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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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The Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) board, meeting at United Liberal Church on Saturday, urged white Southerners to aid sit-in demonstrators and pledged full support to the anti-segregation resistance, demanding an end to repressive court and police actions.
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The board of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, meeting Saturday at United Liberal Church, called upon white Southerners to give more help to sit-in demonstrators throughout the region.
Full support was pledged to the resistance movement in a resolution adopted by SCEF, a Southwide interracial organization working to end segregation and discrimination.
The group demanded "an end to the use of the court and police machinery for stifling the movement toward freedom." It added that communities "degrade themselves and make themselves look ridiculous by jailing and assaulting demonstrators."
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United Liberal Church, Southwide
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Saturday
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The board of the Southern Conference Educational Fund met at United Liberal Church and called upon white Southerners to give more help to sit-in demonstrators throughout the region. Full support was pledged to the resistance movement in a resolution adopted by SCEF, a Southwide interracial organization working to end segregation and discrimination. The group demanded an end to the use of the court and police machinery for stifling the movement toward freedom and stated that communities degrade themselves by jailing and assaulting demonstrators.