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APPENDIX SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC) On November 1, 1966, a first source advised that the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) was formed on the weekend of April 3-5, 1964, to stimulate activity of Southern Student groups in areas of civil rights, peace, academic freedom, civil liberties, capital punishment, and unemployment. Originally, it was to be a white counterpart of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It has agreed to work with similar interested groups such as SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. (SCEF SSOC is a fraternal affiliate of the Students for a Democratic Socie y (SDS). Beginning in the Fall of 1966, SSO° became e membership organiza- tion and embarked on a campzign to form: local chapters on various college campuses throughout the south. SSO publishes, Cetober through May each year, @ publication, "New South Student},” which according to the above source has increasingly espoused and defended the pro-Communist and anti- United States position on domestic and forelen policy. On July 2, 196%, a second source advised that SSOC continues to hb Ae. + a rd TOR Tawtt a. Ne-owh. 14 an nA be headquartered at 1703 Fortian yemuc, Nashville, Tennessee, and a AV continues to defend and espaise the pre-Communist and anti-United States position with particular emphasis on attacking United States policy in Vietnam and emphasis on attacking the Selective Service System. Source Two noted that SSCC Chairman Thomas N, Gardner in the Summer of 1967 traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia where he met with representatives of the National Liberation Front (NEE) and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and that SSOC staff members Bruce Smith and Alan Levin traveled to Cuba in the Summer of 1967 and February, 1968, respectively. _ wd By letter dated April 26, 1968, on SSOC letterhead mailed to the general SSOC membership over the signature of Mike Welch, Executive Secretary of SSOC, it was announced that as a step toward close relations with the Students. for a Democrat ic Society ( 5DS) and better communications with the "New South Student” and the "New Left Notes", and that SDS and SSOC were exchanging cantact lists of their respective memberships for ‘this exchange. The May, 1968, issue of "New South Student" indicates that the SSOC mailing address is P, 0. Box 6403, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, Telephone Number 615-291-3537, and the mast-head described the organization as "An association of young concerned Southerners dedicated to social change," as taken from the preamble of the SSOC constitution.