Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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 criminal anarchy. Charles MeDew, SNTCC chairman (standing on the steps of the School of Religion Building at Howard) told Howardites of the illegal charges brought against Diamond, and told about the horrid conditions of the Baton Rouge jail. The students marched around in the upper quadrangle of the campus singing, We Shall Not Be Moved and We Are Not Afraid. Howardites later met with other students from other colleges and universities in the Washington. D. C. area to decide on a plan of action. Still later, Howardites demonstrated in front of the Attorney General’s office building. Howardites arc never discouraged in their efforts to improve the condition of the mankind, in general, and the Negro race, in particular. -27-

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towards social pr, Even though Howard University is an interracial-international school, it is predominately Negro. Because of this, Ho-wardites take a special interest in the problems of this group o( so-called “second-class citizens. Howardites have been active participants in sit-ins,” stand-ins,” freedom rides. and the Negro voter-registration campaigns throughout the South and have picketed the Capitol, the White House, and other government buildings in Washington, D. C. Dion Diamond, a former Howardite, and a field secretary of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was arrested in February of 1962, when he entered Southern University in Baton Rouge. Louisiana to accept a speaking engagement, and was held in the Baton Rouge jail charged with 26

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towards informed citizenship. Pictured left to right arc: James Baldwin, Ossie Davis, and eal Thclwcll, editor of the Hilltop; Owen Dodson, head of John Killcns. These three Negro writers discussed the role the Drama Department; and John Lovell. Jr., professor of of the Negro writer in American society, and participated English, in a panel discussion with Howard University panel: Mich Project Awareness is an action committee formed by the Student Council of the College of Liberal Arts. Its purpose is to bring to the Howard University community speakers of national reputation to discuss great themes and controversial issues. Because the functions which attend each Project Awareness presentation arc so numerous, the Project is actually a complex of many sub-committees working as an integrated whole. In addition to the chairman. Tom Kahn, Project Awareness has a co-ordinator, Courtland Cox; and a treasurer, Stokely Carmichael. Of the several subcommittees which represent the division of labor that is necessary for the type of program that Project Awareness produces; Jean Wheeler is chairman of the Hospitality Committee, Ed Brown and Bernard Conn arc Co-chairmen of the Publicity Committee, and Ed Goode is the chairman of the Printing Committee. Among the speakers brought to the campus by Project Awareness are: Malcolm X, Norman Thomas, Fulton Lewis. III. Bayard Rustin. Michael Harrington. James Baldwin, Ossie Davis, and John Killcns. The Project intends to present next a debate on Is the Soviet Union a Progressive Society? with Dr. Herbert Aptheker, editor of Political Affairs, the theoretical organ of the Communist Party, taking the affirmative side; and Mr. Saul Mcndclson, lecturer in History at Roosevelt University in Illinois and a student of Marxism. raking the negative side.