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AFSC Interns Live, Learn, and Try to Teach In Nashville, Tenn
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 12, 1962 reports about the Community Service project in Nashville wherein interns from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) spent their summers in a southern community working for a community service agency. The politics of desegregation and the state of Nashville in relation to the civil rights movement is discussed. -
NSA Voter Registration Drive
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 16, 1962 which reports on the voter registration project in Raleigh, North Carolina sponsored by the National Student Association (NSA). The politics of desegregation and political participation among Black communities for the purposes of enacting change, along with the white population's responses, is discussed. -
Socialist Urges Collegians Work Against Inequality
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 30, 1962 reporting about a speech given by Norman Thomas to Swarthmore students urging them to take action against inequality, including poverty, disease, and war. Thomas praises then non-violent methods of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and calls upon students to join their efforts. -
NAACP Exec Assails Chester Council
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 26, 1962 reporting on the executive director of the Chester National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Stanley Branche, and his comments to Chester city council and students participating in the Chester Tutorial Project. He asks city council to address unfair employment practices and discriminatory housing against Black residents, and their responses are disclosed. To those involved in the Chester Tutorial Project, Branche predicts that the Chester school administration will eventually support the project. -
23 Test Public Accommodations on Maryland's Eastern Shore
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on February 9, 1962 reporting on demonstrations aimed at testing racial segregation policies at businesses in Chestertown, Maryland. The article focuses on student involvement in supporting the efforts of freedom riders and reports on what happened at the demonstrations, how the establishments reacted, as well as instances of retaliatory violence against demonstrators. -
SPAC Meets to Set Action
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 10, 1961 reporting on the results of a Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC) meeting held for the purpose of establishing the upcoming year's strategy and election of officers. Professor Monroe C. Beardsley's comments at the meeting are disclosed, including his advice for the student group in their efforts to play a role in the advancement of civil liberties. Both local and national issues relating to civil rights and possible efforts to address them are discussed. -
Local Groups Continue Sit-Ins Negotiations on Eastern Shore
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on February 16, 1962 sharing updates on the sit-in demonstrations for desegregation on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, with a focus on those in Chestertown involving Swarthmore Students. The developments of the demonstrations are shared, including the local groups involved in leading them, as well as student groups who joined the actions. -
Roller Rink Integrated
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 21, 1962 announcing that a roller skating rink in Chester, PA was ordered to cease its discriminatory practices by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. This news is shared as a success following the month-long efforts of the Chester Youth Council of the NAACP and Swarthmore students to desegregate the rink. Details of the trial, including the students involved, as well as the event that led to it, are disclosed. -
Violence Disrupts Southern Projects
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 25, 1962 announcing incidents of violence at sites of voter registration efforts by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). There are multiple instances of shootings whose details are shared, including the names of those injured, their relation to the voter registration efforts, and their current condition. Toward the end of the article, the field secretary of SNCC comments on the attacks, including the racial politics motivating them.Tags 1962, Charlie Cobb, Howard University, Jack Chatfield, Jackson MS, Law enforcement, Marylene Burks, Prathia Hall, Racial discrimination, Robert Moses, Ruleville MS, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Trinity College, University of Mississippi, Violence, Vivian Hillet, Voter registration -
Marshals in Mississippi
Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 25, 1962 announcing that U.S. federal marshals would be deployed to enforce public school integration in order to protect civil rights. This news is shared in relation to James Meredith being escorted onto the campus of Ole Miss in order to protect any violation of his civil rights as he became the first Black student on its campus. The article discusses this shift in U.S. federal law and enforcement away from protecting segregation and toward enforcing integration.