Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

Teachers should be organized by school districts at the elementary,
high school, or college level-public, private or parochial .
Other professionals should be organized according to the dictates
of their particular field of endeavor and according to how
their expertise can best be meshed with the total program.
Profession
MEDICAL
Parents
V . PUTTING ON THE CONFERENCE (THIS IS HOW YOU
DO IT)
A . An Ad-Hoc Committee on Relevant Black Education, which is
composed of representatives of community organizations, parent
groups, student groups, and professional groups, will host
a citywide conference wherein the major or focal point of
interest will be a unified approach to collective involvement in
the need for an alternative system of education :
1 . To identify the crises facing the Black community ;
2 . To prepare Black people, mentally and physically, to
survive and to redirect human resources toward liberation
of the Black community ;
3 . To create an independent Black System of Education,
whose governing board-composed of parents, students,
community organization representatives, professionals and
residents of the community-at-large-will assist in both
the establishment and implementation of policies that will
be dictated by the needs and demands of the larger Black
community.
B . Format (Workshops, Lectures and Discussions)
1 . This conference will be concerned with the various aspects
NEGRO DIGEST March 1970
Example :
Teachers Students Comm . Org.
Community- Well-oriented, Absorb and Aid in the
wide orientation transferring Observe and dissemination o1
programs on all adequately to Transfer all facts and
aspects of students and material and
health and total parents and aid
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implementation
survival tech- and assistance for facilities
niques-via to students for massive
workshops and seeking Medical Medical care .
voluntary serv- careers
ice conducted
by medical
,professionals
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