Browse Items (12 total)
Sort by:
-
Chester Tutorial Survives Setback
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 16, 1962 reporting on a meeting for the Chester NAACP Youth Council where the continuation of the Chester Tutorial Project is announced, despite the Chester Public School Superintendent's withdraw of support from the program. Spokespersons from the Youth Council, Swarthmore College, and other organizations speak about the details of how the program will proceed. -
Dean Requests Student Tutors To Confine Classes to Chester
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on November 6, 1962 announces Dean Barbara P. Lange's request for student volunteers with the Chester Tutorial Project to conduct lessons off campus. A project spokesman, Charlotte Phillips, responds to Dean Lange's request and expresses a desire to continue inviting tutees to campus. -
Janet Madden
Oral History created as part of the Swarthmore Libraries project Swarthmore Student Activism: Civil Rights, 1960 – 1966. Janet Madden, being interviewed by Stefanie Ramsay, Roberto Vargas, and Eleanor Naiman. 1-part audio (with transcription), length 43:05. -
Janet Madden Oral History Transcript
Edited oral history transcript recorded 2017-12-13 of Janet Madden, interviewed by Stephanie Ramsey, Roberto Vargas, and Eleanor Naiman. -
Lange Announces Chester Tutorial Change in Policy
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on November 20, 1962 announcing the change in Chester Tutorial policy. The information of the article was received from a meeting the previous Thursday night for the Chester Tutorial project. At the meeting, Dean Lange addressed tutors and Chester representatives and told them about the change in college policy for the program. It is mentioned that Superintendent Long of the Chester school system welcomes the program despite the fact that Chester high schools could not participate that year. In response, Dean Lange opens as many college facilities as possible to the program, including classrooms in Parrish. Dean Lange advises against tutoring in dorm rooms but does not forbid it.
Mrs. Broadhead from the Education Department offers help to the tutors, and Dean Barr announces that the Admissions Department will offer college guidance to tutees. Also, the Chester YMCA announces they will allow the project to use some of their facilities. Finally, it is announced that the bulletin board across from the bookstore was given to the tutor project for schedules and announcements. -
Letter: February 26, 1963
letters written by Louise Bennett during her time at Swarthmore College -
Liberals Split: Plan Sit-Ins
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 28, 1962 reporting on a debate among liberal students on campus containing a section on planning sit-ins. The section mentions the Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC) and their plans to continue sit-ins and other actions to promote integration, as well as employment discrimination on campus. The Chester Tutorial Project is also mentioned.Tags 1962, Campus debate, Chester PA, Chester Tutorial project, Education, Employment discrimination, Integration, Mike Manove, Norman Thomas, Paul Booth, Racial discrimination, Sit-in demonstrations, Student Peace Union, Students for a Democratic Society, Students for Disarmament, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Political Action Club, Tutoring -
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. -
Students Tutor in the Chester Area
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 2, 1962 announcing the establishment of the Chester Tutorial Project. Richard James from the Chester NAACP Youth Council speaks at the meeting with the Swarthmore students from the Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC), the Christian Association (CA), and the Community Service Committee. Reasons for the project's creation, its goals, and plans for its execution are disclosed. The inspiration for the project is attributed to projects carried out in Philadelphia and New York by the Northern Student Movement.Tags 1962, Charlotte Phillips, Chester NAACP Youth Council, Chester PA, Chester Tutorial project, Christian Association, Community Service Committee, Education, New York NY, Northern Student Movement, Philadelphia PA, Richard James, Segregation, Social inequality, Swarthmore PA, Swarthmore Political Action Club, Tutoring -
Students' Harlem Tutorial Project Emphasizes High Scholarship, Negro Heritage and Culture
Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on September 28, 1962 featuring the Harlem Educational Project (HEP), as part of a series featuring civil rights projects students on campus are involved in. School desegregation and the inequality of education between Black and white communities is discussed. Students involved in HEP express a need for motivation and cultural pride in order to address disparities in education.