SCLC Supporters Seek Students To House, Feed 400 Poor People

Harvard supporters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "Poor People's March" are asking undergraduates to help house and feed poor people on their way to anti-poverty demonstrations in Washington this weekend.

Some 400 poor people from New England will spend Thursday in Boston before leaving Friday for Washington. On Thursday afternoon, they will hear the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the SCLC since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, speak on "Poverty in America" on the Boston Common.

A group of undergraduate SCLC supporters is circulating sheets in the dining halls today, asking students to take a poor person to dinner in the Dining halls on Thursday evening and house him in their room on Thursday night.

Meeting Place

SCLC supporters will meet the "Caravan" at the Christ Church in Cambridge at 5 p.m. Thursday and then escort the poor to the University Dining Halls, Laurence S. Seidman '68, spokesman for the group, said yesterday. Students who agree to help house and feed the poor should meet them in the House Junior Common Room at 5:30 p.m., he added.

"We desperately need students to care for these people," Seidman said. "The demonstrators will be confused and need someone to talk to."