Maxon Lauds Voter Registration Work
(Continued from page 1)
they don’t do that any more."
She has fewer difficulties in
Canton, in neighboring Madison
county, where the population is
70 per cent Negro. “If they ever
shoved me around in Canton they
would have a riot and they
know it.” But I can't drive
through Branden without hav
ing a cop pull me over and tell
me to get the hell out of there."
Miss Maxon has high hopes for
Negro voter registration in the
next few months, now that the
poll tax has been eliminated by
the Supreme Court decision. Mis
sissippi will also have a federal
registrar. The Freedom Demo
cratic Party is running five can
didates in the congressional race,
four of them Negro, and one
Negro for a senate seat.
There were only 94 registered
Negroes in the county when Miss
Maxon arrived. She estimates
that some 1,200 are now regis
tered and hopes to have all 6,000
Negroes eligible to vote in the
June primary.
“The main problem is just the
fear," she said. “We will ask for
a mobile registrar so they won't
have to travel 50 miles to register.
And if we don’t get one we’ll
demonstrate.”
Then she talked about inte
grating the schools. There will
never be integration until they
open every school and change
the faculty!” Miss Maxon had 25
children signed up to attend
white schools, but after the po
lice had visited their parents only
six of them entered the schools.
' The cops were given tne names
by the school superintendent.’’
she charged. “That is the only
place they were on file.”
Under a new integration plan
children over 13 do not need
their parents' permission to at
tend a white school, and Miss
Maxon hopes their will improve
the situation. “Parents are the
ones who suffer,” she said.
“The reprisals are tremendous,
threats of violence, lost jobs. One
house was burned to the ground
because of the integration issue,”
she continued.
Miss Maxon was asked about
the white churches. "Those are
not churches." she said. "I would
call them Klan Klaverns!” Then
she talked about the Negro
churches. “They have supplied a
meeting place and a lot of solace, i
“It’s really a very beautiful
thing. The church is the only
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comfort they have and the only
place to go. There is no recrea
tion offered to the Negroes.
"The church has served a very
important function: the germ of
the idea of a community," she
said. But she didn’t just praise
the churches. “They have done
some bad things too. like preach
ing acceptance of the Southern
Negro's role.” Then she thought
a second and added: "But maybe
that’s not so bad when there is
no other recourse.”
The workers hold “mass meet
ings” at the churches every week,
and about 100 Neg-oes attend
"Our communication are based
on the grapevine,” she said.
"There are no cars or telephones.
The meetings are announced anti
reported in the churches every
Sunday.”
"They burned down our church
so we built a cement block one.
And if they blast us out we will
build it again,” she declared.
"The FBI called me a liar and
a troublemaker,” she said, "be
cause I told them the other side
of the story.” And she mentioned
one instance when the FBI waited
through four days of heavy rain
before investigating a house
which had been burned.
Miss Maxon receives $80 a
month from Eugene CORE to
cover all of her expenses. And
she lives with a family of five
which has a total income of $90
a month. “He was a carpenter,”
she said, "but he lost his job
when I came to live with the
family.”
The Freedom Schools, she said,
are designed to build confidence.
“The Negro schools are terrible
and arc not accredited. But the
kids can make the transition.
They run the Freedom Schools
themselves by tutoring each
other. Their future is in school
SU Board Refutes...
(Continued from page 1)
power—15 student votes to two
faculty votes. If the Senate were
to have veto power over the
Board, the Board would no longer
be an administrative body, and
students would lose administra
tive power.
So the actual question is whe
ther the Board should remain
administrative. This decision is
up to President Flemming, as the
person served by the Board, said
Cross.
In other action the Board:
• Formally approved the
amendment on membership se
lection. (See page one of the
April 14 Emerald.) There are
seven positions open to petition
ing—four from the Liberal Arts
College, and three from the grad
uate school. Students nominated
by the Board or Senate to fill two
student-elected positions will cam
paign under ASUO rules and will
be included in the ASUO student
body election.
• Accepted policy proposals
from the Student Activities Com
mittee. One proposal states stu
dent organizations wanting to
sponsor a public event for which
admission will be charged must
petition either the Board or the
Council to Discuss
Voting Booths
Representatives from all dor
mitories, preferably the presi
dent, should attend the Inter
Dorm Council meeting at 6:15
p.m. today in the Student Un
ion.
Topic of the meeting, according
to Hal Kingslien, IDC president,
will be a discussion of putting
voting booths in all dormitories
for the primary and general elec
tions this term.
According to Kingslien, who
may be reached at Ext. 1822 for
further details, such booths would
alleviate waiting and should re
sult in a much higher turn -
out at the polls.
Kingslien said that additional
poll workers would be needed.
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The organization must also fur
nish a guarantee insuring the
University will not be financially
liable for the event. The other
proposal requires that no printed
matter may be distributed unless
the sponsoring group can be "eas
ily and readily identified.” Also,
all publications and posters must
have the name of the sponsor on
each copy. There arc other re
strictions; details are available in
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• Defeated a proposal to se
lect Directorate and committee
chairmen at the end of winter
term, instead of during spring
term, which is currently done.
• Accepted budget proposals
for Special Attractions, Little Con
cert Series, Recreation Council,
and Income. The total increase
requested in all SU budget pro
posals is about $23,500. ASUO
budgets are asking for a similar
increase, and the Publications
Hoard is asking for a $15,000
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integration and the vote and they
know it.”
Miss Maxon charged dial the
federal programs are exclusive
of the civil rights people. "Th e
poverty groups can’t get to the
money without going through an
agency. The forms are just too
complicated.”
Then she talked about the fu
ture. "The people can carry on
themselves after two years with
a worker. What we need now is
more experts—lawyers, teachers,
economists. We are now learning
who to ask for the right help.”
The southern whites were
soundly berated by Miss Max
on. “1 just can’t understand the
white man. He thinks he under
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for the 59th Oregon High School
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Competition will take place in
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The state tournament will begin
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stands and can handle the Nr
gro, but won't believe that they
act two says.”
And she continued: "The white
thinks only in his own terms,
of the good old days and the
confederate (Ians. Hut it never
was that way. The Negro was
starved and beaten Just like he
is now," she charged.
Miss Maxon also spoke about
the entire program in general.
“The problems of poor people
are so tremendous; they are in
expressible. The system they live
in didn't give them the tools
they need.
"It's so frustrating to have
nothing to begin with, but they
can still build. That is the beau
tiful strength of this movement.
“Hut it is ugly, too, because
they are so completely defeated
all the time."
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