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oN O COMPETI APPENDIX SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC) On Noverber ], 1966, a first source advised that the Southern student Organizing Conmattee (SSOC) was formed on the weekend of April ’~5, 1964, to stimulate activity of Southern Student groups in areas. ‘£ civil rights, peace, 2<idemic freedom, civil liberties, capital ‘unishment, and unemployment. Originally, it eas to be a white counter- art of the Student Neosaviclent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It has ‘greed to work with similar interested groups guch as SNCC and Students ‘or a Democratic Society (SDS) and Southern Conference Educational “und, Inc. (SCEF). SSOC is a fraternal affiliate of the SDS. Beginning in the Fall of 1966, SSOC beczme a membership organization and embarked on 2 campaign to form lcec#l] chapters on ‘arious college campuses throughout. the South. SSOC publishes, > ‘etober through May each year, 2 Publication, "New South Student," hich according te the above source has increasingly espoused and fefended the pro-Commuaist and anta-United Stxtes position on domestic nd foreiga policy. On July 2, 1968, 2 second source advised that SSOC continues “9 be headquartered at 1703 Portland Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to deferd and espouse the pro-Conmunist and anti-United states position with particular emphasis on attacking United States AOlicy in Vietnam and emphis3s on attacking the Selective Service system. Source two noted th2t SSOC Chairman Thomis N. Gardner in the Summer of 1967 traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he met with -epresentatives of the Nationsl Liberation Front tNLF) and the Demo=- cratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and that SSOC staff members Bruce He and Alan Levin traveled to Cuba in the Summer of 1967 and February, © 68, respectively. By letter dated April 26, 1968, on SSOC letterhead mailed to the general SSOC membership cover the signature of Mike Welch, Executive Jecretary of SSOC, it w?s apreunced that as a step toward close relations with the Students fer a Democritic Society (SDS} and better communications with the movement nationzily, SSOC and SBS have worked out an exchange of the "New South Student” ind the "New Left Notes," and that SDS and SSOC were exchanging contact lists of their respective memberships for ‘* ~ this exchange. The May, 1968. issue of "New South Student" indicates that the 3SOC mailing address as P. O. Box 6403, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, Telephone Nunber 6}5-2913- 3537. and the mast-head described the organization as "An assoc)ition of young concerned Southerners dedicated to social change," 4s taken from the preamble of the S50C constitution. _ wy! . -- . "ees ~a_ae . «ae. oe v ; wT “a 5 mee Pe ~~ tN oy “<> hae Nee oe. Dt 2° fee DOU Setter teatyrr tyne enema mye comemtae atte tit ar ttt ane eee ee . . . cae . : : ne ee es fr ee es