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Student volunteers will conduct an adult literacy campaign this summer in Selma, Ala., in the heart of the southern "black belt." The immediate aim of the project is alleviation of widespread functional illiteracy, but the ultimate purpose is to make more Negroes qualified to vote...
According to The New Republic there are 30,000 Negroes and 25,000 whites in Dallas County, where Selma is located, but about 130 Negroes and 7,000 whites on, the voting rolls. The sponsors of the project say that of 13,681 illiterates in the county, 10,735 are Negroes...
...Selma was chosen for the project because it has the typical black belt problem of massive functional illiteracy among Negroes, and because the Negro population has been awakened by a voter registration drive SNCC is conducting in the area...
SNCC's voter registration drive has provoked violent reactions among whites in Selma. A SNCC newsletter dated Dec. 30 warns that students interested in working in Selma "must be prepared to spend time in jail...
...December 1960, Governor Stevenson agreed to become the United States permanent representative in the United Nations. For the past three years he has dignified our foreign policy in that forum. Now Robert L. and Selma Schiffer have collected a volume of the Ambassador's speeches and have persuaded Mr. Stevenson, President Kennedy (in a preface), and publishers Harper and Row to collaborate in its publication. Looking Outward, as the volume is called, carries the subtitle "Years of Crisis at the United Nations." Actually, less than half of the book is devoted to Stevenson's U.N. speeches; but those speeches deserve...