Northwest Defender_1964-01-09

SNCC Demonstration of '63 Greatest in N.W. History! By Sheila VanHyning Defender Staff Writer PORTLAND - Twelve hundred marchers took to the streets of Portland Sun– day afternoon to voice their grief and anger over the murder of four children in a Birmingham church the previous Sunday. Through the efforts of the two sponsoring organiza– tions, the Youth Council of the Nat!. Assn. for the Ad– vancement ofColored People (N.A.A.C.P.) and Portland At timhes up to a 1,000 marchers Including many Caucasians marc ed for "FREEDOM I\IOW!" Friends of the Student Non– violent Coordinating Com– mittee (S.N.C.C.), almost everybody in the Negro com– munity was notified of the march. People weremarchingwho had been fighting for civil ril!hts in Port.Wld for years without seeing anything like ~e massive display of feel– ing that occurred Sunday, Students were marching who had been working in the South, facing jails and beat- · ings all summer, and who have come back to Portland to join the fight against our • more subtle forms of bigotry. Most of the marchers, however, had been newly aroused to the need to dem– onstrate, Some were the new ·members of Friends of S.N.C.C. who, moved last Sunday by the Birmingham • tragedy, had committed themselves at a S.N.C.C.– sponsored "Jobs and Free– dom" rally to the fight for freedom. Others, who had never before .demonstrated publicly their desire for freedom, greeted each other as they joined the march: "I • WII.LAMETTE... still paying the same consistent high rate ... as we have for the last two years All savings received on or before the lOth of any month earn a big 4¥.1% from the 1st of thai month. SAVINGS INSURED TO $10.000 BY FEDERAL . SAVINGS & LOAN INSURANCE CORPORATION '