Word: birminghams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlantic salutes you for your forthright appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" also appeared in full in the Atlantic for August...
...Human, rather than civil rights" will be at issue this summer when 20 Harvard and Miles College students begin a cooperative, pioneer program to tutor Birmingham elementary school pupils, Jen W. Clifton '63 said yesterday...
Clifton, director of the PBH Birmingham Volunteer Teaching Project, said that ten Harvard volunteers and ten students from Miles, Birmingham's municipal Negro college, will receive one or two hours a week of training in teaching remedial reading between now and June. Transcribed tapes of weekly Harvard classes will be sent to Miles to insure uniform preparation...
...Birmingham white community will not present a problem, according to Clifton. The superintendents of several schools have already offered teaching program was "set up to teach, not to equipment and visual aid materials...
...Birmingham white will be affected, since "we're not planning to work in their neighborhoods, or teach in their schools--or change their lives," Clifton asserted. He said the purpose of the program is educational, and that it aims at problems that are the same in any low income area...