Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

For Europe, for ourselves
and for humanity, comrades,
we must turn over a new leaf,
we must work out new concepts,
and try to set afoot a
new man .
As such his call is heir to all the
pitfalls of messianism, at most, and
to the disillusions of aborted hope
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at least . Nevertheless, it may well
be far better that a university
should search and reach and
possibly fail at the practice of such
hope than that it sell out to the
highest bidder and live on in the
style to which America has accustomed
us . If it is better to try to do
our thing, then let us press ontowards
the Black University .
Vincent Harding, author of "Some International Implications of the
Black University," is professor of History at Spelman College in
Atlanta, Ga . Dr . Harding also is coordinator of the forthcoming conference
on "Black Consciousness and Higher Education ." His articles
and poems have appeared previously in NEGRO DIGEST .
March 1968 NEGRO DIGEST