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Included in the day's activities was a half-hour stopover at the Harvard Club for a sparsely attended fundraiser aimed at raising money for Operation Big Vote, a national registration drive. The event was sponsored by the Seymour Society a campus Black organization that is involved in the effort this summer...
...short speech, Washington said that it is essential to involve "the little people" in the political process, and urged the crowd of Seymour Society members and King supporters to use any means possible to register Blacks...
Cynthia Silva, president of the Seymour Society, said that the nine members working full-time on the voter registration project also spend time fundraising to pay for their living expenses, as well as for the materials they hand out at the registration sites...
Twenty other Society members are volunteering part-time, Silva said, adding that the Seymour Society includes Harvard students along with other members of the Cambridge community...
Silva said that the Seymour Society will help host Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who is visiting Boston this Sunday...