Negro Digest - Freedom Archives
Negro Digest - Freedom Archives Negro Digest - Freedom Archives
down the auditorium ; LeRoi Jones in a reading, to frequent applause, of some of his cathartic poetry on the steps of the School of Religion ; the breaking up of a hearing in which natural-look Homecoming Queen Robin Gregory was being tried ostensibly because she had helped me and student Huey La- Brie read the Black Power Committee's manifesto ; and the interruption of Selective Service boss General Hershey's speech . Eventually, students hanged Hershey, Nabrit and Dean Frank Snowden in effigy, and followed this with a successful boycott of classes, curiously planned for one day only and ~reportedly representing efforts on the part of moderate student leaders to grab the protest ball from the Black Power Committee . By now we were nearing final exams and it was decided to wrap up protest until the following fall, although a series of six mysterious fires (which may or may not have been connected with student activities ) broke out on campus during the last week or so of school, one of them causing "a general emptying of the Administration building ."~ School closed, and in the dead of early summer about 20 students and six professors received registered letters of dismissal . The manner of selecting the victims was indicative of the general confusion, hysteria and inefficiency of the adminstrators, who held several 46 private meetings with student spies and faculty informants . There were no hearings for dismissed faculty members or students, amounting to a direct denial of due process and the chance to confront accusers, violating the First and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States .P True, some middle-level administrators, including Clyde Ferguson, dean of the Law School, and Frank Snowden, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, went on record as opposing the dismissals . Dean Snowden, who reluctantly signed the letters dismissing the professors and who, up to that time, had risen from one of the favorite Howard professors of the late Forties to the most hated administrator, wrote two letters, both prior to the close of school, opposing the dismissals . One of Dean Snowden's letters to Acting President Wormley pleaded in part : . . . serious anxiety will arise among other faculty members as to the good faith of the university . . . I believe that the whole matter should be reconsidered before any announcements are made . . . because there seems to me to be a strong possibility that the contemplated action may result not only in serious harm to the University's position in the academic community but also in creating obstacles for our recruitment of faculty in the future .' More obnoxious by anybody's (Continued on page 70) March 1968 NEGRO DIGEST
NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 In the days of my visitation, Black hands tended me and cared for me . Black minds, hearts and souls loved me . And I love them because of this . In the early days of my visitation, Black hands tended me and cared for me ; I can't forget these things . For black hearts, minds and souls love me- And even today the overtones from the fire of that love are still burning In the early days of my visitation White rules and laws segregated me . They helped to make me what I am today And what I am, I am . Yes, what I am, I am because of this And because of this My image of paradise is chromatic black . Those who segregate did not segregate in vain For I am, And I am what I am . -SUN RA
- Page 1 and 2: 1YIARCH tliBB A JOtiNSaN rl7"LICATI
- Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS The Blacli University The
- Page 5 and 6: Kwame Nkrumah compares the colonial
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- Page 9 and 10: are we here? We were sent here to l
- Page 11 and 12: acial group with rites and loyaltie
- Page 13 and 14: might well be that, to meet the nee
- Page 15 and 16: A distinguished young educator from
- Page 17 and 18: come to accept the judgment . Conse
- Page 19 and 20: ditional knowledge required for the
- Page 21 and 22: Faculty, Curriculum, Research . . .
- Page 23 and 24: passive role and assumed that the e
- Page 25 and 26: ante is formidable is obvious to an
- Page 27 and 28: Social Change in the Sixties THE BL
- Page 29 and 30: trends in the black community to sh
- Page 31 and 32: ployment rate for black youth betwe
- Page 33 and 34: For Our People - Everywhere "By far
- Page 35 and 36: analogues for possible study . ) We
- Page 37 and 38: World publication of the Caribbean,
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- Page 43 and 44: make Howard "sixty per cent white"
- Page 45: Simultaneously there arose a hybrid
- Page 49 and 50: A Call To Concerned Black Educators
- Page 51 and 52: BOOK "Great Literature i.s simply l
- Page 53 and 54: the members of Miss Brooks' worksho
- Page 55 and 56: BY CHRISTINE REAMS ' . . . Ifo .sat
- Page 57 and 58: as Mike and Jim dashed down the ste
- Page 59 and 60: "Oh, my hair i~ so curly, so curly
- Page 61 and 62: one of them a good whipping, no mat
- Page 63 and 64: a while . I didn't know what she me
- Page 65 and 66: Since sufficient teachers cannot be
- Page 67 and 68: NEW PROGRAMS AND EXPERIMENTATION Th
- Page 69 and 70: TRUSTEES If I seem indifferent to t
- Page 71 and 72: years when '`Christian character an
- Page 73 and 74: leaders and professors posing as mi
- Page 75 and 76: out of "The Punch Out" and other st
- Page 77 and 78: penniless writer, he travels the ga
- Page 79 and 80: No doubt about it, Mr . Williams ca
- Page 81 and 82: esearch crying for the kind of clar
- Page 83 and 84: lightly as Western intellectual imp
- Page 85 and 86: as a white man with a similar educa
- Page 87 and 88: lacks are better off, but we must a
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- Page 91 and 92: compared to white men had not impro
- Page 93 and 94: "iON ONYE LOCKARD is a selftaught a
- Page 95 and 96: Plea ForA Second Chance : Work-worn
NEGRO DIGEST March 1968<br />
In the days of my visitation,<br />
Black hands tended me and cared for me .<br />
Black minds, hearts and souls loved me .<br />
And I love them because of this .<br />
In the early days of my visitation,<br />
Black hands tended me and cared for me ;<br />
I can't forget these things .<br />
For black hearts, minds and souls love me-<br />
And even today the overtones from the fire<br />
of that love are still burning<br />
In the early days of my visitation<br />
White rules and laws segregated me .<br />
They helped to make me what I am today<br />
And what I am, I am .<br />
Yes, what I am, I am because of this<br />
And because of this<br />
My image of paradise is chromatic black .<br />
Those who segregate did not segregate in vain<br />
For I am,<br />
And I am what I am .<br />
-SUN RA
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