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Civil Rights Summer (CRS), now in its first summer, seeks to provide an “in-depth academic study and social history” to support the next generation of Civil Rights leaders, according to CRS Director Andra Rose...
...training the next Martin Luther King, Jr. or Cesar Chavez,” said Gary Orfield, co-director of Harvard’s Civil Rights Project, one of the three programs sponsoring CRS. The other two sponsors are the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
After selecting the candidates, CRS staff worked with a coalition of 180 civil rights groups to place the students in internships. Organizations in which students were placed this year included the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the National Education Association...
Throughout the summer, CRS students also have weekly dinner discussions with newsmakers on Tuesdays and other panel discussions on Fridays—including an upcoming meeting with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D.-Mass.).The group has met with activists and government leaders on the local, state and national level...
...only Harvard student to participate this summer, Fred O. Smith ’04 who serves as political director for Harvard’s Black Students’ Association, was placed by CRS at the NEA after expressing an interest in education...