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WOLVERINE OBSERVER
DECEMBER 12, 1968
Morris Brown Responds To
Black Curriculum
CARMICHAEL
"Violence Is The
Only Way”
By Nathaniel Sheppard
Black power advocate Stokely
Carmichael Wednesday told a
group of about 400 Atlanta
University area students that “a
violent revolution is the only way
of obtaining liberation from the country only if we take it.
racist oppression of the unjust
American society.”
According to Carmichael the
United States was obtained
through violence and has had a
consistent history of violence,
consequently a violent revolution
is necessary to correct America’s
social ills.
“Violence and crime have
been institutionalized and
Carmichael predicted that in
25 years or so, that if the policy
of liberation through violence is
carried out it will be very bloody
and we can consider America our
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America,” Carmichael said.
He siad that violence is neither
right nor wrong it just is.” In his
speech Carmichael differentiated
between black militant and the
black revolutionary.
“A Black Militant,” said
Carmichael,” is a black man who
is angry at white folks who kept
him out of their system and is
concerned only about himself.
The black revolutionary,
however, is someone who will,
burn down, turn down,
absolutely down, resolutely down
the white mans’ America.
Overthrow a system and replace
it entirely with one of justice
rather than the one of injustice
which now exists.
Carmichael listed misdirected
aggression as one of the chief
“hang ups” of blacks. Blacks
must develop a positive image of
themselves.” We must redirect
our aggression toward our real
oppressors’’ he said.
By Cecil Cotton
In the past few months black
students all over the country have
made it painfully clear that they
want to see changes in their
present curriculum. If ever there
was any doubt that black
students were sincerely interested
in making their courses more
relevant, then this doubt has been
dissipated. Students in the
Atlanta University Center believe
that there has been a
premeditated attempt to keep
our school as white as possible.
And they no longer want to deny
their true identity, their true
heritage, or their true blackness.
In fact, they want to buildupon
their rightful heritage.
Because of this surge in black
awareness by students in the A.U.
Center, The Council of Presidents
appointed a committee of both
faculty members and students
from the schools in the Center to
come up with some reasonable
answers to the students’
demands. The committee was
financed by an eighty-five
hundred dollar grant from the
Council of Presidents for a six
week period during the past
summer.
On August 2, 1968, the
summer task force on the
Afro-American Curriculum
presented to the Council of
Presidents a report consisting of
more than one hundred pages
which detailed specific changes to
be made in the curriculum. Many
changes have been made and still
others are in the process of being
made.
A poll was taken to determine
to what extent each department
on Morris Brown College Campus
has responded to this report.
Also, an attempt was made to get
some reaction of department
heads and faculty members.
Some thought the report was a
pile of trash and others simply
thought we should learn what we
already had and then the black
curriculum if there was time.
Many were enthusiastic about the
proposals.
Every department on campus,
though, is making definite
changes in its curriculum.
Mrs. Graves, Chairman of the
Reading Department, said she
began work on her department
this summer. She said books such
as the Autobiography of Malcolm
X and Giovani’s Room were now
required reading. Incidently,
students felt they received more
personal help from reading then
from any other course on
campus.
Dr. Farmer, Chairman of the
English Department, said Negro
Literature has been required of
all English majors for several
years and is now open to all
students.
Dean Rowley, Chairman of
the Department of Social
Science, listed Negro History and
the human relation courses as
parts of their curriculum dealing
with Afro-American curriculum
but said she would work to
expand her department to
include other subjects of this
nature.
Dr. Jackson, chairman of the
Division of Language,Literature
and Arts, said the language
department in the A.U. Center
has included Ebo, Swahili and
Chinese in its curriculum and
they are pleased that Russian has
been continued. Classes are
growing. She also said the
department felt that a unit on the
history and culture of black
French and Spanish speaking
people could be included for the
first year and the works of
Senghor, Fanon and others could
be included in the second year.
Dr. Hubert, Chairman of the
Department of Music, has invited
black musicians to campus. As a
part of his deparment’s expansion
of a black curricula, faculty
members in the music
department are teaching courses
with emphasis on the black
musician and his music (ex. jazz.
However, Dr. Hubert would like
to see better turnouts at the
programs when black musicians
are able to come.
Dr. Blakely, Chairman of the
Department of Religion and
Philosophy, said he has examined
the report and that a copy is now
available for the members of his
department through his office.
(Originally only one copy was
made available for the thirteen
people in his department.) This
was not the first time a proposal
of this nature had been submitted
to the presidents of the center,
said Dr. Blakely, pointing out
that the deans of the schools had
submitted a similar proposal four
years ago which was just getting
off the ground.
Dr. Eubanks, Chairman of the
Department of Sociology, has
acquired, after a long search, one
of the best anthropologists in the
country, Mrs. Tathro.
Anthropology gives a complete
analysis of African and Black
Cultures. This department has for
some time been in the forefront
in emphasizing both the Black
and African experiences.
Miss Waymer, Chairman of
Home Economics Departments,
has included courses dealing with
clothing, housing and food as
related to black culture. She said
she would also like to see her
students visit cities in the U.S.A.
with noted black cultures, such as
Chattanooga, Tenn. She
especially feels that visits to
African Universities by Morris
Brown Students would greatly
enhance their ideas of African
Culture.
MORRIS BROWN RUNS UNDERGROUND
By Cecil Cotton RAILROAD
Prince Hassein A1 Saidi arrived
at Morris Brown College the
evening of November 21. The
Immigration Authorities
remained firm in their decision
that he must leave the country.
Since Prince Saidi had no money
to purchase a ticket, he came to
our campus seeking assistance.
Prince Saidi, who taught at
the University of Arizona (and
formerly at Oxford, England),
was requested by the
Immigration Authority of the
United States to sign a statement
saying that his father, paramount
chief in Angola was ill-advised to
join the insurgent tribes.
The Portugese colony of
Angola in West Africa has been in
a state of revolutionary conflict
for the past few years which the
white American press has been to
loath to give give details about.
President, Salazar, of Portugal,
has been in power longer than
any other dictator in the world
today. The bondage of the
Portugese people has its
counterpart in Angola, where the
insurgent tribes are attempting to
obtain their liberation.
When Prince Hassein Saidi
refused to sign, he was given 48
hours to leave the country. By
the time he had reached our
campus he had only 18 hours
before his 48 hours deadline to
leave the country would be
reached.
He was photographed and
fingerprinted by the Atlanta
police department and warned
that if he didn’t leave the country
by 12:00 noon Friday, he would
be picked up by police who
would hand him over to the
Immigration authorities who
would make use of the offer of
the Portugese government to take
him to Lisbon.
After the students raised
enough money for Prince Hassein
Sadi to purchase a ticket to leave
the country, they took him to
the Atlanta Airport. On the way,
he rewarded all the students who
had helped him with a lecture on
black history and culture.
How sad that a country which
at one time offered help to all
political refugees should now do
such a thing to Prince Hassein A1
Saidi. The students of Morris
Brown wish Prince Hassein A1
Saidi happiness and good luck
where ever he may be and we
pray for his safety.
Immigration authorities were
contacted to get further
information on the Prince’s
deportation but they refused to
release any information.
FRESHMAN ARCHITECT
By Leonard Pierce
Robert Harmen, an advanced
freshman at Morris Brown, is the
designer of the new wing of the
administration building.
Robert is a native of Hartford
Conn., where he attended A&T
Prince Technical School. He
studied mechanical and
architectural drawing before
attending Morris Brown where he
worked over the summer in the
plant operations and security
department.
Other jobs Robert now works
on include: an addition to the
President’s home which will have
a bedroom, laundry, larger
kitchen and patio; eight more
rooms in Sarah Allen Quadrangle
with wall-to-wall carpeting, and
complete air conditioning; and
rooms for the Food Production
and Management Department.
Robert is one of the many
students at Morris Brown who is
making the campus a betteT place
in which to study and live.