Twenty students laid plans Thursday night to send a Harvard contingent to the "Poor People's Campaign" in Washington next month. Initiated by the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Campaign is a militant, massive drive for decent jobs and income.

The Harvard group--which met in Hilles Library--stated two objectives:

* To rally support for the campaign and transport students to the "massive" march on the Capital May 30.

* To collect $15,000 in Boston suburban areas to provide food, shelter, and transportation for a group of Boston poor people, who will march 450 miles to Washington beginning May 9.

Wagon Train

In addition to the march, the Campaign will include a wagon train of poor people through the South, construction of a shanty town in Washington, and mass movements of people from all sections of the country to Washington.

The Rev, Ralph Abernathy, successor to King as president of the SCLC, will be in Boston May 9 to launch the northeastern caravan.

Information and a schedule of the Campaign will be distributed in college dining halls Monday through Wednesday of next week. The Harvard group will request housing for a few hundred poor people from Maine and other states, who will be in Boston on May 9.

SCLC is also planning a "Work Study Seminar" program to be held in Washington during the Campaign.

According to Stoney Cooks, head of the program, the seminar will be open to Harvard students. Cooks will be at Harvard this Thursday to talk about the seminar program and the Campaign.