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M. A. Jones to DeLoach Memo re: JAMES FARMER, HOSEA WILLIAMS! 70 \ your discussion with him, he claimed he wanted to part as friends and he hoped the pleasant relationship he enjoys with you would continue at which time he was assured that this could only be possible as long as his unfair criticism ceased. On 12-4-6%, after the civil rights arrests in Mississippi that day, NBC special television coverage FBI in connection with its work:in civil rights cases in Mississippi, including the Beckwith case and the Penn case in Georgia. Reverend Hosea Lorenzo Williams has been very active in the integration movement in the South, particularly in the field of voter registration. Williams was very active in such matters as President of the Chatham County Crusade for Voters in. 1962 and 1963, at which time he was allegedly employed as a chemist with the Depart-. ment of Agriculture while residing in Thunderbolt, Georgia. It is understood that Williams, in connection with his voter registration activities, has been in touch with the Department of Justice on several occasions regarding alleged election law violations. Williams' name came up today in connection with the murder of Viola Gregg Liugzo last night in Alabama while traveling between Selma and Montgomery. It. appears that Williams was one of the first persons to be contacted by LeRoy Moton, the 20-year-old colored boy who was traveling with Mrs. Liugzo at the time she was murdered. Williams told the reporters about what Moton related concerning the shooting affair. b6 b7C has been very active in the Mississippi Project as well as other racial. matters throughout the South. He was born. He has been arrested approximately two dozen times in connection with racial matters He has been a critic of the FBI and has publicly come out for a Federal police force with the power to investigate local police agencies allegedly engaged in brutality. He sent a protest to the Attorney General in August, 1963, relative to the arrest of three civil rights I workers in Albany, Georgia. Numerous attempts to interview him proved futile and. eventually he advised he was not available for interview and we learned that his complaint was based on hearsay. While speaking at a rally in California in December, 1963, he stayed at the home of the welleknown communist leader, Frank Wilkinson. Congressman George W. Andrews has been a good friend to the Bureau for. many years and we have had frequent contacts with him in matters of mutual interest. RECOMMENDATION: | That a representative of your office contact Congressman Andrews and inform him of the above public source data/relative to Farmer, and Williams. b6 b7C