Box 3, Folder 17, Document 96

Box 3, Folder 17, Document 96

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/\ Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc.



101 Marietta Street Bldg. o Atlanta, Georgia 30303 e Telephone: 525-4262

ke M. Parham

Executive Administrator

525-4262

Contact: Pat Mason (EQOA)

or J. Hunter Todd

633-4105

' FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 9, 1969

"TIYPA" JOINS START NOW ATLANTA

(TOYPA)

Nim.teen young men and women, selected as The Outstanding

Young People in Atlanta (TOYPA), will joir Economic Opportunity

Atlanta's START NOW ATLANTA Campaign on Saturday, April 12,

with a poverty area tour which begins at 10:30

a. m. from the

East Centrz.: TOA Neighborhood Service Center, 486 Decatur Street,

S. Es

For TCYPA the tour wili be the first step
chosen as their first : reject: the production
motion picture which will explore the progress
Atlanta's poor communities. According to Sara

Hunter Todd, Co-Chairmen of the TOYPA project,

in what has been
of an orginal.

and problems ‘of
t

Ridgeway and J.

the motion pic-

ture will be presented to top community leaders, civic clubs,

and church groups to channel community interest and assistance

to EOA's START NOW ATLANTA campaign which has involved 374 new

volunteers in the war against poverty since the program began

e

on January 10.
On Saturday these 19 young people will be toured by
poverty area residents who live in Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown,
Buttermilk Bottom, and adjacent communities. They will see
first hand the efforts of the poor in their own self-help
projects and will be confronted with the problems which remain. |
| Saturday's tour, scheduled as part of the Dogwood Festival,
will also include othet Atlant ns, young and old, who are among |
the 2,277 wno. have takeh — che EOA tours in the last three

months.