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Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond
In this letter to A. Philip Randolph, Julian Bond (b. 1940) affirms SNCC's participation in the March on Washington in the absence of "SNCC Chairman Charles McDew, who is presently in Greenwood, Mississippi where eight of our members -- including our Executive Secretary, James Forman -- are being held in the county jail." SNCC launched a major voter registration drive in Greenwood in 1962. White segregationists retaliated with relentless acts of violence. Police arrested McDew, Forman, Robert Moses, and others SNCC workers on March 27, following a demonstration at the Leflore County Courthouse in Greenwood. SNCC activities in Greenwood were crucial to building the voting rights movement. |