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State University of Iowa Human Rights Committee first annual report and correspondence, 1963

1963-07-30 Northern Student Movement Page 2

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Structure 

General policy for NSM is formulated by a student Executive Committee with the aid of a non-student Advisory Board and a Board of Sponsors. The Executive Committee is composed of one representative from each of the project offices and an equal number of members elected at large by representatives from the campus groups.

The Advisory Board advises both the staff and the Executive Committee, and approves the latter's formulation of a budget and employment of persons. At present this board is composed of the Reverends William S. Coffin, Jr., Arthur Brandenburg, David Byers  and Gaylord Noyce of Yale; Dr. John Maguire of Wesleyan University; Rev. Samuel Slie of the New England Student Christian Movement, Mr. Vernon Eagle, Director, New World Foundation, and Karl Linn, Director, Washington Neighborhood Commons.

The sponsors presently include Dr. Hans Spiegel, Community Tension Center, Springfield College; Dr. Robert Johnson, N.Y.U.; Dean Frederick Berthold, Dartmouth College; Dennis Clark, Catholic Interracial Council; Canon John Crocker, Brown-Pemboke; James Luther Adams, Harvard Divinity School; Rev. Leon Sullivan, Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia; Dr. John Bennett, Union Theological Seminary; and Professor Louis Pollack, Yale Law School.

Program 

The NSM program is implemented by the campus groups and city projects. The central staff serves these groups by developing techniques for local programming, compiling background materials, securing funds and professional aid, maintaining a flow of communications among the groups, and coordinating regional actions.

The campus groups work in several areas: educating college students to the race problem, recruiting Negro students for their college, collecting funds and other materials to support the work of the Southern students, and, in cooperation with community leaders, developing programs dealing with the youth in the local area, such as tutorials.

The city projects, operating now with an interracial staff of fifty fulltime people, are the main vehicle for action within NSM. Their offices are located in the lowest income areas of eight major cities and their work constitutes in many cases the only attempt being made to involve the residents of these areas in the democratic process of change.

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- 2 - Structure General policy for NSM is formulated by a student Executive Committee with the aid of a non-student Advisory Board and a Board of Sponsors. The Executive Committee is composed of one representative from each of the project offices and an equal number of members elected at large by representatives from the campus groups. The Advisory Board advises both the staff and the Executive Committee, and approves the latter's formulation of a budget and employment of persons. At present this board is composed of the Reverends William S. Coffin, Jr., Arthur Brandenburg, David Byers and Gaylord Noyce of Yale; Dr. John Maguire of Wesleyan University; Rev. Samuel Slie of the New England Student Christian Movement, Mr. Vernon Eagle, Director, New World Foundation, and Karl Linn, Director, Washington Neighborhood Commons. The sponsors presently include Dr. Hans Spiegel, Community Tension Center, Springfield College; Dr. Robert Johnson, N.Y.U.; Dean Frederick Berthold, Dartmouth College; Dennis Clark, Catholic Interracial Council; Canon John Crocker, Brown-Pemboke; James Luther Adams, Harvard Divinity School; Rev. Leon Sullivan, Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia; Dr. John Bennett, Union Theological Seminary; and Professor Louis Pollack, Yale Law School. Program The NSM program is implemented by the campus groups and city projects. The central staff serves these groups by developing techniques for local programming, compiling background materials, securing funds and professional aid, maintaining a flow of communications among the groups, and coordinating regional actions. The campus groups work in several areas: educating college students to the race problem, recruiting Negro students for their college, collecting funds and other materials to support the work of the Southern students, and, in cooperation with community leaders, developing programs dealing with the youth in the local area, such as tutorials. The city projects, operating now with an interracial staff of fifty fulltime people, are the main vehicle for action within NSM. Their offices are located in the lowest income areas of eight major cities and their work constitutes in many cases the only attempt being made to involve the residents of these areas in the democratic process of change.