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Two Students To Establish Rights Paper

Central Atlanta Office To Serve Five States

A Harvard and a Radcliffe student in to establish an independent weekly newspaper in Atlanta this summer which will cover civil rights activities throughout the South.

peter Cummings '66 said yesterday that and Ellen Lake '66 hope for a newspaper which will "give an honest cover of racial incidents and issues to make for both the white and Negro communities to understand and solve the problems that confront them."

Our plans are to print five weekly newspapers," said Cummings, "one for which of the states that we will cover, days, on Monday, we might print 25,000 series of the Mississippi edition; on 10,000 copies of the Louisiana , and so forth."

The newspaper will have a staff of 20, students who have had journalize experience. Three reporters and one photographer will be assigned to cover of five states--Alabama, Arkausas, Louisians, and Mississippi.

Four other Harvard students--Philip P. Hery Jr, '66, Richard Cotton '65, Parker Alabam '47, and Mark L. Rosenberg '66 work for the paper.

The newspaper will continue to public after the summer, "We'll give preface in recruiting," Miss Lake said, "to he who can stay in Atlanta for a year more, and train 15 Atlanta Negroes and this summer so that local people ultimately assume responsibility for news paper."

Cummings estimates that it will to publish the paper this summer. group is now seeking contributions foundations and individuals inter in improved race relations.

The newspaper will use the Atlanta of the Student Voice, a hi-monthly letter of the Student Non-violent Co-resting Committee.

Cummings and Miss Lake spent just ever in Mississippi as volunteers for the Council of Federated Organizations, observing the way that the local often distorts or omits news coning racial problems," Cummings said, he decided to try to set up our own newspaper."

We consider the paper an experiment," continued, but we hope that it will be thorough and have a wider circulated area than any other southern Newsday."

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