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ev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; o longer here to .protect us By ROBERT A. FEER rr • • • Free at last" January 15, 1929 Associate Professor of History Must the historian wait until many years have passed and "all of the evidence is in"' attempting to analyze the significance of people and events? If so, history could be written since, however long we wait for evidence to accumulate, we can never c om p 1 e t e documentation. Moreover, whenever historians write, whether imately after an event or centuries later, their conclusions are shaped by their values. the historian might as well attempt to formulate his tentative judgments-which all that his conclusions can ever be-while events are still fresh in the memories of conporaries or even while they are still pushing for space in the daily headlines. April 4, 1968 small Black middle class, and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. In be active, positive resistance. And hoped, end th~ war in Vie tnam there were many types of discrim- the days since his death, news- so, for the last ten y~ars of his and end poverty in the United ination which could not be touch- papers and public orators have life, until he was murdered on States. It was his concern wit 1 the ed by legal action. Former Presi- spok~n of King as ccthe apostle of April 4, 1968 while planning a mas- oppressed of all races whic 1 led dent Eisenhower was fond of say- non-violence." But this tells only sive demonstration on behalf of him to direct much of his e tergy ing during his Presidency that laws half of the story. In his books the garbage collectors of Memphsi, in the last weeks of his li le to and court decisions could not Stride Toward Freedom and Why Tennessee, King organized direct winning support for the fort tcomchange a man's way of thinking, We Can't Wait, King emphasized confrontations between his fol- ing Poor People's March on Vashwhich Eisenhower intended as an that his doctrine was non-violent lowers and the forces of racial ington. King, working individually and argument to justify doing nothing. resistance. He stated quite explic- bigotry wherever they existed, wheMartin Luther King, Jr., on the ity that both words were essential ther in Montgomery, or Selma, or through th Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he contrary, realized that legal action - in opposing the evil of racism Chicago. But non-violent resistance, to founded in 1957, achieved a great The National Association for was an important technique. As he or the evil of the Vietnam War, the Advancement of Colored put it, "An anti-lynching law might non-violence was not enough; with- Martin Luther King, was more than deal - civil rights legislatio~ a People, which seemed quite ad- not make a man love me, but it drawal in the pattern of Thoreau a philosophy and a technique to spirit of love within the hear s of (Continued on Page 5) venturesome when it was form· might keep him from killing me." was insufficient. There must also defeat racial bigotry. It could, he But King also realized that legal action could not by inself win the battle. Instead, it was necessary to develop a technique which would produce love, which would produce a spiritual regeneration within each human being, and which would focus attention upon social ills. Non-violent resistance was the answer. Violence, King insisted, was both socially and spiritually destructive. Non-violent resistance, on ed early in the twentieth century, the other hand, as he put it in his committed itself to court action speech when he was awarded the as its basic techniques to win Nobel Prize for Peace, is not "sterVOL. L - No. 19 BOSTON, MASS. APRIL 12, 1968 equality for Blacks. Americans ile passivity" but rather a positive might - as many Whites and force "which makes for sociall--------=~......------------~---------~~--------- even some Blacks did - disap- transformation." Prove of the NAACP, but they Again, there were certain Americould not deny that its reliance can precedents, including Henry upon the courts was consistent David Thoreau. But, there is a sigBy JOE SMIAROWSKI with American tradition. Its vic· nificant difference between ThorA memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by the Black Student Union, tory in the school desegregation eau and King. The Transcendentalcases decided by the U. S. Su· ist believed that it was virtue was held Monday at Alumni Auditorium. More than 800 students attended. preme Court in 1954 is only one enough for a man to refuse to supPresident Asa Knowles, Professor Harvey Vetstein, and Dean Charles Havice were of the many court cases which port evil. If the nation was fightamong the guest speakers. the NAACP has won during the ing an evil war, as Thoreau believPresident Knowles said, "Rev- It would be a betrayal of this mem- Black Student Union at Northeasthalf century since its founding. ed we were against Mexico, it was erend King was a world citizen, a orial service if it was emotional." ern, spok next. "To the Black But, by the late 1950's, it was sufficient for a righteous man to leader of all men who believed in Dean Havice also said the Dr. man, it is a tragedy that he had becoming obvious to many Blacks refuse to pay the taxes which supequality. "There will never be an- King "had the magnanimity of to die because of a petty differthat the legalistic approach of the ported the war effort. Not so Marother leader who will carry the ~AACP had sharp limitations - tin Luther King, who also drew strength and inspiration of this spirit that transcends things that ence such as the color of his skin." divide lesser spirits." He continued, " Can you blame Its Progress was painfully slow, its heavily upon such non-American man,'' he continued. Professor Vetstein compared Dr. the Blacks for distrusting white sogains accrued primarily to the !doctrinE~ as Christianity and the Dr. Knowles explained that the Kings' life to those of Jesus and ciety when white apathy looks the University closed Friday because Moses. "King, like Moses, was lead- other way and white hate shatter"it was a time for everyone to ing his people to the Promised ed King's dream with a bullet? think about race relations. ''This land," Professor Vetstein said. This blindness and hatred by the the years since the second War., Black Americans have three methods to achieve goals of racial equality-legal 11lrocee1dlngs, non-violent resistance, Black Power. Each of these has had its strengths its weaknesses, its advantages its disadvantages, its achi~ve ts and its limitations. And each had historical precedents withthe American past. ana_ lysis .NOKm BOO attend service for Dr. King meeting is a reminder that North· eastern is trying to bring equal opportunity to all races," sta.ted Pres. Knowles. The University is conducting programs to help solve the racial problems through Financial Aid, a reading program, and a school for high school dropouts. President Knowles said he was "ashamed that King was ·assassinated by a white citizen, but, perhaps after his death, a stronger program could develop to help the Negroes." Jttssie Richie, a member of the (Continued on Page 2) Black students request Dleeting adniinistration Rick Johnson, representing the Afro-American Society, and Henry Cabarrus, of the Black Student Union have requested through The NEWS a meeting with administration officials "to find a way to turn Northeastern's resources towards aiding the Black community." Johnson suggested that the depriving other Black students who United Front of Roxbury, a con are more needy from receiving "Except for the death of Presi· federation of Black action groups, aid. dent Kennedy, the nation has never should be included in any talks. "The students from the College gone into such mourning," he concluded. The next speaker, Dean Havice, is a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and has participated in demonstrations led by Dr. King. Dean Havice said, "Emotionalism can get in the way of intelligence. -Bob Malorm No NEWS Next Week "Last week The NEWS announced that NU would administer 500,000 dollars for the develop· ment of the Lowell school system," said Johnson. ''The university has its priorities mixed. It should be helping Roxbury first." of Education who teach in Roxbury are not adequately prepared to handle the problems they encoun· ter. They should be required to take courses in sociology in order to understand the environment they are entering/' Johnson points out that Northeastern's claims to assistance are misleading. "Three-forths of the Black students who are receiving grants from the Ford Foundation would ~ on athletic scholarship. This is Until programs can be formulated, the United Black Front is calling for money, food, and clothes to aid the Roxbury people. Northeastern students can send all assistance to 215 Richards, care of Jerry Anderson. �\ Northeastern NEWS, April 12, 1968 analysis (Continued from Page 1) e Whites, and, most important all, a sense of racial pride and Blacks. Thanks to King, violence won among civil rights rkers. But, again, there were itations. There were barriers ich could not be toppled and pie who would not be moved, luding some of those who, now at he is safely dead, pay him m •. a A so, by the summer of 1966, n ng's dominance in the struggle human equality was being chaloged. After June of 1966, many ack Americans enlisted behind banner of "Black Power." Black wer has meant many things. m of these meanings, such as e use of organized economic and litical power by Blacks for the oefit of Blacks, Martin Luther · g could support, as he pointed t in his most recent book, Where We Go From Here. But King t uncomfortable with the phrase lack Power," which he feared uld breed hate rather than love. anwhile, some - and increa~ gly the most vocal Black wer advocates recommended vioce rather than non-violent reance as the means of achieving uality. Once again, Blacks were commit- ting themselves to doctrines and techniques which had innumerable precedents in the American past. Virtually every ethnic, religious, and racial group within the United States had organized itself for political and economic .and social activity; indeed, American history can probably be written more meaningfully in terms of ethnic groups than in terms of the myth of the "melting pot." Black power advocates who supported violence could also find .ample precedent. Frederick Jackson Turner and other American historians have pointed out that lawlessness and violence permeate American society and distinguished us from Europe. John Hope Franklin has shown in The Militant South that the facade of southern gentility hid a reality of White violence in the years before the Civil War. And perhaps it comes with illgrace for a nation which tolerated with little or no protest the brutal lynching of almost 3,500 Blacks between 1882 and 1950 suddenly to discover the evils of violence in the mid-1960's. As an individual, I find violence abhorrent. But, as an historian, I must admit that violence under the banner of Black power has produced some positive results. If Whites have been willing to meet some of the demands of Blacks for racial iustice and human decency in New York, in Detroit, in Los Angeles, it has been at least in part because of the realization that refusal would mean further violenc • In· deed, Martin Luther King was tolerated by some Whites only because they realized that he was all that stood between them and chaos. And now, that barrier is gone and we all busily, frantically go to memorial services on behalf of Martin Luther King, Jr. Some do so out of a deep admiration for the man, the values which he held, the goals which he hoped to achieve, and the techniques through which he tried to reach them. But others pay homage to King as a means of buying more time in which to do nothing, as a means of trying to convince the Black community that Whites have done every thing which can reasonably be expected of them. For these people, mouthing platitudes about the heroic qualities of Martin Luther King is, .at best, an exercise in hypocrisy; at worst, an exercise in futility. There are many things which all of us, in our daily lives, can do in the spirit of Martin Luther King, even those of us - and I must number myself .among this group - who find participation in public demonstrations temperamentally uncongenial or who are too cowardly to take part in public match- es. We can contribute money not only to such organizations as the NAACP and Urban League but to Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the Congress of Racial Equality or the Metropolitan Council for Educational Oportunity (METCO). We can refuse to patronize stores near the campus and throughout the city which do not employ a significant number of Blacks. We can insist that Departmental Chairmen and College Deans develop, support, and perpetuate courses in the social sciences and the humanities which will illuminate the role of race in American life. If our parents live in .a two-family house in a White neighborhood, we can urge them to make a concerted effort to find Black tenants; merely saying that we do not practice discrimination is not enough to produce integrated neighborhoods. If we live in ari apartment house .and sub-let the apartment during the summer or while out-of-town on a temporary job, we can go out of our way to rent the apartment to a Black tenant - and then fight the case before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination when the eminently respectable owner of the apartment house tries to evade the law by denying us the right to brlng in Black residents. If the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Chamber of Com- merce continue to plan a world's fair for Boston without involving Blacks extensively in the planning and without insisting that the construction unions which will benefit from a world's fair be truly integrated, we can warn them that their path will not be an easy one. If we live in lily-white commonities, as most Northeastern University faculty members and administrators do, we can fight to change the social patterns which for alltoo-long have gone unquestioned. In the short story "Simple Prays a Prayer," Langston Hughes's hero talks about what the world will be like at the second coming. Simple, with bitterness of which Martin Luther King would never have approved, says, "Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas! I hope he smites white folks down! '' But, when he is asked, "You don't mean all white folks , do you?'' he replies, "No, I hope He lets Mrs. Roovevelt alone." Many of us would like to be .added to the list of people to be spared. But, it is important to remember that Martin Luther King, who would have abhorred even a single person being smitten down, is one longer here to protect us. In the HUB of BOSTON Despite fiendish torture dynamic BiC Duo writes first time, every time!. BE ACO STREET HOTEL me's rugged pair of stick pens wins again in unending war against balJ-point skip, clog and smear. Despite horrible punishment by mad scientists, BIC still writes first time, every time. And no wonder. sic's "Dyamite" Ball is the hardest metal made, encased in a solid brass nose cone. Will not skip, clog or smear no matter what devilish abuse is devised for them by sadistic students. Get the dynamic BIC Duo at your campus store now. Greoter Boston's Finest Motor Hotel • 200 Air-Conditioned Room • Color TV in ALL ROOMS '?#?& • 24-HOUR COFFEE SHOP WATEIIIIAN-IIC PEN CORP. MILFORD, CONN. N • Minutes from Downtown Boston by Trolley • Ample FREE Garage Parking • All Credit Cards Honored Complete Facilities for BUSINESS MEETINGS Tel. 617 /2~~-7979 SiC Medium Point 19C 1200 BEACON STREET, BROOKLINE, MASS. B1C Fine Point 25C -·- - -··-····· ... ' " Page Five �
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Mourning
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Historians
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Historians
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ev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; o longer here to .protect us By ROBERT A. FEER rr • • • Free at last" January 15, 1929 Associate Professor of History Must the historian wait until many years have passed and "all of the evidence is in"' attempting to analyze the significance of people and events? If so, history could be written since, however long we wait for evidence to accumulate, we can never c om p 1 e t e documentation. Moreover, whenever historians write, whether imately after an event or centuries later, their conclusions are shaped by their values. the historian might as well attempt to formulate his tentative judgments-which all that his conclusions can ever be-while events are still fresh in the memories of conporaries or even while they are still pushing for space in the daily headlines. April 4, 1968 small Black middle class, and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. In be active, positive resistance. And hoped, end th~ war in Vie tnam there were many types of discrim- the days since his death, news- so, for the last ten y~ars of his and end poverty in the United ination which could not be touch- papers and public orators have life, until he was murdered on States. It was his concern wit 1 the ed by legal action. Former Presi- spok~n of King as ccthe apostle of April 4, 1968 while planning a mas- oppressed of all races whic 1 led dent Eisenhower was fond of say- non-violence." But this tells only sive demonstration on behalf of him to direct much of his e tergy ing during his Presidency that laws half of the story. In his books the garbage collectors of Memphsi, in the last weeks of his li le to and court decisions could not Stride Toward Freedom and Why Tennessee, King organized direct winning support for the fort tcomchange a man's way of thinking, We Can't Wait, King emphasized confrontations between his fol- ing Poor People's March on Vashwhich Eisenhower intended as an that his doctrine was non-violent lowers and the forces of racial ington. King, working individually and argument to justify doing nothing. resistance. He stated quite explic- bigotry wherever they existed, wheMartin Luther King, Jr., on the ity that both words were essential ther in Montgomery, or Selma, or through th Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he contrary, realized that legal action - in opposing the evil of racism Chicago. But non-violent resistance, to founded in 1957, achieved a great The National Association for was an important technique. As he or the evil of the Vietnam War, the Advancement of Colored put it, "An anti-lynching law might non-violence was not enough; with- Martin Luther King, was more than deal - civil rights legislatio~ a People, which seemed quite ad- not make a man love me, but it drawal in the pattern of Thoreau a philosophy and a technique to spirit of love within the hear s of (Continued on Page 5) venturesome when it was form· might keep him from killing me." was insufficient. There must also defeat racial bigotry. It could, he But King also realized that legal action could not by inself win the battle. Instead, it was necessary to develop a technique which would produce love, which would produce a spiritual regeneration within each human being, and which would focus attention upon social ills. Non-violent resistance was the answer. Violence, King insisted, was both socially and spiritually destructive. Non-violent resistance, on ed early in the twentieth century, the other hand, as he put it in his committed itself to court action speech when he was awarded the as its basic techniques to win Nobel Prize for Peace, is not "sterVOL. L - No. 19 BOSTON, MASS. APRIL 12, 1968 equality for Blacks. Americans ile passivity" but rather a positive might - as many Whites and force "which makes for sociall--------=~......------------~---------~~--------- even some Blacks did - disap- transformation." Prove of the NAACP, but they Again, there were certain Americould not deny that its reliance can precedents, including Henry upon the courts was consistent David Thoreau. But, there is a sigBy JOE SMIAROWSKI with American tradition. Its vic· nificant difference between ThorA memorial service for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sponsored by the Black Student Union, tory in the school desegregation eau and King. The Transcendentalcases decided by the U. S. Su· ist believed that it was virtue was held Monday at Alumni Auditorium. More than 800 students attended. preme Court in 1954 is only one enough for a man to refuse to supPresident Asa Knowles, Professor Harvey Vetstein, and Dean Charles Havice were of the many court cases which port evil. If the nation was fightamong the guest speakers. the NAACP has won during the ing an evil war, as Thoreau believPresident Knowles said, "Rev- It would be a betrayal of this mem- Black Student Union at Northeasthalf century since its founding. ed we were against Mexico, it was erend King was a world citizen, a orial service if it was emotional." ern, spok next. "To the Black But, by the late 1950's, it was sufficient for a righteous man to leader of all men who believed in Dean Havice also said the Dr. man, it is a tragedy that he had becoming obvious to many Blacks refuse to pay the taxes which supequality. "There will never be an- King "had the magnanimity of to die because of a petty differthat the legalistic approach of the ported the war effort. Not so Marother leader who will carry the ~AACP had sharp limitations - tin Luther King, who also drew strength and inspiration of this spirit that transcends things that ence such as the color of his skin." divide lesser spirits." He continued, " Can you blame Its Progress was painfully slow, its heavily upon such non-American man,'' he continued. Professor Vetstein compared Dr. the Blacks for distrusting white sogains accrued primarily to the !doctrinE~ as Christianity and the Dr. Knowles explained that the Kings' life to those of Jesus and ciety when white apathy looks the University closed Friday because Moses. "King, like Moses, was lead- other way and white hate shatter"it was a time for everyone to ing his people to the Promised ed King's dream with a bullet? think about race relations. ''This land," Professor Vetstein said. This blindness and hatred by the the years since the second War., Black Americans have three methods to achieve goals of racial equality-legal 11lrocee1dlngs, non-violent resistance, Black Power. Each of these has had its strengths its weaknesses, its advantages its disadvantages, its achi~ve ts and its limitations. And each had historical precedents withthe American past. ana_ lysis .NOKm BOO attend service for Dr. King meeting is a reminder that North· eastern is trying to bring equal opportunity to all races," sta.ted Pres. Knowles. The University is conducting programs to help solve the racial problems through Financial Aid, a reading program, and a school for high school dropouts. President Knowles said he was "ashamed that King was ·assassinated by a white citizen, but, perhaps after his death, a stronger program could develop to help the Negroes." Jttssie Richie, a member of the (Continued on Page 2) Black students request Dleeting adniinistration Rick Johnson, representing the Afro-American Society, and Henry Cabarrus, of the Black Student Union have requested through The NEWS a meeting with administration officials "to find a way to turn Northeastern's resources towards aiding the Black community." Johnson suggested that the depriving other Black students who United Front of Roxbury, a con are more needy from receiving "Except for the death of Presi· federation of Black action groups, aid. dent Kennedy, the nation has never should be included in any talks. "The students from the College gone into such mourning," he concluded. The next speaker, Dean Havice, is a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and has participated in demonstrations led by Dr. King. Dean Havice said, "Emotionalism can get in the way of intelligence. -Bob Malorm No NEWS Next Week "Last week The NEWS announced that NU would administer 500,000 dollars for the develop· ment of the Lowell school system," said Johnson. ''The university has its priorities mixed. It should be helping Roxbury first." of Education who teach in Roxbury are not adequately prepared to handle the problems they encoun· ter. They should be required to take courses in sociology in order to understand the environment they are entering/' Johnson points out that Northeastern's claims to assistance are misleading. "Three-forths of the Black students who are receiving grants from the Ford Foundation would ~ on athletic scholarship. This is Until programs can be formulated, the United Black Front is calling for money, food, and clothes to aid the Roxbury people. Northeastern students can send all assistance to 215 Richards, care of Jerry Anderson. �\ Northeastern NEWS, April 12, 1968 analysis (Continued from Page 1) e Whites, and, most important all, a sense of racial pride and Blacks. Thanks to King, violence won among civil rights rkers. But, again, there were itations. There were barriers ich could not be toppled and pie who would not be moved, luding some of those who, now at he is safely dead, pay him m •. a A so, by the summer of 1966, n ng's dominance in the struggle human equality was being chaloged. After June of 1966, many ack Americans enlisted behind banner of "Black Power." Black wer has meant many things. m of these meanings, such as e use of organized economic and litical power by Blacks for the oefit of Blacks, Martin Luther · g could support, as he pointed t in his most recent book, Where We Go From Here. But King t uncomfortable with the phrase lack Power," which he feared uld breed hate rather than love. anwhile, some - and increa~ gly the most vocal Black wer advocates recommended vioce rather than non-violent reance as the means of achieving uality. Once again, Blacks were commit- ting themselves to doctrines and techniques which had innumerable precedents in the American past. Virtually every ethnic, religious, and racial group within the United States had organized itself for political and economic .and social activity; indeed, American history can probably be written more meaningfully in terms of ethnic groups than in terms of the myth of the "melting pot." Black power advocates who supported violence could also find .ample precedent. Frederick Jackson Turner and other American historians have pointed out that lawlessness and violence permeate American society and distinguished us from Europe. John Hope Franklin has shown in The Militant South that the facade of southern gentility hid a reality of White violence in the years before the Civil War. And perhaps it comes with illgrace for a nation which tolerated with little or no protest the brutal lynching of almost 3,500 Blacks between 1882 and 1950 suddenly to discover the evils of violence in the mid-1960's. As an individual, I find violence abhorrent. But, as an historian, I must admit that violence under the banner of Black power has produced some positive results. If Whites have been willing to meet some of the demands of Blacks for racial iustice and human decency in New York, in Detroit, in Los Angeles, it has been at least in part because of the realization that refusal would mean further violenc • In· deed, Martin Luther King was tolerated by some Whites only because they realized that he was all that stood between them and chaos. And now, that barrier is gone and we all busily, frantically go to memorial services on behalf of Martin Luther King, Jr. Some do so out of a deep admiration for the man, the values which he held, the goals which he hoped to achieve, and the techniques through which he tried to reach them. But others pay homage to King as a means of buying more time in which to do nothing, as a means of trying to convince the Black community that Whites have done every thing which can reasonably be expected of them. For these people, mouthing platitudes about the heroic qualities of Martin Luther King is, .at best, an exercise in hypocrisy; at worst, an exercise in futility. There are many things which all of us, in our daily lives, can do in the spirit of Martin Luther King, even those of us - and I must number myself .among this group - who find participation in public demonstrations temperamentally uncongenial or who are too cowardly to take part in public match- es. We can contribute money not only to such organizations as the NAACP and Urban League but to Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference or the Congress of Racial Equality or the Metropolitan Council for Educational Oportunity (METCO). We can refuse to patronize stores near the campus and throughout the city which do not employ a significant number of Blacks. We can insist that Departmental Chairmen and College Deans develop, support, and perpetuate courses in the social sciences and the humanities which will illuminate the role of race in American life. If our parents live in .a two-family house in a White neighborhood, we can urge them to make a concerted effort to find Black tenants; merely saying that we do not practice discrimination is not enough to produce integrated neighborhoods. If we live in ari apartment house .and sub-let the apartment during the summer or while out-of-town on a temporary job, we can go out of our way to rent the apartment to a Black tenant - and then fight the case before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination when the eminently respectable owner of the apartment house tries to evade the law by denying us the right to brlng in Black residents. If the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Chamber of Com- merce continue to plan a world's fair for Boston without involving Blacks extensively in the planning and without insisting that the construction unions which will benefit from a world's fair be truly integrated, we can warn them that their path will not be an easy one. If we live in lily-white commonities, as most Northeastern University faculty members and administrators do, we can fight to change the social patterns which for alltoo-long have gone unquestioned. In the short story "Simple Prays a Prayer," Langston Hughes's hero talks about what the world will be like at the second coming. Simple, with bitterness of which Martin Luther King would never have approved, says, "Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas! I hope he smites white folks down! '' But, when he is asked, "You don't mean all white folks , do you?'' he replies, "No, I hope He lets Mrs. Roovevelt alone." Many of us would like to be .added to the list of people to be spared. But, it is important to remember that Martin Luther King, who would have abhorred even a single person being smitten down, is one longer here to protect us. In the HUB of BOSTON Despite fiendish torture dynamic BiC Duo writes first time, every time!. BE ACO STREET HOTEL me's rugged pair of stick pens wins again in unending war against balJ-point skip, clog and smear. Despite horrible punishment by mad scientists, BIC still writes first time, every time. And no wonder. sic's "Dyamite" Ball is the hardest metal made, encased in a solid brass nose cone. Will not skip, clog or smear no matter what devilish abuse is devised for them by sadistic students. Get the dynamic BIC Duo at your campus store now. Greoter Boston's Finest Motor Hotel • 200 Air-Conditioned Room • Color TV in ALL ROOMS '?#?& • 24-HOUR COFFEE SHOP WATEIIIIAN-IIC PEN CORP. MILFORD, CONN. N • Minutes from Downtown Boston by Trolley • Ample FREE Garage Parking • All Credit Cards Honored Complete Facilities for BUSINESS MEETINGS Tel. 617 /2~~-7979 SiC Medium Point 19C 1200 BEACON STREET, BROOKLINE, MASS. B1C Fine Point 25C -·- - -··-····· ... ' " Page Five �
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African American Activists
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Mourning
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Mourning
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Page Four Northeastern NEWS, April 12, 1968 'MIDST GRIEF AND SORROW: BLACK ANGE By LARRY ROTHSTEIN It is Friday morning, April 5, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down last night in Memphis by an a.Ssassin born in the womb of white racism. Northeastern has ended classes to honor Kings's memory. #Eighty-one per cent of the peopie surveyed in the North · elt that 1 Negroes laugh a lot." We assemble across the street from the State House, near the monument of the Boston Massacre. Cryspis Attucks, a Black man, was the first American to die. "But that was 300 years ago. They have been free since 1865/' The leaders of the march tell the crowd to separate into two groups, .black and white and to march separately to Post Office Square. There are cries: "No, no, that is not what King died for." But it is done. Blacks assemble at the bottom of the hill, then slice through the whites singing "Ungowa, Black Power, Ungowa, Black Power." After the ypass, we join hands an1 mareh, four abreast. "I have seen t.he promised land a,nd we as a people will go -~o the promised land." The day has warmed up. The sun is bright, sharp. 'rhe marchers are calm, relaxed. We walk \:hrough downtown Boston, carrying signs which say a multitude of things, but which reflect only one thing-.our shame. "I don't like to have to ·~ouch them. It makes me squeamish." The wind is strong, aggressive. It blows fiercely down (he canyons ings, monuments to enduring capitalism. I am carrying a sign which says. "Can white America see white guilt and build a new society." The bankers s t a r e blankly, hardly moving in their cushioned ·::hairs. "The biggest single cause for the Negroes' rage and frustration lies in his migration to an alien and fierce competitive urban world in which the Negroe's past miseries and future. expectations have been callously exploited." We sing "We Shall Overcome" sporadically. We sing it quietly and slowly, perhaps to convince ourselves that the song still retains its truth. "Black and white together, I do believe." We pour into George ·rhorendike Angell Memorial Plaza and surround the monument built in his name. The flag is at full mast atop the Federal building. The crowd begins to clap rythmatically, and to shout: Lower the flag, lower the flag, lower the flag! It is lowered. "The King is dea.d, long live the King." The square is jammed with mora than 10,000 people, and Edward Blackman, a minister, begins. "No words can be spoken about Ma·r tin Luther King that can diminish what he spoke with his life,'' says Blackman. and pieces of man into the bright, fresh air. It is the wind of changP.. We walk past Jordan's, Fil ~me's, past R. H. Stearns, S.S. Pierce, past shoe stores, restaurants, past cold, plastic mannequins, easily twistable into different forms of life, past a movie called "The Day of the Eyil Gunn." ''How long is this march going to last, I ha,ve to meet my m9ther at Filene's at one o'clock." We move into the financial dis- Selma, and Memphis he was prepared to die. His murder -:!arne about because he was so long prepared to ~e." he continues . Blackman says King's death is an "expression of the daily violence of white citizenry. America's climate of violence has encouraged his murder. The system that destr<>ys the manhood of every black man has encouraged his murder." Terry Cannon of Resistance speaks now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~~===~~~~~~~ct~~~oo.T~~~y~M "The~dci~~iso~~it~s ''You don't know wha,t they're going to do. You're leery. They carry razors, knives, rape women ••. I'm scared of them.11 We are leaving, about 200 students, to march to the State House~ there to join others in a sympathy march to Post Office Square. Northeastern has 7,500 undergraduates. They are leaving, by trolly, to go home. "I don't mind them unless they're very dark, or if they are very odorous." We march down Mass. Ave., turn left onto Commonwealth Ave., and cut across the Common. 'rhe morning is dark, cloudy, portentous of rain. The · marched's are subdued, quiet. People stare increduously as we go by. LAST SOLO CONCEIT 81FOII HIS IUIOPIAN fOUl t;!®M [H ']1~00 AT BACK BAY SAT. EVI. 8:30 THEATRE APII120th TICICITI f2.71 3.10 4.00 4.10 CLUB 47,47 PALMI. ST.,CAMB.IDGI BOX OFF~ 209 MASS. AVI,, BOSTON ALL TICiliT AGINCIIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lofth~~dci~,lifting~rta~bUs I vARSITY CHEERLEADING . TRY-OUTS All Upperclass Women Eligible PRACTICE SESSIONS: Wednesday, April 17th, 6:30 355(A) EC Tuesday, April 23rd, 6:30 355(8) EC TRY-OUTS: Thursday, April. 25th, 7:00 355(8) EC Shorts, blouse and sneakers required for practice sessions and try-outs. I Photocopies . YAMAHA UNIVERSITY See Professor Ruane at BOSTON 5 speed trans ''fu Bi~~gham, Mon~omer~ • D• o· l Offset Printing Thesis Typing Professional Resumes Raised-Letter Printing 1 I COPY'\\'El..L 44 &AINSIOIO STIEET ArMacl the cOf'Ret tr... Heyes-liclrforcl _ , •• · • ,• SERVICES &..oc.tecl Colwen1eftllr Acton from N.U. "'•• COppell 7..0771 HENRY TURNER a period of delusion. The hot dvil war will begin if the system is not destroyed." "Racism is created by whites, · must be ended by whites. But th Kerner report has proclai America is incapable and unwilling to do this - it hides behind L he mask of law and order," says Cannon. "Whites have got to face the Iact that democracy has collapsed u the U.S. oppression of nonIf the lives of blacks are threaten no one is safe," he continues. "Whites must begin to take en mous risks to end racism. We make them understand that lence is the inevitable outcome their own oppression . Oppression is built into the structure. Whites build, own and control it, so we must tear down this structure,'' Cannon explains. "Nothing can make property more important than human lives.'' he concluded. Next Mike Brown of North eastern. "The Black man ha nothing. All I see is hypocrisy out there. Your system killed King . nd 1 you're all going to be dead; dead, dead!" Then I:Jenry Turner, also of N- U "You all feel nice don't you. B will you act. Will yo~ do something. I don't think so. There's going lo be a long , hot summer. This is the • t1 end of one' way and the beginnm::o of another," he says. COMI.OII.Ofti·NtD ~A1CH_ a· ~~ World's largest NOW OPEN BOWLING &BILLIARDS One block from N.U . Next to Symphony Ha ll Huntington ''55' Alleys 255 Huntington Avenue OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Open Weekdays at 6:30 a.m. and Sundays ·at 1 p.m. Simmons Drama Society Spring Production 'UNDER MILKWOOD'? 6 LARGEST DEALER 949 COMMONWEALTH AVE., AT B.U. FIELD AL 4-1150 by Dylan Thomas APRIL 26-27 - $1 • 8:30 p.rn. 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Mourning
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Mourning
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Page Four Northeastern NEWS, April 12, 1968 'MIDST GRIEF AND SORROW: BLACK ANGE By LARRY ROTHSTEIN It is Friday morning, April 5, 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down last night in Memphis by an a.Ssassin born in the womb of white racism. Northeastern has ended classes to honor Kings's memory. #Eighty-one per cent of the peopie surveyed in the North · elt that 1 Negroes laugh a lot." We assemble across the street from the State House, near the monument of the Boston Massacre. Cryspis Attucks, a Black man, was the first American to die. "But that was 300 years ago. They have been free since 1865/' The leaders of the march tell the crowd to separate into two groups, .black and white and to march separately to Post Office Square. There are cries: "No, no, that is not what King died for." But it is done. Blacks assemble at the bottom of the hill, then slice through the whites singing "Ungowa, Black Power, Ungowa, Black Power." After the ypass, we join hands an1 mareh, four abreast. "I have seen t.he promised land a,nd we as a people will go -~o the promised land." The day has warmed up. The sun is bright, sharp. 'rhe marchers are calm, relaxed. We walk \:hrough downtown Boston, carrying signs which say a multitude of things, but which reflect only one thing-.our shame. "I don't like to have to ·~ouch them. It makes me squeamish." The wind is strong, aggressive. It blows fiercely down (he canyons ings, monuments to enduring capitalism. I am carrying a sign which says. "Can white America see white guilt and build a new society." The bankers s t a r e blankly, hardly moving in their cushioned ·::hairs. "The biggest single cause for the Negroes' rage and frustration lies in his migration to an alien and fierce competitive urban world in which the Negroe's past miseries and future. expectations have been callously exploited." We sing "We Shall Overcome" sporadically. We sing it quietly and slowly, perhaps to convince ourselves that the song still retains its truth. "Black and white together, I do believe." We pour into George ·rhorendike Angell Memorial Plaza and surround the monument built in his name. The flag is at full mast atop the Federal building. The crowd begins to clap rythmatically, and to shout: Lower the flag, lower the flag, lower the flag! It is lowered. "The King is dea.d, long live the King." The square is jammed with mora than 10,000 people, and Edward Blackman, a minister, begins. "No words can be spoken about Ma·r tin Luther King that can diminish what he spoke with his life,'' says Blackman. and pieces of man into the bright, fresh air. It is the wind of changP.. We walk past Jordan's, Fil ~me's, past R. H. Stearns, S.S. Pierce, past shoe stores, restaurants, past cold, plastic mannequins, easily twistable into different forms of life, past a movie called "The Day of the Eyil Gunn." ''How long is this march going to last, I ha,ve to meet my m9ther at Filene's at one o'clock." We move into the financial dis- Selma, and Memphis he was prepared to die. His murder -:!arne about because he was so long prepared to ~e." he continues . Blackman says King's death is an "expression of the daily violence of white citizenry. America's climate of violence has encouraged his murder. The system that destr<>ys the manhood of every black man has encouraged his murder." Terry Cannon of Resistance speaks now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~~===~~~~~~~ct~~~oo.T~~~y~M "The~dci~~iso~~it~s ''You don't know wha,t they're going to do. You're leery. They carry razors, knives, rape women ••. I'm scared of them.11 We are leaving, about 200 students, to march to the State House~ there to join others in a sympathy march to Post Office Square. Northeastern has 7,500 undergraduates. They are leaving, by trolly, to go home. "I don't mind them unless they're very dark, or if they are very odorous." We march down Mass. Ave., turn left onto Commonwealth Ave., and cut across the Common. 'rhe morning is dark, cloudy, portentous of rain. The · marched's are subdued, quiet. People stare increduously as we go by. LAST SOLO CONCEIT 81FOII HIS IUIOPIAN fOUl t;!®M [H ']1~00 AT BACK BAY SAT. EVI. 8:30 THEATRE APII120th TICICITI f2.71 3.10 4.00 4.10 CLUB 47,47 PALMI. ST.,CAMB.IDGI BOX OFF~ 209 MASS. AVI,, BOSTON ALL TICiliT AGINCIIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lofth~~dci~,lifting~rta~bUs I vARSITY CHEERLEADING . TRY-OUTS All Upperclass Women Eligible PRACTICE SESSIONS: Wednesday, April 17th, 6:30 355(A) EC Tuesday, April 23rd, 6:30 355(8) EC TRY-OUTS: Thursday, April. 25th, 7:00 355(8) EC Shorts, blouse and sneakers required for practice sessions and try-outs. I Photocopies . YAMAHA UNIVERSITY See Professor Ruane at BOSTON 5 speed trans ''fu Bi~~gham, Mon~omer~ • D• o· l Offset Printing Thesis Typing Professional Resumes Raised-Letter Printing 1 I COPY'\\'El..L 44 &AINSIOIO STIEET ArMacl the cOf'Ret tr... Heyes-liclrforcl _ , •• · • ,• SERVICES &..oc.tecl Colwen1eftllr Acton from N.U. "'•• COppell 7..0771 HENRY TURNER a period of delusion. The hot dvil war will begin if the system is not destroyed." "Racism is created by whites, · must be ended by whites. But th Kerner report has proclai America is incapable and unwilling to do this - it hides behind L he mask of law and order," says Cannon. "Whites have got to face the Iact that democracy has collapsed u the U.S. oppression of nonIf the lives of blacks are threaten no one is safe," he continues. "Whites must begin to take en mous risks to end racism. We make them understand that lence is the inevitable outcome their own oppression . Oppression is built into the structure. Whites build, own and control it, so we must tear down this structure,'' Cannon explains. "Nothing can make property more important than human lives.'' he concluded. Next Mike Brown of North eastern. "The Black man ha nothing. All I see is hypocrisy out there. Your system killed King . nd 1 you're all going to be dead; dead, dead!" Then I:Jenry Turner, also of N- U "You all feel nice don't you. B will you act. Will yo~ do something. I don't think so. There's going lo be a long , hot summer. This is the • t1 end of one' way and the beginnm::o of another," he says. COMI.OII.Ofti·NtD ~A1CH_ a· ~~ World's largest NOW OPEN BOWLING &BILLIARDS One block from N.U . Next to Symphony Ha ll Huntington ''55' Alleys 255 Huntington Avenue OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Open Weekdays at 6:30 a.m. and Sundays ·at 1 p.m. Simmons Drama Society Spring Production 'UNDER MILKWOOD'? 6 LARGEST DEALER 949 COMMONWEALTH AVE., AT B.U. FIELD AL 4-1150 by Dylan Thomas APRIL 26-27 - $1 • 8:30 p.rn. 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