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'THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMANHOOD'
SPOTLIGHT
VOL. XXVI, No. 4
Spelman Spotlight
may - june
Detention
Act. a threat
In a sharp, chilling speech
before the House Internal
Security Commisssion, the
nation’s only Black
Congresswoman, Shirley
Chrisholm, called for an
immediate repeal of the
Emergency Detention Act, passed
in 1950.
The Act (Title II, McCarran
Act) still authorizes detention
camps and makes it possible for
the president to legally detain
American citizens whom he
deems a threat to the
government.
The awesome fear that blacks
might face detention camps and
genocide in America comes to life
in Miss Chisholm’s fiery
testimony. The story as detailed
in Jet magazine quotes Miss
Chisholm as asking the
Committee, “Doesn’t it seem
strange to you, my colleagues,
that the same type of facism we
are fighting abroad we are
instituting at home against a
highly visible minority group?”
Miss Chisholm’s words should
be taken at face value and
followed up, because it may very
well be that your six-year-old
brother, cousin, nephew, friend,
or neighbor could and will be
placed in detention camps if the
Emergency Detention Act passes.
Founders Day
89 years young
After 89 years of gradual
progress and some much needed
changes, Spelman College has
somehow managed to retain its
traditional celebration of
Founders Day.
As has been the case for the
past 88 years, theSSlelman
sisters pulled their white dresses
out of storage, brushed up on
their Spelman history, composed
class songs and settled down for
the line of speakers whom they
hoped wouldn’t be boring.
Alex Haley, writer and world
travler, returned here to speak at
Tuesday’s convocation in Sister’s
Chapel. Haley delivered a potent
speeh that surpassed his address
at commencement last year.
Speaking for the regular
Thursday convocation was Mrs.
Clara Stanton Jone Quales
Library Women’s Collection here.
Mrs. Jones is a graduate of
Spelman..
The 89th Founders Day
Line-up was climaxed with a
speech delivered by Dr. B. Marie
Perinbam, Assistant professor of
African History, Maryland
University.
Breakfast program aids
Vine City children
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Radio station to open 9
employees needed
By Kathy Jackson
This year, along with all the
flowers and spring fever that
spring brings, comes the possible
opening of the Atlanta University
radio station, WAUC.
Lorenzo Jelks, president of
Collegiate Broadcasting Group
and reporter for WSB television
news, got the idea for a station in
the center back in ‘62, while a
student at Clark College.
Jelks has been talking with
college heads and literally
campaigning for the station for
about seven years. Finally during
the latter part of last year, he got
the “go-ahead” from the Council
of Presidents, to begin plans for
opening the station.
“The station will bring the
colleges in the A.U. Center closer
together, ” said Jelks. “Not only
that, but it will also provide
training and incentive for
students planning to go into the
broadcasting field,” Jelks
continued.
Meanwhile, the paper work,
policies and supervision of the
future station is resting in the
hands of the Board of Advisors
and the Collegiate Broadcasting
Group.
Policies of the station will be
made by the Board of Advisors,
consisting of a student and a
faculty member appointed by
each college President. It will be
the job of the Board to set the
salaries forthe students.
Spelman’s representatives on the
Board includes: H. Yvonne
Bryant, SSGA President; Webster
Wallace, instructor in Education.
The Collegiate Broadcasting
Group will supervise the
operation Of the station and will
be responsible for the bills.
However, WAUC will be
completely operated and
managed by students.
It is hoped that the station will
open in the latter part of spring.
Cabel connections and minor
renovations are still in the process
of being worked on.
When all work is completed,
the station will be open for the
general public. WAUC will be
located on the Morehouse
campus in Sale Annex. There is a
possibility that the station will be
open from 3 p.m. - 12 a.m.,
Mondays through Fridays and all
day Saturdays and Sundays.
Positions are open for students
in announcing (news and sports),
administration, sales and
secretarial work. Any student
interested in working in these
fields should send a letter of
application to Collegiate
Broadcasting Group- Lorenzo
Jelks, 1014 Gordon St. SW
Atlanta, Ga.
By Yvonne Bryant
Brothers and sisters in the
black community are aware that
black children cannot learn well
on empty stomachs, that the
problem of hunger has yet to be
resolved in the black community.
Because of their awareness,
these sisters and brothers have
initiated a breakfast program:
The Vine City Breakfast for
Children Program. The program is
housed in the Army Church on
Maple Street in Vine City.
Breakfast is served from 7:30
a.m. to 8:30 a.m. every week
day.
At the core of the program are
such organizations as the
Afro-American Students for
Progress; the Georgia Black
Uheration Front; 4nd the Black
Panther Party. There has been a
steady influx of students from
the various colleges in the A.U.
Center offering their services
since the initiation of the
program in the community. The
bulk of the college help, however,
has come from the women at
Spelman.
Asandi, co-ordinator of the
Vine City Program says that it’s
purpose is to feed
hungrycchildren each school
morning, “one of the purposes of
the Black Vanguard (which
encompasses all politically aware
and active Black people) is to
serve the basic needs and desires
of the people - a free Breakfast
Program is one of the ways we
are able to fulfill the needs of the
people.”
Asandi then went on to
expound on the condition, off
poor Black people that
necessitates such a program
“Not only is this system not
supplying enough food but the
government has the nerve to cut
down the welfare checks so that
the people not only starve, but
also do not have enough money
for clothing, shelter, or health
needs.”
Dave Simmons, a Black Panther
and active participant in the Free
Breakfast program says of the
program that “...the condition of
living in a nation that can send
men to the moon, spend millions
of dollars a year on slaughtering
freedom-seeking people around
the world, and bury ‘excess’
wheat at harvest time while small
children suffer year round from
malnutrition and sit through five
hours a day of ‘m s=education ’
on an empty stomach is too
depressing to be allowed to
continue without taking some
positive action.”
As Black people fight against
poisonous narc otics, bad
housing, poor health care,
underemployment, police
brutality, inhuman jails, exploita
tive prices, and all other ills
common to Black communities,
the fight is now so much for the
fighrers but because of a desire to
see the present children and their
children live to see a society free
from exploitation and
oppression.
Asandi runs it down this way:
“It is our young Black children
that will nurture the seeds of the
new world we are planting, it is
they who will fertilize the ground
we plow...Our children must have
strong, healthy bodies and minds
that are alert. Alert and ready to
t ink, to think about changing
this society, not to passively
accept the conditions we live in
as inevitable.”
So, with a revolutionary love
the brothers and sisters of the
community gives to the people of
Vine City, the Vine City Free
Breakfast for Children Program.
And 1 say....Right On! Right On!
RIGHT ON!
GET YOUR MIND TOGETHER
In a recent speech given at
Morehouse College, Brother
Stokley Carmicheal rapper on the
importance of “STUDY” for the
brothers and sisters when
preparing for the “revolution”
and the inevitable confrontation
with the man.
The following is a list of
authors who were suggested by
the brother for references:
Kwame Nkrumah, Malcolm X,
Irene Wilton A.S. Barnes, Leo
Frobenius, Dr. Martin L. King.
Others included, Lerone Bennett,
Stephen Alexia, George
Campbell, Frederick Douglas,
W.E.B. DuBois, John Hope Fa
Franklin, Sojourne Truth.
Also added to the list should be
works by, James Baldwin, Arna
Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Charles Chesnutt, Eldridge
Cleaver, Ralph Ellison, Langston
Hughes, Le Roi Jones, Claud
McKay, Jean Toomer.
the time for shuckin’ and jivin’ is over!