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  Collect $150 to Aid SNCC

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on November 9, 1962 reports on a drive for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) done on election day by Swarthmore students. The fundraising event was for the benefit of SNCC's voter registration campaign in the South, aimed at addressing the suppression of voting rights for Black people. Reactions from the voters are described, and sponsors of the drive and endorsements from politicians are listed.

  Tags 1962, board of managers, Campus Americans for Democratic Action, Election Day, National Student Association, Northern Student Movement, Steven Nathanson, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, Swarthmore PA, Voter registration
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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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  SNCC

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on November 2, 1962 reports about the upcoming election day demonstration by the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The sponsors of the demonstration are listed, and plans to spread information and collect donations are disclosed. SNCC expresses a need for funds to continue its voter registration campaign for Black people in the South in efforts to combat the suppression of voting rights, citing a statistic by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

  Tags 1962, Civil rights demonstration, Club funding, Election Day, National Student Association, Northern Student Movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, Voter registration, Voting rights
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  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
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  Eastern Shore Area Civil Rights Target

  Article from the Swarthmore Phoenix published on October 2, 1962 which is the second in a series on the Summer 1962 civil rights projects, this one focusing on rural Maryland. Tom Kennedy, a Swarthmore student, discloses his involvement in the Eastern Shore project in Cambridge, Maryland. The article discusses Kennedy's experience, including reflections on the formation of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC).

  Tags 1962, Baltimore MD, Boycotts, Cambridge MD, Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, Chestertown MD, Civil Interest Group of Baltimore, Civil rights movement, Desegregation, Eastern Shore Civil Rights Project, Easton MD, Freedom Riders, Mimi Feingold, Northern Student Movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Thomas Kennedy