Summer Projects

Item

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Title

Summer Projects

Subject

Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Swarthmore College

Description

Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on May 12, 1964 about the Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC) summer projects plans sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Students are described as organizing community projects in Chester, Philadelphia, Newark, Trenton, Louisville, Hazard, and Chicago. Their hopes for the outcome of their projects, as well as their points of interest for both the committee and campus at large is mentioned. Also mentioned is an expressed desire to expand the scope of off-campus concerns outside of the country.

Publisher

Swarthmore College

Date

05-12-1964

Rights

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Content is free to copy and redistribute in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes provided appropriate credit is given. Derivatives and transformed versions of the material may not be distributed.

Format

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Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Swarthmore (Pa.), Chester (Pa.), Philadelphia (Pa.), Newark (Nj.), Trenton (Nj.), Louisville (Ky.), Hazard (Ky.), and Chicago (Il.)

Original Format

newspaper print

Citation

“Summer Projects ,” Civil Rights 1960-1966, accessed November 4, 2025, https://ds-exhibits.swarthmore.edu/civil-rights-1960-1966/items/show/65.