Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-07-22
Freedom Riders
Arrests Sunday
Total 236 Here
Sponsors Fighting
Alabama Injunction

Eight more freedom riders"
were arrested here Sunday.
A biracial group of seven trav-
eled here by bus from Nashville,
Tenn, and were arrested in the
Greyhound terminals Negro wait
ing room. A lone rider from Los
Angeles tried to integrate the white
waiting room at the train station
after coming here from New Or
leans.
The arrests brought to 236 the
number of riders taken into Gus
tody on breach of the peace charges
here since May "a.
One Negro was charged with as
sault for stomping a white mans
toe in the Greyhound white wait
ing room after he and II other
integrationists arrived Saturday
night.
Leo Washington, "a, student
from New Orleans, was seen falling
back against a wall. Several wit
nesses in the station said they
thought the white man hit him. But
officers said the white man, Cecil
Lindsay, graduate student at
Mississippi College, merely showed
Washington off his toe.
Police took Lindsay to headquar-
tiers to sign an affidavit charging
Washington with assault.
The lone rider arrested Sunday
was identified as James Emerson
Dennis, Is, a Negro from Los An
geles and student at Los Angeles
State College.
Members of the group which
came from Nashville were identi-
fled as Richard Lewis Zuchman, of
Forest Hills, N. Y, student, Ru-
dolph Mitaritonna, 81, of the Bronx,
N. Y, a union organizer; Mary
freedom, AZ, of Telford, Pa, an I'M
employed teacher; Shirley Smith,
"a, of New York, an employee of
the American Institute; James Ed
ward Warren, %, of Philadelphia,
a Baptist minister and the only
Negro in the group; Willard
Hooker Svanoe, %, of New York,
a student at the University of Min
nesota, and Philip Jay Heavey, 81,
of New York. associate editor of
the Catholic Worker.
Meanwhile in Montgomery, Ala,
Sponsors of freedom riders" were
to appear before a federal Judge
today to argue against a possible
injunction restraining them from
sending more anti-segregation
demonstrators into Alabama.
The Justice Department has sid
ed with the riders, claiming that
Federal District Judge Frank M.
Johnson Jr. lacks the power to re-
strain freedom riders" from nor
mally exercising their constitution
al rights.
In June, Johnson issued tenn
porary injunction against free
dom rides" into Alabama after
mob violence here brought federal
marshals and martial law in May.
Before the injunction expired last
month, freedom riders" had TO-
cussed their attention on Mississip-
pi where eight more riders were
arrested Sunday. The arrests brou-
ght to 236 the number charged with
breach Of the peace at Jackson,
Miss, for challenging state segre-
grafton laws.
Today's hearing is a continue
ton of the Justice Departments
complaint against Montgomery DO
lice officials and various Ku Klux
Khan groups enjoined by Johnson
from interfering with interstate
travel.
johnson also forbade a number
of anti-segregation groups from
sponsoring more freedom rides"
in Alabama.
Defense attorneys for the Mont
gomery police officials asked John
son to renew his order.
The Justice Department has chal-
lenged Johnson's power to do so.
The department contended in al
brief that there were no prece-
dents "in which the exercise of law
full, peaceful, constitutionallly pro-
tected activity has been prescribed
because such activity was expected
to arouse unlawful violence by 9TH