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I a a | et "high. ., activities under supervision of civil rights agencies. ) Period covereds _ Sune uv ~ “be members are finding it to be a rewarding experience. ‘the group eppears to “hove. ar accomplished much in the f4eld of human relations; 4t continues to aid the Youth <7 Development Center to help the boys, and members of the group are getting to know each other better. Woe are continuing to discuss and work on ideas we feel will be * beneficial to the boys as well as our group. This week our group did not take its usual day off but remained on campus to aid the staff in presentation of a track an swim day. For next week the recreation committee is planning a group trip to Harris . burg. The education committee is continuing to plan for some speakers in addition to renting films on interesting subjects. Morale of the group continues to remain “ ete! “CIVIL RIOHTS - Civ Rights Aids, ‘Berkeley, ‘California. {13 participants are working at varied to July 20., , . Loa corte. We vigited the eleven organizations with which we could choose to work. the first | “day brought lots of discouragement as we began to eee the tremendous amount of organizing, the enormous area to be covered and the general drab bureaucratic detail Each of us realized that we had to face this summer not only the exciting experienc: of working in the civil rights field but also the accompanying failures and futility of immediate success. Meditations have been fairly successful considering that man of the members had never partioipated before. The most colorful organization is | Youth for Jobs which is a small group of young adults looking for jobs and trying tc form a membership organization with clubs and begin some kind of tutorial or recrea- tional program. Two girls work with CORE, one in charge of the office and helping “o> erganize restaurant sit-ins; the other also helps jn the office and is beginning .8 survey for the War on Poverty. ‘Two boys are working for the Mexican-American : :. Unity Council and beginning a sumner of "community organization" visiting Mexican- Ansrican families in the area. The League for Decency in Real Estate, with which ti girls are working, is currently engazed in etudying housing discrinination, results of which will be compiled. Another interesting organization is Welfare Rights, made up primarily of welfare recipients working to ensure rights of welfare recipients a: they deal with the County Welfare Department. One girl is working yeith SNCC which functions in this area as an organization to help the cause of the Mississippi . Freedom Democratic Party. Another works on a survey of hiring and admittance practices used by hospitals in the Oakland area (a national survey being conducted © by NAACP). We have assigned a volunteer to the Oakland Direct Action Committee whi “4s doing token work with the East Oakland gangs. Another participant is working at the West Oakland Christian Parish tutoring elementary school children and, finally, the East Day Conference on Religion and Race has engaged one of our group in s surve of integrated housing. . Citizenship Education Project, Rock Hill, S. C. (13 participants are engaging in . volver registration, citizen education workshsps, and tutoring.) ve Period covered: June 26 to duly 2 °° ’ The group began working on voter registration July 1. Prior to this they were orie! ted to AFSC philosophy. Tutoring began on July 6 and the need for more orientation and workshops on tutoring was recognized. There was en opportunity to meet most of the Negro ministers in town and these expressed gratitude for the project and indica ted they would help in any way possible. Plans were made for an open house at the project location, and a softball game was played against some of the neighborhood boys (with AFSC participants the losers)! The project agreed not to form separate "committees" but instead act as a whole on everything. Meditation has been epprecis ‘ted because it gives each participant a time to collect his thoughts. The group ha: