{"value"=>"<p>Series is divided into five subseries: Philadelphia, Boston, Harlem, Detroit and Hartford, with each subseries further dividing into tutorial and community action projects. The series ends with single folders of material for the Baltimore, Chicago, Newark and Morristown, N.J. summer projects. The files for the Philadelphia Tutorial Project (PTP) in the Philadelphia subseries include by-laws, correspondence between NSM's Central Office (Countryman followed by Strickland) and the PTP director (Tim Parsons followed by Thurman Harrison), correspondence and biographical data from prospective tutors, prospectuses and reports, training material for tutors and printed matter. The NSM Freedom Library in Philadelphia is documented with a small group of correspondence between its founder, John Churchville, and Strickland; a prospectus, a 1965 report, and copies of the Library's newsletter; and a sampling of material from the Library's community action projects, including leadership training for youth and an intra-city cooperative venture.</p> <p>In Boston, tutorials and community action evolved around the same time. The Boston NSM correspondence in the early part of 1962 was concerned with fund raising activities on SNCC's behalf. The tutorial project gained momentum in 1963, at the same time that the organization was raising funds and laying the ground work for more effective community organizing. Non-tutorial activities included a school stay-out to protest segregation in Boston's public schools, a voter registration campaign led by Byron Rushing, and a student-led effort to pressure the Welfare Department to hire welfare recipients to work on food surplus distribution. The Boston NSM files show an overall concern with staff evaluations, group performance and internal reports regarding the failure of the Boston Action Group to gain traction in the Black community in Roxbury.</p> <p>New York. The Harlem Education Project's programs are documented with reports, fact sheets and a detailed prospectus for 1963-1964. Some early correspondence (1962) addressed the difficulties of a racially mixed community group operating in the intensely nationalistic Harlem of that period. The Harlem Action Group files deal with rent strikes and housing issues, the preschool program run by Dorothy Stoneman, and cursorily with adult literacy, consumer education, a park project in the St. Nicholas public housing complex, and a stay-out of school campaign organized in 1964.</p> <p>The Detroit files are quite substantive and revolve around Frank Joyce, Detroit NSM coordinator and chairman of the NSM Congress in 1964-1965. The correspondence relates to staff matters, funding, NSM's activities, change of orientation and relationship with other civil rights and New Left organizations, and ACME's mobilization against police brutality. Materials of the Detroit Education project include reports, prospectuses and other data on the mechanics of the tutorial program, as well as copies of a tutee newsletter and newspaper clippings. The ACME files involve Joyce and group members Alvin Harrison and Wilbert McClendon, and deal with issues of police violence, a 1965 Michigan Summer Project against discrimination in housing, education and employment, and the launching of the Afro-American Youth Movement.</p> <p>The Hartford NSM files consist of correspondence between Peter Morrill and later Chuck Turner, on the one hand, and Peter Countryman and later William Strickland, on the other, project reports, publicity and by-laws of the North End Community Action Project (NECAP), training materials for tutors, housing factsheets, and newspaper clippings on selective patronage as well as NECAP's demise at the beginning of 1966. Other city project files provide glimpses of Baltimore's successful tutorial program known as the Baltimore Area Youth Opportunities Unlimited (BAYOU), Chicago's Student Woodlawn Area Project (SWAP), and the Morris County Citizenship Project in Morristown, New Jersey.</p>"}