Picketers at B.C. Protest Violence Over Integration

Thirty-five members of the Boston Action Group (BAG) picketed Boston College Stadium Saturday afternoon while President Kennedy was addressing are school's Centennial celebration.

In their signs and leaflets the students deplored "police brutality" and Federal inaction" in Greenwood, Miss., where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has been connecting a voter registration campaign since last summer.

Several SNCC workers have been shot and many imprisoned since the group began its work in the heavily-Negro delta area of Mississippi. "We are asking for dedicated FBI action to protect workers and registrants in Mississippi," Claude Weaver '65, a member of the BAG steering committee and head of the Harvard Civil Rights Coordinating Committee said last night.

The student pickets were also asking for resumption of the Federal food surplus program in Mississippi, which the Senate dropped after recent skirmishes over integration efforts. Some areas have resumed the distribution of food surpluses, but many still refuse to do so, Weaver said.

After concluding their protest at Boston College, the BAG members went to medley Station to picket the Woolworth are there. The National Association for a Advancement of Colored People picked another branch.

The Woolworth demonstrations protested the refusal of four department stores in Birmingham, Ala., to desegregate their lunch counter facilities. The picketers claimed that owners of Woolworth's, Newberry's, H.L. Green, and had reneged on a year-old promise desegregate.