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ee ee dee a aoe ey a ee eel ore wees ee =—— + ____ L. Wasimng ion recently $4 organizations This is 4 clipping =Tom Page & uN 17 1986 769 ' spate 5a ee ak Oe ae. ee Hrs. Ruvosevelt. Co-Head Of Big: ‘Riot’ Committee Mrs. Eleanor-Roorevelt and Dr. Chanuing Ho Tobies are co. chairmen of a pational committee organized under the spomsar. ship of the-NAACP to mobilize support for the victims of the in Columbia, Tenn., it was announced this week by the NAAC which is completing plans for the legal defense of some 100 N gress whe were arrested follewing the can- ; 7 Ri-. jeanwhile, it was learned that the county gtaud jury at Columbia last week returned indictments charging 21 Negroes and four while men with offenses ranging from ate. tempted murder to carrying dangerous Wrapons. : A tote! of 38 Negrocz were charged with ealtempted murder arfl three others were charged with attemp: te commit a felony, The names of the four white men were not revealed. _ . TOM CLARE BISTURBED i Atto.ney General Tom C. Clark wired U. S. Attorney Horace Frierson at Colum- bia. lp t week, that he was “deeply cen- eerned over possible violations of civil rights and ‘other laws and dgirected Frier- 4on to ask for a Federal grand jury at the earliest possible time. “he two aspects of the case, said Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, are the adequate Jegal defense of the Ne- ' groes charged with criminal offenses and the arousing of public opinion to bring the Rilyy parties to justice and to preveat aucw occurrences from “becomng the pa ter] to be -ed by ether communit th-dugheat the nation.” . Ag series of mass meetings is be Planned in 15 key cities, the NAACP head said, and smaller gatherings are panned in a score of other cities. Ollie Harrington, PV carloonist, has been engaged by the NAACP to head up a sperial publicity pro- dect on the Columbia case, A delegation of 15 students, representing 63 campus branches of the American Youth for Democracy, lodged a Diolest with the Department of Justice lest week. The Ped- eral Council of Churches of Christ also sent a resolution ta the depattment and 1 the governor of Tennessee urging a full Freeral investigation. a } ClO BOARD acts . j The CIO executive board condemned the: evidence of police brutality shown by | Tennesse. police authorities, Its resolution . eiaied that similar vicious enti-labor prac- tives have been the vogue jn the citles of Chicago and Los Angeles, adding: “These ~~ “a, \ er) - El —_- are not isolated instances Without relation . ee to each olber, Rach unpunished act of nl police bretality is gn Cucoutagement _te—.—--—— Whe same patiern of condect elsewhere,” carened and adopted a resolution con- = domplig ihe incident in Tennessee ex of PLPLES yorce, sate i? “srewing Patiern by xtate and Jecal police Clipved at Seat o: ~ : te @eprive citizens pf their fandamenial . , constilatienal rights These ate danger - signs.” the resolution added, “tha, America nrerine-—mast Pri ae wpen which all A ac