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Date: June 27, 1969 Subject: The Opportunity for Black Involvement For future details, contact: Ken Millwood Public Relations Director For Immediate Release: The concept of permitting active young minds to serve their community by attacking its crucial problems is being brought to life this summer for the first time in Atlanta. The Atlanta Urban Corps is placing competent college students into summer jobs with relevance to the contemporary urban situation. The Atlanta Urban Corps is a student conceived, student managed organization which is designed to draw upon the mental resources of concerned college students in coping with city problems. The Corps has _s tudents working in areas of mental health, city services, social work, traffic engineering, education, community art, and many others. The students gain an educational experience unknown in any American classroom. The city benefits in that crucial jobs that have long been ignored finally get qualified attention. A most important aspect of the community-student dialogue is the meaningful involvement of black students in the problems of urban life. Reality teaches us that blacks are those . whose life-styles are confined most heavily by the Metropolis. 1herefore, the true worth of the Urban Corps experiment is built on the strong core of black students participating in the program. The Atlanta Urban Corps is pleased to announce the placement of the following students from the Atlanta University Complex . As can be seen by their jobs, these students are participating in agencies which can help solve the fundamental ills of the city. CLARK COLLEGE 1. 2. 3. 4. s. 6. 7. 8. 9. Linda Alexander Charles Choice Walter Driver Grauze Fretwell Janice Her:ring Iris Hightower Delores Jame s Cynthia Knight Betty Peters AGENCY Dekalb YMCA Parks and Recreation Connnunity Arts, Inc. Atlanta Youth Council Atlanta Public Library Connnunity Arts, Inc. Atlanta Youth Council Wheat Street Baptist Church Literacy Action Foundation �Page 2 June 27, 1969 1 CLARK COLLEGE (cont'd) AGENCY 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Atlanta Youth Council Atlanta Public Library Peace Corps Urban Lab City Water Department Martha Sinnnons Dorothy Wright Carol Bonner Barbara Holl and Paul Johnson MOREHOUSE 1. 2. 3o 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Edwin Barrett Robert ~rown Mike Floyd Edqie Gaffney James Kennedy· Eddie Mitchell Jesse Moore Loyd Sanders Julis Stephens Mike Stublefield Kay Dunlap Marvin Mangham Ronald Terry Georgia Employment Center City Purcha sing Department City Parks and Recreation Vine City Pro j ect Atlanta Youth Council Wheat Street Baptist Church American Cancer Society Atlanta Youth Council Parks and Re creation Street Theatre Parks and Recreation Finance Department City Water Department SPELMAN 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Rudine Arnold Pamela Do zier Linda Howard Diane Lewis Sa nd r a Mincey Madie Moore Teia Sinkfield Bessie Quillens Kirkwood Center Georgia Ea ster Seal Foundation Literacy Action Foundation Atlanta Gir ls Club Wheat Street Baptist Church Atlanta Public Library Atlanta Youth Council Y.M.C.A. MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE 1.. 2. ·3._ 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 . 11. 12. 13 . 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 1~~ 20. Brenda Comer Calvin Davis Alyce Hamilton Rose Haywood Dorothy Humphrey Jerome J efferson Addie Mitche ll Chester McElroy George My les Belinda Pennington Sanford Pr ater Carr oll Simmons Deborah Sma l l Bet t ye Unde rwood Cynthia Wadde ll Clovia Wheeler Rosalind Wi ll iams Re gina Braxton Vivian Chandler M!St'Y Strozier Atlanta Girls Club Parks and Re creation Atlanta Youth Council Atlanta Youth Council Y.W.C.A. Mennonite House Wheat Street Bap t ist Church Parks and Recreation City Sanitation Department Immigrat i on Department Sar ah Mur phy Home Atlanta Gir ls Club Immigra t i on Depar t men t At lan ta Ur ban Cor ps Easter Seal Found a t i on Purcha sing Department Gate City Day Nur sery Kilkwood Center Fulton County Health Department American Cancer Society �