Stevenson Libre (May 10, 1968; No. 10)

              STEVENSON LIBRE
Issue No. 10
(this issue unedited)
UCSC's only student-controlled non-bureaucratic newspaper
Published hopefully every Monday and Thursday
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News from the Poor People's March in Washington

Bill Stumbaugh, who, along with Steve Chain, Rich Townsend,
and Kit Weills, has gone to Washington, D.C. to participate in
the Poor People's March, sent the following letter to Stevenson
College.

To: The Students of Stevenson College, UCSC

People:

Steve Chain, Kit Weills, Rich Townsend and myself arrived
in Washington, D.C. by Sunday, April 21, 1968. Within a few days
I had arranged a position in the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference's head office in Atlanta, Georgia. The other three
remained behind. They are now working in the SCLC field office
in Washington. Together, we are learning a great deal about the
workings of SCLC in particular and political and social action
groups in general. One finds an earnest belief on the SCLC staff
members and other college volunteers like myself to make the
Poor People's Campaign into a real successful operation, both
as plea for aid to the poor of this nation, black, Indian, Mexican-American 
and white and in memory of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Everybody in the office seems to know each
other on a first name basis and it seems a tribute to King that
they all affectionately remember him as "Doc."

The preparations for the campaign on Washington are quite
extensive with marches from many different parts of the country
converging on Washington. A large group is supposed to meet in
Los Angeles and another from Seattle. They will eventually meet
in Chicago and go on together from there. Each group, one from
the northeast, southeast, two from the west, etc. will march
and bus through many cities and have rallies and speeches in
order to gain more members as they move. If one can not go to
Washington himself, it is strongly requested that people send
articles of clothings, blankets, canvas tarps, tents, pans,
rope, dust pans, and anything else these poor people might need
in their "City of Hope" in Washington right on the mall between
the capitol and Washington monument. College students throughout
the nation are sending materials and I am issueing a request to
Santa Cruz to do likewise. If the feeling is present and materials
I have described are collected, one could send them to the SCLC
office at 14th and U streets in Washington D.C. Of course money
is always grateful and contributions are always coming in from
across the nation. It is quite heartwarming to discover an
envelope with SCLC barely scrawled across the outside by a little
elementary school child from the backwoods of Tennessee.