Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Black Students Meet After Augusta, Jackson Killings The events at Augusta and Jackson State acted as catalysts which motivated the black students of this nation to unite and utilize their skills to develop the expertise of their people on campus, and in rural and urban areas. Black students from twenty-five institutions gathered at Howard in the spring of IS)70. Workshops were set up by the Howard University Steering Committee. I he purpose ot these workshops was to establish a definite program to be pursued by the students attending the institutions represented. Entertainment by local talent provided a light ending to three days of serious planning. The delegates then returned to their respective institutions with new ideas to help them prepare to seek a new direction. Above Left Students exhibit M’rican urtilactv Above Right A co-ed sports Black Is Beautiful Below Students arrive tor the Ml 8la k College Conference. 21

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Stokley answers questions tor the editor of THE HILLTOP. Right Kwame Nkrumah, Stokely's Teacher on Pan-Afric anism Stokley Returns Home to Inform Students Former Howardite (Class of '64), Stokley Carmichael spoke at Cramton Auditorium as a guest of Project Awareness. In his address. Brother Carmichael responded to questions concerning his Pan-African concept and its meaning for black people in America. Stokley explained Pan-Africanism as “the highest political expression of Black Power. He pointed out that Pan-Africanism is based on our own land base - Africa. The former SN’CC coordinator answered questions about the role of black students in this international movement He stressed the [joint that there must be a de-emphasization of liberal arts and a greater emphasis on technological skills that will aid and lead us to nation-building. 20 m

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Project Awareness Features Controversial Personalities Project Awareness started in I960 by Stokely Carmichael, is now under the sponsorship of the African People's liberation Council (Liberal Arts Student Council) Roy Allen chairman of the Project offered the University community a wide variety of controversial but interesting personalities including Dick Gregory, Julian Bond, and Soma Sanchez. Dick Gregory, displayed a unique insight into the serious problem of repression, utilizing his familiar comic touch. When it happens to us, it's as though it didn't really happen at all, said Georgia legislator Julian Bond in comparing the Kent State and South Carolina State's Orangeburg Massacre murders. Bond also spoke on the Black Panther controversy. The Black Muslim's Louis Far-rakan of New York told a crowd of 800 at Cramton to stop imitating the white man. Any tool can die, but it takes a wise man to live, said Brother Farra-kan. He then urged everyone to live. Sister Soma Sanchez, poet, mother, and teacher stated, The most beautiful perfume of this world is the black woman. She added. If we act like queens, the brothers will have to act like kings. We've been programmed not to love ourselves. and added, We should dig ourselves and rejoice. 2? Toft Comedienne and President-in-Exile, Dick Gregory gHimg Howard minds loguther Bottom Black Muslim, Farrakan addresses Howard audience