Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowenstein, a New York lawyer and civil rights organizer and one of the initiators of the movement, will help set up the proposed Harvard branch. At tonight's meeting he will explain the nature of the group and list its activities...
Allard K. Lowenstein, a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and Barney Frank '62, assistant senior tutor of Winthrop House, will lead an open meeting on "The Student and His Environment: From Berkeley to Selma" at 9 p.m. tonight in the Tonkens Room of Winthrop House...
...project will also attack the present censorship of news coming out of Mississippi. While recruiting here for the program last Sunday, Allard Lowenstein outlined the problem: "Wire service reporters are roughed up several times, and they learn. They have to live here, and the police can make living very difficult." Lowenstein cited recent lynchings and beatings never reported in the Northern press. To remedy this, some project volunteers will remain in the North to report the activities of their counterparts in Mississippi. As Lowenstein noted, "This invasion will be too big and noisy to ignore...
Weaver may arrive in time to appear at a SNCC meeting Sunday at which Allard K. Lowenstein, professor of Social Science at North Carolina State, will recruit workers for SNCC's summer program of "freedom schools" and voter registration in Mississippi...
Friends have told Lowenstein to "stop throwing away his life on lost causes. Why not settle down and run for Congress or something?" But for Al Lowenstein "something" would be a poor substitute for what he is doing...