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SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING C) -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, academic freedom, civil liberties, cavital punishment, and .unempioyment. Criginally, 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 vor a Democratic scciety (SDS) and Southern Conference Fducational Fund, inc. (¢ OFF). sSCC is a fraternal -affiliate of the SDS Beginning in the fall of 1965, SSOC became a membership organization and cavarked on a campaign to form local chapters on various coliege campuses throughout the - South. SSOC publishes, October through May each year, a publication, "New Suuth Student,” which. according to the above source, has increasingly espoused and delended the pro-communist and anti-United States position on domestic and foreign policy. By letter dated :yril 26, 1968, on SSOC letterhead mailed to the general SSOC membership over the signature of Mike Welch, Vxecutive Secretary of SSOC, the was announced that as a step toward close relations with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS} and better comminications with the movement nationally, SSOC and SDS have worked out an exchange of the "New South Student” and the “New Left Notes," and that SDS and SSOC were exchanging contact lists of their respective memberships ior this exchange ° APPENDIX