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Gregory Will Perform In Benefit for SNCC

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Comedian Dick Gregory will perform in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in a fund-raising concert for the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, it was announced yesterday.

Appearing with Gregory will be the Freedom Singers, made up of five SNCC field secretaries. Thomas F. Pettigrew, as associate professor of Social Relations, and Noel Day, chairman of the Boston School Stay-Out, are scheduled to make introductory remarks.

The concert is sponsored by the Harvard Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee. Robert E. Wright '65, chairman of CRCC, said yesterday that the Sanders concert will launch a five-week benefit tour by the comedian which will include 26 cities.

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