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The Panther
A Voice for
Student
Sentiment
Yol. XXXIII, No. 4
Clark College, Atlanta
April, 1970
BACK ON THE SCENE.
Stokely Carmichael delivers terse speech at Morehouse
Clark sponsors
writers 7 workshop
The Clark College English De
partment will conduct a Writers’
Workshop - Conference May 3-8,
1970. The sessions are planned to
introduce students to the work
and criticism of prominent writers
for the media. The workshop will
bring to campus Harry Dolan, Di
rector of Watts Writers’ Work
shop, Los Angeles, Joe David
Brown, past writer-editor for Time
and author of Kings Go Forth,
George McMillan, former Journal-
ist-in-Residence at Clark College
and biographer of James Earl Ray,
the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., Tullio Petrucci, former
head of the Design Department of
the Atlanta School of Art and cur
rent director of the Institute of
Urban Communication, and T.
Stephen May, producer-writer of
radio commercials, producer-di
rector of closed circuit instruc
tional television and Assistant
Professor of Radio, Television,
and Film at Northwestern Uni
versity, Evanston, Illinois.
Clarkites Roger Porter and Lo
renzo Jelks will also serve the
conference in consultative capa
cities. Porter is former editor of
Your Mama Is Black, a campus
weekly. Presently employed in
the news department of WSB-TV,
he served briefly as a reporter for
the Cleveland Plain Dealer and
the Atlanta Journal. Jelks is a re
porter for WSB Television news
and heads the Collegiate Broad
casting Group which has assumed
responsibility for establishing an
Atlanta University Center Radio
Station.
The Workshop Planning Com
mittee was a student-faculty group
which made active student parti
cipation an integral part of the
design. Accordingly, students will
hold small group meetings with
Clark senior
chosen 11 Girl'
Joan LaNell Wilbom, a senior
at Clark College, has been an
nounced as one of WQXI-TV’s
1970 Channel 11 Girls.
Joan was selected from more
than 350 girls who auditioned for
this year’s competition. She was
formally selected on the station’s
“Channel II Girl Pageant” March
23 and has just recently returned
from a tour of New York City.
It was her first trip to New York.
Majoring in elementary edu
cation, Joan will graduate from
Clark this June with a bachelor
of arts degree. During her col
lege career, she has been a cheer
leader, a member of the Student
National Education Association,
the Association of City Wom
en and was “Miss Omega Psi Phi”
for 1970.
She graduated from Charles
Lincoln Harper High School in
Atlanta in 1966.
The 22-year-old Atlantan is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Wilborn, of Renfro Drive.
Joan will represent the At
lanta television station in per
son and on-air appearances. Be
sides the trip to New York, she
also won a matched set of flight
luggage and an all-occasion mod
wardrobe.
consultants, chair general sessions,
conduct forums, read and criticize
their Original wlorks. y
In 1967-68 Stokely Carmichael
was “hip, black and angry.”
The Dec. 25, 1967 edition of the
U. S. News reported that Sena
tor Herman E. Talmadge (Dem.)
of Georgia told the Senate:
“Judging from Carmichael’s de
spicable diatribe, his sole purpose
is to breed violence. The law is
more than adequate for dealing
with Carmichael. He should be
prosecuted for sedition, for advo
cating the violent overthrow of
the United States Government,
and for interfering with the war
effort in Vietnam.”
On Tuesday, April 14, 1970,
Stokely Carmichael appeared at
Morehouse College to lecture on
“From Black Power to Pan-
Africanism.”
During the past 16 months, Car
michael has been studying under
Kwame Nkrumah in Guinea. The
man was “cool, sharp and dark.”
Carmichael says the world is in
political chaos.
He said, “The problems of the
black man in America today are
capitalism, racism, imperialism,,
our ancestry, drugs, the Pill, co
alitions between the black man
and the white man, and the revo
lution.
“The important factor for the
black man to do today is to ana
lyze our situation, study and pre
pare to defend ourselves against
a technical enemy.
“Don’t ever think Africa is far
away. It is much closer than you
Says 'Africa is home'
Carmichael raps again
with AUC students
By TETHKL WHITE
may think and we are moving
ahead together. We are moving
towards that day when we will
once again walk the face of the
earth as a proud, liberated people.
We will be a unified people all
over the world and on the conti
nent. Come back — Africa will not
be just a dream, but it will be a
reality.
“Where best can black people
get a land base? There won’t be
one in America. Whitey won’t give
it to you therefore we must seize
it. If we seize it, can we bold it.
If we hold it can we develop it?
“The enemy is highly techni
cal. If we seize a land base in
the South, agriculture will, not
defeat industry. History has prov
en that with the War Between
the States.
“Look with me to Africa, the
richest country in the world. It
has everything. The earth there
is rich in agriculture, gold, cop
per, diamonds and other miner
als.
“We came from Africa. We
must make it our priority — our
future. I’m not saying go to Af
rica now. We must begin to unify
our community, take over all po
litical institutions and power or
ganizations that are in our com
munity first.
“We must pick up our guns but
merely picking up our guns is not
enough. We must have a po
litical ideologoy. Pan-Africanism
and guns equals a revolution.
“One must study, especially his
tory, before we can deal with a
revolution. A person cannot ‘rap
and do,’ unless he knows. We
must study.”
When he appeared on stage at
Morehouse there seemed to be no
physical change in the Stokely
Carmichael that left the States 16
months ago. But there was a
change in Stokely Carmichael —
a mental change — and from his
impact on the audience Tuesday
night, Stokely Carmichael might
well be one of the most influential
black leaders in a black revolu
tion.
INDEX
Page 2—News
Page 3—Marketplace
Page 4-5—Spring
Page 6—Horoscope
Smile! You’re on Candid Camera!
Joan Wilburn, Clark College senior and Channel 11 Girl.