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  Volunteer Tutors Flock to SPAC

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 9, 1962 reporting on a Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC) meeting where the amount of volunteers for the Chester Tutorial Project exceed expectations. Changes in leadership within SPAC and the Chester Tutorial Project are discussed.

  Tags 1962, Alice Broadhead, Bob Barr, Charlotte Phillips, Chester Tutorial project, Dorothy Earley, Mike Manove, Swarthmore Political Action Club, Tutoring
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  SPAC Receives Green Card Funds from SC

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 9, 1962 reporting on a debate over whether Green Card Funds could be given to social-political campus activities. The article announces that the Swarthmore Political Action Club (SPAC) wins financial support from Student Council (S.C.) and that the funds will go toward cooperation with the Chester NAACP Youth Council, along with other civil rights projects. Further news on funding and S.C. developments are also mentioned.

  Tags 1962, Allan Berlind, Chester NAACP Youth Council, Chester Tutorial project, Christian Association, Club funding, Dorothy Earley, Eastern Shore Civil Rights Project, Green Card Funds, Mike Manove, Mimi Feingold, National Student Association, Paul Booth, Student Council, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Political Action Club, WSRN
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  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.

  Tags 1962, Chester NAACP Youth Council, Chester PA, Desegregation, Dorothy Earley, Integration, Mimi Feingold, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Penny Patch, Racial discrimination, Swarthmore College
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  Penny Patch Oral History Transcript

  Edited transcript of oral history recorded 2017-12-19 of Penny Patch, interviewed by Stephanie Ramsay, Roberto Vargas, and Eleanor Naiman.

  Tags Cambridge MD, Charles Sherrod, Charlotte Phillips, Congress for Racial Equality, Council of Federated Organizations, Dorothy Earley, Eastern Shore Civil Rights Project, Georgia, Judy Walenta, Mimi Feingold, Mississippi Summer Project, NAACP Chester, NAACP Youth Council, oral history transcript, Penny Patch, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmore Political Action Club