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Emergency Funding Needed! Help sponsor a bus

 
 
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Emergency Funding Needed!

Help Sponsor a Bus
or sponsor one or more students
to get to the March on Washington!


[List of schools]
 

MANY THANKS GO TO EVERYONE WHO GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED TO MAKE THE APRIL 1ST NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH ON WASHINGTON SUCH A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS



Join the ranks of Johnnie Cochran, Judge Greg Mathis, Tavis Smiley, Tom Joyner, and Hector Flores of LULAC, all of whom have all pledged to sponsor one or more buses!

Special thanks go to:

Detroit Federation of Teachers * UAW Local 900 * Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) * UAW International * California State Employees Association * California Federation of Teachers * United Steelworkers of America * United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) * SEIU Local 79 * UAW Local 235 * SEIU Local 250 * Mays Chemical Company * Greater Flint AFL-CIO * Girlfriend Enterprises * Israel Baptist Church * Alpha Phi Alpha * AJ Productions * Harvey Lyons * Kyle Farley & Keith VanOrden * Robert Burns * Pat Bloom * Gary Palm * Steve Conn and Heather Miller, Detroit teachers


 = 50 PEOPLE

DONATE!

STUDENTS FROM
SCHOOLS NEEDING SPONSORS:
 

SPONSOR

 Sponsored!

Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA Carpooling to DC

 

Cass Technical High School students, Detroit Partial sponsorship:
Pat Bloom, 9 students
Dierdre Fair $100; Cheryl Murray $25; Margaret Zabawar $20; Lisa Rudd $20

Sponsored!

Central Michigan University  

Sponsored!

Coppin State, Baltimore, MD Partial sponsors:
Jay Rosner $400
Chris Landrum $20

 

City of Detroit HS students from several different schools Partial sponsorship:
Judith Feinstein $100; Andrea Denny $50; Shanna Reed $50; Deme Jackson $40; Myra Bryan $40; Juanita Benton $30; Joy Bunton $25; Charles Thomas $25

 

City of New York high school students Partial sponsorship:
Robin Hall-Evans $100
Alecia McBean $25
Shannon Pinnick $20

Sponsored!

City of Nashville, TN Partial sponsors:
Taisha Rucker $40

 

Clark Atlanta University
(95 students)
Partial sponsorships:
AJ Productions $1000; Gate City Bar Assoc., Atlanta (35 students) ; William Green $200; Patricia Harleston $100; Janelle Niles $20; Shrine of the Black Madonna (10 students); Lisa Green $50; Leila Brown $30; Tamara Jackson $20

Sponsored!

Cleveland State University  

 

Thomas M. Cooley Law School, MI  

 

Drexel University, Philadelphia Partial sponsorship:
Cheryl Trimble-Pointer $50; Robin Savage $30

 

Eastern Michigan University Partial sponsorship:
Gary Palm $500

Sponsored! 

Jamestown H.S., Williamsburg, VA Partial sponsor:
Vincent Kelley $200

 

Langston University, OK Partial sponsorship:
Lisa Finley Hill $25
Sandra Wojahn $25

 

Loyola University, Chicago Partial sponsorship:
Chicago Teachers Union

Eleanor Seaton $50

 

Hamtramck H.S., Hamtramck, MI  

Sponsored! 

Marian College, WI (minivan) Partial sponsors:
Zebedee Kelly $50

Sponsored!

North Park University, Chicago
(26 students)
 

Sponsored!

Northern H.S. students, Detroit Alpha Phi Alpha, Detroit Gamma Lambda Chapter

 

Manchester College, IN  

Sponsored! 

Michigan State University  

 

Post Middle School students, Detroit Partial sponsorships:
Ingrid Drake $75
Clay Steinman $50

 

Renaissance H.S. students, Detroit Partial sponsorships:
Melissa Collins

 

Shaw University, NC Partial sponsorships:
Deidre Fair, in memory of Turner Fair III $100; Lee Underwood $50; Matthew Charity $25

Sponsored!

Texas Woman's University Shrine of the Black Madonna, Houston

 

University of Cincinnati Partial sponsorship:
Ohio AFL-CIO
Robert Starghill $50
Yolanda Freeman $50

Sponsored!

University of Illinois-Springfield  

Sponsored!

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Partial sponsors:
Kimi Ellen $250
Evelyn Colwell $100

Partially Sponsored
(3 of 5 buses)
 

University of South Carolina Partial sponsorships:
3 of 5 buses paid for
Leroy Felder $100
Carrie Green $100; Myrielle Smith $50;
Sheris Hunt $25

Sponsored!

University of Texas at Austin
(bus costs $6700)
League of United Latin American Citizens

 

University of Michigan Partial sponsorship:
Tanya Hernandez $200
Brandi Coates $200; Mail donation $100; Lori Anderson $100; Robert Chang $50

 

Virginia State University  

 

W.E.B. Dubois Preparatory Academy students, Detroit Belinda McKnight $50
Monica Chestnut $25

Sponsored!

Wilberforce University, OH Partial sponsors:
Kyle Farley and
Keith VanOrden $500

Sponsored!

Wright State University, OH Ohio AFL-CIO
  State of California students California Federation of Teachers $5000

 

3 students from Cal State Sacramento, CA need plane tickets   

 

2 students from City College of Santa Barbara, CA need plane tickets   

 

75 students from Los Angeles area colleges need plane tickets at apx. $200 each Partial sponsorship:
Doris Woods $100
Robert Chang $50
Cecelia Klein $25
Richard Medina $10

 

1 student from Diablo Valley College, CA needs plane ticket  

 

1 student from Heald College, Fresno, CA needs plane ticket  

 

20 students from Oakland, CA high schools need plane tickets Partial sponsorship:
Gregory Askey $200
Karin Cavanaugh $50
Kaori Ikezoe $30
Beth Duschatko $20

 

1 student from San Francisco State needs plane ticket Partial sponsorship:
Vinsonna Physical Therapy Associates $100

 

1 student from San Joaquin School of Law Fresno, CA needs plane ticket  

 

1 student from San Joaquin Valley College student needs plane ticket  

 

Students from UC Berkeley need plane tickets Partial sponsorship:
Robert Chang $50
Cindy Maciel $20
Mail donation $20

 

5 students from UC Davis need plane tickets  

 

3 students from UC Santa Barbara needs plane tickets Partial sponsorship:
Robert Chang $50
Cindy Maciel $20
  10 students from Univ. of Southern California need plane tickets  

Sponsored!

15 students from Debakey High School, Houston, need plane tickets Shrine of the Black Madonna, Houston

Sponsored! 

2 students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha need plane tickets  

 

1 student from the University of Arizona needs a plane ticket  

 
(Last Updated: 05/31/2004 01:37:59 AM -0400)
 

     * If you sponsor any of the students or groups listed above, your name, business,
       or organization will be listed as a sponsor

     *
 If you, your organization, or school needs transportation,
       contact us to be included in the list above!