Students Urge House To Wipe Out HUAC

Ten students from Harvard have joined 131 other Mississippi Summer Project workers in petitioning Congress to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Charging that HUAC "serves as an instrument of segregation" and "is inconsonant with the ideals of the First Amendment," the petition asks the House of Representatives to refuse to continue HUAC as a standing committee when it convenes in January.

The petition attacks HUAC as a "libelfree center for false accusation." "The Mississippi press," continues, "consistently smeared participants in the 1964 Summer Project: they relied primarily on HUAC 'citations' for their smears."

"HUAC," the civil rights workers' petition concludes, "is the fountainhead of the threat to an open society. It denies what we went to Mississippi for."