Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee

197½ Auburn Avenue, N.E.
Atlanta 3, Georgia

MUrray 8-0331

October 17, 1961

Mr. Langston Hughes
20 East 127th St.
New York 35, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Thank you for your contribution of $5.00 to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Your contribution will help to defray operating expenses of SNCC.

As you know, SNCC is engaged in a dynamic voter registration project in McComb, Mississippi. Five of our representatives have been arrested along with 108 students. Nineteen of these face trial on October 23rd. Without a doubt they will be convicted. Their appeal bond will amount to approximately $36,000. You may expect some literature on McComb in a few days.

We shall appreciate your continued support of SNCC, for it is engaged in an expanding program to obtain civil rights in the South.

JF:cl

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TROUBLED ISLAND

February 7, 1962

Dear Mr. McDew:

I am very interesting in receiving
the releases of the SNCC and think I have
gotten most of them, although they are
not being correctly addressed to me, and
sometimes have to be reforwarded. Kindly
request your mailing secretary to correct
my address on your lists. It is not 129th
Street. But as above: 20 East 127th Street.
(127th Street). Thanks!

At the moment I can't enclose a check
in support of your excellent work, as I've
just gotten home from a rather expensive
trip to Africa---Nigeria---where about the
only accommodations for foreign visitors
are the very high priced new hotels---
$20 to $30 a day. Fact is, I got stranded
in one, and had to cable home for money!
(Meanwhile, I was aircooled).

I've sent some of my recent books
to the Albany, Georgia, office---so the
students waiting around for assignments
might have something new to read. I hope
they arrive safely.

More power to you all,