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10 MARCH-APRIL, 1968
The Panther
The Howard Hanger Trio
The Howard Hanger Trio
was composed of students from
Glenn Memorial Methodist
Church. It was organized (the
Trio) within the center of the
church, and maintains a primary
repertoire of church music in
jazz setting. It is the contention
of the group that the sacred
must not be divorced from the
secular, if the church is to be
an effective force in the world
today. To this end, the Trio
makes its contribution through
the medium of music. Members
of Trio include: Mike Givens
— Bass; Paul Reeve — Drums;
Howard Hanger — Piano.
WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW
ABOUT THE DRAFT LAW
. . . COULD KILL YOU ! ! !
The draft commands compli
ance to its rules without telling
everyone concerned what all
those rules are. It is entitled to
compliance but not through ig
norance of those affected. We
discovered how little is known
about the draft law and how
difficult it is to find any infor
mation and decided something
had to be done. We have spent
months researching the law and
have found a lot of facts that
are not generally known out
side the Selective Service Head
quarters.
1. MANY persons are NOT
EVEN REQUIRED TO REG
ISTER for the draft.
2. If you are not required to
resister and volunteer, you will
be" registered WITHOUT BE
ING TOLD you do not
HAVE TO REGISTER
3. Few persons have seen the
draft law.
4. The government does not
give out copies of the law to
the public.
5. A “GLASSBLOWER” is
a “critical occupation” subject
to deferment, there are dozens
of other “critical occupations”.
6. There are two “services”
which FULFILL your military
obligation besides the Army,
Navy, Coast Guard, Marines
and the Air Force.
7. If you are scheduled for in
duction there are many post
ponements available.
8. It is possible to appeal class
ifications to the President.
9. There are 22 other classifi
cations available besides “I A”.
10. The American Council On
Education says: “Enrollment in
the first two years of graduate
and professional schools next
fall will be limited to women,
veterans, men physically dis
qualified and those over the age
of 25.”
11. Beginning in July, 1968,
almost 75% of all men inducted
by Selective Service will be col
lege graduates.
DON’T BE DRAFTED UN
NECESSARILY! Get expert
information on the facts about
the draft law. We provide a
free service for students who
send a brief resume of facts
pertinent to their classification,
this clipping from your news
paper, and a SELF-ADDRESS
ED, STAMPED envelope:
THE COMMITTEE FOR
INFORMED YOUNG
AMERICANS
FRIENDSHIP STATION
Box 5568
Washington, D. C. 20007
Black Heritage TELL IT LIKE IT IS
by Brenda Myatt
The Afro-American Students of the Atlanta University Center
presented in Davage Auditorium a program on the black man’s
African heritage and how it has influenced the arts.
James Mays dedicated the program called, “An Afro-American
Experience: Coming on Home.” Mays is a prominent leader of a
black racist group on Clark’s campus known as P.R.I.D.E. (Per
sons Ready In Defense of Ebony). He explained that the program
was designed for the enjoyment of black expression.
Arthur Burghardt, whose warmth and “coolness” captivated
the audience at the program’s start, was the narrator. His frequent
expressions of “soul sisters and brothers” and “ya ya” seemed to
be right in tune with the mood of the jam packed audience of pre
dominately Negro students.
African music and dance by the Black Student Alliance opened
the program with a bang. The cluster of bongoes and African
rhythms left the audience anxious to see what was next. Bernice
Reagan’s folk selections of “Joshau Fit the Battle of Jericho” and
“Oh Lord You Know How I Feel” were so beautifully delivered
and with so much “soul” that the audience yelled for more. Her
rare contralto voice was well worth listening to for the remainder
of the show, but there was still more talent in store. Calvin Butts,
a student at Morehouse, followed with a satirical reading called the
“Nigger Bible.” It depicted how the white man tends to have a
one-sided interpretation of the Bible. Gospel music and religious
music were by no means neglected from the program. The much
talked about Mount Moriah Choir’s rendition of “Lord Do It” was
typical of today’s Negro gospel music. Rudolph Jackson and Esther
Hinton delivered inspirational religious readings touched with con-
tempary elements.
Isaac Von Cleveland’s blues selection “Sweet Sixteen” was an
example of true Negro influence through popular song. Marsha
Jackson’s creative dance to the finger poping beat of Negro jazz
musicians and Ivery Avery’s poetic reading with a jazz tempo re
veals how important the Negroes’ part was and still is in the field
of jazz.
Black contemporary music and dance were exemplified through
songs by “The Individuals,” a comic routine by Ronald Mclllwain
and dances by the Black Student Alliance.
The program concluded with remarks by James Mays and an
appeal for contributions for the injured students in South Carolina.
Dr. King Demands U. S. Action Against
Killers Of Negroes In Orangeburg, S. C.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 13 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pres
ident of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
in a telegram today to U. S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark
demanded immediate federal action on the slaying of three Negro
sutdents and wounding of others in Orangeburg, S. C.
Dr. King said eye witnesses to the slayings last week stated that
the three dead students and the 37 to 50 wounded were shot in
the back, some while lying on the ground. He called for “proper
legal action” by the government to protect Negro citizens from
further attacks and demanded that Attorney General” act now
to bring to justice the perpetrators of the largest armed assault
undertaken under color of law in recent Southern history.” The
full text of the telegram follows:
Attorney General Ramsey Clark
U. S. Dept, of Justice
Washington, D. C.
The immense over-reaction of the S. C. State Patrol and other
officers to the students at South Carolina State College which re
sulted in the massive wounding of between 37 and 50 young peo
ple and the death to date of 3 of them must not go unpunished.
Evidence presented by eye witnesses to the events in Orangeburg,
S. C. shows that all the students were shot in the back and that
many were wounded while lying on the ground. An immediate
study of all aspects of this massive assault on students on their
campus must be conducted and proper legal action filed to protect
Negro citizens from further personal destruction. No evidence of
provocative acts by students on Thursday, February 8, 1968 has
yet been presented. The death and wounding of these students
lies on the conscience of J. P. Strom, the officer in charge in his
capacity as Chief of the S. C. State Law Enforcement Division,
the governor of South Carolina to whom Strom is directly an
swerable, and on the conscience of all men of good will. We de
mand that you ac tnow to bring justice the perpetrators of the
largest armed assault undertaken under color of law in recent
Southern history. No further delay or insensitivity to this destruc
tive use of police power is conscionable.
Martin Luther King, Jr., President
Southern Christian Leadership Conf.
HAPPY EASTER
from your
Panther Staff
And telling it like it is is exactly what Chuck Stone does in what
is probably the first published collection of a Negro newspaper edi
tor’s columns. Obviously, Mr. Stone, who is perhaps the most
measured and objective racial reporter in this country, pulls no
punches and gives way to no sacred cows in these columns culled
from the years when he worked for the New York Age, the Chi
cago Defender, and the Washington Afro-American before he be
came assistant to the Committee on Education and Labor of the
U. S. Congress.
Total irreverence sums up their flavor. Mr. Stone gives every
body hell, and he is as unrelenting in his criticism of the Urban
League, Whitney Young, and Roy Wilkins as he is of Governor
Wallace, Billy Graham, and Chicago Mayor Daley. His sharp
humor spares no one. Take this excerpt from his column, “Why
Negro Men Wear Mustaches”:
They’re either convinced that they look like sepia editions
of Caesar Romero or they’ve never gotten over the fact that
the great benefactor who freed them wore a beard.
Or this one from his column: “Why Negro Men Like Big
Legs”:
So, Negro men like “big legs” for the same reason that they
like success and badges of distinction . . . The Negro girl who
spends her summers at camp swimming and hiking ... is
bound to reflect this physical exercise in pretty legs vis-a-vis
the Negro girl who is forced to stay within the dingy environs
of the ghetto ... As for me? My wife has “big legs” . . .
Mr. Stone’s whimsy has a trick of suddenly turning into sharp-
edged satire, and the range of his interests is wide and varied —
politics, sociology, folkways, the arts, foreign policy:
There still persists in the State Department Policy Planning
Council the theory that we may “lose” Latin America, as if
it were ours to begin with. We’re still thinking “Big Brother,”
so color us stupid. We've got to start all over again in Latin
America . . .
From “Panama and Cuba: Failures
in American Foreign Policy.”
Regardless of his subject, Mr. Stone always writes within the
context of what has been aptly described as the strange ways of
white folks. And though the Negro audience for this book is un
doubtedly large, the white audience could be even larger, for there
is a sober and reasoned man who writes with wisdom, wit, and a
garnish of honest and well-reasoned anger.
Chuck Stone was born C. Sumner Stone in Hartford, Con
necticut, served as an Air Force navigator during World War II,
and received degrees from Wesleyan University and the University
of Chicago. In addition to being a newspaper editor and special
assistant to Representative Powell, he has been a television com
mentator and an overseas representative for CARE in Egypt. His
writing and service awards include First Prize, Best Column
(1960)—National Newspaper Publishers Association, Journalist
of the Year (1961)—Capitol Press Club, Washington, D.C., as
well as many others. He and his wife, son, and two daughters live
in Washington, D.C.
IN OUR AGE OF INQUIRY
HOW FULLY DO WE COMPREHEND BLACK POWER?
As a new title in our series of studies into social science and critical social
philosophy, EXTENDING HORIZONS BOOKS presents:
THE BLACK
Edited by Floyd B. Barbour
POWER REVOLT
250 pages; paper $2.95; cloth $5.95
This collection of essays traces the concept from the past to the present. Includ
ing a section of historical documents and containing writings by leading contemporary
spokesmen for the movement, The Black Power Revolt employs rational criticism as
an instrument to probe the emergence of a critical humanitarian consciousness.
From the rise of black power to significant application, from demythologizing
black power to pertinent statement, the theme is identity: cultural, social, and political,
Theory and practice are examined; the philosophic and pragmatic are shown to
interpenetrate.
Thus, this provocative and timely book, written by people concerned publicly
and privately with Black Power, has meaning for all those who have an awareness of
our democratic heritage, and an interest in our American social progress. And,
indeed, as Dr. Ralph T. Templin states in Democracy and Nonviolence:
"Democracy is on trial for its life. Its survival and the survival of Western
civilization are so harshly threatened that no person remains outside the
struggle."
NAT TURNER BENJAMIN BANNEKER STOKELY CARMICHAEL LEROI
JONES MARCUS GARVEY MALCOLM X HENRY GARNET JULIUS
HOBSON NATHAN HARE CHUCK STONE W.E.B. DU BOIS FLOYD
McKISSICK DAVID WALKER NATHAN WRIGHT CHARLES HAMILTON
ADELAIDE HILL ALVIN POUSSAINT MARGARET WALKER ROBERT F.
WILLIAMS BARBARA ANN TEER VINCENT HARDING JOHN S. ROCK
FREDERICK DOUGLASS LAWRENCE P. NEAL JEAN SMITH BYRON
RUSHING ADAM CLAYTON POWELL JAMES P. COMER NATHAN
WRIGHT JOHN E. JOHNSON ADELAIDE HILL GASTON NEAL GWENNA
CUMMINGS ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
extending horizons books — Porter Sargent
Publisher — Bostor