Word: thursday
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Harvard-Radcliffe students wishing to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Boston Caravan" can sign up in the dining Halls today to house and feed poor people on Thursday evening. The project is part of "The National Poor People's Campaign...
There are some hopeful signs. Last Thursday, the Urban League and Boston College announced a joint project to ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...
Some 400 poor people from New England will spend Thursday in Boston before leaving Friday for Washington. On Thursday afternoon, they will hear the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the SCLC since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, speak on "Poverty in America" on the Boston Common...
...group of undergraduate SCLC supporters is circulating sheets in the dining halls today, asking students to take a poor person to dinner in the Dining halls on Thursday evening and house him in their room on Thursday night...
SCLC supporters will meet the "Caravan" at the Christ Church in Cambridge at 5 p.m. Thursday and then escort the poor to the University Dining Halls, Laurence S. Seidman '68, spokesman for the group, said yesterday. Students who agree to help house and feed the poor should meet them in the House Junior Common Room at 5:30 p.m., he added...