November 29, 1963
Vassar College, along with Dutchess Community College, Marist College and the State University College at New Paltz, sponsored a New Civil Rights Symposium on "The Negro Revolt: Contemporary Attitudes and Pressures." Several issues were discussed at the symposium including "The Church in the civil rights movement; the possibility of achieving complete ‘civil rights’ under our present economic and political system and the influence of the present racial crisis in America's international image." The Miscellany News