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Campus Mirror Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia VOL. \1\ NOVEMBER. 1942 NO- 2 Paul Robeson Speaks at Atlanta University Paul Robeson, internationally famous singer and actor, addressed more than 1600 students, faculty members, and friends of the Atlanta University Sys tem. who gathered into Sisters Chapel. Spelman College, recently, and prolong- edly applauded him at the close of the exercises. He followed his address by singing ‘‘The Ballad for Americans”, with the aid of a chorus from the affi liated institutions under the direction of Professor Kemper Harreld. Mr. Law rence Brown was the accompanist. Mr. Robeson electrified his audience as he told of many of his experiences in different parts of the world. He told how in his singing, he found many of the things that were close to his heart. In Czechoslovakia, in Spain, in Russia, and in other countries, he found the somber music of the folk songs to be akin to the Negro spirituals. Here it was made clear to him that human beings after all are very close to each other. As a man who knew of the heart aches of a minority group in America, Mr. Robeson saw the same problem of the common man as it existed in Wales, Scot land. India. Africa, and other countries. He found that on leaving America he could not forget the responsibility that was his. for in the midst of success, he pointed out that no one can feel that he i- apart from the people. “As long as any other of the race can suffer indignities and lack of freedom, so can 1.” he stated. “No matter how fortunate any of us can be. our destiny lies with the destiny of our people, and there is a real responsi bility on us to see that these things are being realized by supporting the forces which are fighting slavery.” Mr. Robeson described the superiority of the democratic way of life. It is pos sible for every human being, he said, to have a decent existence and not to sub sist on the crumbs of life nor accept the control of destiny by greed and force. We are not isolated in our problems, he concluded, but the problems that face us. face millions of others all over the world. Thanksgiving Day in W ar Time Evangeline Few ‘46 Even the most pessimistic individual among us must admit that as college women in the United States today we have more for which to be thankful than any other group of people in the world. As a whole, the people of this country have felt the effect of the war less than the people of the other waring nations. I hough we read in our newspapers about bombing and mass destruction of prop erty as well as of human life, we have not had to suffer the harsher realities of war. Many women in our country have altered the courses of their lives to meet the new exigencies that war inevitably brings; but here in college we are living normal, undisturbed lives. I Continued on Page 6 i Spelman College Represented at N.A.A.C.P. Conference The call to the fourth Annual Student Conference of the N.A.A.C.P. was an swered by tw'o hundred or more students and young people from various parts of the country. The conference which as sembled to deliberate on “War and Post- War Problems for Negro Youth” met at Clark College from October 30 to No vember 1. All of us desire a better world which can be realized only by adequate planning during the present struggle. With this thought well in mind, the delegates for tunate enough to attend the November N.A.A.C.P. conference, delved whole heartedly into the various panel discus sions and activities of the conference. There were five panels concerned with: (1) Post-War problems for Negro youth. (2) Negro Youth and the franchise, (31 Minority strategy in war time, (4) Negro Youth and civil liberties. (5) Negro youth and jobs. From these panels came one tangible result of the conference . . . that of draw ing up a charter called "The Demands of Negro Youth.” This charter will fur nish the basis for the year’s work in the youth chapters of the N.A.A.C.P. The students alone, however, could not * have made a success of the conference. In addition to the student discussions there were the encouraging and heart stirring speeches made by various leaders and advisors. The initial and keynote ad dress, “Negro Youth and His Struggle for Democracy”, was delivered by Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, President of Talla dega College. The closing address was given by Mr. Thurgood Marshall, lawyer and special counsel for the N.A.A.C.P., who challenged every student to become a leader in the fight for the right to full citizenship. Among others who gave bene ficial talks were Madison Jones who i~ the youth director of the N.A.A.C.P., Wil lard Townsend of the C.I.O., Attorney Charles H. Houston of Washington, D. C.. the Rev. James H. Robinson of New York City, and Dr. Benjamin Brawley. President of Clark College. The conference, however, was more than a series of discussions, assemblies, and addresses. The mingling together of students from various colleges created an (Continued on Page 6)