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on tte BIE Sr g iD O O APPENDIX me a A eer f= SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ($SOC} ee en LE, I A a le END On November 1, 2966. a first souree advised that the Southern Student Orginizing Ceamittee (SSOC: was formed on the weekend cr Apral 4 3-5, 1964, to stimulate 2ctivary cf Southern Student groups in srezs of civil rights, peace, acidemic freedom. civxi isterties, caratal punishment, and unemployment Originally, it eas to be a white counter part of the Student Neayioient Coordineting Coamittee (SNCC). Ft nas: agreed to work with simil*r ioterested grours such as SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society (S05) snd Southern Conference Pducaticns} | Fund, Inc. (SCEF}. SSO is « freverrcal «ffiisacte of the S65. Beginning in the f2.l! of 1566 SS00 bee.me 4 membership organization and embi:ked en * cimparzgn to form ifeai chapters on a~W8rious college campuses throughout the South, 30°C fubisshes, October through May each yesr. 7 Fublrcatian, “New South Student,” which according te the xbove source has increrasingly espoused and defended the pro-Communist t4¢ 2nra-Ugitrd Ftares pacition an tomestcs and foreign policy. nal On July 2, 1968. » second scurce advised that SSOC corntiaues to be headquartered 2t 1703 Portioand Avenue, Nachville, Tennessee, and continues to deferd and espouse the pro-Communist and anta-United States position with p2articulzr empnisis on atticking United States policy in Vietnam and emphosis cn att#cking the Selective Service System. Source two noted thet SSOC Chairman Thomis N. Gardner in tbe Summer of 1967 traveled to Pregve. Czechosicvakiaa. where he met ith representatives of tne Nations! Liberstion Froat (NL) and the Denc- cratic Republic of Vietnim (DRV}. and thet SsSOC staff members Bruce Smith and Alan Levin trzveled te Cuba in the Sumner of 1967 and February, 1968, respectively. By letter arited Agrii 26, 1368, on SSOC ietterhead mailed te the general SSOC membership aver the signature of Mike Welch, Execuzuve Secretary of SSOC, i2 w2s5 smnounced that as 2 step tceward close reiaticnss with the Students for a Cemocriiszc Socisety (SDSi ¢nd better commeurseiti ons with the movement nitiuniciy, SS0C and SDS nave worked cut an exchange of the “New South Student" ind the “New Lefi Notes," and that STS ana SSOC were exchanging cont=ct Lists ef their respective memberships fer this exchange. . The May, 1958. z:seue of "New South Student" andicates that the SSOC mailing address 1s ©. 0. Box 6403, Nachvilie, Teanessee, 37212. Telephone Number 6}5-292-3537. and the mast~-heid descrthed the organization as "An asscci ition of young cenacernegd Scutherner: ded.c.red to social change," as taken frcm the preimble of the SSOC constitution, pa q : ow on ae ee es me . -_ ak cot ~ < o, =e « ag ag: tee ee 7 = ae Pe a we Oe TF P ae Pee ae ; ae ae wa te al SE ee ee