Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University would take a different attitude, however, toward the arrest of students working on the PBH project at Miles College, Birmingham, Ala. These students, said Monro, "have a connection" with the University, since their work is sponsored by a "semi-official organization...
They have also been discouraged from walking on the Birmingham streets in integrated groups, he added...
...Birmingham is not a gentle town," Clifton said. "It is still overly sensitive and is by no means an integrated cty. We just do not want to expose the kids we are teaching to any kind of violence. Anyway we're not going to have the time...
While the volunteers are in Birmingham, they will not have the same freedoms as they would have if they were still in Cambridge. In an effort to avoid any sort of provocation, the students have been asked to refrain from walking in integrated groups, even though all the Harvard students will be living together at Miles College. Clifton said he hopes that living together will not prove inflammatory...
...chief aims of the program will be the education of groups of Negro youngsters in community centers around the Birmingham area and the establishment of an "open house" at Miles College where the volunteers can communicate with the local college students in an informal atmosphere...