CAMP and The Trumpet, April 1967-Spring 1970

The Central Area Motivation Project, or CAMP, was the first recipient in the country of federal funds from the 1964 War on Poverty legislation, and formed to administer programs in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. This album contains issues of CAMP's newspaper, "The Trumpet," from April 1967 to Spring 1970, along with selected documents from their early history, including reports on the "Soul Search" free courses offered at the University of Washington. Images and documents from CAMP and "The Trumpet" are a special section of the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project. Digitization courtesy of the Microform and Newspaper Collections, University of Washington Library; documents courtesy of the Special Collections Library, University of Washington (CORE Seattle Chapter Records, 1961-1970, Manuscript Collection 1563). Permission was granted by the Central Area Motivation Project, still in existence today. Copyright (c) reserved.