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  Frank Cochran Oral History Transcript

  Edited transcript of oral history recorded 2017-05-18 of Frank Cochran, interviewed by Stephanie Ramsay and Roberto Vargas.

  Tags 1963, ACLU, American Friends Service Committee, Arrest/Jail, Bail, Baltimore Sun, Beating, Bill Bradford, Cambridge MD, Carl Wittman, Dizzyland Restaurant Sit-In, Ellen Arguimbeau, Fehsenfeld, Frank Cochran, Gloria Richardson, John Bennett, Louis Redding, Louise Bennett, Mary Lyons, Mimi Feingold, NAACP Baltimore, North Carolina, Northern Student Movement, oral history transcript, Port Huron Statement, Quaker, Segregation, Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmore Political Action Club, Tom Kennedy
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  AFSC Reports on Rhodesia Projects

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 3, 1962 reporting on a talk at a Friends Meeting forum by the executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Colin Bell. The topic of Bell's talk, based on his month observing AFSC projects in East Africa, was "Quakers and the African Revolution." Discussion is focused on Southern and Northern Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe and the role of Quakers in the country.

  Tags 1962, African Revolution, American Friends Service Committee, Colin Bell, Friends Meeting, Nonviolence, Quakers, Relief project, Rhodesia
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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.

  Tags 1960, 1962, American Friends Service Committee, Community service, Desegregation, Education, Mimi Feingold, Nashville TN, Racial discrimination, Segregation, Sit-in demonstrations, Stand-in demonstrations, Summer projects, Violence