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: a ee eee ER ESOS ee MES Ln ooo © © jm APPENDIX SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC) On November 1, 1966, a first source advised that the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) was formed on the weekend of April 3-5, 1964, to stimulate activity of Southern Student groups . in areas of civil rights, peace, acacemic freedom, civil liberties, capital punishment, and unemployment. Originaily, it was to be a _ white counterpart of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It has agreed to work with similar interested groups such as SNCC and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. (SCEF) SSOC is a fraternal affiliate of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS> Beginning in the Fall of 1966, SSOC became a membership organization and embarked on a campaign to form local chapters on various college campuses throughout the South. SSOC publishes, October through May each year, a publication, "New South Student," which according to the’ sbove source has increasingly espoused and defended the pro-Communist and anti-United States position on domestic and foreign policy. On July 2, 1968, a second source advised that SSOC continues to be headquartered at 1703 Portland Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to defend and espouse the pro-Communist and anti-United States position with particular emphasis on attacking United States policy in Vietnam and emphasis on attacking the Selective Service System. Source Two noted that SSOC Chairman Thomas N. Gardner in the Summer of 1967 traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he met with representatives of the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the Demo- cratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and that SSOC staff members Bruce Smith and Alan Levin traveled to Cuba in the Summer of 1967 and February, 1968, respectively. By letter dated April 26, 1968, on SS50C letterhead mailed to the general SSOC membership over the signature of Mike Welch, executive Secretary of SSOC, it was announced that as a step toward close relations with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and better communications with the "New South Student" and the "New Left Notes," and that SDS and SSOC were exchanging contact lists of their respective memberships for this exchange. The May, 1968, issue of “New South Student" indicates that the SSOC mailing address is P O Box 6403, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, Telephone Number 615-291-3537, and the masthead described the organi- zation as “An association of young concerned Southerners dedicated to social change,"' as taken from the preamble of the SSOC constitution. COMPEDENEIAL ALIS Berge 5 we S ment “Set oo. a - - wit "APL eS Seas routes Sore MG