; starvation; Disaster Act of 1969; federal aid | Many farm workers in South Florida are organizing to help change their situation of poverty and near starvation. |
| 746 | Southern Patriot | USCRC Called Pillar of Racism | 1970-06-01 | 4 | Zellner, Bob | U.S. Civil Rights Commission; racism; Black Panthers; Jackson State Massacre; Civil Rights Act of 1964 | At the U.S. Civil Rights Commission meeting in Easton, Maryland they called across the country to end racism. |
| 747 | Southern Patriot | Strip-Mining Struggle Heats Up | 1970-06-01 | 5 | Combs, Ollie; Williams, Sid; Wooton, George; Grim, Elmore; Caudill, Harry | strip mining; protest; nuisance; human chain; truck weight | In Knott County fiscal Court, they voted to outlaw strip mining in the county. |
| 748 | Southern Patriot | Part II: CHarlotte School Elec | 1970-06-01 | 5 | Kerry, Coleman W.; Scott, Jane; McMillian, James B.; Bryant, Joe | runoff election; board of education; forced busing; race relations; Concerned Parents Association; school integration; censorship; Ku Klux Klan | In Charlotte, North Carolina Jane Scott won the runoff election for the school board on a platform against forced busing and school integration. |
| 749 | Southern Patriot | The Ben Chaney Case | 1970-06-01 | 6 | Chaney, Ben; Chaney, Fannie Lee; Chaney, James; Scwerner, Michael; Goodman, Andrew | murder; arrest; Ku Klux Klan; CORE; car theft; black power | Ben Chaney is charged with murder based on very little evidence. |
| 750 | Southern Patriot | How Mississippi Robs Black Sch | 1970-06-01 | 7 | Anderson, Jack; Kirksey, H. Jay; Thompson, Ruby | false statistics; public school education; illiteracy; poverty; census; desegregation; dropout rates | State officials in Mississippi have been trying to ignore new evidence of census fraud that was used on black, and poor white, students on the edge of illiteracy. |
| 751 | Southern Patriot | Spindale Incident | 1970-06-01 | 7 | rebellion; Ku Klux Klan; poverty; race relations; police killings; police brutality; beatings; school integration; black education; racial conflict | In Spindale, North Carolina three days of rebellion ensued after the police beat a black war veteran to death, he was in their custody at the time. | |
| 752 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Organizing | 1970-06-01 | 7 | militancy; white student involvement; Jackson State Massacre; Millsaps College; University of Mississippi; student organization; school integration | White college students across Mississippi have become more involved in the struggles of the poor and the black citizens and students. | |
| 753 | Southern Patriot | Justice Dept's Role in Itta Be | 1970-06-01 | 8 | Estaver, Paul; Pope, Ray; Conyers, John, Jr.; Bingham, Johnathan B.; Mitchell, John; Kastenmeier, Robert | student arrest; reader protest; Mississippi Valley State College; Justice Department; mass arrest; conspiracy; Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; student movement | Editorial about the true amount of involvement of the Justice Department in the mass arrest of 894 peaceful black student demonstrators at Mississippi Valley State College. |
| 754 | Southern Patriot | Reign of Terror Shakes Homer, | 1970-09-01 | 1, 7 | Mozeke, David; Harris, Walker; Kidd, Paul | race relations; arrest; police brutality; discrimination; protest; voter registration; repression | In Homer, Louisiana local police began an arrest sweep through the black community in order to repress dissent about discrimination |
| 755 | Southern Patriot | Collins Appeals to Supreme Cou | 1970-09-01 | 1 | Clinton, Oscar E.; Collins, Walter; Sedler, Robert A.; Minnis, Forrest; Mason, Louis G. | appeal; draft board; discrimination; conscientious objector; SCEF; misleading advice; U.S. Court of Appeals | Walter Collins' sentence was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans in spite of evidence of misleading advice and a discriminatory draft board. |
| 756 | Southern Patriot | GIs March in Augusta | 1970-09-01 | 1, 6 | Maddox, Lester; Johnson, Paul | peace march; memorial; solidarity; race relations; communism; Fort Knox; GI Coffeehouse; police harassment; GI protest; arrest; radical books | Review of military protest and organization across the South. |
| 757 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-09-01 | 2 | Irvine, Keith | race relations; racial history | Review of Kieth Irvine's _The Rise of the Colored Races_. |
| 758 | Southern Patriot | Scottsboro Case of the West | 1970-09-01 | 2 | Drumgo, Fleeta; Clutchette, John; Jackson, George Lester; Jackson, Jonathan P. | Scottsboro Case; repression; arrest; Soledad Brothers; murder; pamphlet; Soledad Brothers Defense Committee | The _Southern Patriot_ urges readers to obtain the pamphlet about Soledad Brothers Case in California. |
| 759 | Southern Patriot | Pamphlets | 1970-09-01 | 2 | _Appeal to Reason_; Committee of Correspondence; unity; liberation movement; anti-war movement; oppression; _Lessons of Laurel_; _Lessons of Louisville_; Black Six | Review of recently published pamphlets. | |
| 760 | Southern Patriot | McSurelys Convicted of Contemp | 1970-09-01 | 3 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Mulloy, Joe; Mulloy, Karen; McClellan, John; Brick, Joe; Bress, David; Smith, John L.; Stavis, Morton; Sterns, Nancy; Combs, Dan Jack; Zenger, John Peter | coal operators; contempt of congress; trial; strip mining; sedition; McClellan Committee; indictment; dynamite; conspiracy; seized documents; appeal | Alan and Margaret McSurely were convicted of contempt of Congress for failure to turn over requested documents to the McClellan Committee. |
| 761 | Southern Patriot | "An Attack on the Movement..." | 1970-09-01 | 3 | coal operators; oppression; record access | Excerpt from a memo sent by Anne Braden about repression by the federal and local government on the civil rights movement. | |
| 762 | Southern Patriot | Black Candidates | 1970-09-01 | 3 | Cashin, John; Wallace, George; King, C. B.; Jenness, Linda; Young, Andrew | black candidates; National Democratic Party of Alabama | Most notably in Georgia and Alabama, black candidates are campaigning across the South. |
| 763 | Southern Patriot | West Point Campaign | 1970-09-01 | 4 | Bluffington, John; Marshall, Barnes; Thomas, John, Jr.; Stanley, Seth; Whitley, Clifton | SNCC; black campaign; conspiracy; shooting; murder; economic projects | In West Point, Mississippi a vigorous campaign for black candidate John Bluffington was lost in a runoff election for mayor, but proves community involvement. |
| 764 | Southern Patriot | Aberdeen Boycott | 1970-09-01 | 4 | Walker, William; Lockett, James; Adams, Dan; Keady, W. C. | business boycott; confederate flag; officer protest | A full scale black boycott of white businesses in Aberdeen, Mississippi stems from the firing of two black police officers for refusal to wear uniforms or drive police cars with confederate flags on them. |
| 765 | Southern Patriot | "Hunger Doctor" Fined $500 | 1970-09-01 | 5 | Gatch, Donald; Whitten, Jamie | hunger; malnutrition; failure to keep adequate records; guilty plea; harassment; poverty; discrimination | Dr. Donald Gatch, who focused attention on hunger and malnutrition in South Carolina, plead guilty to failure to keep adequate records and was fined $500. He has been constantly harassed since speaking out against treatment of the local poor. |
| 766 | Southern Patriot | Garbage Workers Vote to Strike | 1970-09-01 | 4 | Massell, Sam; Lucey, Bill | garbage worker strike; union dues; deduction; firing; check-off issue; police resistance | Sanitation workers in Atlanta voted to strike because the Board of Aldermen decided to stop the deduction of union dues from workers' pay checks. |
| 767 | Southern Patriot | Greensboro Garbage Strikes | 1970-09-01 | 5 | Gore, Gene; Hartle, Jack; Johnson, Nelson; Bailey, Thomas; Puson, Cecil; Frye, Henry | garbage worker strike; union recognition; wage increase; due check-off; black liberation; militancy; black pride; student rebellion; community union | Analysis of the garbage worker strike in Greensboro, North Carolina and how black pride and consciousness helped to aid the strike. |
| 768 | Southern Patriot | Black Six Acquitted | 1970-09-01 | 6 | Nicholson, S. Rush; Hawkins, Sam; Bryant, Ruth; Kuyu, Robert; Reid, Manfred; Cosby, Pete; Cortez, James R.; Allen, Martha; Honey, Allen | "Black Six"; acquittal; conspiracy; uprising; ghetto; shotgun; protest; Kentucky Un-American Activities Committee | The "Black Six" were acquitted of all charges after a two week trial. |
| 769 | Southern Patriot | The South in the Thirties | 1970-09-01 | 7 | Herdon, Angelo; Williams; Nell; Peterson, Willie | coal mining; Jim Crow Laws; lynching; Unemployment Council; socialism; equality; arrest; share croppers; murder | Biography of the life of Angelo Herdon, a black organizer in the 1930s, who suffered the effects of Jim Crow. |
| 770 | Southern Patriot | Justifying Murder in Jackson | 1970-09-01 | 8 | Williams, John Bell; Moore, Russell, III; Cox, Harold; Travis, Jack; Cates, Edward L.; Davis, Russell; Barnett, Ross | justified murder; Jackson State massacre; student provocation; police shooting; riot suppression; racism | The ruling class of Mississippi is still trying to justify the police shooting of students at Jackson State College in May 1970. |
| 771 | Southern Patriot | Militant Killed | 1970-09-01 | 8 | Hampton, Carl; Haile, Bartee; Tilley, Dorothy; Collier, Tarleton; Dobbs, James McBride | People's Party II; murder; police snipers; ambush; protest | Obituaries of Carl Hampton, killed by police at a protest and other movement supporters. |
| 772 | Southern Patriot | Oxford Jury Acquits Teels | 1970-09-01 | 8 | Teel, Robert Gerald; Teel, Larry; Marrow, Henry | injustice; acquittal; murder; racism; all-white jury; boycott; Ku Klux Klan | The black community of Oxford, North Carolina was outraged when the Teels were found not guilty of murdering Henry Marrow by an all-white jury in spite of overwhelming evidence. |
| 773 | Southern Patriot | Robert Canney Convicted, Fired | 1970-10-01 | 1 | Canney, Robert; Zachary, Wayne | anti-war rally; police brutality; arrest; repression; dissent; resisting arrest; free speech; harassment | Robert Canney was fired from the University of Florida after being convicted of resisting arrest with violence for speaking out against the war. |
| 774 | Southern Patriot | Earle Reacts to Desegregation | 1970-10-01 | 1, 8 | Greer, Ezra; King, James; Annis, Harold; Browder, James; Greer, Jackie | school desegregation; mass arrest; beatings; student walkout; police brutality; arrest; repression; picketing | In Earle, Arkansas the white leadership reacted violently to black protest of school desegregation that removed all symbols of black heritage and pride and demoted black employees. |
| 775 | Southern Patriot | Grassroots Politics in Alabama | 1970-10-01 | 1, 4 | Cashin, John; Wallace, George; Hayes, Isaiah; Boone, Richard; Watkins, Mervline | National Democratic Party of Alabama; black candidates; unequal taxation; Wallace-Carter Act; Welfare Rights Movement | The National Democratic Party of Alabama has many black candidates running under the independent party banner. Several are projected to win. |
| 776 | Southern Patriot | Knoxville: Climate is Tense fo | 1970-10-01 | 2 | Boling, Edward; Schiffer, Robert; Baugh, John; Graham, Billy; Lowenstein, Allard K.; Gibson, Jo Ann; McDavid, Foy | anti-riot law; trial; student protest; University of Tennessee; repression; arrest; Billy Graham Crusade; selective admission; police harassment | In Knoxville, Tennessee local police use arrest as a form of repression against student activists. The school administration also is not admitting students with an activist past. |
| 777 | Southern Patriot | Tennessee Peace Movement Grows | 1970-10-01 | 2 | Vietnam moratoriums; peace activists; peace conference; neighborhood organizing; peace organization; Cambodian invasion; petition drive | In Tennessee, the peace movement has grown to a local and national level. | |
| 778 | Southern Patriot | Knoxvill Boycott Halted By Cou | 1970-10-01 | 3 | Walker, Cas; Pate, Jerry; Glover, Harvey; Rollins, Avon | arrest; contempt of court; black employees; picket; Black Student Union; University of Tennessee | Cas Walker, picketed for not hiring black employees, has stalemated the trial of two black protesters charged with contempt of court. |
| 779 | Southern Patriot | New Orleans Attacks "Panthers" | 1970-10-01 | 3 | McKeithen, John; Augustine, Israel | police raid; Black Panthers; Human Relations Committee; | Police in New Orleans, Louisiana created a supposed "night of terror" in order to attack the Black Panthers in the Desire Housing Project. |
| 780 | Southern Patriot | Georgia Blacks Campaign | 1970-10-01 | 4 | Young, Andrew; King, C. B.; Glover, D. F.; Williams, Hosea; King, Lonnie; Sanders, Carl | Black Coalition; primary election; governor; anti-poverty; SCLC; bombing; run-off election | Reverend Andrew Young won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Congress in a run-off election, but all other members of the Black Coalition lost their bids for nomination. |
| 781 | Southern Patriot | Greene Co. Campaign | 1970-10-01 | 4 | Gilmore, Thomas; Branch, William; Williams, Oscar; Wallace, George | National Democratic Party of Alabama; black majority; Greene County; election; collective campaign; black educators | Brief editorial about the history of black campaigns in Greene County, Alabama. |
| 782 | Southern Patriot | Newspaper Carriers' Strikes En | 1970-10-01 | 5 | Hodges, Thomas; Hardie, Harvey; Knowles, Bud; Hayes, Isaiah | strike; newspaper distributors and carriers; _Gadsden Times_; labor movement; firing; National Labor Relations Act; strike fund; picket; scab | Newspaper carriers and distributors enter their seventh month of striking against the firing of 24-year employee Thomas Hodges for talking about the need for a union. |
| 783 | Southern Patriot | Isaiah Hayes - Portait of a Ca | 1970-10-01 | 5 | Hayes, Isaiah; Hodges, Thomas | steel worker; black candidate; lieutenant governor; Republic Steel; black vote; worker vote; NCAAP; strike; labor movement | Biography of Isaiah Hayes, a black steel worker from Gadsden, Alabama, who is running for lieutenant governor. |
| 784 | Southern Patriot | "Desegregating" Southern Schoo | 1970-10-01 | 6 | school desegregation; discrimination; demotion; Ku Klux Klan | An explanation of the two articles in this volume that deal with school segregation. | |
| 785 | Southern Patriot | The Case for Seperate Schools | 1970-10-01 | 6 | Collins, Virginia | school segregation; grassroots; SCEF; black leader; integration; firing; demotion; cirriculum; 14th amendment; ghetto; equal funding; imperialism; segregationist | Explanation why black leader Virginia Collins feels school integration should not be the main focus of activists. |
| 786 | Southern Patriot | But Many Will Fight Dual Syste | 1970-10-01 | 6 | school integration; demotion; firing; militancy; protest; black educators | Editorial about how people across the South are fighting for desegregation and equal pay and positions for black educators. | |
| 787 | Southern Patriot | White Reactions | 1970-10-01 | 7 | Editorial Survey Group; school integration; unity; racism; poor whites; police harassment; Ku Klux Klan | In Jackson, Mississippi white people in the community are fighting for the rights of both poor black and poor white students in public schools. | |
| 788 | Southern Patriot | NC Students Rebel against Excl | 1970-10-01 | 7 | Fuller, Howard; White, Leon | furniture making; Ku Klux Klan; school integration; black involvement; extra-curricular activities; student protest; suspension | Black students in Hickory, North Carolina are rebelling against being excluded from extra-curricular activities in newly integrated school. |
| 789 | Southern Patriot | Klan Steps Up Activity | 1970-10-01 | 7 | Finks, Golden | Ku Klux Klan; school desegregation; bombing; militancy; vigilance; SCLC | In Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the Klan has stepped up activity, including bombing a black school, to protest school desegregation. |
| 790 | Southern Patriot | "As Little, As Late, and As Un | 1970-10-01 | 7 | Williams, John Bell; Thompson, Allen C.; Derain, Pat | school integration; pairing and grouping plan; poverty; discrimination; protest; picket; neighborhood schools | Residents in Jackson, Mississippi are doing everything in their power to prevent school integration. |
| 791 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Report | 1970-10-01 | 8 | Duckworth, C. J.; Cox, Harold | desegregation; discrimination; segregation | A report of the examples of segregation, discrimination; and government intervention to stop school integration. |
| 792 | Southern Patriot | Garbage Workers on Strike Agai | 1970-11-01 | 1, 8 | Belk, John; Beeder, Bill; Beacer, Pressly; Gore, Gene; Hartle, Jack | garbage workers' strike; local I; North Carolina Labor Alliance; pay raise; uniforms; safety equipment; lay offs; route length; scabs; police barricade | Local sanitation workers in Charlotte, North Carolina are on strike for the fifth time in two years due to the city not holding up its end of each previous arbitration. |
| 793 | Southern Patriot | Arkansas Workers Fight "Cheap" | 1970-11-01 | 1, 8 | Eaton, Win; Ford, Bill | low wages; standard register; strike; militancy; walk-out; union; cost of living; time studies; police bias; student invovlement | At Standard Register in Fayetteville, Arkansas, plant workers went on strike to fight wages $2 an hour less then workers at other plants. |
| 794 | Southern Patriot | Three Morristown Students Shot | 1970-11-01 | 1 | Jay, Jarrie; Hawkins, Charles; Lee, David | class boycott; Morristown Junior College; Collins-Murray Guard Service; sniper fire | At Morristown Junior College, three students were hit by a shotgun blast, after a white security guard said he was responding to sniper fire. |
| 795 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-11-01 | 2 | Bayer, Richard O.; Morais, Herbert M.; Hess, Karl; Reeves, Tom; Orr, Pau; Orr, Violet; Vesey, Denmark; Starobin, Robert S. | trade union; draft; socialist Democracy; slave revolt | Reviews of "Labor's Untold Story" by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert A. Morais; "End of the Draft" by Karl Hess and Tom Reeves; "World of Tomorrow" by Paul and Violet Orr; and _Denmark Vesey: The Slave Conspiracy of 1822_ by Robert S. Starobin. |
| 796 | Southern Patriot | Why Coal Miners Struck | 1970-11-01 | 3 | Ratliff, Clifford; Boyle, Tony; Yablonski, Jock; Payne, Robert; Stewart, Posey; Likens, McCager; Coleman, Lewis; Rasmussen, Donald | fuel shortage; Appalachian coal fields; disabled miners; strike; restraining order; picket; arrest; collusion; coal royalty; UMW Welfare and Retirement Fund; safety; black lung | Editorial about the cause of the coal miner strike in Appalachia, specifically the treatment of disabled miners. |
| 797 | Southern Patriot | McSurelys Sentenced | 1970-11-01 | 4 | NcSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Smith, John L., Jr.; McClellan, John; Ratliff, Thomas; Stavis, Morton; Stearns, Nancy; Hays, Brooks | contempt of congress; prison sentence; bias; seized documents; police raid; conspiracy | The McSurelys were both sentenced, they each recieved different prison terms for their conviction of contempt of congress. |
| 798 | Southern Patriot | Embracery Case to be Heard | 1970-11-01 | 4 | Honey, Mike; Allen, Martha | "Black Six;" embracery; protest; freedom of the press; U.S. Court of Appeals | The case against Mike Honey and Martha Allen have a federal court hearing for the charges of embracery against them for protesting the "Black Six" trial. |
| 799 | Southern Patriot | Two Kentuckians Challenge Elec | 1970-11-01 | 4 | Pratt, Don; Wilson, Luther | U.S. Supreme Court; independent candidates; filing time | Two Kentuckians have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a law in Kentucky that makes independent candidates file for office seven months before the general election. |
| 800 | Southern Patriot | N.C. Students Boycott Classes | 1970-11-01 | 4 | Wallace, George; Lee, Wilson W.; Walters, Harold | student rebellion; black representation; Ku Klux Klan; cross burning; "pairing" plan; police brutality; walk-out; suspension; arrest | Two North Carolina high schools boycotted classes to gain black representation in extra-curricular activities. |
| 801 | Southern Patriot | Sellers Convicted of "One Man | 1970-11-01 | 5 | Sellers, Cleveland; McNair, Robert; Grimball, John; Bass, Jack; Nelson, Jack; Moore, Howard | SNCC; one man riot; Orangeburg Massacre; police shooting; South Carolina State College; protest; sniper; acquittal; trespass; scapegoat | Cleveland Sellers was convicted in participating in a riot and was sentenced to one year in prison. He is being used b the state of South Carolina as the scapegoat for the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968. |
| 802 | Southern Patriot | Black Draft Resisters | 1970-11-01 | 5 | Braden, Anne | black draft resistance; appeal; U.S. Supreme Court; bias; SCEF | A study by the SCEF reports that black draft resisters are far less likely to have their cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court than a white resisters. |
| 803 | Southern Patriot | US Argues Against Collins Appe | 1970-11-01 | 5 | Collins, Walter; Sedler, Robert A.; Minnix, Forrest; Griswold, Erwin N.; Clinton, Oscar E. | U.S. Department of Justice; U.S. Supreme Court; black draft resistance; appeal; Selective Service Act | The U.S. Department of Justice admitted that it did not matter if the government fails to comply with the law. When they asked the Supreme Court not to hear the appeal of Walter Collins for his conviction on draft refusal. |
| 804 | Southern Patriot | Black Solidarity in NC | 1970-11-01 | 6 | Hawkins, Reginald; Scott, Bob; Jochana, Ben; Finks, Golden; Ferguson, Jim; McKissick, Floyd | black solidarity; injustice; militancy; SCLC; Ku Klux Klan | A meeting of more than 1,000 people gathered in Oxford, North Carolina to discuss growing problems and push black solidarity. |
| 805 | Southern Patriot | Police Murder Sparks Summerhil | 1970-11-01 | 6 | Moore, Andre; Massell, Sam; Jenkins, Herbert; McGee, Collins | slum; poverty; militancy; police shooting; rebellion; fires; dismissal; racism | The police shooting of fourteen year-old black Andre Moore sparked a rebellion in Atlanta's slum: Summerhill. |
| 806 | Southern Patriot | Poplarville Jail Revisted | 1970-11-01 | 6 | Littlepage, Joe; Parker, Charles Mack; Walker, J. P.; Littlepage, Sharon; Herndon, Wesley | _Kudzu_; prison experiences; hippie; beating; rape | The conditions and treatment of Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi are described by Joe Littlepage, a hippie arrested and held there, who was tortured by other inmates and guards. |
| 807 | Southern Patriot | The Angelo Herndon Case | 1970-11-01 | 7 | Herndon, Angelo; Turner, Nat; Garrison, William; Davis, Ben; Geer, John; Talmadge, Gene; Dorsey, Hugh M. | demonstration; arrest; communist literature; death penalty; chain gang; International Labor Defense; U.S. Supreme Court; petition campaign | A biography of Angelo Herndon, focusing on his conviction in Georgia, his appeal process and his refusal to flee the state. |
| 808 | Southern Patriot | Briefs | 1970-11-01 | 7 | Branch, William McKinley; Gray, Fred; Reed, Thomas; Amerson, Lucius; Williams, O. H.; Cashin, John; Young, Andrew; Thompson, Fletcher; Faye, Henry; Sellers, Cleveland; Hampton, Carl; Jason, Rodney Cha | black candidates; National Democratic Party of Alabama; police shooting; victim blaming; police bias; prison bias; racism; strip mining | A review of the news and events for the month of November. |
| 809 | Southern Patriot | Roosevelt City, Ala. Setting a | 1970-11-01 | 8 | Rogers, Freddie; Billingsley, Orzell | self-dermination; all black city; taxes; incorporation; Dominick Bill; independence; federal grant; economic problems | Editorial about the all black Roosevelt City, Alabama that chose to incorporate rather than be connected by Birmingham. |
| 810 | Southern Patriot | Laurel Workes Attack Masonite | 1970-12-01 | 1, 2 | Sellers, Granville; Paul, R. E. | Masonite Plant; civil rights violation; petition; discrimination; unsafe conditions; harassment; organized labor; militancy; injury; false records | Workers at the Masonite Plant in Laurel, Mississippi are sending out a petition charging the company with discrimination, unsafe working conditions; and violating their past contract from the 1967 strike. |
| 811 | Southern Patriot | Black Lung Problem is Worse | 1970-12-01 | 1, 5 | Meade, Henry; O'Brian, Edward; Rasmussen, Donald; Buff, I. E.; Boyle, Tony; Yablonski, Jock; Payne, Robert; Milker, Arnold; Osborne, Elbert | Appalachia; coal mining; mine safety; black lung disease; coal dust; "Jones Report"; Social Security; mine explosion; widow; disabled miners | The continuing problem of black lung disease and the mine explosions and sealing the mine in Farmington, West Virginia proves that mine safety is not improving. |
| 812 | Southern Patriot | Collins Case Sparks Protest Ag | 1970-12-01 | 1, 8 | Collins, Watler; Collins, Virginia; Garment, Leonard; Sedler, Robert A.; Shuttlesworth, Fred; Gutknecht, David; Mulloy, Joseph; Welsh, Elliot | black liberation movement; arrest; draft system; racism; draft refusal; appeal; Supreme Court refusal; draft resistance; petition; presidential amnesty; conscientious objector | Support is building across the South against all white racist draft boards after black liberationists Walter Collins was arrested and sentenced to five years for draft refusal. |
| 813 | Southern Patriot | Steel Workers Strike | 1970-12-01 | 2 | strike; police brutality; union recognition; walk-out; racism; Georgetown Steel Corporation; unsafe working conditions; SCLC; strike support | A strike at the Georgetown Steel Corporation in Georgetown, South Carolina helped bread the media silence on organized labor in the South when police attacked marchers. | |
| 814 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1970-12-01 | 2 | Ginger, Ann Fagan | National Lawyers Guild; civil rights; civil liberties | Review of _Civil Liberties Docket 14 (1970 Supplement)_ by the National Lawyers Guild. |
| 815 | Southern Patriot | Chicken Farmers Strike in Alab | 1970-12-01 | 3 | Scruggs, Robert; Stidham, Curtis; Troy, Robert; Scott, Emma; Brock, Irene | chicken farming; share-cropping; National Farmer's Association; collective bargaining; export; operating costs; picket line | Chicken farmers in Alabama are on strike due to low profits and being taken advantage of by the processing plants. |
| 816 | Southern Patriot | Support for Angela Davis Devel | 1970-12-01 | 4 | Davis, Angela; Vause, Stephen; Baker, Ella; Davis, Sallye | speaking tour; defense campaign; communism; Soledad Brothers; prison racism; prison conditions; SCEF | A defense campaign is building across the South for Angela Davis, who was arrested for trying to expose racism in the prison systems. |
| 817 | Southern Patriot | Students March in Charlotte | 1970-12-01 | 4 | Davis, Angela | student march; Freedom Songs; Johnson C. Smith University; police presence | Students from Johnson C. Smith University marched into Charlotte, North Carolina to show support for Angela Davis. |
| 818 | Southern Patriot | 500 Attend Nashiville Rally | 1970-12-01 | 4 | Davis, Angela; Davis, Sallye; Monteiro, Tony | public rally; speech; defense; political case | Over 500 people attended a public rally in Nashiville, Tennessee for the defense of Angela Davis. |
| 819 | Southern Patriot | S.C. High Schools Hit by Rebel | 1970-12-01 | 6 | high school student revolt; school integration; resegregation; demotion; firing; extra-curricular exclusion; racism | High schools across South Carolina are facing rebellion as black students fight against resegregation and discrimination in newly integrated schools. | |
| 820 | Southern Patriot | Warrenton: Old Days Are Over | 1970-12-01 | 6 | Peller, Roger; Barholomew, Fred; Webb, Jeremiah; Balance, Frank; Chavis, Ben; White, Leon | racism; Ku Klux Klan; plantation system; student protest; black economic development; black culture; march | In Warrenton, North Carolina the system of oppression is changing as blacks demand equal treatment in integrated schools. |
| 821 | Southern Patriot | Students Win Some Victories | 1970-12-01 | 7 | Chavis, Ben; White, Leon; Scott, Bob; Taylor, A. W.; Crocker, W. F.; Wilson, George | rebellion; school desegregation; school boycott; arrest; police presence; resegregation; marching permit; police brutality; riot | Students won a slight victory in Henderson, North Carolina when community leaders agreed to close the all black school, but they still fear police brutality and local violence. |
| 822 | Southern Patriot | Communities Fight Police Bruta | 1970-12-01 | 7 | Finks, Golden; Bellamy, John; Ennis, Jerry | chief of police; dismissal; murder; protest; demonstrations; police shooting; self-defense | In Elm City, North Carolina and Portsmouth, Virginia black communities are fighting against police brutality and shootings of black youth. |
| 823 | Southern Patriot | Draft Used Against Black Candi | 1970-12-01 | 8 | Smith, Jimmy P.; Gordon, William | mayoral candidate; draft; conspiracy | A black candidate is charging the draft board with conspiracy for ordering him to report for induction less than a month before the election for mayor that he was favored to win. |
| 824 | Southern Patriot | "Soul Institute" Thrives in Ea | 1971-01-01 | 1 | Greer, Jackie; Greer, Ezra | black education; student walk-out; threat; Soul Institute; school integration; busing | Black students in Earle, Arkansas protested the lack of school equality by walking out and forming the Soul Institute, which is thriving. |
| 825 | Southern Patriot | Blacks Defend Themselves Again | 1971-01-01 | 1 | raid; school altercation; self-defense; racism; vigilantes; media coverage | The black community in Knightdale, North Carolina used armed self defense to protect itself from vigilante white extremists. | |
| 826 | Southern Patriot | Negligence Killed 38 Miners | 1971-01-01 | 1, 8 | Bentley, Walter; Finley, Charles; Finley, Stanley; Collins, A. T.; Kirkpatrick, Harreld; O'Leary, John; Lucas, J. Richard; Osborn, Elburt F.; Russell, Fred; Dole, Hollis; McLean, John; Perkins, Carl D | Finley Coal Company; mine explosion; carbon monoxide; illegal explosives; coal dust; after damp; negligence; unsafe operation; Bureau of Mines; black lung disease; suppression; conspiracy | The worst mine disaster in eastern Kentucky history occurred at Finley Coal Company where thirty-eight miners were killed in an explosion. It can be blamed on negligence and lack of oversight. |
| 827 | Southern Patriot | John Douglas Kobak | 1971-01-01 | 2 | Kobak, John Douglas; Easterling, Sue Ella | cancer; poverty war; Appalachia; police brutality | Obituary of John Douglas Kobak, who died of cancer at age 24 and campaigned for poor rights in Appalachia. |
| 828 | Southern Patriot | Records for aand of the Moveme | 1971-01-01 | 2 | Dane, Barbara; Silber, Irwin | movement records; southern mountains; education; fund raising | A group has been organized to produce and distribute movement records. |
| 829 | Southern Patriot | Court Victories | 1971-01-01 | 2 | Chaney, Ben; Bazemore, John; Rutrell, Martin | murder; not guilty; riot charges dropped; Texas Southern University | Ben Chaney was found not guilty of murder and charges were dropped against the former Texas Southern University student for starting a riot. |
| 830 | Southern Patriot | Appalachian Movement Press | 1971-01-01 | 2 | Woodruff, Tom; Steward, Dan | Appalachian Movement Press; social change | Announcement of the Appalachian Movement Press which has been established to help serve groups working for social change. |
| 831 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-01-01 | 2 | Goodman, Mitchell; Mulherin, Kathy | social movement; organized labor | Review of Mitchell Goodman's _The Movement Toward A New America_ and Len DeCaux's _Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to the CIO_. |
| 832 | Southern Patriot | Inhumanity, Back-Room Politics | 1971-01-01 | 3 | Schecter, Aaron; Osborne, Marylin; Goble, Merlin; Osborne, Bill; Turner, Shirley Marshall; Shanbow, Betty; Lewis, Doris; Frazier, Chalmer; Hale, Sam; Whitaker, Cotrine; Archer, Sam | Comprehensive Health Care Program; doctor coverage; health care shortage; poverty; non-admission; federal funding; corruption | Editorial about how greed and discrimination in Floyd County, Kentucky is causing poor health care and even death. |
| 833 | Southern Patriot | Reprot on the Schools | 1971-01-01 | 4 | desegregation; discrimination; civil rights; Race Relations Information Center Survey; firing; demotion; black principals; school boycott; over crowding; government acceptance | General report on the school discrimination and protests across the south. | |
| 834 | Southern Patriot | Black Student Rebellions Conti | 1971-01-01 | 4 | school integration; black identity; school rebellion; walk-out; student demonstration; school closing; racism; discrimination; Ku Klux Klan | Report of student protests and walk-outs in North and South Carolina. | |
| 835 | Southern Patriot | Local Elections are Stolen | 1971-01-01 | 5 | Greer, Jackie; Greer, Ezra | race relations; black political power; white control; voter fraud; intimidation | Voter fraud and intimidation in Earle, Arkansas caused two black candidates to lose their elections. |
| 836 | Southern Patriot | Greer Convicted | 1971-01-01 | 5 | Greer, Ezra; Dennis, Marcus; Greer, Jackie; Kaplin, Phillip | inciting a riot; conviction; civil rights; police brutality | Reverend Ezra Greer was convicted of inciting a riot based on the white deputy sheriff's testimony. |
| 837 | Southern Patriot | Oxford Boycott is Still On | 1971-01-01 | 6 | merchant boycott; threats; murder; bankruptcy; holiday boycott; Klan murder | In Oxford, North Carolina the downtown store boycott continued through the holidays to protest the acquittal of Klan murderers who killed a black Vietnam War veteran. | |
| 838 | Southern Patriot | Jackson State | 1971-01-01 | 6 | Green, James Earl | murder; police shooting; Medgar Evers Fund | Explanation of the murder of James Earl Green, not a Jackson State student, by police and how he supported his family. |
| 839 | Southern Patriot | NCCF Office Burns; Arson is Su | 1971-01-01 | 6 | National Committee to Combat Fascism; Black Panthers; fire; arson; document theft | In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the NCCF office burned down, containing documents and project good. Arson is suspected. | |
| 840 | Southern Patriot | Utilities Seek Rate Increases | 1971-01-01 | 6 | Carter, Jimmy | utility rates; lack of profits; Atlanta Transit System; Southern Bell; poverty; working class | The poor and working class people will be hardest hit by the proposed utility rate increases in Atlanta, Georgia. The companies claim they are not making enough profit. |
| 841 | Southern Patriot | Court Changes Rape Penalty | 1971-01-01 | 7 | Rockefeller, Winthrop; Simon, Tobias; McGee, Willie | Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; capital punishment; rape; unconstitutional; Scottsboro boy's case | The Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the death penalty in rape cases was unconstitutional. It has mainly been used in southern states against black men accused of raping white women. |
| 842 | Southern Patriot | 250 Rally to Support Marie Hil | 1971-01-01 | 7 | Hill, Marie; Scott, Bob; Williams, Hosea | student rally; SCLC; commute sentence; death penalty; Supreme Court appeal; repression | Roughly 250 rallied in Raliegh, North Carolina to support Marie Hill, and encouraged Governor Bob Scott to commute the 18 year-old's death sentence for murder. |
| 843 | Southern Patriot | High Court Gives Final Refusal | 1971-01-01 | 7 | Collins, Walter; Ali, Muhammad; Mulloy, Joe; Braden, Anne | U.S. Supreme Court; appeal refusal; draft refusal; conscientious objector; draft board bias; Amnesty International; Selective Service Act violation | The U.S. Supreme Court has given its final refusal to hear the appeal of Walter Collins, convicted of draft refusal. Anne Braden has asked readers to write to the president on his behalf. |
| 844 | Southern Patriot | Letter From Texarkana Prison | 1971-01-01 | 7 | imprisonment; mail; teaching | Walter Collins tells of his experience in prison. | |
| 845 | Southern Patriot | Strip Mine Struggle Heats Up | 1971-02-01 | 1, 3 | Bailey, Ellis; Galperin, Si; Reilly, James D.; Rockefeller, John D., IV; Gould, Jay | strip mining; strip mining legislation; Office of Economic Opportunity; abolition; controversy; ecological damage; coal waste; emissions; Galperin bill; demonstration; pollution | Debate has sprung up across Appalachia on whether to ban strip mining or to phase it out over two years due to environmental concerns. |
| 846 | Southern Patriot | How Poor People Built Politica | 1971-02-01 | 1, 8 | Hammonds, Harrell; Hulett, John; Lawson, J. C.; Cox, Courtland; Minnis, Jack; Miller, Alma V.; Logan, Sidney, Jr.; Ryals, Frank; Logan, Earleen Hayes; Folsom; James; McGhee, Willie; Shuttlesworth, Fre | poverty; race relations; violence; threat; campaign; voter registration; freedom movement; Black Panther Party; SNCC: Lowndes County Freedom Organization; protest; boycott; injustice | Overview of how blacks in Lowndes County, Alabama built up political and economic control over the white ruling class. |
| 847 | Southern Patriot | Black Activists Charge Draft C | 1971-02-01 | 1, 4 | Thompson, Bennie G.; Smith, Jimmy | Selective Service System; conspiracy; elected officials; draft board bias; conscientious objector; discrimination; medical waiver | Two black men from Mississippi are charging their local draft board with conspiracy to draft local black candidates and officials to keep them away from being activists. |
| 848 | Southern Patriot | Blind Workers Win Strike | 1971-02-01 | 2 | strike; Skilcraft Industries for the Blind; black workers; business boycott; wages; working conditions; picket | Blind workers at Skilcraft Industries won their strike for higher wages and improved working conditions in Greenboro, North Carolina. | |
| 849 | Southern Patriot | Davis Rally | 1971-02-01 | 2 | Davis, Angela; Davis, Sallye; Jackson, Jesse | freedom rally; 16th Street Baptist Church; SCLC | A huge crowd in Birmingham, Alabama demanded freedom for Angela Davis. |
| 850 | Southern Patriot | Ruby Shuttlesworth Dies | 1971-02-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Ruby K.; Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Abernathy, Ralph; Braden, Anne | civil rights activist; SCEF; SCLC | Obituary for civil rights activist Ruby K. Shuttlesworth. |
| 851 | Southern Patriot | Memphis NCCF | 1971-02-01 | 2 | bail; National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF); housing projects; Memphis Housing Authority; eviction; occupation | Fifteen members of the National Committee to Combat Fascism had bail set at $3,000 for occupying the offices of the Memphis Housing Authority to protest inhabitable housing. | |
| 852 | Southern Patriot | Travelling This Summer? | 1971-02-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Fred L. | East Africa Tour; SCEF; Special Tours for Special People | Announcement of a three week summer tour of East Africa led by Fred L. Shuttlesworth, called Special Tours for Special People. |
| 853 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-02-01 | 2 | Bethell, Thomas N.; Petras, James; Kominsky, Morris | coal mine explosion; Latin American class structure; right wing press | Reviews of _The Hurricane Creek Massacre_ by Thomas N. Bethell; _Politics and Social Structure in Latin America_ by James Petras; and _The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars_ by Morris Kominsky. |
| 854 | Southern Patriot | U.S. Judge Refuses to Free Col | 1971-02-01 | 4 | Boyle, Edward; Collins, Walter; Allison, William H., Jr.; Sedler, Robert A. | black draft resistance; appeal; shortened sentence; U.S. Court of Appeals; conscientious objector; U.S. Supreme Court | U.S. district judge Edward Boyle refused to reduce Walter Collins' sentence from five years for draft refusal. His lawyers have fought for another appeal. |
| 855 | Southern Patriot | Healthy-Care Struggle Continue | 1971-02-01 | 4 | Schecter, Arnold; McElwain, William; Frazier, Lynn; Eastburn, Harry | Floyd County Comprehensive Health Care; insubordination; political control; benefit education; leaflet; poverty | Dr. Arnold Schecter was fired from the director of the Floyd County Comprehensive Health Care Program for insubordination. He was fighting for more doctors and better facilities to help the areas of poor residents. |
| 856 | Southern Patriot | Louisville Tenants Organize | 1971-02-01 | 5 | Pennignton, Pat; Pennington, Paul | Louisville Tenants Union; housing code; eviction; landlord attacks; poor discrimination; assistance; tenants rights; Legal Aid; welfare; racial unity | Editorial about the Louisville Tenants Union that organized to help local poor and fight poor housing conditions and slumlords. |
| 857 | Southern Patriot | School Boycott Enters Third Mo | 1971-02-01 | 6 | school boycott; desegregation; busing; black school closing; school division; court injunction | Students in East Arcadia, North Carolina are boycotting the busing of black students 42 miles, in one direction, to comply with desegregation. | |
| 858 | Southern Patriot | Attacks on NCCF Continue | 1971-02-01 | 6 | Black Panthers; police brutality; robbery; police shoot out | Police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina continue to attack the Black Panthers, and the police started a shoot out with them in their new headquarters. | |
| 859 | Southern Patriot | Jack Minnis' Column | 1971-02-01 | 6 | Wicker, Tom; Morgenthau, Hans J. | voting age; civil rights movement; 1965 Voting Rights Act; young votes; political organization | Editorial about how the young voter is the new black voter in the sense they must learn how to use their new political power. |
| 860 | Southern Patriot | Black Youth Says: "School Dese | 1971-02-01 | 7 | school control; public schools; poverty; indoctrination; media; racism; class discrimination; oppression | Editorial about the control of students being the true issue in education, not integration. | |
| 861 | Southern Patriot | King's Birthday Sparks Rebelli | 1971-02-01 | 7 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Lee, Robert E. | school rebellion; birthday celebration; violence; riot; police brutality; militancy; school boycott | School boycotts and violence were sparked in North Carolina and South Carolina as black students tried to celebrate MLK's birthday. |
| 862 | Southern Patriot | Black Activist is Drafted in M | 1971-03-01 | 1 | Smith, Jimmy | black candidate; draft; medical waiver; bia; repression | Jimmy Smith, who ran for mayor in Port Gibson, Mississippi, was drafted into the army, in spite of a congenital back defect. |
| 863 | Southern Patriot | Miners March on Capitol | 1971-03-01 | 1, 8 | Perkins, Carl D.; Saylor, John; Schweiker, Richard; Antal, Lou, Boyle, Tony; Yablonski, Jock | coal miner protest; corruption; union officials; Hodgson V. UMW; lobbying; mine safety; Miners for Democracy; embezzlement | Coal miners marched on the capitol building after charging that the federal government has stalled for six years on a case about corruption in the selection of union officials. |
| 864 | Southern Patriot | Insurrection in Wilmington | 1971-03-01 | 1, 6 | King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr.; Lawson, O. H.; Templeton, Gene; Hill, Preston; Mitchell, Steve | riot; violence; fire damage; race relations; rebellion; school integration; discrimination; suspension; school boycott; rally; KKK; police brutality; shooting; death threats; repression | Wilmington, North Carolina erupted in violence, including shootings and fires, as police and the Klan fought against the black community, which was protesting discrimination in newly integrated schools. |
| 865 | Southern Patriot | Appalachian People's History B | 1971-03-01 | 2 | Fenston, Joy; Bolte-Mulloy, Karen; West, Don; Hoban, Joe | Appalachian history; Mountain Education Associates; SCEF | Review of _The Appalachian People's History Book_. |
| 866 | Southern Patriot | Walter Bishop | 1971-03-01 | 2 | Bishop, Walter; Bishop, Ruby; Haskell, Jennifer | civil rights; Knox Area Civil Liberties Union, Highlander Center | Obituary for Walter Bishop, civil rights leader from Eastern Tennessee. |
| 867 | Southern Patriot | World Fellowship | 1971-03-01 | 2 | Uphaus, Willard | World Fellowship; southern issues | Invitation of southerners to the World Fellowship meeting in Kerhonkson, New York. |
| 868 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-03-01 | 2 | Sostre, Martin; Copeland, Vincent; Aronson, James | repression; scape goat; white radical; media bias; red-baiting; black history; index | Review of _The Crime of Martin Sostre_ by Vincent Copeland; _The Press and The Cold War_ by James Aronson; and the _Directory of Afro-American Resources_. |
| 869 | Southern Patriot | The Power of Organized Protest | 1971-03-01 | 3 | Meade, N. Mitchell; Westbrook, John W., III; Allison, William H., Jr.; Sedler, Robert A.; Mulloy, Joe | organized protest; draft resistance; common-law assault; hand bills; rallies | A Kentucky judge proved the power of organized protest and legal action when he set aside the sentence of war resister and pacifist John Westbrook. |
| 870 | Southern Patriot | School Boycott Leader's Home i | 1971-03-01 | 3 | Stevenson, Levern | school boycott; segregation; racism; house burning; police bias; support rally | The home of Reverend Levern Stevenson was burned in Ridgeland, South Carolina in retaliation for his organizing a school boycott to protest overt racism and bus segregation. |
| 871 | Southern Patriot | Ala. Power Rate Increase Fough | 1971-03-01 | 3 | Wallace, George | Alabama Power Company; rate increase; opposition; profit increases | People in Birmingham are opposing rate increases from the Alabama Power Company which would be the second increase in less than three years. |
| 872 | Southern Patriot | Black Scholars Meet in South | 1971-03-01 | 4 | Clarke, John Henrik; Harding, Vincent; Bennett, Lerone, Jr. | black studies; national meeting; black history; Jackson State College; black control; student recruitment | Black scholars from all over the nation met in February in Jackson, Mississippi to discuss the need for more black history and control of education across the south. |
| 873 | Southern Patriot | Two Black Liberation Front Lea | 1971-03-01 | 4, 5 | Bryant, Wayland; Williams, Ronald; Bailey, Mel; Orange, David; Turner, Bernice; Cleaver, Eldridge; Robertson, Harold; Prosch, Gus; Wallace, George | police brutality; assault; Alabama Black Liberation Front; victim blaming; eviction; discrimination; phone tapping; civil rights violation; inhumane jail conditions; arms cache | In Birmingham, Alabama two Alabama Black Liberation Front Leaders were attacked by police and arrested for trying to help a local woman keep her house. |
| 874 | Southern Patriot | So it goes... | 1971-03-01 | 7 | national debt; taxes; borrowing; deficit spending; federal spending; interest rates | Editorial about the national debt and federal spending. | |
| 875 | Southern Patriot | "I Birng An Indictment Against | 1971-03-01 | 7 | Davis, Angela; Abernathy, Ralph | job loss; imprisonment; death threats; militancy; black female activists; racism; political prisoner; kidnap; murder; conspiracy | Excerpt of a speech given by Dr. Ralph Abernathy about the arrest of Angela Davis and the problems of racism in the American justice system. |
| 876 | Southern Patriot | Finley's Fines $50,000 | 1971-03-01 | 8 | Finley, Charles; Finley, Stanley; Helm, Lewis; Russell, Fred | fine; 1969 Coal Mine Health and Safety Act violation; willful violation; prosecution | Charles and Stanley Finley were found liable for $50,000 for the deaths of thirty-eight men from an explosion on December 30, 1970 from unsafe conditions, a direct violation of the 1969 Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. |
| 877 | Southern Patriot | Strip Miners Beat Back Aboliti | 1971-03-01 | 8 | Galperin, Si; Rockefeller, Jay; Deem, Frank; Moore, Arch A.; Williams, Norman | strip mining; limiting industry; surface mining ban; strip mining abolition | The strip-mining industry in West Virginia managed to defeat a bill that would have abolished the industry in their state. |
| 878 | Southern Patriot | War on Hunger Bogs Down | 1971-04-01 | 1, 3 | Nixon, Richard; Hollings, Ernest F.; McGovern, George; McNair, Robert; Thurmond, Strom; Harris, Ray; Taylor, Etta; Cherry, Earl; Boles, Julia; Haynesworth, Clement; Barnwell, Thomas; West, John | hunger; malnutrition; poor health care; poverty; boycott; picket line; corruption; sham program; pibt food-stamp program; welfare; Comprehensive Health Program | Editorial about past efforts to combat hunger and where it stands two years later in Beaufort, South Carolina. |
| 879 | Southern Patriot | Hospital Workers Strike | 1971-04-01 | 1, 4 | Tiech, Albert; McCulloch, John; Sayre, Floyd; Smith, Hullett; Small, Elliott; Harless, Larry; Castle, Jean | Beckley Hospital; protest; partial lock down; firing; union; Local 1199; unfair labor practices; picket line; arrest; harassment; leaflet; segregation; SCLC | Employees at Beckley Hospital in West Virginia went on strike in order to protest a partial lock out and firing of seventeen workers for union involvement. |
| 880 | Southern Patriot | Welfare Women Fight Tenn. Ster | 1971-04-01 | 1, 8 | Bates, Larry; Stone, Mildred; Haskell, Jennifer; Briggs, Sherri; Peacock, Bonnie; Williams, Avon; Ellis, Willi Pearl; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Paul, Juliu; Banfield, Stone | welfare women; forced sterilization; Tennessee House Bill No. 20; picket; open opposition; foster children; poverty; discrimination; black sterilization; eugenic law; illegitimate children | Female welfare recipients in Tennessee picketed and spoke out against House Bill No. 20, which would force women (on welfare) with one or more illegitimate children to undergo sterilization or lose their benefits. The bill would also make it possible for |
| 881 | Southern Patriot | Relief Committee Needs Chilren | 1971-04-01 | 2 | children's clothing; Appalachian relief committee; wood-cutters | The Appalachian Relief Committee is appealing to readers for children's clothing donations to especially help organizing wood-cutters in southern Alabama and Mississippi. | |
| 882 | Southern Patriot | ABLF Trials Postponed | 1971-04-01 | 2 | Bryant, Wayland; Williams, Ronald | trial postponed; Alabama Black Liberation Front | The trials of Wayland Bryant and Ronald Williams of the Alabama Black Liberation Front have been postponed until May. |
| 883 | Southern Patriot | Ruby Shuttlesworth Scholarship | 1971-04-01 | 2 | Shuttlesworth, Ruby K.; Shuttlesworth, Fred L. | scholarship fund; human rights; Greater New Light Baptist Church | A scholarship fund for Ruby K. Shuttlesworth has been established and they are asking for donations to help young people who have interests in human rights to go to college. |
| 884 | Southern Patriot | How the Draft is Used... | 1971-04-01 | 2 | Westbrook, Jay; Allison, William H., Jr.; Sedler, Robert | military draft; punishment; conscientious objector | Illustrates an example of the draft being used as punishment against Jay Westbrook, whose conscientious objector status was revoked. |
| 885 | Southern Patriot | Rev. T. Y. Rogers Dies | 1971-04-01 | 2 | Rogers, T. Y. | civil rights leader; car accident; SCLC | Obituary for Reverend T. Y. Rogers, who was killed in a car accident in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 886 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-04-01 | 2 | Glessing, Robert J. | underground press; youth quake; SNCC; Black Panthers | Review of _The Underground Press in America_ by Robert J. Glessing and _Defiance I_ by various authors. |
| 887 | Southern Patriot | Gatch Wins Fight to Practice i | 1971-04-01 | 3 | Gatch, Donald | poverty; hunger; medical license suspension | Dr. Donald Gatch, who drew national attention to poverty and hunger in Beaufort, South Carolina, won his right to practice medicine in the state. |
| 888 | Southern Patriot | They Can't Put it Back | 1971-04-01 | 4 | Kline, Mike | timber industry; mining industry; Appalachia land destruction | Explanation of the program _They Can't Put it Back_ consisting of slides and songs about destruction to lands in Appalachia caused by the mining and timber industry. |
| 889 | Southern Patriot | High Point Police Attack Milit | 1971-04-01 | 4 | police attack; black militants; raid; eviction; Black Community Information Center; arrest; felony charges | Police in High Point, North Carolina attacked black militants whey they evicted and raided people associated with the Black Community Information Center. | |
| 890 | Southern Patriot | NCCF Has Support in Winston-Sa | 1971-04-01 | 4 | police harassment; National Committee to Combat Fascism; rally; SCLC; jail | A rally held by the National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF) drew a large amount of support in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. | |
| 891 | Southern Patriot | Black Man Cleared of Killing W | 1971-04-01 | 5 | Chavis, John; Edwards, Buster; Teel, Robert; Marrow, Henry | acquittal; shooting | A black man in Oxford, North Carolina was acquitted of shooting a white man, which more than likely was influenced by the Teel Case. |
| 892 | Southern Patriot | Legal Lynching | 1971-04-01 | 5 | Hazelwood, Joseph; Hawkins, Charles; Hawthorne, Nathaniel Lee; Greene, Je Royd | legal lynching; rape; death penalty; Ku Klux Klan; boycott; racism | Joseph Hazlewood, accused of raping a white woman, is potentially under the death penalty, which can be seen as legal lynching. |
| 893 | Southern Patriot | Connie Tucker Convicted: Faces | 1971-04-01 | 5 | Tucker, Connie; Favors, Otha; Favors, Sharon; Taylor, Alex | possession of marijuana; Junta of Militant Organizations; police harassment; police raid; black nationalism | Connie Tucker, a black activist, was convicted of marijuana possession and sentenced to five years in spite of the fact that police could not produce the marijuana. |
| 894 | Southern Patriot | Angela Davis Campaign Builds | 1971-04-01 | 5 | Bond, Julian; Davis, Angela; Hoover, J. Edgar; Moore, Howard; Mitchell, Charlene; Braden, Carl | rally; McCarthyism; Miles College; repression; most wanted list; political poster | A rally was held in Birmingham at Miles College to support the defense of Angela Davis. Also explained how she is an example of repression in America. |
| 895 | Southern Patriot | Commission Investigates N.C. D | 1971-04-01 | 6 | Valder, Bob; Chavis, Ben | North Carolina Civil Rights Commission; school desegregation; testimony; racism; discrimination; | A commission in North Carolina investigated the blatant acts of racism and discrimination in newly desegregated schools. However, nothing will likely come from it, but students are happy the events are officially recorded. |
| 896 | Southern Patriot | Charlotte Black Students Rebel | 1971-04-01 | 6 | black student rebellion; desegregation; Concerned Parent's Association; racism; racial fighting; arrest; violence; protest | Black students at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school systems rebelled after facing intense racism and discrimination from administration and members of the Concerned Parents' Association. | |
| 897 | Southern Patriot | Equal Justice? | 1971-04-01 | 6 | Carswell, Scott; Hollings, Ernest; Cook, Rodney; Sinclair, John; Johnson, Lee Otis | arrest; marijuana; selective enforcement; White Panther Party | Scott Carswell, son of a Supreme Court nominee, was set free after a drug charge while those seen as radical are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. |
| 898 | Southern Patriot | Murder in Wilmington | 1971-04-01 | 6 | Wright, Clifton Eugene; Walker, Johnny; Williamson, H. E. | school closing; racial fighting; police patrol; arrest; racial shooting; boycott; night riders | In Wilmington, North Carolina the black community is facing white night riders, which caused one death, after insurrection in public schools over racism and discrimination. |
| 899 | Southern Patriot | Soul Institute Still Needs Hel | 1971-04-01 | 6 | The Soul Institute; donations; walk-out; desegregation | The Soul Institute in Earle, Arkansas thanks people for their donations so far. But it is still in need of supplies. | |
| 900 | Southern Patriot | So it goes... | 1971-04-01 | 7 | Philbrik, Herbert; Sardino, Thomas; Philbrick, Shirley | FBI agent; anti-communism; U.S. Press Association; sponsored editorials | Editorial about former FBI agent Herbert Philbrick and his anti-communism crusade. |
| 901 | Southern Patriot | Mobil Public Housing Tenants O | 1971-04-01 | 7 | Alexander, James R.; Romney, George; Cooper, A. J., Jr. | Mobile Housing Board; interracial organization; Tenants Organized for Progress; emergency fund; evictions; trespassing arrest; police presence; rent amount | Black and white tenants in the housing projects of Mobile, Alabama have organized in the Tenants Organized for Progress to combat problems from the Mobile Housing Board. |
| 902 | Southern Patriot | Jury Refuses to Indict Teels | 1971-04-01 | 8 | Marrow, Henry Lee; Teel, Robert G.; Oakley, Robert; Teel, Larry; Chavis, Ben | murder, grand jury investigation; indictment refusal; acquittal; witness testimony; United Klans of America; house dynamited | A jury in North Carolina refused to indict three white men for the shooting of a black Vietnam War Veteran in spite of testimony indicating their intention to kill him. |
| 903 | Southern Patriot | Miners Win Suit Against UMWA W | 1971-06-01 | 1, 8 | Blankenship, Willie Ray; Gesell, Gerhard A.; Boyle, W. A.; Roche, Josephine; Lewis, John L.; Yablonski, Jock; Judy, George; Huge, Harry | black lung disease; pension; retirement fund; Regulation B-2; disabled miners; miners' widows; Blankenship v. Boyle; mismanagement; conflict of interest | The United Mine Workers of America was found guilty of mismanagement of funds and allowing conflicts of interest to occur with the miners' pension funds. |
| 904 | Southern Patriot | Tour Builds Support for Collin | 1971-06-01 | 1, 6 | Collins, Walter; Collins, Virginia; Braden, Carl; Griswold, Erwin; Gardner, Tom; Lewis, John; Mulloy, Joe | protest; imprisonment; draft refusal; speaking tour; racism; amnesty petition; demonstrations; SNCC; oppression | A speaking tour across the South explained the case of Walter Collins and how the draft system as a whole is racist. |
| 905 | Southern Patriot | Pulpwood Workers Organize [Por | 1971-06-01 | 1, 4, 5 | Simmons, James | corporate feudalism; grass-roots movement; Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association; racial unity; harassment; low wages; paper wood industry; sub-existence; exploitation; dealership system; debt slavery; GROW; repression; pacification | Editorial about the conditions of pulpwood cutters in Alabama, and how they are kept working in debt slavery that is "worse than sharecropping." |
| 906 | Southern Patriot | Federal Spying on Black Rep. E | 1971-06-01 | 2 | Graves, Curtis; Hoover, J. Edgar | federal spying; Texas state representative; Constitutional rights; phone tapping; police tactics | The federal government has stopped spying on black Texas state representative after ten years. |
| 907 | Southern Patriot | Oxford Remembers Henry Marrow | 1971-06-01 | 2 | Marrow, Henry; Chavis, Ben | racial murder; march; fire; Marrow Day Services | In Oxford, North Carolina, residents and activists held a march and memorial services on May 12th for Henry Marrow, who was killed by whites. |
| 908 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-06-01 | 2 | Forman, James | black movement; SNCC; speeches; papers | Review of _The Political Thought of James Forman_, a collection of his speeches and papers. |
| 909 | Southern Patriot | GA. Prisons Run for Punishment | 1971-06-01 | 3 | Carter, Jimmy; MacDougall, Ellis; Muni, Paul; Burns, Robert; Herndon, Angelo; Maddox, Lester; Seale, Bobby; Huggins, Erika | Georgia Commissioner of Corrections; prison reform; slaver descendant; vagrancy law; convict lease system; chain gang; public relations; Orangeburg Massacre; human rights; censorship; computerization | Editorial about the history and the problems within the Georgia prison system, and about how Ellis MacDougall has been appointed to change the image of the system. |
| 910 | Southern Patriot | Hostile News Story Supports Tu | 1971-06-01 | 4 | Tucker, Connie | St. Petersburg Times; political prisoner; Junta of Militant Organizations; marijuana charge; Lowell State Prison; protest | An article published in the St. Petersburg Times only helped to strengthen the defense of Connie Tucker by proving she is being held as a political prisoner. |
| 911 | Southern Patriot | Appalachian People's History | 1971-06-01 | 4 | Caughey, John | Appalachian History; SCEF; Eastern Mountain Associates | Praise for the _Appalachian People's History Book_ published by the SCEF, and the Eastern Mountain Associates |
| 912 | Southern Patriot | Women Inmates Welcome Virginia | 1971-06-01 | 6 | Collins, Virginia | Federal Women's Reformatory; speech; education; draft resistance | Mrs. Virginia Collins gave a rousing speech at the Federal Women's Reformatory in Alderson, West Virginia where she gained support for draft resistance and encouraged education among the prisoners. |
| 913 | Southern Patriot | Shooting War in Elizabethtown | 1971-06-01 | 6 | Chavis, Ben | high school rebellion; shooting; desegregation; protest; store boycott; racial tension | Shootings occurred in Elizabethtown, North Carolina after a rebellion about school integration plans. At least ten black people were shot, one fatally. |
| 914 | Southern Patriot | Hoover and FBI Sued | 1971-06-01 | 6 | Collins, Virginia; Collins, Walter; Christina, Frank; Birdwell, Don; Morris, Cornelius; Braden, Carl | free speech; FBI Agents; hampering efforts | Virginia Collins has filed suit against the FBI for their efforts to try and stop her from freeing her son, Walter, from jail. |
| 915 | Southern Patriot | So it goes... | 1971-06-01 | 7 | Stern, Edith Rosenwald; Rosenwald, Julius; Stern, Edgar B., Jr.; Morrison, DeLessups; Duplantier, Adrian; Lemann, Thomas B. | Sears Roebuck and Co.; company stock; WDSU-TV; tax evasion; gift-tax; political contributions; Institute of Politics at Loyola University | Editorial about the Stern family of New Orleans, the heirs to the Sear Roebuck Company fortune, and how they influence state and city politics. |
| 916 | Southern Patriot | Lamar Society: Force for Chang | 1971-06-01 | 7 | Muskie, Edmund; Perot, H. Ross; Landrieu, Moon | L.Q.C. Lamar Society; symposium; "New South:" progressive; status quo | Explanation of the Lamar Society and how they do not seek to truly change anything in the south even though they talk about being progressive. |
| 917 | Southern Patriot | Black Political Party Builds F | 1971-06-01 | 8 | Rivers, L. Mendel; DeLee, Victoria; Broadwater, Thomas; Edwards, James | special election; United Citizen's Party; write-in' candidate; moderate; harassment | In a special election in South Carolina, the black-oriented United Citizen's Party proved their growing power by gaining 10% of the vote. |
| 918 | Southern Patriot | Virginia Women Still on Strike | 1971-09-01 | 1, 3 | Gardner, George; Breeden, Mable | strike; wage freeze; Alliance Manufacturing Company; Appalachia; wage rates; working conditions; speed up; fair grievance procedure; picket line; injunction; unconstitutional | Over three hundred women are still on strike at the Alliance Manufacturing Company in Shenandoah, West Virginia, asking for better working conditions, higher wages, and laxer regulations. |
| 919 | Southern Patriot | Malcolm X Liberation Universit | 1971-09-01 | 1, 6 | Sadaukai, Owusu | Malcolm X Liberation University; black student rebellion; black studies program; black education; Durham University; communalism; opposition; Pan-Africanism; physical development | Details of the Malcolm X Liberation University in Greensboro, North Carolina and how it has come to support black education. |
| 920 | Southern Patriot | Quinoy Five: Case Study in Rep | 1971-09-01 | 1, 8 | Smith, David Charles; Figgers, Alphonso; Burns, Johnny; Keaton, David; Fredericks, Johnny | robbery; murder; injustice; Luke's Grocery Store, bias; racism; extorted confession; lack of evidence; prison racism; solitary confinement | In Tallahassee, Florida, five black men are being prosecuted for robbery and murder of a sheriff's deputy because of racism, and in spite of little to no evidence. |
| 921 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-09-01 | 2 | Greene, Felix; Fanon, Frantz; Mortimer, Wyndham; Geismar, Peter; Fenster, Leo | imperialism; exploitation; biography; labor union | A review of _The Enemy: What Every American Should Know About Imperialism_ by Felix Greene; _Fanon_ by Peter Geismar; and _Organize! My Life as a Union Member_ edited by Leo Fenster. |
| 922 | Southern Patriot | Some Movement Veterans Die | 1971-09-01 | 2 | Stephens, Donald; Austin, Louis E.; Tilley, John L., Sr. | draft refusal; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; women's suffrage; civil rights SCLC | Death announcements for three movement leaders: Donald Stephens, Louis E. Austin, and John L. Tilley, Sr. |
| 923 | Southern Patriot | Florida Teacher Fights for Her | 1971-09-01 | 3 | Most, Elizabeth; Spain, William; Babrick, Robert | speech; West Florida University; social work; firing; violence; Board of Regents hearing | Dr. Elizabeth Most was fired from West Florida University after she gave a controversial speech at the Rotary Club about violence in America. She is fighting the firing and has a hearing at the Board of Regents. |
| 924 | Southern Patriot | The Summer in Review | 1971-09-01 | 4 | Boyle, Tony; Tijerina, Reis; Collier, Jo Etha; Swan, Jimmy; Evers, Charles; Bond, Julian; Mathis, Hazle; Mathis, Van Lee, JR.; Anderson, Leon; Russ, Cornell; Bryant, Wayland; Williams, Ronald; Honey, | union welfare and retirement fund; voter fraud; militancy; voter registration; shooting; Southern Black Caucus; SCLC; Republic of New Africa; gun battle; police shooting; Alabama Black Liberation Front | Review of the events that took place over the summer that relate to civil rights and militancy. |
| 925 | Southern Patriot | Blacks Oppose Greensboro Busin | 1971-09-01 | 5 | busing opposition; racial parity; desegregation; black consciousness; black identity; debate | Great opposition in Greensboro, North Carolina has emerged in the black community to the busing plan in order to enforce desegregation. | |
| 926 | Southern Patriot | Supreme Court Ruling Affects N | 1971-09-01 | 5 | Hill, Marie; Roseboro, Robert | Witherspoon case; supreme court ruling; stay of execution | The Supreme Court set aside the death penalty for six people in North Carolina including Marie Hill and Robert Roseboro. |
| 927 | Southern Patriot | Organizing in the Army | 1971-09-01 | 5 | Heinl, Robert D.; Davis, Angela | Fort McClellan; U.S. Women's Army Corps; U.S. Army Chemical Corps; basic training; war protest; disaffection; anti-war coffeehouse; People's Peace Treaty | Editorial about soldier resistance and political involvement at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama. |
| 928 | Southern Patriot | Memphis: Crisis in Housing | 1971-09-01 | 6 | Boyd, Vinie; Boyd, Leo; Adam, Rubie; Payne, Janice | vacant public housing; conspiracy; poverty; housing gap; federal funding; zoning laws; dangerous conditions; National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF) | Editorial about how deplorable the state of housing is in Memphis, Tennessee and how little the city is doing to combat the problem. |
| 929 | Southern Patriot | Support for War Resisters | 1971-09-01 | 7 | draft resistance; Federal Youth Center; demonstration; picket; Friends of Resisters | Support for draft resistance appeared in Ashland, Kentucky around the Federal Youth Center. | |
| 930 | Southern Patriot | Wilmington: The Struggle Goes | 1971-09-01 | 7 | Williamson, H. E.; Wright, Clifton Eugene; Frinks, Golden; Chavis, Ben | racial tension; violence; white extremists; shooting; fire damage; fair treatment; vandalism; SCLC; militant non-violent action; boycott; freedom movement; Ku Klux Klan; Black Christian Nationalist Movement | Editorial about the racial tension and violence in Wilmington, North Carolina. |
| 931 | Southern Patriot | Wilmington Whites Declare War. | 1971-09-01 | 7 | Gibson, Leroy | Rights of White People; paramilitary organization; armed resistance; war; school integration; Black Youth Builders of the Black Community; free food | In Wilmington, North Carolina, the white paramilitary organization, Rights of White People, declared war on the black community for school integration while the black youth started a food program to help poor blacks. |
| 932 | Southern Patriot | Independent Parties Meet | 1971-09-01 | 7 | independent political party; The Coalition; New Party | Independent Parties met in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Florida, Kentucky and Texas represented in order to form a new political party. | |
| 933 | Southern Patriot | Collins Campaign | 1971-09-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter; Collins, Virginia; Braden, Carl; Abzug, Bella; Rachman, Emanuel; Freeman, Harrop A. | draft resistance; war injustice; racism; speech; amnesty; amnesty international | Walter Collins has become the poster child for the campaign against racism and injustice in the draft system and the war. |
| 934 | Southern Patriot | Help End the Draft; Free Colli | 1971-09-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter; Abzug, Bella; Griswold, Erwin | write senators; amnesty; draft resistance; pardon | Explains to readers how they can help free Walter Collins and other resisters from prison: by writing to their senators. |
| 935 | Southern Patriot | Tensions Rise In Mississippi | 1971-10-01 | 1, 5 | Hamer, Fannie Lou; Evers, Charles; Mitchell, John; Thurmond, Strom; Eastland, James; Parker; Frank; Sullivan, Charles; Henry, Aaron; Waller, William; Barnett, Ross; Collier, Jo Etha | voter registration; black community; control violence; black candidates; black elected officials; federal inaction; terrorism; gerrymandering; redistricting; re-registration; discrimination | Editorial about repression and discrimination against black voters in Mississippi. |
| 936 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Woodcutters Strike | 1971-10-01 | 1, 8 | Pulliam, Justin; Zellner, Bob; Braden, Carl; Simmons, James; Badue, John; Walter, Fred; Evers, Charles | price freeze; pay cut; woodcutter; Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association; Masonite Corporation; communism; poverty; red-baiting; protest; food stamps; weight system | Explanation; why pulpwood workers in Mississippi went on strike and how they plan to continue their protests. |
| 937 | Southern Patriot | Widespread School Busing Begin | 1971-10-01 | 1, 4 | Blackman, Sallie Mae; Jenkins, Casey; Briley, Beverly; Williams, Avon; Bell, Laura; Bostie, Debra | desegregation; busing; integration; tokenism; racial balance; Concerned Parents' Association; racism; school boycott; peace; picket line; discrimination; | The busing efforts in Nashville have been successful in spite of some resistance from the Concerned Parents' Association and for the first time a city has gained racial balance. |
| 938 | Southern Patriot | Emma Gelders Sterne, Author an | 1971-10-01 | 2 | Sterne, Emma Gelders; Gelders, Joe | author; movement activist; biography; Soledad Brothers | Obituary for Emma Gelders Sterne, an active movement participant and successful writer. |
| 939 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1971-10-01 | 2 | Guffy, Ossie; LEdner, Caryl | poverty; welfare | Review of _Ossie: The Autobiography of a Black Woman_ By Caryl Ledner. |
| 940 | Southern Patriot | N.C. Activists Set Up African | 1971-10-01 | 2 | Chavis, Ben | Klan; Cross; Pan-Africanism | In Wilmington, North Carolina, Klansmen were seen erecting a cross in front of the First African Congregation of the Black Messiah. |
| 941 | Southern Patriot | Robert Childers Dies | 1971-10-01 | 2 | Childers, Robert A. | drowning | Death announcement of Robert A. Childers. |
| 942 | Southern Patriot | A Forgotten Case: Thomas Wansl | 1971-10-01 | 3 | Wansley, Thomas; Carter, Annie; Holton, Linwood | political prisoner; rape; death penalty; racism; all-white jury; sit-in; intimidation; segregation | Overview of the Thomas Wansley case, who was convicted of raping a white woman and initially sentenced to death. It also discusses how he is also a political prisoner. |
| 943 | Southern Patriot | Charlotte Police Kill Another | 1971-10-01 | 3 | Miller, Roy; Swaim, J. W.; Shore, G. L.; Miller, Leroy | police killings; point blank shooting; car theft; beating; Concerned Citizens; petition | Roy Miller is the second black man to be shot by police in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was shot at point blank range and left bleeding in the street for over an hour. |
| 944 | Southern Patriot | An Editorial: The Busing Issue | 1971-10-01 | 4 | Wallace, George; McIntyre, Lionel; Kasper, John | school busing; desegregation; peace; Citizen's Against Busing; protest; picket line; racism; education; mobs | The school busing issue in the southern states has been marked by a lack of violence as more people accept school integration. |
| 945 | Southern Patriot | PCPJ Holds Southern Meeting | 1971-10-01 | 6 | Collins, Virginia; Davis, Angela; Collins, Walter; Jackson, George | People's Coalition for Peace and Justice; political repression; political prisoners; moratorium; demonstration | Brief overview of the southern regional conference of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice held in Nashville, Tennessee held on September 25th. |
| 946 | Southern Patriot | White Organizers Meet | 1971-10-01 | 6 | organized labor; radical movement; GI movement; socialism; communism; Marxism; racism | Details of meeting held in South Carolina where people met to discuss the organizing efforts among the white Southern working class. | |
| 947 | Southern Patriot | Black Activist Charged With Ra | 1971-10-01 | 6 | Covington, Lawrence | black activist; psychiatric examination; rape; school boycott; poverty program; habeas corpus | Lawrence Covington, a young black educate activist, is charged by a sixteen year old white woman with rape in spite of her accusing others with this same charge in the past. |
| 948 | Southern Patriot | Why New Orleans Panthers Were | 1971-10-01 | 7 | Augustine, Israel; Garrison, Jim | New Orleans; Black Panthers; police department; fascism; police shooting; acquittal; black jury; trumped-up charges; Parish Prison | The Panthers were acquitted in New Orleans because of a mainly black jury and an extremely flimsy case from the prosecution. |
| 949 | Southern Patriot | Waller Reconvicted on Mural Ch | 1971-10-01 | 7 | Waller, Joe; Tucker, Connie | Junta of Militant Organizations; grand larceny; racist mural; double jeopardy; Pan-Africanism | Joe Waller has once again been convicted for taking down a racist mural from city hall, even though the Supreme Court reversed the last decision because of Double Jeopardy. |
| 950 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1971-10-01 | 7 | Roberson, Don; Ferguson, James; Carty, Rico; Ramirez, Carlos; Massell, Sam | Malcolm X United Liberation Front; repression; Southeastern People's Revolutionary Conference; anti-busing forced; Black Panthers Trial; arson; police beating; Title II repeal | An overview of the events and news from October. |
| 951 | Southern Patriot | An Analysis: The Issues Behind | 1971-10-01 | 8 | Boyle, Tony | soft coal miners; walk out; wages; sick leave; royalty payment; dissidents; wage freeze | Explanation as to why the miners went on strike, and the internal problems they are faced with: dissidents and union officials. |
| 952 | Southern Patriot | Miners Wait Strike OUt | 1971-11-01 | 1, 8 | Boyle, Tony; Yablonski, Joseph; Miller, Arnold | miner strike; Appalachia; wage policies; food stamps; Nixon economic policy; union reform movement; disabled miners; Black Lung Association | Miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia are waiting out their strike without benefits as the union officials and companies are still far off on a settlement. |
| 953 | Southern Patriot | Woodcutters Strike Widens | 1971-11-01 | 1, 8 | Evers, Charles | woodcutter's strike; Masonite Corporation; racial unity; pay cut; starvation wages; cooperative | The woodcutters' strike in Mississippi has grown to 35,000 people, both black and white, united against being paid starvation wages. The racial unity has spread throughout the community. |
| 954 | Southern Patriot | Alderson Women Rebel | 1971-11-01 | 1, 5 | female rebellion; federal penitentiary; Alderson Revolt; prison reform | A rebellion at the federal female penitentiary occurred in Alderson, West Virginia. A large portion of the article [page 5] is missing. | |
| 955 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1971-11-01 | 2 | Hayes, Elton; Bryant, Wayland; Williams, Ronald; Sellers, Cleveland, Jr.; TInsley, Michael; Tinsley, Narvel; Taylor, Daniel T., III; Kunstler, William | police brutality; police killing; school desegregation; Klan parade; Alabama Black Liberation Front; inciting a riot; SNCC; racism; jury bias; crossover voting | A review of news and events in November. |
| 956 | Southern Patriot | 250 Kentucky Women Form Politi | 1971-11-01 | 3 | Edwards, Mrs. Marty; Westerfield, Rebecca; Braden, Anne | Kentucky Women's Political Caucus; racism; sexism; poverty; institutional violence; women's rights; socialism; Vietnam War; prison reform | Women met in Kentucky to form their own political party and to discuss the main issues for their platform. They want an end to racism, sexism, poverty and institutional violence. |
| 957 | Southern Patriot | Excerpts from the Socialist St | 1971-11-01 | 3 | economic system; corporate wealth; starvation; poverty; Appalachia; socialist alternative; cooperative society | Excerpt from a speech about the problems with the American economy and the benefits of a socialist alternative. | |
| 958 | Southern Patriot | Police Killing Sparks Ayden Mo | 1971-11-01 | 4 | Murphy, William Earl; Day, Billy; Bloom, Eli; Frinks, Golden; Scott, Bob; Paul, Jerry | police killing; movement arrest; indictment refusal; civil action; police brutality; racism; harassment; protest; march; bombing; curfew | The murder of a black man by police in Ayden, North Carolina, sparked rebellion and bombing in the small town. The black community is united like never before. |
| 959 | Southern Patriot | ...And Tobacco Strike Ends It | 1971-11-01 | 4 | Frinks, Golden; Humphrey, Hubert | Pitt County Movement; black tobacco workers; tenant farming; rebellion; working conditions; equality; wage rate; parade permit; police harassment | Black tobacco workers in Farmville, North Carolina have extended the Pitt County Movement, asking to gain equal rights and better wages. |
| 960 | Southern Patriot | Evidence Mounts that Quincy Fi | 1971-11-01 | 7 | Revels, Thomas; Jugger, Raleigh; Fredericks, Johnny; Keaton, David; Townsend, Joe; Pitts, Freddie L.; Lee, Wilbert | Quincy Five; murder; conviction; committed mental institution; indictment; robbery; contradictory testimony; threats; lie detector tests | Evidence is mounting in the Quincy Five trial that the men charged did not commit the crime and confessed under threats. |
| 961 | Southern Patriot | Florida Farmworkers Face a Har | 1971-11-01 | 7 | Helgerson, Donald | farm workers; unity; wage rates; Organized Migrants in Community Action; strike; intimidation; poor work conditions; poverty | Condition for farm workers in Florida are harsh as they face a poor winter with tiny wages and terrible working and living conditions. |
| 962 | Southern Patriot | Many Miners Stay Out | 1971-12-01 | 1 | coal strike; United Mine Workers; wage increase; recommendation | Over half the workers on strike from the coal mines chose to stay out after being advised to go back to work because they read the fine print of their settlement. | |
| 963 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Woodcutters Win | 1971-12-01 | 1 | Simmons, James | woodcutter strike; wage increase; Masonite Corporation; racism; red baiting; racial unity | Woodcutters on strike in Mississippi won their pay raise after living on starvation wages. |
| 964 | Southern Patriot | Police Terror Grips Memphis | 1971-12-01 | 1, 4 | Hayes, Elton; Barnes, George; McKissack; Calvin; Lux, Henry; Gipson, Arthur; Crenshaw, Cornelia; Bayh, Birch; Harris, Fred; Jackson, Ralph; Kramer, Bruce; Hunninen, John; Gantly, Richard; Hancox, Jake | police murder; road block; police beating; petition; protest; strike; King assassination; police harassment; intimidation; National Committee to Combat Fascism; excessive force | Example of the instances of police brutality in Memphis, and how the city has done little to combat the problem |
| 965 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1971-12-01 | 2 | Evers, Charles; Waller, William; Stanley, Seth P.; Thomas, John; Smith, Gladden; Knott, Margaret; Nolan, Rossetta; Chavis, Ben | election; black defeat; violence; Republic of New Africa; indictment; store boycott; acquittal; arrest; Ku Klux Klan | Review of the past month's events. |
| 966 | Southern Patriot | Southern States Cut Welfare | 1971-12-01 | 3 | Eastland, James; Long, Russell | welfare recipients; benefits cut; disability; dependent children; racism; starvation; subsidy; cycle of poverty; forced work; family assistance plan; poverty level income | Editorial about southern states cutting welfare funding and the federal government devising plans that hurt welfare recipients and regular employees. |
| 967 | Southern Patriot | Laurel... | 1971-12-01 | 4 | woodcutter; weight pay system; picket; boycott; Masonite corporation; scabs; strike; racial unity | Story of a wife of a striking woodcutter in Laurel, Mississippi. | |
| 968 | Southern Patriot | ...Wives of Strikers Tell Thei | 1971-12-01 | 5 | Pulliam, Annie Belle | woodcutter; benefits; Masonite Corporation; strike; wage rate; picket line; segregation | Story of the wife of a striking woodcutter and her efforts with the picket line. She also relates a story of racism at local restaurants. |
| 969 | Southern Patriot | North Georgia Women Fight to K | 1971-12-01 | 5 | Davis, Darlene | strike; Levi S. Strauss; Mineral Bluff Industries; sewing cooperative; sweat shop; union breaking; harassment; strike breaker | The women in Mineral Bluff, Georgia are fighting to keep their sewing cooperative to support themselves during the strike at the Levi Strauss plant. |
| 970 | Southern Patriot | 5,000 Students Protest Plan to | 1971-12-01 | 6 | college; reorganization plan; school consolidation; standardization; historically black college; Youth Organization for Black Unity | Students in North Carolina protested a state plan to consolidate state-supported universities under one board of directors. This would end racially identifiable schools in North Carolina. | |
| 971 | Southern Patriot | Killer Freed on Bond | 1971-12-01 | 6 | Parks, Wesley; Collier, Jo Etha | manslaughter; shooting; intimidation; voter registration; bond; appeal | Wesley Parks, convicted of manslaughter for shooting Jo Etha Collier in a wave of terror against the black community, is free on bond while he awaits his appeal. |
| 972 | Southern Patriot | In the Schools | 1971-12-01 | 6 | Self, William; Jessup, B. J.; Leake, George; Goodman, J. C.; Gibson, Lercy | arrest; school racism; march; riot charge; police racism; police shooting; school integration; school boycott; Confederate flag; mob violence; mace; Rights of White People; curfew | Details of school problems in Charlotte, Wilmington, and Southern Pines in North Carolina, as well as St. Petersburg, Florida. |
| 973 | Southern Patriot | Women Rebel at Tennessee State | 1971-12-01 | 7 | Moore, Susan; Luttrell, Mark | Tennessee State Prison for Women, riot; guard brutality | Details of a riot that took place in the Tennessee State Prison for Women caused when a guard beat a prisoner. |
| 974 | Southern Patriot | Southern Support for Angela Da | 1971-12-01 | 7 | Davis, Angela; Collins, Walter; Tucker, Connie | teacher petition; controversial issues; racism; discrimination; booklet | Teachers in southern California are circulating a petition to free Angela Davis. A booklet is available _Political Prisoners: The Cases of Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee, and the Soledad Brothers_. |
| 975 | Southern Patriot | "Bill of Rights for Prisoners" | 1971-12-01 | 7 | Merhiger, Robert R., Jr.; Hirschkop, Philip; Wansley, Thomas; Mason, Leroy | prison reform; inmate discipline; humane treatment; cruel and unusual punishment | Virginia Judge Robert R. Merhiger Jr. ruled that prison officials must change their disciplinary practices in one of the strongest prison reforms to date. |
| 976 | Southern Patriot | Mountain People Protest "Unful | 1971-12-01 | 8 | Hamilton, James M.; Whitehead, Donald; Johnson, Billy-Jean; Hall, Evla; Cooper, Leon; Frazure, Nick | mountaineers; Appalachian Regional Commission; black lung benefits; Family Assistance Plan; march; grass roots movement; hunger; road conditions | A group of 300 mountain people went to Washington, D.C. in order to confront the government on unfulfilled promises of black lung benefits, Appalachian Regional Commission and the Family Assistance Plan. |
| 977 | Southern Patriot | Mrs. Collins Demands: "Amnesty | 1971-12-01 | 8 | Collins, Virginia; McGovern, George; Rachman, Emanuel; Collins, Walter | amnesty; draft resistance; indictment; speaking tour; anti-war protest | Mrs. Virginia Collins is asking the government to give amnesty to all people being punished for war opposition. |
| 978 | Southern Patriot | Charleston Gazette Printers St | 1972-01-01 | 1, 8 | Anderson, L. T.; Smith, Robert; Blizzard, William C.; Supolt, Ernie | profit margin; low wages; newspaper industry; scab; strike; International Mailers Union; walk off; Newspaper Agency Corporation; worker unity; guard violence; picket line | Newspaper printers in Charleston, West Virginia are striking due to low wages, but their chances of winning their fight have diminished. |
| 979 | Southern Patriot | North Carolina Struggle Widens | 1972-01-01 | 1 | Chavis, Ben | black liberation; black independence; student rebellion; civil rights; Black People's United Party | North Carolina has become the battleground for black liberation. |
| 980 | Southern Patriot | Mississippi Officials Patch Up | 1972-01-01 | 1, 8 | Peters, Ed; Moore, Russel; Skinner, William; Obadell, Imari, Abubakari, I; Lindberg, Elmer; Tullos, Lowell; Amann, Lester L.; Crumbley, William; Sullivan, Charles; Summer, A. F.; Travis, Jack | Republic of New Africa; shooting; bond; indictment; arrest; discrepancies; warrant; raid | The case against the RNA eleven has faced problems with discrepancies in the evidence against and the arrest of the RNA president. |
| 981 | Southern Patriot | Hearing on McSurely Appeal Set | 1972-01-01 | 1 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; McClellan, John | appeal; seized documents; sedition; contempt of congress | The McSurelys will go before the U.S. Court of Appeals to fight their contempt of congress conviction. |
| 982 | Southern Patriot | "Hot Line" Cools Down | 1972-01-01 | 2 | Corcoran, John; Schlick, Donald; Osborn, Elburt | hot line; mine hazards; telephone tips; mine closure; fines | The "hot line" installed to allow miners to call and report safety issues to the Bureau of Mines was down for almost two months, but it is now operational. |
| 983 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-01-01 | 2 | Patterson, William L.; Brown, William Wells; Jefferson, Thomas | autobiography; black president's daughter; slavery | Review of William L. Patterson's autobiography _The Many Who Cried Genocide_, William Wells Brown's _Clotel, or the President's Daughter_ and _Ebony Pictorial History of Black America_ issued by Johnson Publishing Co. |
| 984 | Southern Patriot | Helen Greever Becomes SCEF Exe | 1972-01-01 | 3 | Greever, Helen McPhail; Braden, Anne | SCEF; Mountain Training Program | Helen McPhail Greever succeeded Anne Braden as executive director of the SCEF on January 1st. |
| 985 | Southern Patriot | Coal Settlement Created New Ra | 1972-01-01 | 3 | Payne, Robert; Miller, Arnold; Milam, Ed; Christie, Sidney L.; Omechinski, Billie | coal strike; Black Lung Association; picket line; striker benefits; fraud; disabled miners; job bidding; wage scale; disability compensation; Crew Changes | in Beckley, West Virginia, striking miners have developed a new sense of militancy when the settlement reached by the union did not meet the needs of the people. |
| 986 | Southern Patriot | "Working Through the System" . | 1972-01-01 | 4, 5 | McSurely, Margaret; McSurely, Alan; Braden, Anne; Braden, Carl; Mulloy, Joe; McClellan, John; Brick, John; Pearson, Drew; Javits, Jacob; Young, Dennison, Jr.; Wager, Rober | imperialism; fair elections; seized documents; arrest; sedition; KUAC; constitutional violation; contempt of congress; McSurely Freedom Committee; indictment; SNCC; appeal | Interim report of the McSurelys Case and their efforts to fight their contempt of congress conviction. |
| 987 | Southern Patriot | Hoover Won't Answer Questions | 1972-01-01 | 5 | Hoover, J. Edgar; Sedler, Robert A.; Allison, William H., Jr.; Collins, Virginia; Collins, Walter; Braden, Carl | executive immunity; refusal; draft resistance; agent interference; bias; accountability; harassment | J. Edgar Hoover invoked executive immunity when he was questioned about interfering with Virginia Collins' efforts to campaign for the release of her son from prison for draft resistance. |
| 988 | Southern Patriot | Ayden Struggle Continues | 1972-01-01 | 6 | Abernathy, Ralph; Frinks, Golden; Kirby, George | police killing; arrest; demonstration; state of emergency; march; mass rally ban; high sentence; Pitt County movement; constitutionality; Rights of White People; white supremacy | Protests and demonstrations still continue in the Pitt County movement as black activists still want justice for the police killing of a black man five months prior. |
| 989 | Southern Patriot | Movement Holds School Hearings | 1972-01-01 | 6 | Scott, Bob | school integration; racism; hearing; token blacks; governor investigation; double standards; insurrection; Rights of White People; black consciousness | In Raleigh, North Carolina, the movement held hearing about the continued white racism in integrated schools and how administrators, police, and parents encourage the discriminatory behavior. |
| 990 | Southern Patriot | Virginia Students Boycott Scho | 1972-11-15 | 6 | Simmons, David | school boycott; I.C. Norcum High School; school conversion; busing; United Black Students Association; black studies program; unemployment | Students in Portsmouth, Virginia boycotted their school after a busing plan where they had to pay their own way, and the conversion of a prestigious all black school into a technical school. |
| 991 | Southern Patriot | Black People Form Political Pa | 1972-01-01 | 7 | Black People's Union Party; mass base; black consciousness; Pan-Africanism; black organization | The independent political organization, the Black People's Union Party, formed in North Carolina to represent the mass base of the black population of the state. | |
| 992 | Southern Patriot | NC Officials Attack Movement L | 1972-01-01 | 7 | Chavis, Ben; Grant, Jim; Wright, Clifton Eugene; Hicks, Molly; Nixon, Don; Marrow, Henry; Chavis, William; Teel, Robert | arrest; black liberation movement; indictment; accessory after the fact of murder; threats; protest | North Carolina authorities are using arrest to control and repress movement leaders after state wide protests. |
| 993 | Southern Patriot | Southern Activists Meet in Tal | 1972-01-01 | 8 | Cleaver, Kathleen; Shaker, Afeni; Collins, Virginia; Reed, Rick; Kunstler, William | Malcolm X United Liberation Front; conference; fascism; communications network; racial unity | A group of activists representing twenty-three different organizations met in Tallahassee, Florida for a conference organized by the Malcolm X United Liberation Front. They decided they needed a basic communications network. |
| 994 | Southern Patriot | Blacks Investigate Massacre | 1972-02-01 | 1, 7 | Britton, Harvey; Clemmons, Bryan; Dumas, Woodrow W.; McKeithen, John; Williams, Robert C.; Breaux, Ray; Oliney, James | inquiry; massacre; media; police brutality; Muslims; economic issues; self-defense; unarmed victims; undercover officers; hysteria; curfew; conspiracy | An investigation by the black community on the massacre shows police brutality against the unarmed demonstrators, while the media reports show the opposite. |
| 995 | Southern Patriot | Lee Otis Johnson Wins Appeal | 1972-02-01 | 1, 6 | Johnson, Lee Otis; Bue, Carl O., Jr.; Short, Herman; Smith, Preston; Williams, Roger; McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Brown, John R.; Cocke, Shaw; Cox, Harold; Beecher, Johnny Daniel | appeal; marijuana conviction; Texas Liberation Movement; warrant; conspiracy; public housing; seized documents; Black Panther Party | An overview of the legal proceedings in cases concerning civil rights issues. |
| 996 | Southern Patriot | Women Close Down Strip Mine | 1972-02-01 | 1, 5 | Smith, Bessie; Combs, Ollie; Kelly, W. M. | strip mining; Ken Mack Coal Company; beating; occupation; protest; Appalachian group; leaflet; law enforcement | A group of women in Eastern Kentucky shut down the strip mining operation of Ken Mack Coal Company for a day and were only sent away after beatings on the road below them. |
| 997 | Southern Patriot | RNA Eleven Trial Slated For Ma | 1972-02-01 | 2 | Moore, Russell B., III; Ana, Hekima; Steiner, Jerry; Bond, Julian | RNA Eleven; shooting; high bond; Republic of New Africa; warrant; police procedures | The RNA Eleven, charged when police violated procedures for serving warrants that ended in a shoot, have trials set to start on March 27th. |
| 998 | Southern Patriot | Amnesty Campaign | 1972-02-01 | 2 | Freeman, Harrop A.; Collins, Walter | draft resistance; pamphlet; amnesty; Fellowship of Reconciliation | A campaign has begun to bring awareness to the need for amnesty for draft resisters, specifically Walter Collins. |
| 999 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-02-01 | 2 | Carwardine, William H.; Nelson, Jack; Bass, Jack; Equiano, Alaudah; Northup, Solomon | strike; black unity; South Carolina State College | Review of _Africa and Africans_, _The Pullman Strike_ by William H. Carwardine, _The Orangeburg Massacre_ by Jack Nelson and Jack Bass, and _Black Autobiographies_. |
| 1000 | Southern Patriot | St. Joe Paper Strike Enters Se | 1972-02-01 | 3 | Ball, Ed | strike; St. Joe Paper Company; Alfred I. DuPont Estate; foreclosure; auto repossession; negotiation failure; racial unity | The strike at St. Joe Paper Company enters its seventh month as the company refuses to negotiate and is using the local bank to attack strikers. |
| 1001 | Southern Patriot | UFWOC Helps Striking Florida S | 1972-02-01 | 3 | Chavez, Manuel; Raymond, Nicholas; Freeman, Nan | Talisman Sugar Corporation; strike; Farm Workers Union; picket line; Bryan Brothers Packing Company | A description of labor issues and strikes in the South, with particular attention on the sugar workers striking in South Bay, Florida. |
| 1002 | Southern Patriot | Join SCEF Tour to East Africa | 1972-02-01 | 3 | Collins, Virginia | East Africa tour; SCEF | SCEF is sponsoring a tour to East Africa, led by Mrs. Virginia Collins. |
| 1003 | Southern Patriot | Portsmouth Arrest Continue | 1972-02-01 | 3 | Alfrod, Michael J.; Simmons, David; Chavis, Ben; William, Eddie | arrests; school boycott; I.C. Norcum High School; technical school; black consciousness | The police in Portsmouth, Virginia have increased their arrest efforts against the leaders of the school boycott at I.C. Norcum High School. |
| 1004 | Southern Patriot | Port Allen, LA | 1972-02-01 | 3 | arrest; Port Allen High School; boycott; MLK birthday | Sixty-eight students were arrested at Port Allen High School for refusing to return to class or leave the campus when administrators refused to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| 1005 | Southern Patriot | Alderson Postscript | 1972-02-01 | 4 | McLaughlin, Virginia | Alderson Penitentiary; rebellion; open mail policy | A woman who had been at Alderson Penitentiary until shortly before the rebellion updated the situation, saying many demands that were promised have not been met. |
| 1006 | Southern Patriot | Women in the Struggle | 1972-02-01 | 4 | Parks, Rosa | women protesters; labor protest; strike; prison revolt; strip mining | An overview of the importance and involvement of women in the human rights struggles in the south. |
| 1007 | Southern Patriot | Anaconda Bias Suit: Who Won? | 1972-02-01 | 4 | Seale, Agnes; Gordon, James | Class Action Suit; Anaconda Aluminum; discrimination; Title VII; sex-bias; harassment; lay off; Equal Employment Opportunities Commission; women's rights; KCLU | The ten women who filed a class action suit against Anaconda Aluminum won their suit, but did not gain the equality they sought. |
| 1008 | Southern Patriot | Elba Women Fight Lonely Battle | 1972-02-01 | 5 | Stephens, John | strike; strike benefits; withdrawal; racial unity; Kleinert's Inc.; incentive pay; wage rate; scab employees; race baiting; picket line; media silence | The women striking against Kleinert's Inc. over wage rates lost their eight month long battle due to either a lack of support or awareness. |
| 1009 | Southern Patriot | ROWP Invades Black Community | 1972-02-01 | 6 | Chavis, Ben; Hicks, Mollie; Hicks, Leatrice; Walker, Johnny; Wright, Clifton Eugene | Rights of White People (ROWP); white power attack; federal transfer; accessory to murder | The Rights of White People, a white supremacist group, moved its headquarters to the middle of the black community and the three charged with accessory to the murder of Clifton Eugene Wright asked that their case be moved to federal court. |
| 1010 | Southern Patriot | Nine Memphis Policemen Indicte | 1972-02-01 | 7 | Price, Bill; Hayes, Elton; Smith, Maxine; Berry, Fred; Madison, Eddie; Vaulx, Rickey; Stewart, Raymond; Chanderl, Wyeth; Higgs, Otis, Jr. | police killings; shootings; protest; crime wave; revenge; murder | Nine Memphis police officers were indicted for the beating of Elton Hayes, but this caused a new wave of police shootings. |
| 1011 | Southern Patriot | Greensboro Blacks Fight Police | 1972-02-01 | 7 | Shoffner, Nathan; Clark, R. A.; Riggins, Michael; Rhodes, Elizabeth; Cox, B. E. | police brutality; shootings; harassment; racism | The black community in Greensboro, North Carolina is fighting increased police brutality and racism. |
| 1012 | Southern Patriot | Williams Case Stirs Monroe | 1972-02-01 | 8 | Griffin, Virgil Lee; Williams, Robert; Mauney, Al; Scott, Bob; Milliken, William G. | Ku Klux Klan; National White People's Party; kidnapping; Monroe Movement; civil rights demonstration; violence; Republic of New Africa; contempt; petition | The case against Robert Williams has caused protests and anger from both sides in Monroe, North Carolina. |
| 1013 | Southern Patriot | Farmworkers Sign First Florida | 1972-03-01 | 1 | Chaves, Cesar; Pawley, William D., Sr.; Raymond, Nicholas | United Farm Workers Organizing Committee; labor contract; wage increase; pesticide bad; strike; Talisman Sugar Corporation | The first major success of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee was a contract with Coca-Cola for its 1,200 citrus workers in its minute maid division. |
| 1014 | Southern Patriot | Survivors Investigate Disaster | 1972-03-01 | 1, 2 | Moore, Arch; Hallanan, Elizabeth; Kelley, Dean; Miller, Arnold; Conn, Lucian; Bryant, Don; Crumm, Charles; Hatfield, Brady; Mullens, George | flood; slag pile dam; coal mining interest; Black Lung Association; citizens group; explosion; Buffalo Creek Disaster; Pittston Company | The disaster in Buffalo Creek, West Virginia led to an investigation and a hearing by the citizens' commission to figure out why the slag pile dam burst, causing destruction of life and property. |
| 1015 | Southern Patriot | Frank Graham Dies at 85 | 1972-03-01 | 2 | Graham, Frank | human rights; University of North Carolina; SCEF; academic freedom | Obituary for Frank Graham, human rights activist and former president of the University of North Carolina. |
| 1016 | Southern Patriot | Interview With Nicholas Raymon | 1972-03-01 | 3 | Chavez, Manuel | Talisman Sugar Corporation; sugar workers; machinists union; strike; picket line; UFWOC; work hours; overtime pay; wage rate; protest; scab employee; boycott | Interview with Nicholas Raymond, a truck driver for the Talisman Sugar Corporation, where he explains the difficulties of the job and the reasons behind the strike. |
| 1017 | Southern Patriot | Woodcutter Strike Support Work | 1972-03-01 | 4 | Simmons, James; Harvison, Punch; Pulliam, Thomas | woodcutters strike; Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association; Masonite Corporation; nationwide support; solidarity; The Alliance; coalition; leaflet; financial support | The woodcutters strike in Laurel, Mississippi has helped to create a nationwide movement by gaining support and proving the importance of worker solidarity. |
| 1018 | Southern Patriot | Two Woodcutters Speak | 1972-03-01 | 5 | woodcutting industry; wage rate; pulpwood; welfare; Masonite Corporation; racial unity; co-op | Explanation by a woodcutter of the strike and what caused it. | |
| 1019 | Southern Patriot | Two Mississippi Woodcutters Sp | 1972-03-01 | 5 | strike; Masonite Corporation; unity; Pulpwood Association; starvation | Striker explains the benefits of the strike in Laurel, Mississippi and how important it was to him. | |
| 1020 | Southern Patriot | RNA Case Carried Across Missis | 1972-03-01 | 6 | Braden, Carl; Obadele, Imari; Van Buren, Charles | Republic of New Africa; shootout; racial unity; political repression; political prisoners | The case against the RNA eleven is gaining support across Mississippi through the week long tour of Carl Braden. |
| 1021 | Southern Patriot | Student Uprisings Continue | 1972-03-01 | 6 | Fleming, Louis; Quis, Francis R. | student uprising; racial attack; eviction; school boycott; violence; student arrest; fighting; black history; school colors; inciting a riot | Details of student protests and uprisings in both North and South Carolina. |
| 1022 | Southern Patriot | N.C. Blacks Adopt Program | 1972-03-01 | 6 | Chavis, Ben | national Black Caucus; delegates; minimum annual income; busing; foreign affairs; high bond; Black People's Union Party; black nationalism | Details of the program adopted at a meeting in North Carolina to be taken to the national Black Caucus Meeting. |
| 1023 | Southern Patriot | Sounding Board: The Revival of | 1972-03-01 | 7 | Mercer, Jane; Mayeske, George W.; Coleman, James S.; Clark, Kenneth B.; Rockefeller, J. D., III | scientific racism; white supremacy; biological superiority; intellectual qualities; genetic inheritance; IQ test; biological determinism; birth rate | Explanation of the logic behind scientific racism, and why it has recently become a popular idea once again. |
| 1024 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-03-01 | 7 | Alford, Michael E.; Chavis, Ben; Cumber, Harvey; Wright, Clifton Eugene; Waller, Bill; Derian, Patt; Freeman, Harrop; Collins, Walter | I.C. Norcum High School; student demonstration; police dog; student suspension; high bond; murder; black liberation movement; Loyalist Democrats; amnesty; GI coffeehouse | A review of the past month's news and events (March). |
| 1025 | Southern Patriot | Port St. Joe Strike Builds Uni | 1972-03-01 | 8 | Wallace, George; Davis, Charles | St. Joe Paper Company; strike; UPP Local 379; racial unity; wage discrimination; promotion discrimination; picket line; segregation; commodity allotment | The strike at St. Joe Paper Company in Port St. Joe still continues, but strikes have gained a sense of racial unity since it began. |
| 1026 | Southern Patriot | Mine Construction Workers Stri | 1972-03-01 | 8 | Keene, Rufus; Knapp, Dennis C.; Leeber, James; McDaniel, Justin | United Mine Workers; Association of Bituminous Contractors; strike; union officials; contract; wage increase; Pay Board; picket line | Mine construction workers were sick of getting the short end of the stick; and struck over a delay in their pay board approval. |
| 1027 | Southern Patriot | Three Militant Miners' Leaders | 1972-03-01 | 8 | Boyle, Tony; Payne, Robert; Coleman, Lavis; Foley, Leon; Bank, Rick | United Mine Workers Reform Movement; suppression; perjury; strike; hospital cards; regular pay; injunction; | Three miners in West Virginia are facing perjury charges as a way of suppression by the mine operators and court system to stop them from striking. |
| 1028 | Southern Patriot | Historic Protest in Deep South | 1972-04-01 | 1, 2 | Young, Mark L.; Taylor, Dorothy; Hall, Harlan; Jones, Charles; Claiborne, Larry M.; George, Pearl; Barrett, Wayne T.; Rarick, John; Morris, J. H.; Willingham, Alex | dock worker strike; chrome ore; protest; racism; imperialism; Rhodesia; oppression; boycott; resolution; shipment unloading; trespassing; red baiting; United Nations Embargo | A historic protest occurred at a Burnside, Louisiana dock when black dock workers refused to unload a shipment of chrome ore from Rhodesia because of the country's racism and imperialist rule. |
| 1029 | Southern Patriot | People's Candidates Confront K | 1972-04-01 | 1, 3 | Smith, Bessie; Perkins, Carl; Worthington, Bill; Carter, Tim Lee | Appalachian political system; election; corruption; coal interest; coal industry; welfare program; poverty war; strip mining; safety enforcement; guaranteed annual income; black involvement; Black Lung Association; law enforcement; racism | Explanation why Bessie Smith and Bill Worthington are running for office in Kentucky, and how they want to defeat the coal mining elite. |
| 1030 | Southern Patriot | People's Candidates Confront K | 1972-04-01 | 1, 3 | Franklin, Walter Burton; Snuffer, Noel | mining; black lung disease; political bosses; health issues; Pocahontas Coal Company; politician honesty; miner benefits; regulation enforcement; taxation; strip mining legislation | Details of the candidates running in West Virginia trying to improve conditions for miners. Walter Burton Franklin wants to help those with black lung disease, while Noel Snuffer wants a new tax structure. |
| 1031 | Southern Patriot | Southerners Play Key Role at G | 1972-04-01 | 2 | Wise, Stanley; Stone, Donald; Evers, Charles; Sadaukal, Owusu; Brown, H. Rap; Evans, Ahmed; Davis, Angela; Harper, John Ray; Marsh, Henry; Cashin, John | National Black Political Convention; capitalism; racism; black nationalism; white vigilantes | A large portion of the delegates at the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana came from the South and they helped discuss important issues. |
| 1032 | Southern Patriot | Walter Collins Talks of Prison | 1972-04-01 | 4 | Collins, Walter; Davis, Angela | draft resistance; prison reform; draft refusal; prison condition; prison control; oppression; exploitation; political prisoner; SCEF; mail censorship; solitary confinement | Walter Collins is trying to organize the federal penitentiary in Texarkana, Texas to improve the conditions and treatment for all prisoners. |
| 1033 | Southern Patriot | ...Fellow Prisoner Responds | 1972-04-01 | 5 | Collins, Walter; Reese, Michael; Bryant, Wayland; Williams, Ronald; Colbert, James, Fanon, Frantz | repression; Alabama Black Liberation Front; shootout; high bond; Black Panther Party; gun possession; illegal search; oppression | The story of Michael Reese and how Walter Collins impacted him in federal prison. |
| 1034 | Southern Patriot | Men Strike In Texarkana | 1972-04-01 | 5 | Collins, Walter | work stoppage; Texarkana prison; dining hall boycott; racial unity | One week after interviews by the _Southern Patriot_ over 90% of prisoners at the Texarkana prison participated in a three day work stoppage and dining hall boycott. |
| 1035 | Southern Patriot | Quinoy Five Case Falls Apart | 1972-04-01 | 5 | Hopkins, Arvah; Keaton, David; Fredericks, Johnny; Burns, Johnny; Figgers, Alphonso; Smith, David; Fussel, James; Mitchell, James; Damon, Jesse; Revels, Thomas; Perkins, Robert | Quinoy Five; robbery; militant civil rights; harassment; death penalty; witness testimony; Luke's Grocery Store; police raid | The state case against the Quinoy Five is falling apart mainly because only three men were accused of robbery and murder but the state is charging eight with the crime. |
| 1036 | Southern Patriot | The Busing Issue: New Smokescr | 1972-04-01 | 6 | bus system; school consolidation; school desegregation; busing; integration; racial balance; discrimination; education improvement; federal funding; budget cutbacks; repression; mass hysteria; autonomy | Editorial about busing and how it is necessary to end discrimination and to provide a better education for all public school students regardless of race. | |
| 1037 | Southern Patriot | P. D. East Is Dead, But The Pe | 1972-04-01 | 6 | East, P.D.; Plummer, Mary Cameron; East, Birdie; Dombrowski | _The Petal Paper_; racism | Obituary for P.D. East, creator of _The Petal Paper_. |
| 1038 | Southern Patriot | The Campaign Grows: Amnest War | 1972-04-01 | 7 | Kennedy, Edward; Collins, Virginia; Collins, Walter; Tarr, Curtis; Benade, Leo; Ransom, Robert C.; Ransom, Mike; Abzug, Bella; McGovern George; Raft, Robert; Stowers, Berman; Kellerman, Stewart | unconditional amnesty; draft; public sentiment; senate subcommittee; protest; selective service system | An explanation of the efforts to gain unconditional amnesty for war and draft resisters through a senate subcommittee. |
| 1039 | Southern Patriot | ...And All Political Prisoners | 1972-04-01 | 7 | Davis, Angela; Jordan, Fania | political prisoner; meeting; rally; coordinating committee; repression | A meeting was held in Memphis, Tennessee to work to free all political prisoners and help end repression. |
| 1040 | Southern Patriot | Carolina Activist Jailed Again | 1972-04-01 | 8 | Chavis, Ben; Patrick, Marvin Eugene; Cumber, Harry; Shepard, Anne; Williamson, H. E. | high bond; arrest; black liberation movement; repression; protest; murder; Rights of White People; vigilante; student demonstration | After a long period in jail due to extremely high bond, Reverend Ben Chavis is back after his release. They are accusing the police of a conspiracy to crush the black liberation movement in North Carolina. |
| 1041 | Southern Patriot | Jim Grant Gets Ten Years | 1972-04-01 | 8 | Grant, Jim; Chavis, Ben | prison sentence; jump bond; fleeing | Jim Grant, _Patriot_ correspondent, was sentenced to ten years for helping two young men to jump bond and flee to Canada. |
| 1042 | Southern Patriot | Black and White Strikers in Lo | 1972-04-01 | 8 | McClarity, Herbert; Champagne, E. J.; Spock, Benjamin | strike; poverty; serfdom; unionization; People's Party; picket line; store boycott | About seventy city employees in Franklin, Louisiana are on strike to allow unions and improve wages and living conditions. |
| 1043 | Southern Patriot | Southerners Move Against the W | 1972-05-01 | 1, 7 | Turner, Leslie; Long, Al; Antal, Lou; Rapier, Moe; Deaton, Ed | anti-war movement; protest; bombing; war causes; student involvement; march; leaflet; rally; student mobilization; coalition; African imperialism | Anti-war efforts are spreading throughout the south, and gaining support from more than just college students. |
| 1044 | Southern Patriot | Special Report Wallace Country | 1972-05-01 | 1 | Wallace, George | president candidacy | A brief notification that George Wallace may not be able to continue his presidential campaign due to his physical condition. |
| 1045 | Southern Patriot | Flood Survivors Challenge Coal | 1972-05-01 | 1, 2 | Camicia, Nicholas T.; Conn, Lucian | Buffalo Creek disaster; flood; delegation; Pittston Campaign; faulty slag dam; danger; compensation; property damage; responsibility; state highway; citizen's committee | The survivors of the Buffalo Creek flood went to the company stock holders meeting to demand payment for property damage. |
| 1046 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-05-01 | 2 | Cook, Fred J.; Hume, Brit; Lewis, John L.; Boyle, Tony | repression; red baiting; United Mine Workers of America; corruption | Reviews of _The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy_ by Fred J. Cook and _Death Mines_ by Brit Hume. |
| 1047 | Southern Patriot | How It is in Wallace County | 1972-05-01 | 3 | Wallace, George; Miller, G. T.; Vance, Robert S.; Ripp, John; Hurder, Alex | governorship; segregation; segregation; strike; firing; repression; education spending; wage rate; unemployment compensation; tax program; tax structure; maximum interest rate; Wallace-Carter Act; anti-labor; corruption | Details of the problems and issues under Wallace's eight years as governor in Alabama. Specifically, how the state's poor have been impacted. |
| 1048 | Southern Patriot | Fire Bomb in Atlanta | 1972-05-01 | 4 | Massell, Sam | _The Great Speckled Bird_; fire bombing; verbal assault; slum lord expose; mass arrest | The office of _The Great Speckled Bird_ in Atlanta was firebombed in early May after verbal assaults by the mayor about it's criticism of City Hall policies. |
| 1049 | Southern Patriot | Ten Years in North Carolina | 1972-05-01 | 4 | Grant, Jim; Larkins, John; Hood, Theodore; Washington, Walter; Chavis, Ben; Finlator, W. W.; White, Leon; Allison, William H., Jr. | federal conviction; Bail Reform Act; flee; high bond; conspiracy; black liberation movement; repression; hostility; Rights of White People; racism | Explanation how two young men were freed of all their charges in order to convict Jim Grant. Details the system of repression in the federal courts. |
| 1050 | Southern Patriot | Life Imprisonment In Mississip | 1972-05-01 | 5 | Ana, Hekima; Obadele, Imari; Skinner, William L.; Moore, Russell D., III; Plummer, Susie; Lundberg, Christiana; Royals, Tom; Sana, Tamu; McClure, Olivia | Republic of New Africa; murder; life imprisonment; police raid; circumstantial evidence; jury bias; media bias | Detail the RNA member Hekima Ana's trial, where he was found guilty, and how it was impossible for him to receive a fair hearing. |
| 1051 | Southern Patriot | Hekima Ana, RNA Citizen | 1972-05-01 | 5 | Ana, Hekima; Norman, Thomas Edward | ghetto; housing project; leadership; Republic of New Africa | Brief biography of Hekima Ana. |
| 1052 | Southern Patriot | Spirits Still High At Taxarkan | 1972-05-01 | 6 | Collins, Walter; Carlson, Norman | prison rebellion; repression; dining hall boycott; work stoppage; human rights; protest; scapegoat; isolation | The federal prisoners at Texarkana are still in good spirits after officials tried to crush their rebellion. |
| 1053 | Southern Patriot | Collins Letters On Revolt | 1972-05-01 | 6 | prison revolt; peaceful assembly; injustice; oppression; camaraderie; isolation; racism; speech | Letters from Collins on his opinions and viewpoints. | |
| 1054 | Southern Patriot | In Louisville: Panthers Are Ja | 1972-05-01 | 6 | Black Panther Party; high bond; armed robbery; aiding and abetting; militant leaders; arrest | Four members of the Black Panther Party were arrested in Louisville, Kentucky without warrants. | |
| 1055 | Southern Patriot | Poultry Wokers Organize in Mis | 1972-05-01 | 8 | Barber, Merle; Gaddis, Fred L. | Poultry Packers Inc.; strike; Mississippi Poultry Workers Union; production line breakdown; wage raise; paid vacation; firing; picket; Gaddis Packing Company; woodcutters strike; NAACP; relief aid | The woodcutter's strike influence poultry workers in Forest, Mississippi to strike for better wages and vacation pay. |
| 1056 | Southern Patriot | Florida Workers Refuse to Let | 1972-05-01 | 8 | Askew, Revbin | Seminole Asphalt Co.; racial unity; strike; firing; bargaining agent; picket; discrimination | Workers at the Seminole Asphalt Co. remain united in their strike for collective bargaining rights and firing protest in spite of company efforts to divide them along racial lines. |
| 1057 | Southern Patriot | Long Strike Ends at Port St. J | 1972-05-01 | 8 | St. Joe Paper Company; pay raise; vesting rights; strike | Strikers at the St. Joe Paper Company won their pay raise in their strike, but not the right to arbitration or vesting rights. | |
| 1058 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-06-01 | 6 | Smith, David Charles; Featherstone, Al; Rece, Ellis | not guilty; murder; Qunioy 5; Black Afro Militant Movement; firebombing | Brief review of the past month's news events. |
| 1059 | Southern Patriot | Draft Resister Goes On Trial | 1972-06-01 | 6 | Collins, Walter; Rainey, Joe | draft resistance; Black Workers' Congress; U.S. Imperialism | Joe Rainey has now become the target of the government as they seek to make an example of him for draft resistance. He faces up to ten years in prison. |
| 1060 | Southern Patriot | Why It's Harder Now to Make En | 1972-06-01 | 6 | economic trouble; politics; capitalism; over-capacity; profit-expansion; wage reduction; income; cost-of-living; real wage; living standard; wage freeze | Editorial about how the living wage in the U.S. is decreasing. | |
| 1061 | Southern Patriot | The Victory At San Jose: Its M | 1972-06-01 | 7 | Davis, Angela; Rosenberg, Julius; Rosenberg, Ethel | freedom; spy; execution; mass fear; police state; black movement; hysteria | Editorial about how the jury freeing Angela Davis impacts the entire freedom movement throughout the South. |
| 1062 | Southern Patriot | New Woodcutter Offices | 1972-06-01 | 7 | Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association; officers; consolidation; strike; paper industry | New officers were elected to the Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association. | |
| 1063 | Southern Patriot | Tenants Hold Regional Meeting | 1972-06-01 | 7 | Gray, Jesse | National Tenants Organization; tenants' movement; coalition; war protest; regional meeting | The National Tenants Organization held their regional meeting in New Orleans to discuss the growing tenants' movement throughout the South. |
| 1064 | Southern Patriot | Highlander Anniversary | 1972-06-01 | 7 | Highlander Research and Education Center; anniversary | The Highlander Research and Education Center is celebrating it's 40th anniversary. | |
| 1065 | Southern Patriot | Another Wildcat | 1972-06-01 | 8 | Association of Bituminous Contractors; wildcat strike; Federal Pay Board; raise | Employees of the Association of Bituminous Contractors staged their second wildcat strike in three months in Beckley, West Virginia to protest treatment by the Federal Pay Board. | |
| 1066 | Southern Patriot | Angry Miners Strike Pittston | 1972-06-01 | 8 | coal miners; strike; Pittston Coal Company; Buffalo Creek Flood; back pay; re-employment; settlements; property damage | Miners at the Pittston Coal Company struck after disputes with the company coming from the Buffalo Creek flood. | |
| 1067 | Southern Patriot | Wansley Has A New Chance to Wi | 1972-09-01 | 1 | Wansley, Thomas | appeal; rape; oppression; U.S. Supreme Court | Thomas Wansley, sentenced to life in prison for the rape of a white woman, has a hearing set for his appeal. |
| 1068 | Southern Patriot | Patriot Reporter Gets 25-Year | 1972-09-01 | 1 | Grant, James; Reddy, T. J.; Parker, Charles; Snepp, Frank; Ferguson, James; Allison, William H., Jr.; Scott, Bob | stable fire; prison sentence; bias testimony; guilty verdict; picket; racism; politics; political oppression; black activism; amnesty | Three black activists, including Jim Grant a _Patriot_ reporter, were given long prison sentences related to a horse barn burning. |
| 1069 | Southern Patriot | Birmingham Movement Grows | 1972-09-01 | 1, 6, 7 | Farris, Carl; Shelton, Jim; Diamond, Ledger; Henson, Howard; Shuttlesworth, Fred L.; Watkins, Merulrine; McKinney, Robert; Connor, Eugene; Seibels, George G.; Lynn, Sebourn; Jordan, Davis; Reid, Jesse | labor movement; racism; union; job discrimination; police brutality; bargaining agent; SCLC; racial unity; union election; strike; violence | An overview of the developing labor movement in Birmingham, Alabama and how it is combating racism, job discrimination and police brutality. |
| 1070 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Labor History Show | 1972-09-01 | 2 | Brecher, Jeremy | labor movement; Reconstruction; Industrial Workers of the World | A review of _Strike!_ by Jeremy Brecher. |
| 1071 | Southern Patriot | Books Shed Light On Carolina C | 1972-09-01 | 2 | Payton, Boyd; Ehle, John; Radin, Edward D. | liberal image; oppression; injustice; repression | Three books; _Scapegoat_ by Boyd Payton; _The Fall Man_ by John Ehle and _The Innocents_ by Edward D. Radin; give examples of repression and fram-up cases in North Carolina. |
| 1072 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-09-01 | 2 | McCall, Willis; Askew, Reubin; Waller, William | Strike; unlawful tactic; black candidates; racism; comprehensive health center | A review of the past month's news and events. |
| 1073 | Southern Patriot | Boycott Is Still Effective Wea | 1972-09-01 | 3 | McBride, Eddy | black community; mass arrest; business boycott; indictment; racism; discrimination; jury bias | A boycott of white businesses in Vicksburg, Mississippi has been 75% effective, and was started when a jury refused to indict a white man accused of molesting a 7-year-old black girl. |
| 1074 | Southern Patriot | The Parties on the Left | 1972-09-01 | 3 | Communist Party; Socialist Workers Party; People's Party; ballot obstacles | More left leaning political parties in the South are fighting to gain a spot on the ballot. | |
| 1075 | Southern Patriot | Democrats at Miami: A Southern | 1972-09-01 | 3 | Wallace, George; Chrisholm, Shirley; Carter, Jimmy; Henry, Aaron; Harris, Fred | Democratic National Convention; minority groups; delegates; coalition; grass roots movement; McGovern candidacy; electoral politics; two-party system | An overview of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami, and how radicals and youth can help bring change to politics. |
| 1076 | Southern Patriot | Keeping People Divided: Histor | 1972-09-01 | 4 | McGee, Willie; Bowers, William J.; Wansley, Thomas | rape charge; weapon; white supremacy; discrimination; death penalty; capital crime; white unity; terrorism; Black Codes; lynching | A history of the use of the rape charge against black men in the South and how it is still used to keep white society united and terrorize the black community. |
| 1077 | Southern Patriot | The MFD Story: How Rank and Fi | 1972-09-01 | 4, 5 | Yablonski, Joseph; Boyle, Tony; Lewis, John L.; Grills, Horbert; Statler, Ronnie; Bryant, William; Payne, Robert; Savitskey, Bill; Hutchinson, Ray; Miller, Arnold; Danial, Levi | United Mine Workers; reform; Miners for Democracy; presidential election; labor militancy; picket movement; Black Lung Association; compensation; coal industry; corruption; black list; disability benefits; murder; district autonomy | A history of the problems with the United Mine Workers corruption and how it spurred rank and file miners to form Miners For Democracy to fight the coal industry. |
| 1078 | Southern Patriot | Striker Killed In Kentucky | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Hampton, Eugene | striker; shooting; Kellwood Company; bargaining agent | A striker, Eugene Hampton, was shot and killed at Kellwood Company in Brownsville, Kentucky while waiting to do his picket duty. |
| 1079 | Southern Patriot | Carrollton Women Rehired | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Stevens Fashions Plant; firing; strike participation; discrimination | All seven employees at Stevens Fashions Plant were rehired after a threat of a law suit. | |
| 1080 | Southern Patriot | RNA Arrests in Miam | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Obafemi, Ahmed; Sonebeyatta, Tarik; Brittain, John | Republic of New Africa (RNA); arrest; concealed weapons; Anti-Drepression Program | Two members of the Republic of New Africa were arrested in Miami on concealed weapons charges after circulating copies of the Anti-Depression Proposal. |
| 1081 | Southern Patriot | Franklin Still Needs Help | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Champagne, E. J. | municipal employee strike; business boycott; negotiation; union recognition | Municipal employees in Franklin, Louisiana are still on strike after five months and they need support. |
| 1082 | Southern Patriot | Texas Activist - 10 Years | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Bell, Fred; Steger, William | SNCC; prison sentence; aiding and abetting | Fred Bell, a Texas activist, recieved a ten year federal prison sentence for aiding and abetting a bank robbery. |
| 1083 | Southern Patriot | "Dirty Dozen" Lose - But Win | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Flaherty, Kathleen | volunteer demolition crew; dilapidated building; moral victory | The group charged with throwing debris in the street after tearing down a dilapidated building was found guilty but their case brought attention to housing problems in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1084 | Southern Patriot | Union Plans Southern Drive | 1972-09-01 | 6 | Fulford, Fred; Scarbrough, Carl | United Furniture Workers of America; organizing drive | The United Furniture Workers of America has voted to start an organizing drive in the South. |
| 1085 | Southern Patriot | Carl Farris: "It's the Same St | 1972-09-01 | 7 | Farris, Carl | SCLC; civil rights movement; labor movement; labor interest | A brief biography of Carl Farris and his philosophy on the labor movement. |
| 1086 | Southern Patriot | Another Resister Is Convicted | 1972-09-01 | 8 | Rainey, Joe; Collins, Walter | draft refusal | Joe Rainey was convicted of draft resistance for insisting on being treated as a human being at his physical. |
| 1087 | Southern Patriot | Like A Mystery Story; Victory | 1972-09-01 | 8 | Smith, David Charles; Revels, Thomas; Figgers, Alphonso; Keaton, David; Frederick, Johnny; Aloi, Joe | Quincy Five; murder charge; organized protest; lack of evidence; fingerprints | Two members of the Quincy Five were freed from the murder charges after an investigator prompted police to re-examine finger prints. |
| 1088 | Southern Patriot | Five Months Added to Collins' | 1972-09-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter | draft resistance; sentence extension; speech; work stoppage; U.S. Parole Board; racism; repression | Walter Collins had 157 days of "good time" revoked after making a speech at the prison work stoppage in Texarkana, Texas. |
| 1089 | Southern Patriot | Support for Southern Prisoners | 1972-09-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter; Davis, Angela | political prisoners; victory rally; acquittal; Republic of New Africa (RNA) | Angela Davis asked that people not forget about other southern political prisoners at her victory rally in New York's Madison Square Garden. |
| 1090 | Southern Patriot | Black Organizer Charges Murder | 1972-09-01 | 8 | Waddell, Joe; Chavis, Ben | Black Panther Party; murder; prison official; Commission for Racial Justice | The Commission for Racial Justice has charged that Joe Waddell was murdered, and did not die of a heart attack as stated by prison officials. |
| 1091 | Southern Patriot | Left Parties Find People in th | 1972-10-01 | 1, 6 | Hall, Gus; Tyner, Jarvis; Jenness, Linda; Pulley, Andrew; Spock, Benjamin; Hobson, Julius; Fisher, Louis; Gunderson, Genevive; Douglas, Scott | left wing candidates; Communist; Socialist Workers; People's Party; road blocks; ballot placement; ballot law; minority party; local campaign; strip mining | Radical parties, such as the communist party and the socialist workers and people's party; are appearing in elections across the South. |
| 1092 | Southern Patriot | Community Support in Jail Stru | 1972-10-01 | 1 | Spock, Benjamin; Lark, Alphonso; Bass, John; Williams, Bob | protest; jail conditions; demonstration; People's Party; militants; talks; tear gas; police brutality; vigil | Inmates in St. Louis, Missouri won better conditions after gaining community support for their protest. |
| 1093 | Southern Patriot | Southern States Will Hold the | 1972-10-01 | 1, 8 | Miller, Arnold; Boyle, Tony; Yablonski, Joseph; Trbovich, Mike; Conn, Lucien | United Mine Workers; election; reform movement; isolation; nomination; violence; rally; fear; intimidation; corruption; pension program; disabled miners | The mine reform movement has gained strength and support in the South in spite of threats and intimidation from the United Mine Workers' corrupt leadership. |
| 1094 | Southern Patriot | Forman Book Casts Piercing Lig | 1972-10-01 | 2 | Forman, Jim | SNCC; revolution; 1964 Mississippi Summer Project; Southern Movement | Reviews Jim Forman's book: _ The Making of Black Revolutionaries_. |
| 1095 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-10-01 | 2 | McGovern, George; Guttridge, Leonard F.; Rockefeller, John D., Jr. | Ludlow massacre; labor history | Review of _The Great Coalfield War_ by George McGovern and Leonard F. Guttridge. |
| 1096 | Southern Patriot | Election Notes | 1972-10-01 | 2 | McMillian, John L.; Diggs, Charles; Jenrette, Joan; Leflore, John; Blount, Winton M.; Young, Andrew; Jordan, Barbara | defeat; black vote; youth vote; National Democratic Party of Alabama; black candidate; SCLC | A review of election results and proceedings in the South. |
| 1097 | Southern Patriot | Busing Hysteria: Road to Tyran | 1972-10-01 | 3 | Thompson, Fletcher; Mitchell, Parren | Equal Educational Opportunities bill; Emergency School Act; ghetto school; anti-busing bill; segregation; second post-reconstruction; lynch mob; hysteria | An editorial about the Equal Educational Opportunities Bill, also known as the anti-busing bill, and how it is designed to re-segregate schools. |
| 1098 | Southern Patriot | Support for Wansley Grows in V | 1972-10-01 | 3 | Wansley, Thomas; Hirschkop, Philip; Kunstler, William; Merhige, Robert | appeal hearing; support; rape; leaflet; inmate discontent; habeas corpus | Community support has grown for Thomas Wansley, as he receives an appeal hearing after serving 10 years in prison on a rape charge. |
| 1099 | Southern Patriot | Memphis Workers Struggle to Un | 1972-10-01 | 4 | Fisher, Earl; Roop, Katherine | Don Russ bubblegum plant; union representation; racial separation; unionization; racism; rumor; sexism | Workers at the Don Russ bubblegum plant in Memphis, Tennessee have united across racial lines to unionize in spite of administrative opposition. |
| 1100 | southern patriot | "Whenever We Get Together, The | 1972-10-01 | 4 | Fisher, Earl | racial separation; union breaking; union organizing; red-baiting; national union leadership' repression | Explanation of how companies use Communism and racism to break up unions. |
| 1101 | Southern Patriot | Working Class Community Suppor | 1972-10-01 | 5 | Carroll, Minnie; James, Mary Ann; Tackett, Phyllis; Layne, Gene; Hibbetts, Carson; Boyle, Tony | hospital strike; union recognition; wage rate; working conditions; mining interest; picket; Black Lung Association; leaflet | The community of Pikeville, Kentucky is strongly behind the employees at Methodist Hospital on strike for union recognition and better wages and working conditions. |
| 1102 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-10-01 | 5 | Quadduss, Offagga; Williams, Hosea; Whitlock, Henry; Waller, William; McCall, Willis; Davis, Angela; Abernathy, Ralph | Republic of New Africa (RNA); ACLU; life sentence; strike; SCLC; Black Panther Party; federal grant | A review of the past month's news and events. |
| 1103 | Southern Patriot | Murder Charged To State's Witn | 1972-10-01 | 7 | Hood, Theodore; Grant, Jim; Reddy, T. J.; Parker, Charles; Washington, Walter; Chavis, Ben; Ferguson, James; Scott, Robert | murder; barn burning; testimony; immunity | The two witnesses that sent three activists to prison were charged with murder after they were supposedly given immunity for their testimony. |
| 1104 | Southern Patriot | Teen-Agers Get Long Prison Ter | 1972-10-01 | 7 | Smith, Donald; Day, Billy; Murphy, William; Cain, Charles; Taylor, John H. | dynamite bomb; prison; demonstration; police killing; protest; self defense; ACLU; beating; guilty verdict; forced confession | In Ayden, North Carolina eleven teenagers got long prison sentences stemming from a dynamite bomb that went off in a school rest room during a protest for a police killing. |
| 1105 | Southern Patriot | More Murder in Mines | 1972-10-01 | 8 | Boyle, Tony | United Mine Workers campaign; mine disaster; electrical fire; Consolidation Coal Company; faulty equipment; mine safety violation; buffalo creek | Nine men died in an electrical fire in Blackville, West Virginia of a bad circuit breaker in the mines. |
| 1106 | Southern Patriot | Walter Collins Parole in Doubt | 1972-10-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter | parole; draft resistance; "good time," speech; prison actions | Walter Collins was granted parole, but will only receive it if the warden restores his 157 days of "good time" taken away for his speech about prison conditions. |
| 1107 | Southern Patriot | Strike Wave Hits Atlanta | 1972-11-01 | 1, 4 | White, Fred; Ponder, Joe; Grogan, Nan; Radford, Sarah; Washington, Gary; Bailey, H. G.; Benatar, Leo; Holley, W. W.; Miller, Sherman | wildcat strike; Sears & Roebuck; discrimination; business boycott; arrest; walkout; union representation; preferential treatment; firing; Mead Packaging Coproration; SCLC; red-baiting; solidarity; racial unity | Waves of black cat strikes have occurred across Atlanta, when black employees demanded better treatment and no discrimination. Most were successful. |
| 1108 | Southern Patriot | Black Candidates Are Winning M | 1972-11-01 | 1, 7 | Young, Andrew; Jordan, Barbara; Patterson, J. O.; Lewis, John; Bond, Julian; Edwards, Bill; LeFlore, John; Johnson, Jay; McBride, Eddie; Morial, Ernest; Cocks, Stoney | black officials; black candidates; voter registration; NDPA; independent party; grass-roots; SCLC; election | Nationwide, elections have brought many new black officials into power, often because the number of candidates running and the increased voter registration. |
| 1109 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-11-01 | 2 | Cohen, Robert Carl; Williams, Robert Franklin | Ku Klux Klan; injustice; false charges | Review of _Black Crusader: A Biography of Robert Franklin Williams_ by Robert Carl Cohen. |
| 1110 | Southern Patriot | Autobiography Provides Rare Gl | 1972-11-01 | 2 | Hudson, Hosea | sharecropping; racism; lynching; poverty; communism | Review of Hosea Hudson's autobiography _Black Worker in the Deep South_. |
| 1111 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-11-01 | 3 | Njabafudi, Karim; Moore, Russell D., III; Michaud, Tom | Republic of New Africa (RNA); murder; Felony Action Squad; St. Regis Paper Company; revenue; Malcolm X United Liberation Front; marijuana possession; AWOL | Review of the past month's events. |
| 1112 | Southern Patriot | Prison Notes | 1972-11-01 | 3 | Keady, William C.; Johnson, Frank M., Jr. | Prisoners Solidarity Committee; riot; prison reform; hunger strike; lock down; prison strike | A review of events occurring in southern jails. |
| 1113 | Southern Patriot | Tragedy in Atlanta | 1972-11-01 | 3 | Phillips, Willie B.; Williams, Hosea | suicide; protest; self burning; SCLC; beating; liberation rally | In Atlanta, Willie B. Phillips died after lighting himself on fire to protest the mistreatment of blacks. |
| 1114 | Southern Patriot | How it Started at Sears: "We d | 1972-11-01 | 4 | Sears & Roebuck; strike; meeting; demands | A striker for Sears & Roebuck in Atlanta explains how the strike was executed. | |
| 1115 | Southern Patriot | Labor Short | 1972-11-01 | 5 | Craig, Robert | strike; city employees; wage increase; health insurance; union representation; negotiation; court injunction; union recognition; collective bargaining | A review of the labor disputes throughout the South. |
| 1116 | Southern Patriot | Unionists in West Virginia Ral | 1972-11-01 | 5 | Hutchinson, John; Brown, Hollie | city employees; strike; court injunction; Operation Human Dignity; leaflet; picket line; union recognition; boycott; unemployment benefits; lock out | City workers in Charleston, West Virginia have continued their strike in spite of an all out war by the city to break them. |
| 1117 | Southern Patriot | State's Star Witness Assaults | 1972-11-01 | 6 | Feguson, James E.; Martin, Robert; Hall, Allan; Chavis, Ben; Stroud, Jay; Morgan, Robert | physical assault; conspiracy; fire bombing | In Burgaw, North Carolina the defense attorney James E. Ferguson was physically assaulted by the state's witness while the judge did nothing about it. |
| 1118 | Southern Patriot | Jim Grant's Case Goes to Appea | 1972-11-01 | 6 | Grant, Jim | U.S. Court of Appeals; racial bias; jury bias; discrimination; black liberation movement | The U.S. Court of Appeals has been asked to overturn Jim Grant's conviction of assisting two men to flee to Canada based on racial jury bias. |
| 1119 | Southern Patriot | Chavis, 9 Others Get Long Term | 1972-11-01 | 6 | Chavis, Ben; Shepard, Ann | prison sentence; high bond | Reverend Ben Chavis and nine others were found guilty and received long sentences and high bonds. |
| 1120 | Southern Patriot | Carolina "Justice" In Brief | 1972-11-01 | 6 | Bounds, Lee; Chavis, Ben; Parker, Charles Lee; Sparrow, Katherine; Taft, Robert, Jr.; Braden, Carl | prison conditions; prison reform; discrimination; jury bias; civil rights violation; repression; bail; murder | An overview of the problems in the justice system of North Carolina. |
| 1121 | Southern Patriot | Louisville Panther Case: Story | 1972-11-01 | 8 | Nicholson, S. Rush; Simmons, Benjamin; Blakemore, William; Baines, Larry; Allison, William H., Jr.; Mosen, Ellen; Schroering, Edwin; Gaynor, Gary; Howard, Jackie; Alexander, G. T.; Jones, Herb; Zollin | corruption; race baiting; frame up; Black Panther Party; armed robbery; arrest; drug addiction; high bail | Editorial about the case against seven people associated with the Black Panther Party and how it is a frame up to stop their campaign against drug addiction in Louisville. |
| 1122 | Southern Patriot | Collins Wins Release | 1972-11-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter; Connett, L. M. | draft refusal; prison release; parole; "good time;" protest | Walter Collins was freed on parole after serving less than two years of his five year sentence for draft refusal when the warden restored his 157 days of "good time." |
| 1123 | Southern Patriot | Baton Rouge: Bring Killers to | 1972-12-01 | 1 | Southern University; student killed; murder; police killing; official murder; protest; justice | The _Patriot_ encourages readers to protest in order to bring official murders to justice. | |
| 1124 | Southern Patriot | A Victory in Mississippi: New | 1972-12-01 | 1, 4 | Barber, Merle; Nicks, Matthew, Jr. | Poultry Packers Inc.; Mississippi Poultry Workers' Union; bargaining agent; strike; militancy | Poultry workers in Forrest, Mississippi voted to have an independent union as their bargaining agent after a successful strike in May. |
| 1125 | Southern Patriot | Kentucky Workers Rebel Against | 1972-12-01 | 1, 8 | Martin, Earl; Hampton, Eugene; Nunn, Louie | strike; Kellwood Company clothing factory; violence; murder; strikebreaker; speedup; union organization | Employees at Kellwood Co. Clothing Factory were able to end problems through their strike with total support from the community. |
| 1126 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes | 1972-12-01 | 2 | Domhoff, G. William; Rawick, George P.; Genovese, Eugene; Elein, Aaron E.; Chevigny, Paul; Bishop, Jim | election; slave narrative; black scientists; police provocation | A review of five newly published books. |
| 1127 | Southern Patriot | Deep South Report | 1972-12-01 | 2 | Kurzman, Paul A. | Community Development Agency; community organization | Details of Paul A. Kurzman's book "The Mississippi Experience" |
| 1128 | Southern Patriot | Women Apply for Jobs in Virgin | 1972-12-01 | 3 | Tompa, Katherine; Osborn, Patty; Miller, Helen | female coal miner; Clinchfield Coal Company; factory work; hiring freeze; low productivity; lay off; worker division | Four women in Appalachia applied to work in the coal mines. Their chances of being hired are slim though. |
| 1129 | Southern Patriot | Welfare Mothers Jailed | 1972-12-01 | 3 | Abernathy, William H. | welfare fraud; jail; poverty level; picket; leaflet; | Eight women were found guilty in Charlotte, North Carolina of welfare fraud when they continued to get welfare checks in spite of being employed, but were still below the poverty level. |
| 1130 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1972-12-01 | 3 | McCall, Willis; Jenness, Linda; Pulley, Andrew; Obadele, Imari; Allison, Jeffery | terrorism; bus employee strike; election; police raid; Black Panther; Republic of New Africa; SCLC; Navy rebellion; frame up; explosion | A review of the past month's news and events. |
| 1131 | Southern Patriot | Union President Sends Thanks | 1972-12-01 | 4 | Barber, Merle | Mississippi Poultry Workers Union; financial support; strike | The president of the MPWU thanks readers for financial support and encouragement during their strike. |
| 1132 | Southern Patriot | Workers Describe Company Tacti | 1972-12-01 | 4 | harassment; firing; union | Workers at the poultry plant in Forest, Mississippi explain the tactics that were used by the company to stop them from unionizing. | |
| 1133 | Southern Patriot | What a Chicken Plant is Like: | 1972-12-01 | 4 | Barber, Merle; Nicks, David; Moore, Estella | Poultry Packers Inc.; assembly line method; chicken butchering; work hours | Details the process of slaughtering chickens. |
| 1134 | Southern Patriot | Government Tries to Halt Aid t | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Michelsen, Stan; Briggs, John; Braden, Carl | conspiracy charge; Vietnam War Veteran; riot; Republican National Convention | The government is charging eight people with conspiracy for planning to cause riots at the Republican National Convention. |
| 1135 | Southern Patriot | Churchmen Support Wilmington 1 | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Chavis, Ben; Grant, Jim; Reddy, T. J.; Parker, Charles | Commission for Racial Justice; civil rights activity; high bail | The Commission for Racial Justice has placed its full support behind 10 people sent to prison for civil rights activity in Wilmington, North Carolina. |
| 1136 | Southern Patriot | Charlotte Judge Set Down Again | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Snepp, Frank; McMillian, James | federal overruling; public school; leaflet; school integration; First Amendment violation | For the second time in five months, the federal court has overturned an order by Charlotte, North Carolina judge Frank Snepp. He barred outsiders from public school property in Mecklenburg County. |
| 1137 | Southern Patriot | Black Prisoner Burned to Death | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Richardson, Charles; Sanders, Fletcher | Central Prison; murder; burning; negligence | Black prisoner, Charles Richardson, was burned to death at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina when white inmates poured a fiery liquid into his cell. |
| 1138 | Southern Patriot | The Sound of Fascism | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Paul; Jerry | protest; jail; high school race issues | The judge in Wilson, North Carolina sent six black youths to prison fro six months after a racially motivated fight at their high school. |
| 1139 | Southern Patriot | Free All Political Prisoners | 1972-12-01 | 5 | Davis, Angela; Smith, Billy Dean; Mitchell, Charlene | political prisoner; repression; national conference | Meetings were held in North Carolina, Florida; Kentucky; Tennessee; Alabama to fight against repression and to help political prisoners. |
| 1140 | Southern Patriot | SCEF to Push RNA II Defense | 1972-12-01 | 5 | state wide conference; repression; Republic of New Africa; life imprisonment | The SCEF board decided to hold statewide conferences around the south to fight repression and make the case of the RNA eleven a priority. | |
| 1141 | Southern Project | Virginia Prison Struggle | 1972-12-01 | 6 | Durkin, Thomas H.; Hirschkop, Phil; Merhige, Robert R. | Virginia State Penitentiary; prison conditions; provoked violence; riot; prison reform; Prisoner's Solidarity Committee; work stoppage; strike; unity; repression | Editorial about the conditions at Virginia State Penitentiary and what prisoners are doing a to try and change the situation. |
| 1142 | Southern Patriot | Victories for the People | 1972-12-01 | 6 | Bell, Fred; McMillian, Ernie; Hirschkop, Phil; Taylor, Dan; Kunstler, William | parole; draft refusal; contempt of court; protest | An overview of legal victories for civil rights activists. |
| 1143 | Southern Patriot | The Wansley Case: An Open Lett | 1972-12-01 | 7 | Wansley, Thomas; McGee, Willie | rape myth; life imprisonment; repression; white control; death penalty; women's rights; racial unity; racism | Braden calls on the women of the south to help end the rape myth and fight to free Thomas Wansley. |
| 1144 | Southern Patriot | Election Notes | 1972-12-01 | 8 | Bond, Julian; Young, Andrew; Jordan, Barbara; Patterson, J. O.; McBride, Eddie; Kennedy, Arlon; Webster, Eddie | racism; national referendum; black politicians | A report of the results of November elections and details of black politicians gaining office. |
| 1145 | Southern Patriot | Mountain Strike Continues Stro | 1972-12-01 | 8 | hospital worker strike; picket line; starvation wage; working conditions; harassment; scab; Council of Southern Mountains. | Women in Pikeville, Kentucky are continuing their strike to improve working conditions and wages at the local hospital in spite of harassment and threats from locals and officials. | |
| 1146 | Southern Patriot | Farm Workers Renew Campaign in | 1973-01-01 | 1, 5 | Chavez, Ceasar; Freeman, Nancy; Medina, Eliseo; Raymond, Nicholas | unionization; Talisman Sugar Plantation; picket; national lettuce boycott; rally; unemployment; immigrant labor | Farm workers in Florida are renewing their efforts to combat illegal practices by sugar plantations, encourage unionization and promote a national boycott of all nonunion lettuce. |
| 1147 | Southern Patriot | What the Miners' Election Vict | 1973-01-01 | 1, 8 | Miller, Arnold; Yablonski, Jock; Boyle, Tony; Titler, George; Pnakovich, Leonard | Miners for Democracy; labor movement; unionization; Appalachia; coalition; reform; wildcat strike; mining safety; violence; corruption; loyalty | Arnold Miller of Miners For Democracy won his UMW election and he plans to change the system and end corruption in the union. |
| 1148 | Southern Patriot | Book Notes: Story of Struggle | 1973-01-01 | 2 | McLaurin, Melton Alonzo; Bridges, Harry; Larrowe, Charles P. | labor movement; oppressive conditions; repression | Reviews of _Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905_ by Melton Alonzo McLaurin and _Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the US_ by Charles P. Larrowe. |
| 1149 | Southern Patriot | Songs of a Coal Miner | 1973-01-01 | 2 | Workman, Nimrod; Jones, John L.; Miller, Arnold | coal mining; United Mine Workers of America; unionization | Nimrod Workman, a coal miner from Mingo County, West Virginia for forty years, has put out a new record addressing issues in coal mining. |
| 1150 | Southern Patriot | Movement Deaths | 1973-01-01 | 2 | Haessler, Carl; Jenkins, Esau | labor journalism; anti-war protest; freedom movement | Obituaries for Carl Haessler and Esau Jenkins. |
| 1151 | Southern Patriot | Black Colleges in Crisis: The | 1973-01-01 | 3 | Edwards, Edwin W.; Wydell, Charles; Netterville, Leon; Bailey, D'Army; Brown, H. Rap; Eams, R. Judge; Williams, Robert | police killings; Louisiana State University; death penalty; Southern University; black consciousness; status quo; Ford Foundation; sit-in movement | The police slaying of two black students from Louisiana State University sparked more dissent at already active black colleges. |
| 1152 | Southern Patriot | Black Panel Bares Truth of Mur | 1973-01-01 | 3 | Edwards, Edwin W.; Smith, Denver; Brown, Leonard; Bailey, D'Army | Black People's Committee of Inquiry; Guste Commission | The Black People's Committee of Inquiry made public their view of the police killing of two black LSU students. |
| 1153 | Southern Patriot | News Brief | 1973-01-01 | 4 | Middlebrooks, David L.; Allison, Jeffery; Harley, Hugh; Williams, Hosea; Wiley, George | judge prejudice; arson; scapegoat; bargaining agent; SCLC; Poor People's Union; prison protest; anti-union campaign | An overview of the past month's events. |
| 1154 | Southern Patriot | Sounding Board: An Open Letter | 1973-01-01 | 4 | labor movement; United Farm Workers; solidarity; leaflet; militancy; lobbying; tariff; unemployment | A letter praising Cesar Chavez's work and asking him to keep up his efforts. | |
| 1155 | Southern Patriot | Collins, Now Released from Pri | 1973-01-01 | 6 | Collins, Walter; Pace, James R.; Allison, William H., Jr.; Bell, Fred; McMillian, Ernie; Collins, Virginia | draft resistance; parole; repression; harassment; boycott | After finally being released from prison, Walter Collins is now fighting to reform the parole system. |
| 1156 | Southern Patriot | Jury Frees Demonstrator In Nor | 1973-01-01 | 6 | Weston, Samuel J. | scapegoat; arrest; acquittal; NATO; colonialism | Samuel J Weston was acquitted after being arrested for protesting against Portuguese colonialism in Africa. |
| 1157 | Southern Patriot | Another Killing in Carolina | 1973-01-01 | 6 | James, Connie; Williamson, Charlie | violent protest; police kiling | Another violent protest in North Carolina was spurred by the police killing of a black man. |
| 1158 | Southern Patriot | Neo-Colonialsm at Home: Strugg | 1973-01-01 | 7 | Simmons, William; McMillian, John; Barry, Marion; Hardey, Kenneth; Hobson, Julius; Cassell, Chattes | teachers' strike; jail rebellion; neo-colonialism; school budget cuts; staff reduction; safety; salary rate; SNCC; self-determination; home-rule | Editorial about the problems in Washington, D.C. and how residents are fighting to change them. |
| 1159 | Southern Patriot | McSurelys Win Contempt Case | 1973-01-01 | 7 | McSurely, Alan; McSurely, Margaret; Stavis, Morton; Sterns, Nancy | U.S. Court of Appeals; contempt of congress; seized documents; McClellan committee; unlawful search and seizure | The U.S. Court of Appeals threw out the charge of contempt of congress against the McSurelys after agreeing they were victims of unlawful search and seizure. |
| 1160 | Southern Patriot | Angela Davis Calls Carolina Te | 1973-01-01 | 8 | Davis, Angela; Lee, James; Sadaukai, Owusu; Chavis, Elizabeth; Grant, Jim | repression; freedom rally; black activism; racism; political prisoner; high bond | Through a telephone speech to a freedom rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Angela Davis emphasized the problems of repression throughout the state of North Carolina. |
| 1161 | Southern Patriot | City Workers Refuse to Give Up | 1973-02-01 | 1, 7 | Miller, Arnold; Brekinridge, George; Brown, Hollie; Hutchinson, John | city worker strike; harassment; picket; UMW; unionization; racial unity; scab labor; union recognition; firing; arrest; solidarity | City employees in Charleston, West Virginia are continuing their strike in a town where strikes are normally broken and unions are frowned upon. |
| 1162 | Southern Patriot | Proposed Law Could Destroy Far | 1973-02-01 | 1 | House Bill 74; United Farm Workers; hiring hall; migrant labor; anti-Chavez bill | House Bill #74 in Florida is designed to destroy the United Farm Workers' efforts in that state by ending the practice of the hiring hall. | |
| 1163 | Southern Patriot | Woodcutters Mount New Attack | 1973-02-01 | 1, 2 | Colston, Willie B.; Colston, J. D.; Shipps, Jack; Walters, Fred | Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association; Gulf States Paper Company; firing; severance tax; strike; picket; contempt of court | Twin brothers Willie B. and J.D. Colston have taken on the Gulf States Paper Company in court over a 10 cent per court severance tax. |
| 1164 | Southern Patriot | Domhoff on the Democrats: Who | 1973-02-01 | 2 | youth vote; apathy; capitalist; social heirarchy | Review and editorial on _Fat Cats and Democrats: The Role of the Big Rich in the Party of the Common Man_ by G. William Domhoff. | |
| 1165 | Southern Patriot | Labor Shorts | 1973-02-01 | 2 | Gonterman, Harvey; Hampton, Eugene | Bethlehem Steel plant; racism; murder | At the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Sparrows Point, Maryland workers fought a racist seniority system. Harvey Gonterman was found not guilty of murder for shooting a picketer in Brownville, Kentucky. |
| 1166 | Southern Patriot | City Workers Describe Struggle | 1973-02-01 | 7 | trash incineration; working conditions; strike; unity; arrest; racism | Testimonials from Charleston, West Virginia employees about working conditions and the strike. | |
| 1167 | Southern Patriot | Anti-War Actions Reach a Peak | 1973-02-01 | 8 | Collins, Walter; Whitlock, Henry; Lane, Teddy | anti-war protest; cease-fire; militancy; coalition; rally; racism; labor issues | Details of anti-war efforts all across the south. |
| 1168 | Southern Patriot | Attack Goes On Against the RNA | 1973-02-01 | 8 | Ababa, Addis; Ana, Hekima; Quadduss, Offagga; Njabafudi, Karim; Moore, Russell; Obadele, Imari | Republic of New Africa (RNA); guilty plea; assault; murder; life imprisonment; trial; prison conditions; hazardous health | Members of the Republic of New Africaare still under attack from the courts in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 1169 | The Southern Patriot | How Raza Unida Built Strength | 1979-03-00 | 8 | Jose Serna, Ray Perez, Rodolfo Espinoza, Elena Diaz, Moises Garcia, Arturo Gonzalez, Virginia Muzquiz, Jose Angel Gutierrez, Cesar Chavez | The Chicano Movement, Raza Unida Party (RUP), Politics, student protests, racism, lettus boycott,spinach boycott | This article covers the rise of the Raza Unida Party (RUP) in Crystal City Texas and the Chicano Movement. |
| 1170 | The Southern Patriot | Anti-War Organizer Sentanced | 1973-03-00 | 6 | Eppinette Chuck | Vietnam war,anti-war protest,draft card, protest, politics | Chuck Eppinette an active member in the anti-war movement was convicted in February for not carrying his draft card and received two one year sentences to be served consecutively. Defense argued he was targeted for his anti-war activity. |
| 1171 | The Southern Patriot | Carolina Senators Reject Equal | 1973-03-00 | 5 | Hodge Pansy, Fifield Laura Ann, Schlafly Phillis, Scott Ann, Rhyne Jack, Mullins Mike, Millet Kate, Hales Elsie. | The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 28th amendment, John Birch Society, NOW, Equal pay for Equal work. | 28th amendment- Equal Rights Amendment went up for vote in the Carolina senate and was struck down. |
| 1172 | The Southern Patriot | Southern Organizer Tells What | 1973-03-00 | 4 | Zeller Bob, | The People's Republic of China, China, Labor. Working conditions, communism, | Bob Zeller traveled to the People's Republic of China and describes how factory workers are treated and how the United States and how we can learn from the Chinese. |
| 1173 | The Southern Patriot | Birmingham Steps Up Drive To C | 1973-03-00 | 3 | Cannon Charles, Warren Jack Jr., Williams Ronnie, Bryant Wayland, | Alabama Black Liberation Front (ABLF), Concerned Citizens for Justice (CCJ), CIO, racism | Charles Cannon an active member of the ABLF was accused and convicted of murdering Jack Warren Jr. Despite Witness testimony to the contrary. His conviction is considered an attempt to crush the black liberation front in Alabama. |
| 1174 | The Southern Patriot | Jail Can't Kill Carolina Movem | 1973-03-00 | 3 | Grant Jim, Reddy T.J., Parker Charles, Owen Pamela, Holshouser James | The Charlotte three, North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee (NCPPC), Political Prisoners, Black Liberation Movement | Three men Accused of burning down a riding stable are into the 8th month of incarceration. Their bail was set extremely high and NCPPC workers campaigning to have the bail reduced two men were released the third was held despite bail being posted. |
| 1175 | The Southern Patriot | Black Sailors Framed in Norfol | 1973-03-00 | 3 | McIntosh Mark, Sweatt James, Taylor Bruce, Jones David | The US Navy, Camp Allen Brig, Norfolk Naval Base, racism, court-marital, mistreatment of prisoners | The US Navy is accused of court-martialing black men who were framed due to their in involvement in a disturbance at the Camp Allen Brig at Norfolk Naval base |
| 1176 | The Southern Patriot | Barbara Flynn (1946-1973) | 1973-03-00 | 2 | Flynn Barbara | SCEF, racism, memorial, rememberance, suicide, civil rights movement | Civil rights advocate and SCEF worker Barbara Flynn took her own life on February 26 1973 in New Haven Conn. She helped to regain ground lost during the civil rights movement and helped foster black-white coalitions. |
| 1177 | The Southern Patriot | A Breakthrough Offshore Strike | 1973-03-00 | 1,7 | Kinnel Frank | Shell oil company, Boatel Inc, National Maritime Union (NMU), unions, strikes, poor pay, hazardous working conditions, racism, | Offshore workers from Boatel Inc. are striking due to poor pay, health and safety concerns. |
| 1178 | The Southern Patriot | Demand for Amnesty is growing | 1973-03-00 | 1,6 | Collins Virginia,Guerrero Gene, Briggs Chet, Collins Walter, Mulloy Joe, Abzug Bella | Vietnam War, Amnesty, SCEF, Central Commmittee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), War, The Nixon Administration | Southern peace keeping groups are being encouraged to support the amnesty of Vietnam draft dodgers and military deserters |
| 1179 | The Southern Patriot | A Prison Victory (Prison Strug | 1973-03-00 | 1,3 | Merhige Robert, Cunningham W.K., Wansley Thomas | Virginia's state Penitentiary, Protest, Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PSC), Prison reform, | Virginia's state prisoners won key concessions in their struggle against inhumane conditions and the state director of prisons retired. |
| 1180 | The Southern Patriot | Another Black Man Framed on Ra | 1973-04-00 | 6 | Carrington James, Mangum Charles, Carrington Otelia, Hawthorne Nathaniel Lee, Wansley Thomas | Racism, rape, false charges, frame-up, James Carrington Defense Fund, Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PSC) | James Carrington was falsey accused and convicted of raping a white woman despite no evidence to the crime. His mother is traveling raising awareness and funds for his defense. |
| 1181 | The Southern Patriot | Carolina Textile Strike: Test | 1973-04-00 | 8 | Lambert Joyce, Urstz Frank,Smith William "bill", Pressley Ben Jr., Barrineau T. Basil, Gordon B.J., Cox Mary, McCutchen Carmella, Pope Phillip, Rutledge Joyce | Southern Textile Strike, Union, Racism, Race baiting, J.C. Penny, Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), Oneita Mills | Workers of the Oneita Mills in Andrew and Lane S.C. are striking because management refused to negotiate a contract with workers after they had voted for representation by TWUA. |
| 1182 | The Southern Patriot | Vietnam Vet's Case: Not Much E | 1973-04-00 | 5 | Mahoney Peter, Patterson William, Kniffin John, Foss Alton, Camil Scott, Michelsen Stan, Briggs John, Perdue Don, Goodwin Guy, Carruth Jack, Schoenbrod Rhonda, Arnow Winston | Gainseville Eight, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), Republican National Convention, Discrimination, protest, Vietnam war | Case of the Gainseville Eight the U.S. district attorney admitted that the government had little evidence against the eight members of the VVAW who were accused of plotting to disrupt the republican national convention. |
| 1183 | The Southern Patriot | The Matrix Case: A Radical Dru | 1973-04-00 | 6 | Clarkson Michael, Wildes Jon, Hermandorfer H.D., Hofmeyer Ridge, Hill Danny | Matrix house, drug rehabilitation, radical politics, black panthers | Four men who were former drug addicts and staff members at the matrix house. accused of assault, possession of illegal firearms, and conspiracy. They believe they are being targeted by the government due to their radical approach to drug rehab and their a |
| 1184 | The Southern Patriot | West Point Fights Urban Renewa | 1973-04-00 | 3 | Sykes Ferdinand, Naugle Andy, Bryan John | Urban renewal, North Side Property Owners Association | The residents of a black neighborhood in West point Miss. are fighting an urban renewal project that would leave substandard housing in one neighborhood standing while they tear down and rebuild quality homes. Residents would be left with higher taxes mos |
| 1185 | The Southern Patriot | Students and Teachers in Flori | 1973-04-00 | 5 | Megill Kenneth, O'Connell Stephen, Cornwell George | university of Florida, american federation of teachers (AFT), academic freedom, the independent florida alligator, unions | The president at the University of Florida is targeting professors he believes to be radicals in an attempt to keep UF from becoming a breeding ground for protest movements. |
| 1186 | The Southern Patriot | Memorial to a Grass-Roots lead | 1973-04-00 | 2 | Burch William R. | United Electrical Workers (UE) Memorial fund, SCEF, Black-White unity, unionist | Memorial fund in the memory of William R. Burch leader of the United Electrical workers. Advocate for workers rights and black-white unity. Proceeds of the memorial fund will go to SCEF. |
| 1187 | The Southern Patriot | Southerners join fight to kill | 1973-04-00 | 2 | Jordan Barbara, Young Andrew, Honey Mike, Eckhardt Robert, Lehman William, Hechler Ken, Gonzalez Henry, Wilkinson Frank | House Internal Security Committee(HISC), National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), McCarren Act, SCEF | Southern representatives working to get rid of HISC/HUAC. |
| 1188 | The Southern Patriot | RNA President Imari Free | 1973-04-00 | 1-4 | Obadele Imari Abubakari, Koen Charles, Joyner Irv, Gregory Dick, Baraka Imamu, Haywood Burns,Owusu Saduakai | Republic of New Africa (RNA),International African Prisoners of War Solidarity Day, peaceful gathering, racism | Imari was arrested on August 18, 1971 in connection with a shoot out. He was five blocks away at the time. He won a court order to be released around the sametime as solidarity day- which Miss. Officials tried to prevent. |
| 1189 | The Southern Patriot | RNA President Imari Free | 1973-04-00 | 1-4 | Obadele Imari Abubakari, Koen Charles, Joyner Irv, Gregory Dick, Baraka Imamu, Haywood Burns,Owusu Saduakai | Republic of New Africa (RNA),International African Prisoners of War Solidarity Day, peaceful gathering, racism | Imari was arrested on August 18, 1971 in connection with a shoot out. He was five blocks away at the time. He won a court order to be released around the sametime as solidarity day- which Miss. Officials tried to prevent. |
| 1190 | The Southern Patriot | Anti-union bill is defeated fa | 1973-04-00 | 1-4 | Askew Reubin, Shevin Robert, Juarez Rudy | United Farm workers union (AFL-CIO), HB 74, Right-to-work law, slave labor camps, typhoid outbreak, organized migrants in community action (OMICA) | Farm workers successfully defeated the HB 74 bill that would have crippled farm worker unions and perpetuated a system that made slave labor camps a reality. This article also addresses the Typhoid outbreak that spread from a labor camp in Homestead FL. |
| 1191 | The Southern Patriot | Anti-union bill is defeated fa | 1973-04-00 | 1-4 | Askew Reubin, Shevin Robert, Juarez Rudy | United Farm workers union (AFL-CIO), HB 74, Right-to-work law, slave labor camps, typhoid outbreak, organized migrants in community action (OMICA) | Farm workers successfully defeated the HB 74 bill that would have crippled farm worker unions and perpetuated a system that made slave labor camps a reality. This article also addresses the Typhoid outbreak that spread from a labor camp in Homestead FL. |
| 1192 | The Southern Patriot | Shell Strike Building Working | 1973-04-00 | 1-7 | Sellers Junior, Audrey Livingston, Rochele Nolen | Shell oil company, oil,chemical, and atomic workers union (OCAW), ecology, strike, working conditions, pollution, health care | The shell strike gained support from the local community, white collar workers, students from Tulane, and ecologists. Strikers are asking for better working conditions and basic health benefits. |
| 1193 | The Southern Patriot | Rank and File Struggle in Atla | 1973-12-00 | 8 | union, strike, Warren strike support committee, black labor action committee, union leadership, red baiting | Workers and union members of the warren sherer company in Atlanta went on strike. The strike divided the union leadership creating a power vacuum causing them to lose the strike. | |
| 1194 | The Southern Patriot | Killer Police: The People Figh | 1973-12-00 | 6 | Elton Hays, Thomas Turley, Darrell Cain, Santos Rodriguez, David Rodriguez, Ronald Joyce | Police brutality, racism, black community, civilian review board, repression | Several communities throughout the south have been rocked by police brutality scandals. Members of the communities, especially the black community have decided to fight back by demanding federal investigations and a civilian review board. |
| 1195 | The Southern Patriot | The People on the Air: A histo | 1973-12-00 | 1,5 | Carney Delbert, Rev. Kimbrough C.L., Gillespie Charlie, Bergmark Martha, Lawerence Ken, Captain Knight Newt, Mason William, Knight Davis, McGee Willie, Evers Charles | Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association (GPA), National attention, television,media, Free state of Jones, union, poverty, racism, black-white unity, people's movement | The television broadcast if the woodcutter strike in the south, helped the woodcutter's strike and the people's movement. |
| 1196 | The Southern Patriot | RNA sends message to whites | 1973-12-00 | 6 | John Marshall, Brother Hekima | Republic of New Africa (RNA), RNA-11 campaign, black-white unity, plebiscite, self-defense,the people's will | RNA leader Imari Abubakari Obadele I releases a statement on the nature of the goals of the RNAs work in Mississippi. |
| 1197 | The Southern Patriot | A spotlight on Texas Brutality | 1973-12-00 | 4 | Ernest McMillan | Political prisoners, harassment, slave labor, Texas prison system | The Texas prison system is facing intense scrutiny after 10 prisoners were beaten. The prisoners involved in the beating have filed suit against the prison director and the guards. The suit has shed light on the slave like conditions prisoners are forced |
| 1198 | The Southern Patriot | The Southern Prison Stuggle Ra | 1973-12-00 | 4 | Ely Emily, Williams Robert | link society, bracelets inc, prison conference, community action, prison reform, | A conference was held in Montgomery Alabama, several topics were covered, such as the abolition of prisons, the role of community in preventing incarcerations, and the role of capitalism in prisons. Wardens and other prison officials faced criticism for t |
| 1199 | The Southern Patriot | Brown Lung: Break the Long Sil | 1973-12-00 | 1,7 | Nader Ralph | Brown Lung, textiles, occupational respiratory disease, byssinosis, workman's compensation, textile workers union of America (TWUA), occupational safety and health administration (OSHA), unions | An expose on the textile industry in the south and the health and safety of its workers. Brown lung is becoming a huge problem especially in non-union mills. A worker describes working conditions in which cotton dust covers everything and hangs in the air |
| 1200 | The Southern Patriot | Jackson Workers Respond-UFW Bo | 1973-12-00 | 1,8 | Ramsay Claude, Lynch Jim | boycott, united farm workers of America (AFL-CIO), McCarty-Holman, black-white unity, union | The united Farm workers union won a major victory in the south when after a leaflet/boycott campaign they convinced a large food distributor McCarty-Holman to stop distributing non-union lettuce and grapes. |
| 1201 | The Southern Patriot | GPA is ending Strike; Spirit i | 1973-11-00 | 8 | Carney Delbert, Rev. Kimbrough C.L. | strike, gulf coast pulpwood association (GPA), union, recognition, black-white unity | The Gulf coast pulpwood association (GPA) is ending its strike against the big paper and pulp companies in Mississippi and Alabama. Some gains have been made in terms of insurance and pay raises, the major companies refuse to recognize the union. |
| 1202 | The Southern Patriot | Meridian Workers Win | 1973-11-00 | 8 | Gathright Tommy | Strike, International woodworkers of America (AFL-CIO), union | Mississippi workers from the roofing division of Masonite corporation have won significant victories in their new contract. Workers will recieve a 20-cent hourly raise along with shift differential pay, safety equipment, a fully paid insurance, and time a |
| 1203 | The Southern Patriot | 'Union' is an unpopular word- | 1973-11-00 | 8 | unions, strike, textiles, textiles workers union of America (TWUA), recognition | Textile workers at the Roselon Southern plant are on strike demanding union recognition, better pay, paid holiday time, and promotion based on seniority. Management is stalling national labor relations board elections and hiring scabs. | |
| 1204 | The Southern Patriot | National Focus on Carolina | 1973-11-00 | 7 | Rev. Charvis Ben, Grant Jim, Reddy T.J., Parker Charles | National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), Connecticut Defense Coalition Against Racist and Political Repression, Amnesty international, political prisoners, black liberation movement, boycott, racism, repression | The national Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression voted to send staff to North Carolina to help fight for the release of Jim Grant and justice for the Charlotte three. They also agreed to expose the repression in Carolina by demonstrating and |
| 1205 | The Southern Patriot | Georgia Conference Hears Priso | 1973-11-00 | 7 | Giles Emory | Conference, American civil liberties union, Georgia Council on Human Relations, rehabilitation, behavior modification, penal system, emory university law school | Emory University law school held a conference that was sponsored by the American civil liberties union of Georgia and the Georgia Council on Human relations. Workshops were conducted which focused on rehabilitation, health and behavior modification, parol |
| 1206 | The Southern Patriot | Report from Memphis Cable TV: | 1973-11-00 | 6 | Allen Martha | Women's media project, television, The people's movement, media, public access, Federal communications commission (FCC), Women in cable communications (WICC) | Martha Allen works with the Women's media project. She describes how a women's cable channel was created and how cable television can help the people's movement by reaching a wider audience. |
| 1207 | The Southern Patriot | Where are the Black Workers? A | 1973-11-00 | 5 | Banks Ganzie, Phillips Elzie, Brooks Charles, Daniel Levi, Finley William | black-white unity, automation, racism, union, coal mining, | This letter to Southern coal miners encouraging black-white unity within the mines and within the union. Unity is the key to keeping union leaders and employers from taking advantage of them. |
| 1208 | The Southern Patriot | Southerners Plan Amnesty Drive | 1973-11-00 | 3 | Collins Virginia, Ransom Louise, Zimmerman Danny, Musil Robert | Amnesty conference, support, organize, unconditional amnesty | Conference held in Atlanta, participants discussed how to organize support for unconditional and universal amnesty at the grassroots level. |
| 1209 | The Southern Patriot | Fired Professor Turns Organize | 1973-11-00 | 3 | Megill Ken, O'Connell Stephen | American federation of Teachers (AFT), union, education | Ken Megill a University of Florida Professor was fired by University president Stephen O'Connell for being unprofessional. Megill was an active supporter of the American Federation of Teachers. He and his supporters believe he was fired for his union acti |
| 1210 | The Southern Patriot | Wansley Goes Back to Prison: D | 1973-11-00 | 1 | Merhige Robert, Wansley Thomas, Holton Linwood, David Angela, Magee Ruchell | Amnesty, rape, frame-up, appeal, prisoners solidarity committee, political prisoners | Thomas Wansley lost his appeal and was sent back to prison. He was charged with raping a white woman who could not identify him. His supporters believe he was targeted due to his involvement in the black liberation movement. |
| 1211 | The Southern Patriot | City Workers in Fairfield Win | 1973-11-00 | 1,4 | Sides Lawerence, Gardner John Mrs. | black-white unity, strike, people's movement, economic boycott, community support | Sanitation workers in Fairfield and the community were successful in winning a complete victory against poor working conditions and pay. The city council and the mayor after facing community backlash and an economic boycott, backed down and agreed to all |
| 1212 | The Southern Patriot | Women Save the Strike: Harlan | 1973-11-00 | 1,4 | Hogg Byrd, Widner Mary, Wynn Jerry, McDow Claude, Corbett Phillip | Safety conditions, strike, union, recognition, medical benefits, automation | The wives of the Harlan County miners have taken up the strike against Eastover Mining Company and Duke Power. |
| 1213 | The Southern Patriot | Court Rejects 'Charlotte 3' Ap | 1973-10-00 | 8 | Grant Jim, Reddy R.J., Parker Charles, Shepp Frank, Agnew Spiro | black liberation movement, political prisoners, frame-up | The Carolina Court of Appeals threw out the case of the Charlotte three, despite questionable witness testimony. Supporters believe they are being targeted because of their involvement in the black liberation movement. |
| 1214 | The Southern Patriot | Harlan County Organizing Again | 1973-10-00 | 8 | Miller Arnold, Christian Hiram, Wilson Clyde, Wilson Dean, Elmore Houston | United Mine workers of America (UMU), strike, union, Southern labor union (SLU) | Miners in Harlan County voted to join united mine workers of America (UMU) and Duke power is refusing to sign the new contract or recognize UMU as the new bargaining agent. |
| 1215 | The Southern Patriot | Drive Mounts in Louisana Priso | 1973-10-00 | 8 | Wallace Herman, Montegut Gilbert, Jackson Chester, Woodfox Albert, Miller Brent, Kilbourne Richard | Angola four, prison, frame-up, petition, black organizers | Four Angola inmates are charged with in the murder of Richard Kilbourne. The four men were attempting to organize inmates and start a petition addressing poor working conditions and bad food. The prosecution has little evidence. |
| 1216 | The Southern Patriot | African Liberation Day: Its Hi | 1973-10-00 | 6 | Ricks Willie, Carmichael Stokely, Brown Rap, Brooks Gwendolyn, Monroe Earl | African Liberation Day, Black power movement, unity, education, positivity, pan-Africanism | Jim Grant writing from prison describes the events that took place on African Liberation day and its importance to the black liberation movement. |
| 1217 | The Southern Patriot | Memphis Workers Talk Health an | 1973-10-00 | 7 | Parker Don, Wallick Frank, Meehan Dorothy | Occupational safety, health, conference, union, workers movments | Workers and union leaders attended a city wide conference on Occupational safety and health. These are two of the main concerns facing workers in light of increasing speed-up in plants. |
| 1218 | The Southern Patriot | Alabama Town Organizes Behind | 1973-10-00 | 5 | Strike, union, public employees, race-baiting, community support | Sanitation workers in Fairfield Ala. are on strike due to horrible working conditions, low pay, and safety concerns. The Mayor and the all-white city council have used several anti-strike methods and tactics such as race-baiting and threatened the use of | |
| 1219 | The Southern Patriot | RNA Case: Whites Must Take Act | 1973-10-00 | 5 | Rep. Diggs Charles C., Rev. Joyner Irv, Gregory Dick, Baraka Imamu Amiri | The republic of new Africa (RNA), repression, political prisoners, people's movement, black-white unity | Ken Lawerence and Anne Braden describe the extreme use of force that Mississippi officials used to issue a warrant to one of the members of the RNA. They encourage whites to lend their support. |
| 1220 | The Southern Patriot | Meridian Stike: Safety Key Iss | 1973-10-00 | 4 | Gathright Tommy, Devine Bill | Strike, safety, working conditions, roofing, atlas roofing division, Masonite corporation, international woodworkers of America | Workers of the woodworkers division of the Masonite corporation have been on strike since September. Their main concerns are the working conditions in the plant. |
| 1221 | The Southern Patriot | Conference on Militarism | 1973-10-00 | 3 | kind Ed, Hall Bob, Reisch Mike | militarism, Southern Action Conference on Corporate Militarism, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Military spending, development | Conference on Militarism in the South was sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. The Conference featured speakers on the military and its relationship with the south, how military spending has affected development, and the economy. |
| 1222 | The Southern Patriot | Woodcutters Strike Again in De | 1973-10-00 | 1,4 | Nonnemacher Robert M., Pittman Virgil | GulfCoast Pulpwood Association (GPA), Strike, Sherman anti-trust act, strike | Due to inflation gains made during a previous strike has all disappeared. Strikers are demanding higher pay for wood, standard measures, accident insurance, and recognition of GPA as a bargaining agent. |
| 1223 | The Southern Patriot | Machines Instead of People: To | 1973-10-00 | 1,7 | Cunningham Bob, Rapier Moe | Sit-down, P. Lorillard Company, automation, black-white unity, Tobacco, Tobacco Workers International Union, union | Black tobacco workers in Louisville Ky. Staged a sit-down at P. Lorillard Company plant. They have 10 formal demands including promotion opportunities for blacks and an end to degrading terms. |
| 1224 | The Southern Patriot | What Gainsville Means The Jury | 1973-09-00 | 8 | Cunningham Camerson, Coleman Brady, Peterson Doris, Stearns Nacy, Kniffin John, Turner Larry, | Gainsville eight, conspiracy case, Vietnam Veterans Against the Was (VVAW), | The jury from the Gainsville eight acquitted them citing a lack of evidence. |
| 1225 | The Southern Patriot | Wilmington: How the Tide Turne | 1973-09-00 | 1,4 | Rev. Charvis Ben, Hicks Leatrice, Hicks Mollie, Nantambu Kojo | Wilmington committee to defend victims of racist and political repression, North Carolina political prisoners committee, bombings, racism, rights of white people (ROWP) | Charges brought against Rev. Ben Charvis were dismissed. Leatrice Hicks received a hung jury and her daughter was convicted but received a suspended sentence. Charvis still faces other charges and a possibility of 34 years in prison. |
| 1226 | The Southern Patriot | How Oneita Workers Won Their S | 1973-09-00 | 1,8 | Johnson James, McCutcheon Carmela, Pope Laurie Ann | Oneita, Strike, textile workers union, Oneita knitting mills, textile workers union of America (TWUA), black-white unity | Strikers from the Oneita Knitting mill were victorious after a 18 month strike and boycott. The strikers won standard union protection against arbitrary company dismissal, an hourly wage increase, a pension plan, and vacations. |
| 1227 | The Southern Patriot | Atlanta Wildcat: As in Many Ci | 1973-09-00 | 6 | Wildcat walkout, wage increase, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Strike, Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority (MARTA) | MARTA workers staged a non-union backed walkout and strike based on low pay and unsatisfactory contract offers. | |
| 1228 | The Southern Patriot | Forced Sterilization: Now Wome | 1973-09-00 | 7 | Relf Mary Alice, Lee Minnie, Fox Nial Ruth, Brown Carol, Dr. Pierce C.H., Clayton Eva | Southern Poverty law center, community action commission, office of economic opprotunity, race, poverty, welfare, women's movement, forced sterilization | Women on welfare both black and white were forced to undergo sterilizations that were funded by the office of economic opprotunity. Although strict guidelines were imposed they were never properly circulated. Thousands of women faced sterilization or risk |
| 1229 | The Southern Patriot | 'You can come back and win': H | 1973-09-00 | 1,5 | Westinghouse plant, united electrical, radio, and machine workers of America (UE), black-white unity | Westinghouse union members describe their working conditions before becoming unionized. Workers banned together to fight off the red/race baiting tactics of the company. | |
| 1230 | The Southern Patriot | Government Concedes Point in G | 1973-09-00 | 4 | Grant Jim | jury list, supreme court, under-represented, jury selection and service act of 1968, racism | The U.S. government conceded that the jury selection for the trial of Jim Grant were not fairly representative of the black community. Grant is appealing to the supreme court. |
| 1231 | The Southern Patriot | Government Concedes Point in G | 1973-09-00 | 4 | Grant Jim | jury list, supreme court, under-represented, jury selection and service act of 1968, racism | The U.S. government conceded that the jury selection for the trial of Jim Grant were not fairly representative of the black community. Grant is appealing to the supreme court. |
| 1232 | The Southern Patriot | An opinion: The road to waterg | 1973-06-00 | 8 | Grant Jim, Ervin Sam, Anderson Jack, Wilkins Roy, Hersh Seymour | Government spying, black liberation movement, Jim Grant Case, VVAW case | Anne Braden gives her opinion on the Watergate scandal. An example of government infringement on the rights of the people to protest and organize. |
| 1233 | The Southern Patriot | The Provocateurs in the VVAW c | 1973-06-00 | 8 | Fernandez Pablo, Barker Bernard, Camil Scott, Rohan Angelina, Klimkowsky Adam | Vietnam veterans Against the war (VVAW), Gainesville eight, watergate, set-up | Informants and witnesses against the Gainesville eight have proved to be damaging against the prosecution due to links to watergate and false testimony. |
| 1234 | The Southern Patriot | Political Burglary Against Jim | 1973-06-00 | 8 | Grant Jim, Ervin Sam | Watergate, The North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee (NCPPC), break-in, bank records, evidence tampering, | Jim Grant's Apartment was broken into and his banking records, prime evidence in his court case were destroyed. His supporters have asked Sen. Sam Ervin to investigate. |
| 1235 | The Southern Patriot | A Southern View: Women and Min | 1973-06-00 | 6 | Greever Helen | Committee of Youth Organizations of the Soviet Union, the national council of American-soviet friendship, women, minorities, communism, socialism | Helen Greever discusses her trip to the soviet union. She describes how women and minorities have made gains in society in the soviet union. |
| 1236 | The Southern Patriot | Florida Growers Win State Law | 1973-06-00 | 5 | Diana Lyons | Farm workers union (AFL-CIO), right-to-work bill, mechanization bill, job loss | Florida state legislature passed a law allowing fruit growers to speed up the use of machines to pick fruit. Would potentially cause millions to lose their jobs. |
| 1237 | The Southern Patriot | Louisiana Muslim Trial: A Blue | 1973-06-00 | 3 | Clemmons Bryan, Dumas Woodrow W., McKeithen John | Political Prisoners, Police brutality, Muslim trial, street meeting, the peoples' movement | In January, sheriffs deputies attacked local Muslims who were attending a street meeting. Two deputies and three men for the street meeting were dead. |
| 1238 | The Southern Patriot | SCEF Will Expand Organizing Pr | 1973-06-00 | 3 | Collins Virgina | Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF), organizing program, political prisoners, organizing southern workers, government repression, amnesty | SCEF held a semi-annual meeting where they decided to implement a two-pronged program to fight government backed repression. They will also implement two new programs to help organize black and white workers across the south. SCEF also decided to support |
| 1239 | The Southern Patriot | On Eve of Charvis Trial: Bomb | 1973-06-00 | 1,6 | Charvis Rev. Ben, Hicks Mollie, Hicks Leatrice, Davis Angela, Simmons Judi, Holshouser James, Wright Clifton | Bomb, White vigilante terror, protest, frame-up, commission for racial justice (CRJ), SCEF, black liberation movement, Charvis trial, rights of white people (ROWP), the wilmington journal | Black Liberation activist Rev. Ben Charvis is falsely accused of murder after the fact, of a young boy. Clifton Wright was shot after a protest in 71'. A newspaper supporting Charvis cause, the Wilmington journal was bombed. |
| 1240 | The Southern Patriot | Virgina Protest Frame-up | 1973-06-00 | 3 | Carrington James, Carrington Otelia, Wansley Thomas, White Rev. Leon, Hawthorne Nathaniel Lee | Virginia Prisoners Solidarity Committee (PSC), rape, frame-up, N.C.-V.A. Commission on Racial Justice of the United church of Christ, Virginia students civil righs committee, SCEF, Racism, intimidation | Keysville Va. large protest on memorial day, protesters demanded the release of James Carrington. Carrington was active in his local black liberation movement, and was framed for raping a white girl. He is currently serving a 75 year sentence. |
| 1241 | The Southern Patriot | Farm Workers Win Wide Support | 1973-06-00 | 1,5 | Lyons Mack, Gannon Tom, Snodgrass Kenny, Brown Dale, Dauer John | United farm workers (AFL-CIO), lettuce and grape boycott, crew leader system, slave labor, teamsters, hiring hall unions, unions, boycott, Safeway, A&P | The United farm workers union is receiving a lot of support from southern communities,churches, student groups, and business owners for the boycott of non-union lettuce and grapes. |
| 1242 | The Southern Patriot | Textile Strikers are Holding F | 1973-06-00 | 1,4 | White Herbert, McCutchen Carmela, Mercer Norma Jean, Simkins Modjeska | Textile workers union of America (TWUA), oneita knitting mills, racism, black-white unity, SCEF, union, strike, boycott | The Oneita Textile strike is into its 7th month. Strikers have refused to backed down from their demands of better pay and working conditions. Black and white workers have banned together to fight the strike breaking tactics of the mill owners. |
| 1243 | The Southern Patriot | Quincy Case Closed | 1974-01-00 | 6 | Burns, Johnny; Figgers, Alphonso; Smith, David Charles; Keaton, Dave Roby; Frederick, Johnny; Reubin, Askew; | Quincy Five, Baker act, police intimidation, racism, voter registration | The Quincy five were released from prison. They were accused of murdering a Leon county sheriff. |
| 1244 | The Southern Patriot | Background to struggle in Miss | 1974-01-00 | 4,5 | Gaddis, Fred; Johnston, Erle | Mississippi poultry workers union, broiler chickens, black-white unity, mechanization, state sovereignty commissions, segregation, race-baiting | The Mississippi Poultry workers who want to organize face stiff opposition from their plant owners. |
| 1245 | The Southern Patriot | SIx Years Too Late | 1974-01-00 | 3 | Brown, H. Rap; Agnew, Spiro; Featherstone, Ralph; Payne Che; | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Kerner Commission on civil disorders, militancy, knapp commission, racism, black liberation movement | The State of Maryland has dropped its arson and riot charges against H. Rap Brown, on the grounds that the evidence was fabricated. |
| 1246 | The Southern Patriot | Return of the Death Penalty | 1974-01-00 | 3 | Askew, Reubin; Megill, Ken; | Capital punishment, the peoples' movement, discriminatory sentencing, racism, governmental repression | The return of the death penalty is just another way that the government is trying to repress the peoples' movement. |
| 1247 | The Southern Patriot | Delegation Says to Virginia Go | 1974-01-00 | 1,8 | Holton, Linwood; Wansley, Thomas; Carrington, James; Bradley, David | racism, rape, frame-up, justice, Southern Conference Education Fund, Community action | Supporters of Thomas Wansley marched on the capital. His supporters managed to set up a meeting between his mother and the governor. |
| 1248 | The Southern Patriot | Future of UMW Disucussed | 1974-01-00 | 1,7 | Patrick, Harry; Goldston, Eli; Miller, Arnold | United Mine Workers of America, 46th constitutional convention, constitutional changes, right to strike, wildcat strike, benefits, rank-and-file, collective bargaining | United Mine Workers of America held its 46th constitutional convention in Pittsburgh. Several issues were discussed and changes were made to the unions constitution. |
| 1249 | The Southern Patriot | Angola Prison Stuggle | 1974-01-00 | 8 | Woodfox, Albert; Wallace, Herman; Montegut, Gilbert; Jackson, Chester; Henderson, Murray C. | The Angola four, racism, committee to free the Angola four, prison | The background and trial of the Angola four. |
| 1250 | The Southern Patriot | 'Cost of living' Strike | 1794-04-00 | 8 | Sullivan, J.W. | Taylor Machine Works, strike, cost of living, inflation, unions, united steel workers (AFL-CIO), community support, black-white unity | Workers at Taylor Machine Works have been on strike since Feb. They are demanding a cost-of-living escalator clause to protect them from rising inflation. |
| 1251 | The Southern Patriot | Black Dockers Stop Rhodesian I | 1974-04-00 | 8 | Schonowski, Bill; Gleason, Thomas; Billups, Miles; | International longshoreman's association (AFL-CIO), Rhodesian imports, boycott, Byrd amendment, u.n. embargo, Tidewater Africans | Black dockworkers have stopped the Rhodesian ship, the African sun from unloading its cargo. Black dockworkers hope that the boycott will encourage the government to honor the u.n. embargo on Rhodesian goods. |
| 1252 | The Southern Patriot | Leader of the Rights of White | 1974-04-00 | 6 | Little, Lawrence R.; Jervay, T.C.; Charvis, Ben; Burns, Smith, David H.; Brown, Peggie; Gibson, Leroy | Rights of White People, bombing, wilmington journal, racism | Lawrence R. Little member of the Rights of White People, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the bombing of the Wilmington Journal. |
| 1253 | The Southern Patriot | Birmingham Foundry Worker;s St | 1974-04-00 | 7 | united steel workers (AFL-CIO), Strike, unions, international representatives, publicity | The Strike at the Birmingham foundry has come to an end after six weeks. The strike was unsuccessful do to a lack of union support and publicity. | |
| 1254 | The Southern Patriot | Dave Mack Humphrey: Another R | 1974-04-00 | 5 | Humphrey, Dave Mack; Bright, Gene; Smith, Marian H.; Davis, Angela; Simpson, Fred; | Rape, frame-up, racism, police harassment, Alabama A&M University | Dave Mack Humphrey was walking home at night when he was arrested for raping a white female police officer. While out on bail he was harassed and charged with several other crimes. He is serving a 70 sentence at atmore prison. |
| 1255 | The Southern Patriot | Union Women Conference | 1974-04-00 | 6 | Coalition of labor union women, women, equality, political action, representation, teamsters, polarization, rank and file | Women union members gathered at Chicago for the founding meeting of the coalition of labor union women. Their purpose is to achieve equality on the job, representation within the union, legislative and political power. | |
| 1256 | The Southern Patriot | A March Against Death Row | 1974-04-00 | 1 | Ramsey, James E; Royall, Kenneth D.; Morrison, Fred; Finks, Golden; Hines, Bobby | Capital punishment, death row, death penalty, edgecombe three, SCLC, Commission for racial justice, racism | Raleigh N.C. several hundred people marched on the capital demanding that the general assembly abolish the death penalty, commute the sentences of all men serving on death row, and pardon the edgecombe three. |
| 1257 | The Southern Patriot | Next Time It'll Be The Workers | 1974-04-00 | 4-5 | hospital organizing, union, Solomon act, state owned hospitals, walk-out, rank and file, sexism | A group of workers- mainly women from Birmingham's state owned hospitals are trying to re-organize after a failed attempt to gain union representation. | |
| 1258 | The Southern Patriot | Mississippi Poultry Workers De | 1974-04-00 | 1,3 | Livingston, Richard; Clark, Robert; Ross, Jim Buck; Bowen, David; Eastland, James O.; Cochran, Thad; Gaddis, Fred; Barber, Merle | Indemnity, poultry plants, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, contamination, pesticide, Mississippi poultry workers union | Members of the Mississippi Poultry Workers Union, is demanding indemnity for the workers who missed out on 9 weeks worth of work after the EPA ordered the disposal of millions of pesticide contaminated chicken. |
| 1259 | The Southern Patriot | Pay- Offs in Charlotte Three C | 1974-04-00 | 1,6 | Parker, Charles; Reddy, T.J.; Grant, Jim; Washington, Walter David; Hood, Theodore Alfred; Sneep,Frank; Mardian, Robert | Pay-off, Charlotte three, political prisoners, corruption investigation, Charlotte observer, frame-up | An investigation by the Charlotte observer has revealed that two of the key witnesses of the prosecution were paid off. The money for these pay-offs can be tracked all the way back to the justice department. |
| 1260 | The Southern Patriot | Brookside Miners Win Ruling | 1974-03-00 | 8 | brookside mine, duke power company, united mine workers of America, southern labor union, strike, National labor relations board, picketing | The Brookside miners participating in the strike again duke power company, won a major victory when the NLRB allowed picketing. Strikers now plan on shutting down all duke mines in the area. | |
| 1261 | The Southern Patriot | Prison Conference | 1974-03-00 | 7 | Prison Conference, penal system, community involvement, action groups, committee for prison support in Birmingham | The Committee for prison support in Birmingham, held a press conference, their purpose is to use analysis of the penal system as a starting point for action. Several groups were formed that would take on various issues facing prisoners. | |
| 1262 | The Southern Patriot | School Authorities Arrest Ind | 1974-03-00 | 8 | Allen, Young; Diehl, Phillip | Sit-in, Robeson County Board of education, Indian education Act, Riot Control Act | 27 Native American adults and 15 children appealed their convictions that resulted from a sit-in at the Robeson County board of education. They were concerned about how funds from the Indian education act would be spent. |
| 1263 | The Southern Patriot | Atmore Prison | 1974-03-00 | 6 | Dobbins, George | Atmore prison, farm strike, racism, community review board, prison strike | Atmore Prison is facing a prisoners strike after the death of inmate George Dobbins. |
| 1264 | The Southern Patriot | Murder on Alabama's Prison Far | 1974-03-00 | 6 | Dobbins, George "Chagina"; Clancy, Jesse; Gray, Fred; Martin, Harold; Williams, Dorothy P.; Reed, Thomas; Sullivan, L.B | penal system, inmates for action, inhumane treatment, racism | Prisoners rights advocate George "Chagina" Dobbins was killed while incarcerated at atmore prison. He was beaten and shot in the back. |
| 1265 | The Southern Patriot | Morgantown, W. Va. Truckers un | 1974-03-00 | 3 | Moore, Arch | strike, truckers association, army national guard, harassment, student protest, energy crisis, police repression, strike breaking | Independent truckers in W. Va. went on strike over the high cost of fuel, they demand a price roll back and the right to strike. The Army national guard and the police were sent in to break the strike. |
| 1266 | The Southern Patriot | Bogue Chitto Alabama- 'We did | 1974-03-00 | 4-5 | Robinson, Cheryl Buswell; Pittman, Malinda; Taylor, Idella M. | collective living, subsistence community. commune movement, black panther party, breakfast program, resurrection city, the people's farm | Bouge Chitto is a small rural community in Alabama. The poor and members of resurrection city have formed a communal subsistence community. They provide food, clothing, and health care for those in need. |
| 1267 | The Southern Patriot | Farah Strikers Win | 1974-03-00 | 1,7 | Maloney, Walter H.; Farah, Willie | Amalgamated clothing workers of America (AFL-CIO), union, strike, boycott, community support | The two year strike against Farah manufacturing company ended. The NLRB ordered the company to reinstate the union workers who were fired. The strikers also won recognition for Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (AFL-CIO) as their bargaining agent. |
| 1268 | The Southern Patriot | Governor 'May' commute Sentenc | 1974-03-00 | 1 | Holshouser, James; Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles | Charlotte 3, racism, political prisoners | N.C. Governor is considering commuting the sentences of two of the Charlotte three, T.J. Reddy and Charles Parker. |
| 1269 | The Southern Patriot | Marxist Professor Under Fire | 1974-03-00 | 4 | Cooper, Grant | Politics, university of Arkansas at Little Rock, progressive labor party, Marxist philosophy, American association of university professors | Dr. Grant Cooper was fired from his job at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for his pro-Marxist philosophy. He has also had a suit filed against him by the state for violating anti-subversion laws. |
| 1270 | The Southern Patriot | Retail Workers Seek Union | 1974-03-00 | 5 | Birdwell, Jo-Ann; Tomlin, Becky; Stokes, Audrey | union, retail, Delchamps food stores, amalgamated meatcutters and butcher workmen of North America (AFL-CIO) | Employees of Delchamp food stores have gone on strike after management refused to recognize (AFL-CIO). Most of the strikers are women seeking basic union protection, plus equal pay for equal work. |
| 1271 | The Southern Patriot | 'Evidence' Against Angola Brot | 1974-02-00 | 7 | Wallace, Herman; Woodfox, Albert; Jackson, Chester; Miller, Brent | the Angola four, racism, political prisoners, repression, frame-up, | One of the Angola four went to trial for the death of prison guard Brent Miller. Although evidence was inconsistent, Wallance was convicted and received a life sentence. |
| 1272 | The Southern Patriot | Houston GE Workers Fight Compa | 1974-02-00 | 8 | Eisenberg, Steve | AFL-CIO(IUE), safety, racism, union, workers action movement, black-white unity, discrimination, trusteeship | Detailed account of what the workers at the GE central air conditioning plant in Texas accomplished before they were forced into trusteeship. |
| 1273 | The Southern Patriot | RNA Under New Attack | 1974-02-00 | 6 | Ghafoor, Abdul Malik Mu-Min; Obadele, Imari; Moore, Russel D.; Ghafoor, Kahina Amatul; Marsh, Jerry; Alexander, Firnist | Republic of New Africa, repression, harassment, racism | Abdul Malik Mu-Min Ghafoor administrative assistant to the RNA president, was arrested for supposedly writing a threatening letter to judge Russle D. Moore III. |
| 1274 | The Southern Patriot | Tarboro, N.C. Community Suppor | 1974-02-00 | 1,6 | Brown, Vernon Leroy; Hines, Bobby; Walston, Jesse Lee; Smith, ALice; Whaley, John; Amsterdam, Anthony | rape, racism, repression, death penalty, protest, capital punishment, community support | The Tarboro black community came to support the three young men who were sentenced to death for raping a white woman. |
| 1275 | The Southern Patriot | Election Fraud | 1974-02-00 | 4 | Davis, Julian; Braswell, P.L. | Voter fraud, racism, SCLC, absentee ballots | Sandersville Ga. had five black candidates running for local office. All were defeated by about the same amount of absentee ballot votes. SCLC has received permission from the justice department to investigate. |
| 1276 | The Southern Patriot | Birmingham Foundry: Women Work | 1974-02-00 | 1,4 | Jones, Gordon; Jones, Bolling; Abel, I.W | Birmingham stove and range, union, strike, merit increase, racism, sexism, black labor action coalition | Workers at Birmingham stove and range are on strike after their company and union failed to deliver a satisfactory contract. |
| 1277 | The Southern Patriot | Wansley Case: A Symbol | 1974-02-00 | 5 | Wansley, Thomas; Merhige, Robert; Holton, Linwood; Godwin, Miles | False charges, rape, racism, public pressure, pardon, repression, the peoples' movement | Thomas Wansley has become a symbol of the peoples' movement. Editorial highlights where the campaign to have Wansley pardoned failed and how they can learn from those failures. |
| 1278 | The Southern Patriot | Governor Denies Wansley's Pard | 1974-02-00 | 5 | Holton, Linwood; Wansley, Thomas; Stamps, Garnell; Jester, Royston | Pardon, rape, frame-up, racism, national alliance against racist and political repression, SCEF | The Gov. of Virginia refused to pardon Thomas Wansley. Wansley was sentenced to life in prison for raping a white woman. So far he has served 10 years. |
| 1279 | The Southern Patriot | Bribe at Brookside | 1974-05-00 | 8 | Byrge, Paul; Harris, Noah; Noe, Carl; Curtis, Ronnie | Bribery, strike, union, united mine workers of America, southern labor union, conspiracy, duke power, brookside mine | Officials from Duke power company and the southern labor union were caught on tape and photographed bribing two UMWA members. The UMWA members who were undercover, were supposed to convince the strikers to go back to work an break the strike. |
| 1280 | The Southern Patriot | Houston 12 Re-Indicted After L | 1974-05-00 | 8 | Jefferson, Andrew; Cunningham, Cameron; Carp, Robert; Hampton, Carl; Haile, Bartee; Trujillo, Miguel; Rodriguez, Alex; Vance, Carrol; Hofheinz, Fred; Magee, Ruchell | re-indictment, Houston 12, grand jury, prejudice, war protest, youth against war and fascism, police brutality | After district court judge Andrew Jackson dismissed all the felony charges against the Houston five, after it was found that the jury selection system was discriminatory. The state of Texas was forced to either re-indite and retry, or release a large numb |
| 1281 | The Southern Patriot | Coal From South Africa: Alabam | 1974-05-00 | 1 | Hines, Andy; Stone, Don | coal imports, South Africa, The southern Company, Gulf Power Company, union, UMWA, rally, picketing, black workers congress | Over 1000 people took part in a rally and picket line to show the stockholders of the companies importing South African coal, that they were against it. Picketers sited profit as the motivation behind the imports. |
| 1282 | The Southern Patriot | Coal from South Africa: Aparth | 1974-05-00 | 1,7 | Bethnell, Tom | South Africa, coal, apartheid, imports, job security, unions, | The United States has decided to import several hundred tons of coal from South Africa. UMWA president Tom Bethnell is calling for a boycott, siting the oppressive South African governments treatment of its black population, and the threat that imports wo |
| 1283 | The Southern Patriot | Look for the Aztec Eagle | 1974-05-00 | 3 | Chavez, Cesar; Fitzsimmons, Frank; Colson, Charles; Meany, George | American Farm Bureau, teamsters, grape boycott, lettuce boycott, united farm workers, AFL-CIO, local support | Cesar Chavez attended a rally in Gainesville Fl. and encouraged supporters to continue the boycott especially against non-union grapes. Chavez also struck a deal to end the boycotts in some stores as they were beginning to negatively affect the union memb |
| 1284 | The Southern Patriot | Plans For North Carolina Demos | 1974-05-00 | 1,5 | Charvis, Ben; Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles; Parker, Charles Lee; Waddell, Joe; Brooks, Howard; Othow, Helen; Russell, John; Smith, Donald | National Alliance Against Racist Political Repression, Capital Punishment, Political prisoners, federal center for correctional research, behavioral modification, racism, injustice, repression | The National Assembly Against Racist Political Repression has declared North Carolina a national disaster area. They also announced a demonstration that will be held on July 4th. Their goal is to end capital punishment and free all political prisoners. |
| 1285 | The Southern Patriot | The Cost of the New Atlanta | 1974-05-00 | 4-5 | Whitfield, George; Williams, Virgil; Jackson, Maynard, Inman, John; Mckinny, Billy; Williamson, Q.V.; Matthews, Ethel Mae; Chafin, Clinton; Carter, Jimmy | urban renewal, safe streets and sidewalks act, corporate interest, bedford-pines project area committee, police brutality, racism, | Jim Grant describes how downtown Atlanta had been re-built at the expense of the black community; and how far white politicians and business owners are willing to go to ensure economic growth and renewal. |
| 1286 | The Southern Patriot | Wansley, Carrington Appeals De | 1974-05-00 | 3 | Wansley, Thomas; Carrington, James; Holton, Linwood | appeals, rape, racism, frame-up, injustice, pardon, U.S. Supreme Court | Both Thomas Wansley and James Carrington both had their appeals denied. The U.S. supreme court refused to hear the appeal of Wansley. The U.S. fourth circuit court of appeals rejected the appeal of Carrington. Both men were tried for raping white women, b |
| 1287 | The Southern Patriot | Pikeville Hospital Strike Stil | 1974-05-00 | 5 | Carroll, Minnie; Stratton, Henrey; Miller, Arnold | Working peoples' picnic and rally, hospital strike, Pikeville united Methodist hospital, communications workers of America, UMWA | Workers at the Methodist Hospital in Pikeville Ky. have been on strike for two years and are demanding union recognition. They gained some support from UMWA. UMWA has promised to try and have their medical card contract with the hospital pulled until the |
| 1288 | The Southern Patriot | In Alabama's Prisons Inmates f | 1974-05-00 | 6 | Dobbins, George "Chagina"; Dotson, Tommy "Yikeena" | inmates for action, penal system, prisoner's rights, harassment, racism, plantation prison system | IFA member Mafundi writes about the prison organization Inmates for Action and what they are doing to meet the needs and demands of the prisoners. He also describes how other inmates and prison officials are harassing and murdering members of the IFA. |
| 1289 | The Southern Patriot | Mass Reistance in Atlanta's St | 1974-06-00 | 1,2 | Williams, Hosea; Carter, Ron; Gibson, Brandon; Jackson, Maynard; Inman, John; Hardin, Allen S.; Maddox, Lester; Munford, Dillard; Slaton, Lewis | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, protest, police brutality, Atlanta anti-repression coalition, racism, repression | A protest in Atlanta lead by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was met by police brutality and repression. Protesters demand that Atlanta police chief John Inman and the men responsible for the murder of Brandon Gibson be brought to trial. They |
| 1290 | The Southern Patriot | Mississippians Win Boycott Vic | 1974-06-00 | 1,6 | Abraham, Rick; Shields,Rudy; Chavez, Cesar | grape boycott, sunflower stores, UFW lettuce, teamsters, Lewis Grocer Company, solidarity, black-white unity | United Farm Workers scored a major victory in their Boycott of non-union lettuce and grapes. Sunflower grocery stores have agreed to remove scab grapes and sell UFW lettuce in their stores. |
| 1291 | The Southern Patriot | North Carolina Prisons Charvis | 1974-06-00 | 3 | Charvis, Ben; Garrison, Sam; Sanders, Fletcher; Shepard, Ann | prison protest, investigation, North Carolina Committee of U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Public hearing, behavior modification, experiments, inhumane treatment, prison system | After widespread protest, strikes, and work stoppages in the North Carolina prison system and investigation and hearing was set up by the U.S. civil rights commission. Rev Ben Charvis described substandard living conditions and violence on the part of pri |
| 1292 | The Southern Patriot | In Virginia, People Vs. Electr | 1974-06-00 | 3 | Mathrowetz, Dianne | energy crisis, Virginia electric and power company, state corporation commission of Virginia, petition, utilities, rate increase, hearings, discrimination, center for united labor action | Citizens of Richmond have organized against the Virginia electric and power company. VEPCO have been granted a rate increase by the state corporation commission. Citizens have organized a petition demanding no increase, a rollback on rates, and a hearing |
| 1293 | The Southern Patriot | Police Brutality in East Texas | 1974-06-00 | 8 | Page, Christine; Allen Abra; Ayers, Truman; Weaver, Arthur; Davis, David; Wade, Willie | Racism, police brutality, Nacogdoches county voters league, police harassment | Black citizens of Nacogdoches Texas face almost daily harassment and brutality from the local police department. The article sites several cases of police brutality and harassment from March 9-16th. The Nacogdoches county voters league have tried to help |
| 1294 | The Southern Patroit | GI Organizing | 1974-06-00 | 7 | Sternberg, Andrea D.; | Camp Allen brothers, GI movement, class contradition, new labor movement, class consciousness, tidewater defense committee, racism, Camp Allen Trials | The GI movement similar to the new labor movement, GI's are now more aware of the classiest system of the military. The increase in class consciousness has lead to an increase in protests and solidarity amongst lower class GI's. |
| 1295 | The Southern Patriot | Black Athlete Says ' I was Fra | 1974-06-00 | 8 | James, Mike "Spider"; Vaughn, Charles; Jones, Ligon; Driesell, Charles "Lefty" | frame-up, murder, racism, police brutality | Mike "Spider" James was sentenced to 28 years in prison for murdering a white cab driver. Despite evidence that proved his innocence, he was encouraged to plead guilty in order to strike a deal. While in prison he faced constant harassment by prison offic |
| 1296 | The Southern Patriot | In Mobile: GPA Victory Delcham | 1974-06-00 | 8 | Strike, Scott and International Paper, Gulfcoast pulpwood association, U.S. fifth circuit court, injunction, union, support, anti-trust laws, Delchamps food stores, Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (AFL-CIO) | In Mobile Ala. Scott and International paper agreed to a settlement with the Gulfcoast pulpwood association. The agreement does not involve an increase in pay or an improvement in working conditions. The Strike of 53 meat cutters of the Delchamps food sto | |
| 1297 | The Southern Patriot | Mistrial For Washington | 1974-06-00 | 8 | Washington, James; Jefferson, Malcolm; Monte, Raul; Wilkinson, James | Murder, Mistrial, capital punishment, racism, double jeopardy, prison activist | The State of Virginia's third attempt at trying James Washington for the Murder of Raul Monte a Virgina state farm guard. Malcolm Jefferson was also tried for the murder he was convinced and sentenced to death. Washington's was trial ended in a mistrial. |
| 1298 | The Southern Patriot | UFW: Birmingham Boycott Gain a | 1974-09-00 | 8 | Sparks, Rita; Freeman, Jim; | boycott, united farm workers, leaflet campaign, Bruno's, grape boycott, lettuce boycott, picketing | UFW (AFL-CIO) began boycotting and picketing campaign at three of the largest food store chains in Birmingham. Results were mixed. |
| 1299 | The Southern Patriot | Convenient Suspect in Murder a | 1974-09-00 | 6 | Tibbs, Delbert Lee; Milroy, Robert | rape, murder, frame-up, racism | Delbert Lee Tibbs is charged with the murder of Robert and raping his female companion. Tibbs was in another city at the time of the crime, the description of the killer does not match Tibbs. Tibbs also does not own a truck or a gun. |
| 1300 | The Southern Patriot | Hearing On New Trial For Charl | 1974-06-00 | 7 | Holhouser, James; Reddy, T.J.; Grant, Jim; Parker, Charles; Hood, Theodore Alfred; Washington, Walter David | The Charlotte Three, racism, new trial, Lazy B Stables, Pay offs, political prisoners, The Justice Department | The Charlotte Three were granted a new trial, after payments made to the prosecuting witnesses came to light. |
| 1301 | The Southern Patriot | Summer in Baltimore: Garbage W | 1974-09-00 | 4 | Wildcat strike, sanitation, point system, union, American Federation of State, County, and municipal Employees (AFL-CIO), injunction, garbage workers, police strike, AFSCME union, work actions | Both the police and the garbage workers of Baltimore went on Strike. They are demanding higher pay, and an end to the point system. The garbage workers who had community support were able to have their demands met. The police who were also on strike, mana | |
| 1302 | The Southern Patriot | "Illegals" Are Not The Enemy | 1974-06-00 | 6 | Chavez, Cesar | unions, united farm workers, illegal immigrants, racism, exploitation, scabs, border patrol, corruption, labor movement, Chicano communities | UFW is trying to deal with illegal immigrants being used as scab workers by growers and the corrupt border patrol. |
| 1303 | The Southern Patriot | Racist Use of the Rape Charge | 1974-09-00 | 3 | racism, sexism, 8th amendment, 14th amendment, prisoner rights movement, rape | Four black men from Kentucky who were convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison have filed suit. The State statute for rape carries a life sentence without parole. They believe that this statute violates the 5th and 14th amendment. | |
| 1304 | The Southern Patriot | Killing Sparks Economic Boycot | 1974-09-00 | 3 | Watson, Doug; Carreker, Willie Gene; Brooks, Tyrone | killing, boycott, Talbot County, SCLC, racism | Willie Gene Carreker of Talbot Co. Georgia was shot and killed while handcuffed in police custody. The black community carried out a successful economic boycott and had their demands agreed upon. |
| 1305 | The Southern Patriot | Alabama's Attica | 1974-09-00 | 1,5 | Baxley, Sandra; Dobbins, George; Clanzy, Jesse; Dotson, Tommy Lee; Michaelson, Julius; Harris, Johnnie | inmates for action, death list, racism, harassment, brutality, Alabama prison system, murder | 11 Alabama prisoners are set to go to trial for crimes ranging from rioting to murder. All 11 men are black and members of inmates for action. The article sites several examples of how inmates are treated in the Alabama prison system. |
| 1306 | The Southern Patriot | Black Teacher Fighrs for Black | 1974-09-00 | 3 | Carey, Katura; Courtney, Inez; Walker, Joseph | the black community, Alachua County School Board, harassment, African People's Socialist Party, racism, school board elections | Former teacher Katura Carey is running for the Alachua Co. school board after a year of being harassed for her beliefs and support of the black liberation movement. |
| 1307 | The Southern Patriot | Working People's movement | 1974-09-00 | 1,7 | Miller, Arnold | Strike, phased wage freeze, union, the working people's movement | The Working People's movement has reached an all time high. The last five years from 69-74 has averaged more strikes per year, than any other in U.S. history. The highest peaks were during the summer months. |
| 1308 | The Southern Patriot | South African Coal Unloaded | 1974-09-00 | 1,7 | Mawere, Tapson | South African coal, the southern company, united mine workers, slave labor, racism, African liberation movement, Zimbabwe African national union | Coal miners and black longshoremen were not able to halt the unloading of South African Coal shipment. The UMW was forced to remove its picket line or face a court injunction. |
| 1309 | The Southern Patriot | Buffalo Creek Settlement | 1974-10-00 | 1 | Pittston Company, Buffalo Mining Co, Damn collapse, Survivor syndrome, settlement | Survivors of the Buffalo Creek Damn Collapse won a major settlement from the Pittston company. The settlement agreement allowed for those suffering from psychological problems like survivor syndrome to collect. | |
| 1310 | The Southern Patriot | In Mississippi Mass Protest in | 1974-10-00 | 1,8 | Young, Butler Jr; Shaw, Ronnie | police brutality, racism, united league of Marshall county, economic boycott, police harassment, injunction | After police killed Butler Young Jr. after a hit-and-run accident, the black community began an intense protest and economic boycott in Byhalia Miss. SO far they have managed to have the police involved charged with the killing of Young, elected a black o |
| 1311 | The Southern Patriot | Amnesty: 'On the Underground R | 1974-10-00 | 3 | racism, unconditional amnesty, Vietnam war, discrimination | In his open letter to Mississippi Eusi Nduge explains why he dodged the Vietnam draft, and why amnesty legislation should be expanded. | |
| 1312 | The Southern Patriot | The Case of Joann Little | 1974-10-00 | 1,7 | Little, Joann; Alligood, Clarence; | rape, racism, fair trial | Joann Little is being held on charges of murdering prison guard Clarence Alligood and breaking and entering. Little stated that Alligood entered her cell and threatened her with an ice pick and tried to rape her. She killed him with an ice pick. |
| 1313 | The Southern Patriot | Why is the case of the Atmore- | 1974-10-00 | 6 | Baxley, William; Dobbins, George "Chagina"; Dotson, Tommy Yukeena" | inmates for action, atmore-holman brothers, repression, prison struggle | Attorney General for the State of William Baxley plans to personally prosecute the case of the Atmore-Holman brothers. All of whom are members of the IFA and were on the prison death list. IF they are successful at winning their trial,it will be a huge vi |
| 1314 | The Southern Patriot | Butner, North Carolina Behavio | 1974-10-00 | 4-5 | Schein, Edgar; Bennett,James; Schekenback, Albert F.; Groder, Martin | federal behavior modification center, prison, penal system, behavior modification, brainwashing, START program, Wolff V. McDonnell, Bureau of Prisons, Asklepieion society, transactional analysis | North Carolina is planning to open a new behavior modification center in Butner. This specialized prison under the control of Martin Groder, will specialize in behavior modification. |
| 1315 | The Southern Patriot | Blacks plan to keep what's the | 1974-10-00 | 8 | McCown, John; Patterson, T.M. (Buck) Jr. | police harassment, racism, east central committee for opprotunity, demonstration | A black woman was arrested on a Traffic charge by the all white police force in Sparta Ga. When her boss John McCown president of the ECCO tried to intervene on her behalf, he was also arrested. The whole situation has renewed the tensions between blacks |
| 1316 | The Southern Patriot | In North Carolina Prison Food | 1974-10-00 | 7 | prison food, drugs, Blanche central prison, inhumane treatment | Prisoner's in Blanche central prison have been able to prove that prison officials have been adding 'mind dulling' drugs to prison food, in an attempt to control the prisoners. | |
| 1317 | The Southern Patriot | RNA-11: First Conviction Uphel | 1974-11-00 | 1 | Ana, Hekima; Ana, Tamu Sana; Saxbe,William; Obadele, Imara A. | republic of new Africa, FBI raid, conspiracy, Huston plan | The Mississippi supreme court denied the appeal of Hekima Ana, who is serving a life sentence for a murder conviction related the the 1971 raid on RNA headquarters. |
| 1318 | THe Southern Patriot | Larger Issues are at Stake as | 1974-11-00 | 1,7 | Miller, Arnold | coal strike, union, united mine workers, wage increase, inflation, mine safety, contract, productivity increases | The United Mine Workers union is on strike. They are demanding a wage increase to combat inflation, higher per ton royalty payments, and more power over safety conditions in the mine. |
| 1319 | The Southern Patriot | Unions Organize in South | 1974-11-00 | 5 | unions, new labor movement, the south, sexism, tokenism | Unions had great success in the past year, especially in the South. Some minorities with the unions still face problems such as a lack of representation, and in some cases the unions themselves are lacking in organization. | |
| 1320 | The Southern Patriot | Houston 12 | 1974-11-00 | 1,3 | Vance, Carrol; Barriga, Jose; Christiansen, William; Haile, Bartee; Rodriguez, Alex, Trujillo, Miguel | Houston 12, New Trial, demonstration | A new trial date was announced for the Houston 12. They are charged with assault of a police officer an attempted murder. |
| 1321 | The Southern Patriot | Black Man Lynched | 1974-11-00 | 6 | Parks, Roscoe; Godfrey, Charie Mae; Savage, Jim | lynching, police harassment, Clayton county | Roscoe Parks died in the hospital from wounds he received while be doused with flammable liquid and set on fire. The night janitor from the Anderson Elementary School, Jim Savage was seen near where Parks was burned. |
| 1322 | The Southern Patriot | Lynching Aftermanth Whites Go | 1974-11-00 | 5 | Polk, Preston; Cook, Albert; Youmans, Wallace; O'Neal, J. Blanton | Lynching, racism, injustice, murder, civil rights activity, retaliation, conspiracy | Wallace Youmans was shot in the head and killed after walking by Albert Cook's store. Cook and two other men were found not guilty. |
| 1323 | The Southern Patriot | Students Boycott | 1974-11-00 | 6 | McArthur, Walter; Swantic, Gene; Rowlette, Bob | student boycott, lamar county, racism | Black students from Lamar County went on a two week boycott of classes. Some of their main demand was the hiring of a black vice-principal and the firing of the white assistant principal Gene Swantic. The school board hired Walter McArthur but refused to |
| 1324 | The Southern Patriot | Police kill 28th black | 1974-11-00 | 6 | Jackson, Otis; Ogle, M.E. | police brutality, domestic dispute, racism, excessive use of force, police killings | After being called to break up a domestic dispute office M.E. Ogle beat Otis Jackson with a nightstick and then shot Otis Jackson in the Abdomen. Jackson was D.O.A and Grady Hospital. |
| 1325 | The Southern Patriot | Atlanta SCLC Closes Up Shop | 1974-11-00 | 6 | Williams, Hosea | Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Lack of funding, repression, white flight | Rev. Hosea Williams director of the SCLC announced that they will be closing for good; citing a lack of funding and intense personal repression. |
| 1326 | The Southern Patriot | Election Results: Black and Ch | 1974-11-00 | 8 | Ford,Harold E; Morris, Jack | vote, election, left parties, voter fraud | Several left parties with minority candidates won in state and local elections. |
| 1327 | The Southern Patriot | In Mississippi and West Virgin | 1974-12-00 | 7 | Moore, Alice; Wynn, Lauri; Wright, Richard; Gregory, Dick; Bettersworth, John k.; Brooks, Gwendolyn | book banning, racism, John Birch Society, School Boards, textbooks | The states of Mississippi and West Virginia are facing racist school boards, who favor banning books that they deem communistic, anti-religious, and favor interracial themes. The school boards are also approving textbooks that show the civil rights moveme |
| 1328 | The Southern Patriot | Amnesty Confernece | 1974-12-00 | 8 | Branch, Michael; Grossman, Steve | boycott, universal and unconditional amnesty, earned reentry, Vietnam, indo-china, clemency, amnesty | The second annual convention of the national council for universal and unconditional Amnesty met in Louisville Ky. Information on President Ford's earned reentry program and how it works was presented. Speakers also explained how the people could push for |
| 1329 | The Southern Patriot | Revolt at Reidsville | 1974-12-00 | 5 | Griffin, Andrew; Hopper, Joe | prison strike, Reidsville Ga., investigation, NAACP legal defense fund, ACLU, racism | A strong possibility of a revolt is growing in Reidville Prison. Tensions arose after the death of an inmate and the warden refused to allow the ACLU to investigate. |
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| 1331 | The Soutnern Patriot | March to Boston | 1974-12-00 | 6 | Williams, Hosea | Boston, national freedom march, racism, violence, black community | Civil rights leaders and union members from Atlanta have pledged their support for the freedom march in Boston. |
| 1332 | The Southern Patriot | Jackson State and Kent State: | 1974-12-00 | 3 | Nixon, Walter L.; Battisti, Frank J. | anti-war protest, kent state, jackson state, college protests, case closed, sovereign immunity | Those involved in the shootings at Kent state and Jackson state college were acquitted. Judges also ruled that survivors and family of the victims could no recover damages. |
| 1333 | The Southern Patriot | Supreme Court Looks at Death P | 1974-12-00 | 3 | Fowler, Jesse Thruman | NAACP legal defense fund, death penalty, capital punishment, Furman V. Georgia, repression | The NAACP legal defense fund is helping to appeal the case of Jesse Thruman Folwer's death sentence to the supreme court. Their goal is put an end to the death penalty. |
| 1334 | The Southern Patriot | In Birmingham Hospital workers | 1974-12-00 | 1,7 | Abernathy, Ralph; Shuttlesworth, Fred; Pizitz, Richard | media coverage, union, Hospital workers, non-profit hospitals, national labor relations board, racism, boycott | The Birmingham hospital workers have been on strike for 12 months with little success. The article covers bias media coverage of the strike and the hierarchy of white privilege within the hospital. |
| 1335 | The Southern Patriot | Miners Consider Contract | 1974-12-00 | 1,4 | Littlefield, Sam; Farmer, Guy; Usery, W.J. Jr | coal, strike, united mine workers of America, bituminous coal operators association, contract, pay, safety, right to strike, black lung, murtha bill | The UMWA and its rank-and-file members are trying to reach an agreement over the new changes to the contract with BCOA. The three major areas rank-and-file members are concerned about are wage differentials, safety, and the right to strike. |
| 1336 | The Southern Patriot | Civil Rights Activist Framed | 1974-03-00 | 8 | Cole, J.C.; Stout, Albert | frame-up, drug possession, racism | J.C. Cole a civil rights activist from Shelby N.C. was convicted on a frame-up charge for sale and possession of heroin. Cole had angered those in power in Shelby by exposing the sell of poisonous wood alcohol. |
| 1337 | The Southern Patriot | State Stalls on Charlotte Thre | 1974-03-00 | 8 | Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles; Washington, David | Charlotte three, hearing, delays, black liberation movement | The attorneys for the prosecution of the Charlotte three have asked for another postponement in the hearing of the Charlotte three. |
| 1338 | The Southern Patriot | Wilmington 10 Takes Case to Fe | 1974-05-00 | 8 | Charvis, Ben; Patrick, Marvin; Tyndall, Connie; Jacobs, Jerry; Vereen, Willie Earl; Epps, Reginald, McCoy,James; Wright, Joe; Moore,Wayne; SHepard, Anne | Wilmington ten, Wilmington rebellion, frame-up, racism, judicial misconduct, the black community, united church of Christ | The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld the conviction of the Wilmington 10. |
| 1339 | The Southern Patriot | Little Trial Moved to Raleigh | 1975-03-00 | 8 | Little, Joanne; Mckinnon, Henry A., Griffin, William | little trial, fair trial, jury pool | Judge Henry A. Mckinnon ruled that the trial of Joann Little to be moved to Wake County. Her defense argued that it would be impossible for her to receive a fair trail in Beaufort or any of the other surrounding counties. |
| 1340 | The Southern Patriot | Atmore-Holman SIx New Indictme | 1975-03-00 | 7 | Johnson, Oscar; McCorvey Grover, Heard, Lincoln; Beasley, Charles; Wilson, Johnny; Thomas, Jewell; Baxley, Bill; Yung, John | Atmore-Holman brothers, prison rebellion, inmates for action, prison system, new indictments, plea deals, repression, prison conditions, federal investigation | Several New indictments were obtained against the prisoners for the prison rebellion that took place a year ago. Although the state offered a plea deals, the defense team is working towards exposing the inhumane conditions of Alabama prisons. They would l |
| 1341 | The Southern Patriot | People's Coalititon Protests I | 1975-03-00 | 7 | ITT, People's Coalition Against ITT, stockholders meeting, protest, exploitation | The people's coalition against ITT protested the ITT shareholders meeting held on May 7th. The People's Coalition is demanding that ITT end production that contributes to the electronic battlefield, end business with South Africa, and other oppressive reg | |
| 1342 | The Southern Patriot | New Struggle in Harlan Co. | 1975-03-00 | 6 | black community, urban renewal, slums, discrimination, housing, racism | The black community of Georgetown are being forced out of their neighborhoods, which are being removed so businesses and shopping centers can be built. | |
| 1343 | The Southern Patriot | US-China Friendship Grows Rapi | 1975-03-00 | 6 | Rickett, Adele | US-China Peoples Friendship Association, conference, foreign relations | The US-China friendship association held a conference, that focused on organizing and education. Their goal is to develop strong friendly ties with China and its workers. |
| 1344 | The Southern Patriot | African Liberation Day May 24 | 1975-03-00 | 4 | Greenly, George; Locke, Gene | ALSC, African liberation day, imperialism, black-white unity | African Liberation day was celebrated throughout the South on May 24th. Several demonstrations were held and several guest speaker, spoke on a wide variety of topics affecting the black community in the US and in South Africa. |
| 1345 | The Southern Patriot | Southern Co. Runs, But No Plac | 1975-03-00 | 5 | Suber, Malcolm | South African Coal, demonstrations, the southern company, stockholders meeting, ALSC | For a second year in a row, demonstrations were held at the annual stockholders meeting for the Southern Co. Demonstrators were protesting the Southern Company's purchase of South African coal and the possibility of further transactions. |
| 1346 | The Southern Patriot | Atlanta Welfare Mothers Stage | 1975-03-00 | 3 | Busbee, George; Randolph, Phyllis | Welfare, welfare mother's protest, welfare mothers to fight back, protest, cutbacks, AFDC program | 150 Welfare mothers marched on Atlanta's capital building. The March was organized by Welfare mothers fight to fight back, which is a part of the organization Atlanta workers committee to fight back. The Welfare mothers are demanding an end to welfare cut |
| 1347 | The Southern Patriot | 174 Jailed in Strike | 1975-03-00 | 3 | Campbell, Charles | strike, united furniture workers (AFL-CIO), court order, repression | Workers of the Georgia-Pacific division have been out on strike. The strike was called after contacts between the local union and the company ended. When negotiations broke down, the company obtained a court order prohibiting workers to congregate and res |
| 1348 | The Southern Patriot | Mass Demonstration Meets Growe | 1975-03-00 | 3 | Miller, C.L. | united farm workers union, picketing, injunction, grower harassment, wage increase, illegal immigrants | 10 members of the UFW were shot while picketing the farm of C.L. Miller who was arrested for the shooting, but was released on bail. |
| 1349 | The Southern Patriot | Pensacola: Center of Repressio | 1975-03-00 | 1,2 | Shelton, Robert; Wallace, George; Blackwell, Wendell; Raines, Douglass; Untriener, Royal | repression, racism, KKK, Unexplained deaths, vigilante violence, volunteer riders, black community, the peoples movement | Pensacola FL. Several demonstrations held by both the black community and the Klan have raised tensions in the community. The Demonstrations have sprouted from what some believe as officially sanctioned vigilante violence and oppression of minorities. |
| 1350 | The Southern Patriot | Nathaniel Hawthorne Fighter fo | 1975-04-00 | 8 | Hawthorne, Nathaniel Lee | SCEF, Civil Rights, death, arbitrary | Nathaniel Lee Hawthorn's arbitrary. |
| 1351 | The Southern Patriot | Labor Women Organize CLUW | 1975-04-00 | 7 | Duke, Dana | coalition of labor union women, unions, women, minorities | CLUW is rededicating itself to the rank-and-file working women. |
| 1352 | The Southern Patriot | Women Prisoners Protest living | 1975-04-00 | 8 | Woman's prison protest, sit-in, harassment, action for forgotten women, mistreatment | Inmates at the Woman's prison in Raleigh N.C. held a peaceful sit-in to protest inhumane treatment and working conditions within the prison. | |
| 1353 | The Southern Patriot | NLRB Backs Company Miners Prot | 1975-04-00 | 7 | union elections, national labor relations board, mountain workers unity organization, unions, bribery, check cards | United Mine workers of America are protesting the union election, where over 80% of those who voted had union check cards, but still lost the election. | |
| 1354 | The Southern Patriot | Chicanos Organize Against Depo | 1975-04-00 | 7 | Lombrano, Patrick | Mexican immigrants, harassment, deportation, Brown Berets, the commission for Mexican-American Affairs, rally | A rally against the deportations of illegal Mexican immigrants was held in San Antonio TX. |
| 1355 | The Southern Patriot | ZANU Leader Victim of Racism | 1975-04-00 | 6 | Mawere, Tapson A; Mangazva, Synos | police harassment, Zimbabwe African Nation Union, racism, SCEF, conference to stop the importation of South African coal. | Tapson A. Mawere and Synos Mangavza were guest speakers at a SCEF conference on stopping the importation of South African coal. They were beaten and arrested by two plain cloths police officers for trying to eat at a whites only restaurant. |
| 1356 | The Southern Patriot | Clifford Durr, Fighter for Civ | 1975-04-00 | 6 | Durr, Clifford | Arbitrary, civil rights, death | Clifford Durr Arbitrary |
| 1357 | The Southern Patriot | GPA Organizing to Fight Wage C | 1975-04-00 | 4,5 | Walters, Fred; Jones, Herbert | Gulfcoast pulpwood association, economic crisis, union, strike, quota system, poverty, black-white unity, reorganizing, paper monopolies | The Gulfcoast Pulpwood Association is reorganizing in an effort to take on the big paper companies. The economic crisis has caused paper companies to cut the prices of wood, harming the wages earned by workers. |
| 1358 | The Southern Patriot | Charlotte Pipe Strike in Eleve | 1975-04-00 | 6 | Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, strike, union, contract, international molders and allied workers union, discrimination | Workers at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry are on strike. They are demanding union recognition and a contract. | |
| 1359 | The Southern Patriot | SCEF to Sponsor Fight Back Con | 1975-04-00 | 3 | Conference, Fight back against the economic crisis, economic crisis, cut backs, unemployment, unions, organizing | SCEF is sponsoring a conference on " The Fight-Back Against the Economic Crisis". SCEF is calling for help, and the organizing efforts of women and minorities. They also plan to hold those responsible for the downturn accountable. | |
| 1360 | The Southern Patriot | Black Women Organize in Suppor | 1975-04-00 | 3 | Little, Joanne; Topps, Avis | black woman's united front, marches, black women, first degree murder, rape, racism | The Black Woman's united Front are calling for a series of Marches to free Joann Little. |
| 1361 | The Southern Patriot | Welfare Organizers Face Trumpe | 1975-04-00 | 2 | White Jean; Parks, Amy; Flower, Edwin | welfare rights organization, welfare fraud, minority women, economic crisis | Jean White and Amy Parks active members and leaders of the welfare rights organization are being charged with trumped up charges of welfare fraud. They believe they are being targeted for the involvement in the Welfare Rights Organization and planned demo |
| 1362 | The Southern Patriot | Black Prisoners Framed | 1975-04-00 | 2 | Lewis, Tony; Barnes, Ronald | Prison, racism, penal system | Tony Lewis and two other prisoners are being charged with the murder of prison guard Ronald Burns. The Mothers and family are raising funds for out of state attorneys. |
| 1363 | The Southern Patriot | In Hamlet, N.C. Police Shootin | 1975-04-00 | 1 | Scott, Rhonda; Bryant, James; Covington, Earl | police brutality, excessive force, demonstration, racism, fire bombings, KKK, black community | Rhonda Scott was shot in the back by police sgt. Earl Covington. Members of the black community marched on city hall and demanded that Covington be fired and charges brought against him. He was later dismissed from the police force. |
| 1364 | The Southern Patriot | On Strike for Union Contract S | 1975-04-00 | 1,6 | Garner, Kenneth; Williams, G.O.; McWilliams, James E.; Smith Monroe | Sanitation workers, strike, racial discrimination, union recognition, Laborer's International Union of North America, police harassment, racism, job security | Sanitation Workers from Hattiesburg Miss. have been on strike for nine weeks and are asking for support. Media coverage of the strike has not helped the cause and reports refer to the strikers as "ex-employees" and "non-workers". Strikers are demanding an |
| 1365 | The Southern Patriot | Atlanta Workers Arrested Defen | 1975-06-00 | 1 | Caldwell, Sam | Atlanta Workers' Committee to Fight-Back, Fight-Back ten, police harassment, unemployment | Members of the Atlanta Workers' Committee to Fight-Back were beaten and arrested for waiting outside Georgia's state Commissioner of Labor Sam Caldwell's office. All they wanted to know was why so many people weren't getting their unemployment. |
| 1366 | The Southern Patriot | Kentuckians Oppose Klan | 1975-06-00 | 1,6 | Duke, David; Johnson, Ben | klan rallies, kkk, protest, segregation, racism, economic crisis | The Ku Klux Klan held three rallies in Kentucky. The rallies drew wide spread protests from the black community, church groups and unions. |
| 1367 | The Southern Patriot | Farmworkers Rally UFW Coca-Col | 1975-06-00 | 3 | Lyons, Mack | united farm workers, coca-cola, harassment, economic downturn, union recognition | Tensions between coca-cola and the united farm workers union heightened after their contract expired in January. Coca-Cola has cut off negotiations with UFW in an attempt to push out the union. |
| 1368 | The Southern Patriot | S.C. Women Sterilized Doctor F | 1975-06-00 | 3 | Pierce, Clovis | forced sterilization, welfare, women | Dr. Clovis was convicted for forcibly sterilizing a woman and was only fined five dollars. The outraged community protested and the case is currently on appeal. |
| 1369 | The Southern Patriot | History of Struggle in Song | 1975-06-00 | 4 | Romaine, Anne | Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project, the struggle, black-white unity | Anne Romaine discusses her work and travels with the Southern Folk Cultural Project. |
| 1370 | The Southern Patriot | Tenants Fight Police and Landl | 1975-06-00 | 3 | Sarubin, Morton | uplands apartment complex, rent strike, federal subsidies | Tenants from the Baltimore Uplands Apartment Complex have organized a rent strike in order to improve their homes and lower their rent. |
| 1371 | The Southern Patriot | In the Shadows of the Plantati | 1975-06-00 | 6 | Garrett, Johnny' Barefoot, Junior; Stepp, Ollis; Johnson, Matt; Wells, Jones | Migrant workers, slave labor, farm workers, crew leader, registration act, organize | Working and living conditions for migrant farm workers in North Carolina are deplorable. The state has initiated new legislation to improve conditions but there are still calls for workers to organize. |
| 1372 | The Southern Patriot | SCEF Tour Builds for Indochina | 1975-06-00 | 5 | Johnson, Mary Joyce | SCEF, Indochina, vietnam, communism, tour, anti-war movement, aid | Mary Joyce Johnson shares her experences from the SCEF sponsored tour of Vietnam. |
| 1373 | The Southern Patriot | Interview with Ron Carter Figh | 1975-06-00 | 7 | Carter, Ron | Atlanta worker's committee to Fight-Back, workers rights, the peoples movement | Interview with Ron Carter Chairman of the Atlanta Workers Committee to Fight Back. Active in the fight for the rights of the employed and unemployed. |
| 1374 | The Southern Patriot | Community Hits Cut-Backs in He | 1975-06-00 | 7 | Jones, Larry; Edwards, Edwin | health care, cut-backs, economic crisis, poverty, charity hospital | 150 people picketed at Charity Hospital in response to a cut-back in state funded health care. Charity Hospital serves mainly the poor and also acts as a disaster relief center. |
| 1375 | The Southern Patriot | In Person Protest Leader gets | 1975-06-00 | 7 | Mathews, H.K. Brooks, B.J. | protest, extortion charges, injustice, demonstration, frame-up | Rev H.K. Mathews and Rev B.J. Brooks were convicted of felony extortion charges, stemming from their participation in a rally in Pensacola. |
| 1376 | The Southern Patriot | Conference Sept 6-7 SCEF Build | 1975-06-00 | 8 | SCEF, conference, economic crisis, unemployment, welfare cuts, police brutality, minorities, big business, economic crisis. | SCEF conference on " The Crisis and the Fight Back" is hoping to shed light on the some major issues facing the peoples movement. | |
| 1377 | The Southern Patriot | Evidence Weak Against Joann | 1975-06-00 | 8 | Little, Joanne; Alligood, Clerence; Dees, Morris; King, Beverly; Griffin, William | Joanne little trial, circumstantial evidence, police misconduct, self-defense, rape, sexual abuse. | The trial of Joanne Little is underway, however due to circumstantial evidence, charges against her have reduced from first degree murder to second degree murder. |
| 1378 | The Southern Patriot | Significant Victory After Defe | 1976-01-00 | 1,6 | Middleton, Willie; Gathers, Carnell; Jones, Joe | General electric, united electrical workers union, union, runaway plants, union representation | Turbine workers at the general electric plant in Ladson S.C. voted to join united electrical workers union. |
| 1379 | The Southern Patriot | Grand Juries Used Against Stri | 1976-01-00 | 1,6 | Graham, Katherine | Grand Juries, Strike, Peoples movement, indictments, the post, Tampa maid shrimp plant, intimidation, post unions united, boycott | Grand Juries are investigating two major long term strikes. The Washington Post Pressmen Strike and Tampa Maid Shrimp Plant Strike. Strikers believe that the grand juries are just another tactic being used to break the strike. |
| 1380 | The Southern Patriot | New Orleans Participants Repor | 1976-01-00 | 3 | Tyler, Gary | the fight-back movement, American imperialism, conference, | Participants from the National Fight Back Conference in Chicago discuss their experiences at the conference and what they learned. |
| 1381 | The Southern Patriot | Conference of 1100 A Huge Succ | 1976-01-00 | 3,6 | Johnson, Mary Joyce; Emerson, Mary; Hyde, Odis; Weusii, Starbisha | National fight back organization, racial unity, peoples movement, conference | At a SCEF endorced conference in Chicago, the new National Fight Back Organization was founded. |
| 1382 | The Southern Patriot | Victory for Robert Williams | 1976-01-00 | 4 | William, Robert; Lowder, Carroll | frame-up, charges dropped, civil rights activist, racism | Frame-up kidnapping charges against civil rights activist Robert Williams were dismissed. District Attorney Lowder stated that charges were dropped, because the state had no witnesses against Williams. |
| 1383 | The Southern Patriot | Demand " Free Cheryl and Dessi | 1976-01-00 | 4 | Todd, Cheryl; Woods, Dessie X | rape, racism, woman's oppression, repression, murder, armed robbery | Cheryl Todd and Dessie X. Woods are being charged with murder and armed robbery, for killing a white salesman posing as a police officer who tried to rape them. |
| 1384 | The Southern Patriot | IFA member Denied Appeal | 1976-01-00 | 4 | Harris, Johnny; Barrow, Luell; Allison, William | inmates for action, atmore-holman, appeal, death penalty, discrimination, racism | Alabama court of criminal appeals denied the appeal of Johnny Harris. Harris is a member of inmates for action and was charged with the death of Luell Barrow. |
| 1385 | The Southern Patriot | Judicial Victory But No Freedo | 1976-01-00 | 4 | Mackenzie, John; Spratley,Frank Lee | discrimination, all-white juries, jury composition, racism | Fourth U.S. circuit court of appeals has ruled that a black man can appeal a conviction by an all-white jury on the grounds of discrimination. |
| 1386 | The Southern Patriot | Victim of Brown Lung Talks wit | 1976-01-00 | 5 | Wright, Lacey | Brown lung, textile workers, Carolina Brown Lung Association, compensation, cotton dust, bysisnosis | Lacy Wright, president of the Greensboro chapter of the Carolina brown lung association describes working in textile mills. His goal is to build a movement to organize the textile industry, eliminate the cotton dust, and win compensation for workers suffe |
| 1387 | The Southern Patriot | New Briefs | 1976-01-00 | 7 | Rowe, Gary; Dehee, Elijah | KKK, freedom riders, klan attack, prisoners rights, cruel and unusual punishment, American penal system, frame-up, involuntary manslaughter, sabotage, racism | FBI's role in building up KKK exposed. N.C. Women prisoners file lawsuit. Frame-up conviction of Elijah Dehee upheld in S.C. |
| 1388 | The Southern Patriot | Free the Charlotte 3! | 1976-01-00 | 8 | Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles; Erwin, Sam | Charlotte three, frame-up, bribery, new trial, appeal | After a 10 month wait the N.C. Supreme Court Judge denied the Charlotte three a new trial. They plan to appeal to a higher court. |
| 1389 | The Southern Patriot | "They get up Hungry and go to | 1976-01-00 | 8 | Williams, Johnny Mae; Peeples, Edward; Eastland, James; Shaw, Gussie | hunger, poverty, black belt south, Mississippi delta, emergency hunger counties, malnutrition, economic crisis, food stamps, school lunch program | Thousands of low income and minority families in the south are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. The problem is further complicated by the fact that federal funding for food stamps and school lunches have been cut. |
| 1390 | The Southern Patriot | Arrests Hit Florida Activists | 1976-04-00 | 1,6 | Marshall, John; Marshall, Eddie Ruth; Jones, Sam | Tampa Workers Committee, food stamps, racism, cut-backs, oppression, all-white jury | John and Eddie Ruth Marshall were arrested and received heavy sentences for protesting outside the Tampa food stamp office by cops posing as reporters. |
| 1391 | The Southern Patriot | Comments on Campain 76 Lots of | 1976-01-00 | 1,6 | Wallace, George; Carter, Jimmy; Humphrey, Hubert; Johnson, "Scoop" | presidential campaign, 76' election, economic crisis, corporate interest, civil rights movement, voter turnout, democracy | 76' elections are beginning and the presidential candidates all seem to represent the "ruling class". The Author calls for a change in the political system to better serve the people. |
| 1392 | The Southern Patriot | 7,000 N.C. Teachers March | 1976-04-00 | 3 | inflation, economic crisis, teachers march, union, north Carolina association of educators, national educational association. | Teachers in North Carolina marched on the capital demanding a 16% pay increase to combat growing inflation. The state legislature is considering a 4% raise. | |
| 1393 | The Southern Patriot | Doctor Rips Stitches From Blac | 1976-04-00 | 3 | Armstrong, Melvin; Merkle Bobby; Wilson, Charles | black belt, racism, injustice, medical malpractice | Melvin Armstrong needed stitches after puncturing his arm. When the family told Dr. Merkle they would be unable to pay up front, he pulled the stitches from Melvin's arm. |
| 1394 | The Southern Patriot | Buffalo Creek--4 years later | 1976-04-00 | 4 | Moore, Arch; Hobson, Drema | Buffalo creek disaster, pittston coal company, dam, housing, safety | Four Years after the disaster at buffalo creek, victims are still homeless and in dire need of aid. Pittston Coal company is refusing any real help. |
| 1395 | The Southern Patriot | Charlottee Three Demand Bond | 1976-04-00 | 3 | Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles | Charlotte three, petition for bond, bond, racism | The Charlotte three are petitioning for bond pending another hearing. |
| 1396 | The Southern Patriot | Malcolm X-- A teacher for toda | 1976-04-00 | 4 | X, Malcolm | African liberation day, black liberation | Quotes taken from Malcolm X. He discusses the importance of paying attention of what is happening to the people in Africa and how that affects Africans and African Americans and their view of their struggle. |
| 1397 | The Southern Patriot | Louisville Racism Linked to Ci | 1976-04-00 | 4,5 | Pugh, Luebreta; Sloane, Harvey; Cough, John | racism, busing, desegregation, black community, harassment, police brutality, declaration, independence from bigotry | During the 1st year of busing for school desegregation, the black community of Louisville has faced almost constant harassment and brutality from police and other city officials. |
| 1398 | The Southern Patrot | IFA member fights legal lynchi | 1976-04-00 | 7 | Allison, Bill; Harris, Johnny; Baxley, Bill | rally, atmore-holman brothers, inmates for action, human rights, death penalty | A speech given by Bill Anderson, lawyer for IFA member Johnny Harris who was sentenced to death for participating in a prison protest where a prison guard was murdered. |
| 1399 | The Southern Patriot | N.C. Prisoners Protest Overcro | 1976-04-00 | 7 | Grant, Jim; Willett, Anne; Marsh, Marjorie; Bost, Sam; Bolding, Tommy; Creasin, Raymond; Fink, Robert | prison overcrowding, inhumane conditions, constitutional rights, North Carolina Prisoners labor union, Craggy Prison support Group, prison reform | 30 prisoners have field suit in federal court stating that their constitutional rights are being violated by the inhumane conditions in North Carolina prison system caused by overcrowding. |
| 1400 | The Southern Patriot | Tyler Denied New Trial | 1976-04-00 | 8,7 | Tyler, Gary; Marino, R.J.; Blanks, Natalie | frame-up, racism, new trial, | Gary Tyler was denied a new trial by Judge R.J. Marino, despite evidence that the state's star witness lacked credibility |
| 1401 | The Southern Patriot | SCEF calls for Massive Tyler D | 1976-04-00 | 8 | Tyler, Gary | Demonstration, SCEF convention | A demonstration will be held July 17th to build support for Gary Tyler. They have set a goal of 100,000 signatures demanding Tyler's freedom. |
| 1402 | The Southern Patriot -- Specia | Southwide Mobilization Draws B | 1976-05-00 | 2 | Tyler, Gary | demonstration, black freedom struggle, discrimination, racism, political power | A massive demonstration to free Gary Tyler will be held on July 24 in New Orleans. |
| 1403 | The Southern Patriot -- Specia | Tyler Harassed, Demonstration | 1976-05-00 | 1,3 | Tyler, Gary; Tyler, Terry | racism, harassment, frame-up, Gary Tyler Freedom Fighters | Gary Tyler is facing constant harassment from prison officials. The Gary Tyler Freedom Fighters have doubled their efforts to free him. |
| 1404 | The Southern Patriot -- Specia | SCEF needs you support! | 1976-05-00 | 3 | SCEF, finical support, educational programs, organizing programs | SCEF is asking for financial support. | |
| 1405 | The Southern Patriot -- Speci | Worker Activists Backs Tyler | 1976-05-00 | 7,3 | Tyler, Gary | support, union, activists | letters from worker activists lending their support to Tyler. |
| 1406 | The Southern Patritot -- Speci | Grant, Reddy Free on Bail! | 1976-05-00 | 4 | Grant, Jim; Reddy, T.J.; Parker, Charles; Tyler, Gary | Charlotte three, bail, paroled, political prisoners, activists, frame-up, clemency | Jim Grant and T.J. Reddy are free on bail. Charles Parker was already out on parole. |
| 1407 | The Southern Patriot | Louisianna Cane Workers 'New S | 1976-06-00 | 8 | Jones, Leroy; Foster, Murphy; Coldwell, John Vernon | poverty, sharecropping, sugar cane, big business, oppression, high interest rates, company stores, housing, racism, high illiteracy | Louisiana cane workers still live in almost slave like conditions on sugar plantations. Most are sharecropper and farm workers who in poverty and never ending debt to their bosses. |
| 1408 | The Southern Patriot | Chicano Activists Fight Frame | 1976-06-00 | 7 | Ogaz, Ruben; Espinoza, Alfredo; Arroyos, Ramon | Chicano movement, chicanos unidaos , frame-up, fire bombing, discrimination, racism, los tres unidos de el paso | Members of the Chicano Activist group Los Tres Unidos de El Paso are accused of fire bombing a downtown department store. A demonstration is planned. |
| 1409 | The Southern Patriot | International Support | 1976-06-00 | 6 | Tyler, Gary | support, campaign to free gary tyler, racism | Messages of support for Gary Tyler have been coming in from all over the world. |
| 1410 | The Southern Patriot | Revolt Spreads in S. Africa | 1976-06-00 | 5 | Kruger, James; Fisher, Mike; Carter, Ron | South Africa, apartheid, revolt, black ideology, imperialism, Voster Regime. | Revolts have broken out in S. Africa as a result of the harsh repressive nature of the pro-white apartheid government. S. African officials are blaming black ideology imported from the U.S. as the cause of the revolts. |
| 1411 | The Southern Patriot | A "Peoples'" Conference SCEF B | 1976-06-00 | 4,5 | Tyler, Gary | semi-annual board meeting, campaign to free gary tyler, anti-repression work, legalism, peoples' movement, name change | SCEF is planning its semi-annual board meeting. At this meeting they plan to discuss major topics such as the campaign to free Gary Tyler, how to combat legalism within the movement, and a possible name change for the news paper. |
| 1412 | The Southern Patriot | Murderer of Black Man Freed | 1976-06-00 | 4 | Dupree, Sandra; Dickens, Harry Lee; Frinks, Golden | black community, racism, Scotland Neck Movement for equal justice, demonstrations, murder | Sandra Dupree was found not guilty for first degree murder of Harry Lee Dickens, who was found shot in the back of the head. Demonstrations followed. |
| 1413 | The Southern Patriot | SCEF member Wins Job Victory | 1976-06-00 | 3 | Crawford, Daisy | discrimination, cannon mills, union, sexual harassment, SCEF | Daisy Crawford a pro-union worker at cannon mills was able to successfully win her Job back after being sexually harassed and then fired by management. |
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| 1415 | The Southern Patriot | Youth Framed in Rape Case | 1976-06-00 | 2 | Smith, Robert Lee; Fogle, Almeta; | rape, frame-up, people united to live and let- live, murder, life in prison, evidence | The organization people united to live and let-live have been working on the case of Robert Lee Smith. A 13 year old who was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of Almeta Fogle despite no evidence linking him to the crime. |
| 1416 | The Southern Patriot | Case Holds Important Lesson Lo | 1976-06-00 | 3 | Long, Ronnie; Cater, Ron; Crawford, Daisy | rape, frame-up, cannon mills, union organizing, Ronnie Long Defense Committee. SCEF | Shortly after cannon mills workers tried to organize, Ronnie Long a vocal worker at Cannon Mills was arrested and charged with raping a white woman. |
| 1417 | The Southern Patriot | "Free Gary Tyler" 2,000 Rally | 1976-06-00 | 1,6 | Tyler, Gary; Tyler, Jaunita; Hampton, Bill; Carter, Ron | demonstration, rally, frame-up, racism, legal lynching, repression, black liberation movement | Over 2,000 people showed up at the free Gary Tyler rally. Several speakers addressed Gery Tyler's case and how it affects the movement as a whole. |
| 1418 | The Southern Patriot | 120,000 Miners Strike Wildcat | 1976-06-00 | 1,7 | Miller, Arnold | strike, unions, cedar coal company strike, injunction, wildcat, trusteeship, receivership, right to strike movement, united mine workers of America | After 120,000 miners went on a wildcat strike, Arnold Miller president of UMW showed his true colors by trying to force strikers back to work. |
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