Word: zellner
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Those students with experience in civil rights will do field work, such as helping Negroes register to vote. Those in the field run a greater risk of clashing with the police, Mrs. Dorothy Zellner, New England representative of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, said yesterday, SNCC provides most of the manpower for COFO...
...Zellner also said that the deadline for filing applications for the project has been extended one month, until May 15. She is now interviewing interested students on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The final number of students accepted will be determined by the amount of housing available in Mississippi...
...freedom schools will teach basic subjects such as civics and English composition, mechanical skills such as sewing and running mimeograph machines. More importantly, Mrs. Zellner explained COFO hopes that contact with Northern students will give local Negroes an idea of the opportunities opened to them through education...
...give students in the freedom schools "the benefit of others' experience," she said. This means that Northerners will not only teach school, and urge Negro students to orient themselves toward college. They will also expose the Negroes to new cultural experiences such as classical music and art, Mrs. Zellner said...
Merely seeing Negroes presenting plays by Negro authors will "mean a great deal" to people in Mississippi, Mrs. Zellner said...