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C O SOHFDERTAL é APPENDIX E SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SSOC) On Noverber 1, 1966, a first source advised that the Southern student Organizing Coamittee (SSOC) was formed on the weekend of April '~5, 1964, to stimulate actavity of Southern Student groups in areas ‘£ civil rights, peace, z<sdemzc freedom, civil liberties, capital . runishment, and unemployment. Originally, it eas to be a white counter- art of the Student Noaviclent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It has ‘greed to work with similar interested groups guch as SNCC and Students ‘or a Democratic Society (SDS) 12nd Southern Conference Educational ‘und, Inc. (SCEF). SSOC is a fraternal affiliate of the SDS. Beginning in the Fall of 12966, SSOC became a membership organization and embarked on 2 camp2ign to form lcc#l chapters on arious college campuses throughout. the South, SSOC publishes, ‘tctober through May each year, 4% Publication, "New South Student," ‘hich according te the above source has increasingly espoused and ~ fefended the pro-Commuaist and anta-United Stxtes position on domestic nd foreiga policy. On July 2, 1968, 2 second source advised that SSOC continues .o be headquartered at 1703 Portland Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to deferd and espouse the pro-Conmunist and anti-United states position with particular emphasis on attacking United States Xolicy in Vietnam and emphis3s on attacking the Selective Service system. Source two noted that SSOC Chairman Thomis N. Gardner in the Summer of 1967 traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he met with ‘epresentatives of the Nations] Liberation Front intr) and the Demo= cratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and that SSOC staff members Bruce 3mith and Alan Levin traveled to Cuba in the Summer of 1967 and February, 1988, respectively. By letter diated April 26, 1968, on SSOC letterhead mailed to the general SSOC membersh»p over the signature of Mike Welch, Executive Jecretary of SSOC, 11 w2s apreunced that as a step toward close relations with the Students fer a Democratic Society (SDS} and better communications with the movement nationzily, SSOC and SDS have worked out an exchange of the "New South Student” and the "New Left Notes," and that SDS and 3SOC were exchanging contact lists of thear respective memberships for ‘ ~ this exchange. - The May, 1968. issue of "New South Student" indicates that the 3SOC mailing address 1s P. 0. Box 6403, Nashville, Tennessee, 37212, Telephone Number 6)5-291-3537. and the mast-head described the organization as "An assoc;itaon of young concerned Southerners dedicated to social change," as taken from the preamble of the SSOC constatution. , ¢ 13 wi