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Ciardi, Others Will Analyze Civil Rights Issues Tonight

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John Ciardi, assistant professor of English, will be among speakers who will express their opinions on racial equality, religious liberty, and political freedom in America at a "Civil Rights" meeting in the auditorium of the Longfollow School tonight at 8:15 p.m.

A group of Cambridge educational, religious, and civic leaders are sponsoring the meeting in response to an officially-proclaimed, state-wide "Civil Rights Week."

Particular attention will be devoted to a report and analysis of the "Peek-skill Incidents," and its challenge they presented to the concept of free assembly.

Other sponsors connected with the University are Ralph B. Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer in Chemistry, Robert Ulich, professor of Education, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and John D. Wild, professor of Philosophy.

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