St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1960-04-01
Support Negro Students:
Northern College
Students Rally
10 Dixie Protest

SIuOSHIS N01bv
To Dixie Protest
New York. March 27.-In a var
iety of swiftly organized and in
ventive ways, great numbers of
northern college students this week
indicated overwhelming support
of the South's Negro student dem
onstrators
Meanwhile, a number Of NAACP
college chapter leaders in the
South, who have spearheaded the
drive against segregated facilities,
took leave from front-line activ-
tiles to speak in distant cities on
behalf Of their cause.
They addressed NAACP-spon-
sored rallies in Washington, New
York, Columbus, Detroit. San Fran
cisco and Hartford, Conn, as fol-
low students in many of the
North's foremost institutions mar
ched, prayed, staged sympathy
"sit-ins," picketed and collected
student defense funds.
At Oberlin College in Ohio stu
dents collected over $4,000 for de-
Tense of the Nashville students
On far-North Campuses such as
Wheaton College at Norton. Mass.
students trooped through nearby
towns collecting student aid funds.
College Girls Demonstrate
In Saratoga Springs, NY, about
20 Skidmore College faculty men,
bers joined 200 college girls in a
demonstration against lunch count
er discrimination in the South.
Even medical students set aside
their books and took up protest
plaCards.
At New Haven 35 Yale medical
students, operating in four shifts
piCketed three midtown chain
stores Meantime, Yale divinity
students and faculty announced a
silent march around the citys
! main square.
NAACP Youth Secretary Her
bert Wright, who has coordinated
many Of the student activities in
the South. said The increased
activity by college students has
brought new NAACP memberships
and requests for formation of new
college chapters in such schools as
Vassar, Bennington, and Brandeis
University"
While Vassar at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, has no formal chapter, its
student body led by a Negro I'M
dergraduate, Miss Marion Gray,
staged widely publicized demon
STATIONS at variety stores in that
city. AS if synchronized to act at
the same time, college girls at
Bennington and Smith Colleges
launched similar protests.
800 Picket In New York
In New York 300 NAACP stu
dent leaders from New York Univ
= ersity, Columbia University and
, the City College Of New York par
AIDED in front of a midtown Wool
, worth's store.
Northern students must get in
volved," said Peter Steinberg, edi-
tor of the City College Observa-
ton Post, They are neglecting
their duty as students and citizens
} if they don't"
Meanwhile. in Washington, MA
, ACP college chapters at Howard.
Catholic and American Universe
ties scheduled a mass civil rights
rally in the capitol citys Lafay-
cite Square for Saturday, March
26, Mr.. Wright announced.
; Student protest groups have
been addressed by NAACP Labor
Secretary Herbert Hill and NAA-
CP Program Director James
Farmer. Mr.. Hill addressed stu
dents at Vassar College and will
meet with students at the Univ
ersity of Connecticut on March 81.
! Mr.. Farmer will address a rally
= in San Francisco on April l when
that citys NAACP branch will
also hear young Thomas Gather,
NAACP college chapter president
at Claflin College in Orangeburg,
sc.
On Sunday, March 81, Lloyd
Williams, head of the NAACP
: South Carolina state youth con-
ference and coordinator of student
sit-in demonstrations, will address
500 delegates at the New York
State Student Christian Confer
ence representing 81 New York
colleges.
ii
University of Minnesota stu
: dents led on by the Minnesota
DAILY, student newspaper got
into the sit-down controversy in
support of the Negro students be-
fore any of the larger northern
schools.
Over a thousand students signed
petitions protesting the arrest and
! mistreatment of demonstrating
students three weeks ago before
/ the protest spread to other north
ern schools