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

1963-07-30 Northern Student Movement Page 1

NORTHERN STUDENT MOVEMENT 

History 

The Northern Student Movement (NSM) originated at a conference sponsored by the New England Student Christian Movement (SCM) in June, 1961, when a committee was formed to investigate the possibility of creating a Northern student civil rights movement. The following October representatives from twenty colleges gathered in New Haven at the committee's invitation to adopt a structure and a general program. The movement was then publicized through the SCm and the National Student Association, and a full-time staff began operating out of offices at Yale University.

In its first year NSM worked to provide support for the Southern student movement and to develop programs relating to the Northern civil rights problems. Some $9,000 was raised and sent South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's voter registration program. Busloads of New England college students participated in weekend sit-ins on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A large conference dealing with discrimination and deficiencies in the areas of employment, education, housing, and politics was held in April, 1962, at Sarah Lawrence College. NSM's last action in the spring term was to send 10,000 books donated by students from eight schools to Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama.

NSM implemented four projects during the summer of 1962. In Philadelphia a group of twenty college students lived in the Negro community, held jobs and administered an educational program for high school students from the community. The program involved 175 college students voluntarily tutoring 375 high school students in local churches. A similar though smaller project was run by NSM in Harlem. In Prince Edward County, Virginia twelve college and graduate students taught school and ran recreational programs for some of the county's 1400 Negro children who have not had schools for three years. Teams of Negro and white students followed up the winter demonstrations by working in three Eastern Shore towns to build a community consciousness and an indigenous leadership among the Negroes.

In the course of this past year NSM has grown to include active groups on fifty campuses and project offices with full time student staffs in eight cities: Boston, Hartford, Harlem, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and Detroit. In addition, students stimulated and trained by NSM have established volunteer-run projects in eight other cities. All of this represents an involvement of some four thousand college students and five thousand youth from depressed areas.

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NORTHERN STUDENT MOVEMENT History The Northern Student Movement (NSM) originated at a conference sponsored by the New England Student Christian Movement (SCM) in June, 1961, when a committee was formed to investigate the possibility of creating a Northern student civil rights movement. The following October representatives from twenty colleges gathered in New Haven at the committee's invitation to adopt a structure and a general program. The movement was then publicized through the SCm and the National Student Association, and a full-time staff began operating out of offices at Yale University. In its first year NSM worked to provide support for the Southern student movement and to develop programs relating to the Northern civil rights problems. Some $9,000 was raised and sent South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's voter registration program. Busloads of New England college students participated in weekend sit-ins on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A large conference dealing with discrimination and deficiencies in the areas of employment, education, housing, and politics was held in April, 1962, at Sarah Lawrence College. NSM's last action in the spring term was to send 10,000 books donated by students from eight schools to Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama. NSM implemented four projects during the summer of 1962. In Philadelphia a group of twenty college students lived in the Negro community, held jobs and administered an educational program for high school students from the community. The program involved 175 college students voluntarily tutoring 375 high school students in local churches. A similar though smaller project was run by NSM in Harlem. In Prince Edward County, Virginia twelve college and graduate students taught school and ran recreational programs for some of the county's 1400 Negro children who have not had schools for three years. Teams of Negro and white students followed up the winter demonstrations by working in three Eastern Shore towns to build a community consciousness and an indigenous leadership among the Negroes. In the course of this past year NSM has grown to include active groups on fifty campuses and project offices with full time student staffs in eight cities: Boston, Hartford, Harlem, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago and Detroit. In addition, students stimulated and trained by NSM have established volunteer-run projects in eight other cities. All of this represents an involvement of some four thousand college students and five thousand youth from depressed areas.