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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 9, 1963
Trip to Albany Ends—
(Continued from page 2) after Albany police twice had raided downtown offices.
"WE WERE arrested because of the success we were having and also to try to scare us," she said, adding that when she was arrested there were 16 of 22 field secretaries in jail:
She and several others were informed they were being held on suspicion of vagrancy only after they were questioned the following day. June 22.
"The cell where we were kept could accurately be described as fithy," she said. There were seven girls in the cell. For the first four days there was one mattress for four iron bunks in the 8 by 8 foot cell. Five clean mattresses were brought on the fifth day, she said.
SHE SAID there was a small washbowl and a toilet in the cell. In regard to the necessities, she said, "the police had very little respect for privacy."
Their answer to being jailed was a hunger strike. She said the police were concerned about their health, fearing bad publicity if a white girl became ill. One of the girls was taken to a doctor and all were given vitamin pills the last day of their stay.
She lost 10 pounds during the week in jail. Finally, she was given a 60-day sentence which was suspended on the stipulation that she break no city ordinances. This meant, she said, leaving town, because the police determine what the city ordinances are in Albany.
HER FATHER traveled by airplane to Albany to return her to Lawrence. He arrived on a Thursday and was arrested Friday, ostensibly for driving a car with a noisy muffler, she said. The arrest was made outside the organization's headquarters. His hands were cuffed behind his back, she said.
At police headquarters her father was released after it was learned he was in town to take his daughter home.
Her experience in Albany left
her with some strong opinions as to the nature of the battle for civil rights.
"Nothing but total equality in job opportunities, education and other areas will satisfy the Negro," she said. "They have found that they don't have to settle for less."
Two Head for Africa To Conduct Clinics
John McCormally, editor of the Hutchinson News, and Dean Burton W. Marvin of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information, left the United States July 1 for Africa where they will conduct a series of workshops for African journalists.
The two Kansans and two eastern journalists are the team for the program sponsored by the Africa-America Institute and the U.S. State Department.
The four Americans will model the workshops on the "give-and-take" discussion style of the American Press Institutes at Columbia University.
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Dinner with a Professor Series Sponsored by S.U.A.
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