Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month. White county administrators took careful note of the fact that the number of families receiving Food Stamps was only about a third of the number that had lined up for Commodities. And the white administrators knew that it wasn't because the other two-thirds didn't need help anymore...
Jelinek based his attack on the technique that has so often been successful in the South--mobilization of Northern sentiment. After the CBS special, SRRP received 20,000 pounds of raw hamburger from a Northern donor. The hamburger itself might be of some help--it could give perhaps a tenth of the poor families one wholesome meal. But it would obviously be only a token effort, unless SRRP could exploit it to change the national programs...
...beef into one-pound sacks, they drove off to give it to poor families. But their major purpose was to be arrested: Jelinek had a dream of making white Northern families ask themselves, "Why do they have to give out more food to people who already are getting help?" If the SRRP workers could only be arrested--for handling food without a license, for trespassing, for just about anything--Jelinek thought that the pitiful absurdity of the arrests would change Northern minds...
Phillips Brooks House has decided to join forces with Students for a Democratic Society and Afro, Harvard's Black Power group, to set up joint projects to help disadvantaged Cambridge public school students get into college...
Spokesmen for SDS and Afro said they were interested in working with PBH-style programs because they offer excellent ways to help residents of Cambridge who, according to the students, have been victimized by Harvard...