Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week after Mrs. Hamer's plea, Harrison Wellford, teaching fellow in Government, was able to send her the $1300--plus an undisclosed surplus--from collections in Cambridge. With the money, the co-op was able to beat the option deadline and keep the land from being sold to a white planter...
...money came in from all over--from Cambridge, from Boston, from New York, and from many other places," Wellford said on Monday. "Lawyers, brokers, doctors, and professors mailed in checks." Wellford said he had received one check for $450 in the mail, plus "$260 in nickels and dimes from black and white children at the Friends' School in Cambridge...
...Money raised in an emergency drive here has enabled a black farmers' co-operative to hold its option on 40 acres of Mississippi land...
...money from Cambridge came as a surprise to the black farmers, Wellford said, and "Mrs. Hamer is now using it as a selling point in winning support for her plan. She's using the generosity of the Harvard community to show her people that there's an alternative to starvation and exodus--to give them a reason to stay and fight...
...know that the adoption of our recommendations would cost Harvard a great deal of money. However, that is true of nearly all projects and programs. The real issue is one of intellectual and social priorities. We believe that our area of concern should have no difficulty in moving near the top of any priority list. A special fund drive in support of the Committee's recommendations would be a most appropriate step...