Negro Digest - Freedom Archives
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96 Interruption : More than another version of Mother and Child, this painting speaks to the new visaon of black Americans, who now see their own beauty, but it also celebrates the will to endure of the black people . The mother succors the child as fire rages. March 1968 NEGRO DIGEST
That something is gravely wrong with the conventional approach to the education of black children no longer is arguable. Much of the problem, of course, is general : there is something gravely wrong with American education, period . However, as always in a society which-being racist by nature-assigns opportunities and rewards according to race and color, those people suffer most who are regarded least, and those people in the American society are black people . It is a hopeful sign that some of the brightest young people who have chosen education as their profession are deeply concerned about the deficiencies of existing educational institutions, particularly as these institutions relate to black students and the communities from which the students come . These educators are no longer willing-as so many of their predecessors wereto sit back comfortably and garner laurels and enjoy status while the talent and potential of the masses of black children are criminally wasted . The idea of a Black University-an institution designed to serve the real and total needs of the black community-has taken root, and there is every reason to believe that the idea will grow and eventually take concrete shape . The special issue of NEGRO DIGEST devoted to a consideration of the concept of the Black University developed through discussions with Gerald McWorter, a recent Ph.D . graduate of the University of Chicago now an assistant professor of Sociology at Fisk University in Nashville . In his outline letter to the other contributors to this special issue of NEGRO DIGEST, Mr . McWorter said that the articles dealing with facets of the proposed Black University would concern themselves with "a vision, the articulation of an `ought' . . . for the future . . ." He made it clear that the concept of the Black University, as envisioned by himself and the editors, was concerned with the entire spectrum of social, economic, psychological and cultural imperatives which characterize, influence and control the black community . In a further clarification by the editors, the Black University concept was described as also being "concerned with the art of black people, and with the development and articulation of a black esthetic . It is concerned with the conscious strengthening of those institutions which make the black community viable, and it is dedicated to the liberation of black students (and black people generally) from the inhibiting and crippling presumptions which have been imposed upon black life and culture from outside the black community ." NEGRO DIGEST Morch 1968
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- Page 47 and 48: NEGRO DIGEST March 1968 In the days
- Page 49 and 50: A Call To Concerned Black Educators
- Page 51 and 52: BOOK "Great Literature i.s simply l
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- Page 61 and 62: one of them a good whipping, no mat
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- 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
- Page 89 and 90: income blacks and better for the mi
- Page 91 and 92: compared to white men had not impro
- Page 93 and 94: "iON ONYE LOCKARD is a selftaught a
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- Page 101 and 102: Edgar F . Beck Vincent Hard min E .
- Page 103 and 104: C®i'y~'>~' i'tw'~'~ Editor's Notes
- Page 105 and 106: An Open Letter to Black Students in
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- Page 113 and 114: of white institutions that there si
- Page 115 and 116: Platform and Program S HL "Today we
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- Page 119 and 120: New agencies for Black education (A
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- Page 123 and 124: people in their struggle toward a c
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- Page 127 and 128: e established far Black students th
- Page 129 and 130: A Dual Responsibility The White Uni
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- Page 133 and 134: Black Perspective A cU~TU~~L, ~~~I~
- Page 135 and 136: life-style, yet they persist in the
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- Page 139 and 140: The Positiveness of Separation BL~C
- Page 141 and 142: white students are, except that wha
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96<br />
Interruption : More than another version of Mother<br />
and Child, this painting speaks to the new visaon of<br />
black Americans, who now see their own beauty, but<br />
it also celebrates the will to endure of the black<br />
people . The mother succors the child as fire rages.<br />
March 1968 NEGRO DIGEST
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