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BS 100-35505 The "Boston University News", a campus newspaper at Boston University, in an article dated September 23, 1964 entitled, "Zinn Helps Program Establishment For Civil Rights Workers in South" reported in part that Dr. HOWARD ZINN, a newly appointed Assistant Professor of Government at Boston University, had in August, 1964 under an award from the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, helped establish an "in-service elucation™ program for young civil rights workers in the South. The article also quoted Dr. ZINN as saying "An ideal education combines academic work with intense involvement in the lives of people with problems." Dr. ZINN in this article cited as the main achievement of the entire Miasissippi summer project "contact with the outside world" which it affords the Negro community. Informants contacted in February, 1965 having some knowledge of certain phases of Communist Party activity in the Greater Boston area stated they did not know the subject and could furnish no information concerning him. ~~ 5X —