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the spread of Black studies programs<br />
across the country . According to<br />
this report, "nearly all educators<br />
believe that the ultimate and ideal<br />
way to handle material on blacks<br />
and other ethnic groups is to weave<br />
it into the regular curriculum as an<br />
integral part of everything that is<br />
taught from kindergarten to grade<br />
12 ." The report is available from<br />
the Division of Press, Radio and<br />
Television Relations, National Education<br />
Association, 1201 16th Street,<br />
N.W ., Washington, D . C., 20036<br />
. In Chicago, a number of law<br />
firms formed the Legal Opportunities<br />
Scholarship Program (LOSP) "to<br />
increase the number of Black and<br />
other minority group persons in the<br />
legal profession by encouraging and<br />
assisting them to follow a career in<br />
law ." According to a press release<br />
from LOSP, "The program is designed<br />
to: find and encourage Black<br />
and other minority group students<br />
who wish to go to law school, assist<br />
the students in gaining admission to<br />
law school, render financial assistance<br />
and provide summer employ-,<br />
ment in the Chicago area law firms<br />
Pictured on the next page are the<br />
four winners of the Literary Awards<br />
which were announced in the January<br />
issue of NEGRO DIGEST . Two of<br />
the winners are teachers . Mrs .<br />
Eugenia W. Collier, who received the<br />
Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Award<br />
for fiction, teaches literature at Community<br />
College in Baltimore . She<br />
presently is co-editing a fiction anthology<br />
. Herbert Clark Johnson, winner<br />
of the Broadside Press First Publication<br />
Prize, is a public school<br />
teacher in Philadelphia . He has pub-<br />
NEGRO DIGEST March 1970<br />
Literary Award Winners<br />
for those LOSP students who are<br />
attending law school ." It turns out<br />
that although Blacks represent 35<br />
percent of Chicago's population, less<br />
than two percent of the city's lawyers<br />
are Black . Not only that, but<br />
fewer than three percent of the<br />
students in the city's four major<br />
law schools are Black. Edmund A .<br />
Stephan, of the law firm of Mayer,<br />
Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown &<br />
Platt, is chairman of the board of<br />
directors of LOSP . Information on<br />
the organization can be obtained by<br />
writing to 208 S. La Salle Street,<br />
Chicago . . . Chicago's Du Sable<br />
Museum of African American History<br />
offers a correspondence course<br />
in Afro-American History . For details,<br />
contact the museum's director,<br />
Mrs. Margaret Burroughs, at 3806<br />
S . Michigan Ave . . . . The Center<br />
for Black Education in Washington,<br />
D . C ., sponsored an educational field<br />
trip to Trinidad for a number of the<br />
students enrolled at the Center . The<br />
Center publishes a newsletter, the<br />
Pan-African . Address : 1453 Fairmont<br />
Street, N.W .<br />
lisl:ed one collection of poems,<br />
Poems froan Flat Creek . Mae Jackson,<br />
recipient of the Conrad Kent Rivers<br />
Memorial Fund Award, is a SNCC<br />
worker in the New York area and a<br />
resident of Brooklyn . She has published<br />
a collection of poems, Can<br />
Poet With You? Brenda M. Tones,<br />
a native of Tennessee, lives in Chicago<br />
where she and her husband are<br />
students .<br />
In January 1971, two additional<br />
literary prizes will be offered through<br />
NEGxo DIGEST . Awards for Criticism<br />
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