Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

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of curriculum development at the elementary, secondary
and higher levels of education and with possible sites for
conducting a program of education .
2 . Workshops and panel discussions will be held on such
topics as :
a. Independent Black Educational Institutions
b . A Black Umbrella or Black Curtain or Black Curfew
(The formation of committees to investigate "the white
take-over" of Black Studies programs, Black History,
etc.)
c . Community-run Schools
d . Church (Black Community)-supported Schools
e . Private Schools
f. A White Studies Program (research, statistics, and
complete in-depth analysis of systems)
g . Adult Education Programs
h . Governing Boards and Councils on Education
3 . Lectures will be given on socio-psychological problems of
the Black Community and their effect upon :
a . Black education
b . Black organizations
c . Black students
d . Black parents (home, family and community)
C. To implement this program the planning committee has scheduled
a conference that will convene on : Friday, July 3, 1970.
VI . A BLACK BOARD OF EDUCATION (ANTICIPATED
GOAL OF CONFERENCE)
A . Rationale
The things our black community MUST have in order to survive
and be totally-liberated (e .g., self-identity, self-acceptance,
self-actualization and, then, group consciousness and
collectiveness, out of which will come solidarity) will NEVER
be given to us through/from the present stranglehold Establishment
which chokes and renders educational systems into a
state of asphyxiated ineffectiveness .
Black parents will forever attempt to bear the onerous and
unbearable burden of guilt (feelings and expressions) that the
blame for the so-called low achievement of their offspring lies
somewhere between themselves and the black community ; and,
will therefore accept unexplored, misunderstood and perilous
7y March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST