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...segregated schools; the foundation this year slowed the pace of giving in hopes that before all the money is granted, some can be handed out to racially integrated Southern colleges. > Eight Negro colleges and the Atlanta University Center (consisting of six independent schools, including top-rated Morehouse and Spelman colleges, that share academic resources) received $13 million. The Ford Foundation waived the usual matching requirement, considering the meager fund-raising capability of Negro colleges. The foundation also insisted that the money be spent on academic improvements, such as fellowships and visiting professorships, rather than on physical facilities. > The biggest grant...
Howard Zinn, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee adviser and former teacher at Spelman College, a Southern Negro school, pleaded, "all we're asking is that the most powerful government on earth give protection on its own territory to its own people...
...meeting in the Common, the demonstrators will join in a freedom hootenanny. Howard Zinn, former professor of History and Social Science at Spelman College and advisor to SNCC, will deliver a short address...
...questions confronting SNCC is whether or not nonviolence can succeed in Mississippi and the "hard-core" South. Howard Zinn, former chairman of the History Department of Spelman College and presently a SNCC advisor, offered the Theory of the Two Souths at the conference. In the First South, which inclcdes Atlanta, Ga., Richmond, Va., and Nashville, Tenn., nonviolent sitins, mass demonstrations, and boycotts eventually result in integrated lunch-counters and de-segregated schools, he said. But in the Second South, the Black Belt area--Albany, Ga., Danville, Va., and Jackson, Miss.--nonviolent actions end only in broken bones, jail terms...
Professor Howard Zinn, of Spelman College in Georgia, compiled the Report for the moderate, hi-racial Southern Regional Council. He has drafted a far-sighted, specific and humane set of suggestions. The President and the Attorney General would do well to take them seriously...