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SOUTER SPUR NY ORGANIZING COTITT (ssoc) ° SOUR GA SOU CRSA IZING COmMTED (soc) On Novernber 1, 1955, a first source advised that the Southern Student Orgunizing Comittee S500) with head- quarters et 1705 Portier:c Avenue, Neehville, Tennessec, was formed on the weekend cf April 3-5, 1964, to stinulate activity of Southern stucent groups in arezs cf civil rights, peace, ecedemic freedou, civil liberties, cepitel punishme nt and unemployment, Originally, it was to be @ white counter- pert of the Student Nonviolent Coordinsting Comnittee (SCC). It has aerced te work with similar interested groups such as SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS ) and Southern Conference Educationel Fund, Inc. (SCEF). SSOD is a fraternal affiliete of SDS. Beginning in the Fall of 1956, SSOC became & member- ship orgénization and embarked on a campaign to form local chapters on vérious college campuses througnout the South. S500 publishes, October through liay each year, a publicetion, “Rew South Student", which according to the above source has increasingly espoused and defended the pro-Communist and anti-United Stetes position on domestic and foreign policy. ee Se oe er i em ee nae er ee ree re gence ee nee oe beep