UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 5, 1993
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Daughters to speak at field house
SUA brings children of King, Malcolm X to KU lecture series
By James J. Reece
Kansan staff writer
Attallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, and Yolanda King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. April 22 at Allen Field House.
The speech, "Malcolm X. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement," is sponsored by the Student Lecture Series Board, made up of members of Student Union Activities and Student Senate.
Margaret Hu, Manhattan senior and vice chairperson of the series, said the speech would be the second of the annual series, and would benefit the student body in several ways.
"They are both extremely intelligent and successful women," Hu said. "I think they will really challenge our preconceptions of the civil rights movement."
She said the women would speak about the political ideologies of their fathers, the significance of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the state of the civil rights movement and race relations today.
"I think people think one-dimensionally about these men," Hu said of the speakers' fathers. "And they were definitely multidimensional men."
Shabazz and King founded and co-direct Nucleus Inc., a performance art company that promotes human rights. The women met while studying theater in New York City.
His said the decision was made to bring the women to KU after considering a survey conducted at last year's Peter Arnett speech, the first of the series.
"Well, we looked at our budget and we looked at a survey done by the series last year," Hu said. "The top choices were Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson and some other prominent African-American leaders."
Norma Norman, associate director of minority affairs, agreed.
Hsa said the famous daughters were brought to the University using $10,000 from Student Senate and a $5,000 donation from the class of 1991, but she declined to say the exact amount. She said she thought it would be a historic event at KU.
"As a person who has lived through both of those generations, I think it is phenomenal that both women are appearing here together," Norman said.
Tickets are $2 for KU faculty and students, $4 for the public. They will go on sale April 12 at the SUA Box Office.
King honored by civil rights leaders
His 'dream' still is not reality in United States 25 years after his death
The Associated Press
Twenty-five years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words were silenced by an assassin's bullet, civil rights leaders reminded a racially charged nation yesterday that King dreamed of a land where children will not be judged by the color of their skin.
In the past year, racial tensions have erupted into violence in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta and New York.
"It seems sometimes that we take two steps forward and three back," said Elisa Gilham, 63, a trustee at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King was a co-pastor.
King was shot April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Teen., where he was staying while in town to organize a sanitation workers' strike. James Earl Ray is serving a 99-year prison sentence for the killing.
The Rev Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the Lorraine, urged congregants at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., yesterday, to "not just be spectators and witnesses to violence, but find a way to do something about it."
Just 10 miles away in Los Angeles, a federal trial is under way in the beating of African-American motorist Rodney King. When four white officers were acquitted of similar charges after a state trial last year the deadly
Los Angeles riots followed.
AIDO on the Los Angeles court docket this month is the trial of three African-American men accused of beating white trucker Reginald Denny during the riots.
But Jackson said: "We cannot put our destinies in the hands of 12 jurors and debating lawyers"
Jackson planned to travel the United States promoting minority rights, winding up in Baltimore in time for a protest at today's opening day of the major league baseball season. The national pastime has come under renewed allegations of prejudice since the revelations that resulted in a one-year suspension of Cincinnati Reds owner Marse Schott.
At the National Civil Rights Museum, built at the site of the Lorraine Motel, people stopped on their way to an afternoon concert at the Mason Temple, where King gave his last speech.
"The soul of our people died when he died," said Tony Jackson, 19, of Atlanta. "The fight continued but not with the same spirit. I don't know if we'll ever be able to capture it again." On Aug. 28, 1963, King told marchers in Washington, D.C., of his hopes for the future.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," he said.
But a poll published Sunday found 52 percent of black respondents believe race relations in the United States are the same or worse than they were in 1968. Forty-five percent
thought things had improved. Among whites, 42 percent felt things were the same or worse and 54 percent felt things were better.
Sixty-six percent of African Americans and 55 percent of whites said race relations were generally bad, while 27 percent of African Americans and 38 percent of whites felt race relations were good.
The New York Times-CBS News poll of 1368 adults was taken March 28-31 and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for whites and 6 percentage points for African Americans, since fewer African Americans were interviewed.
Malcolm Xs widow, Betty Shabazz, is one who believes things get better. She told WCBS-TV in New York on Sunday that she has seen "the beginning of a process of healing" since the assassinations of her husband in 1965 and King in 1968.
"I don't think it is appropriate or proper for individuals to constantly say that we have not made progress," Shabazz told WCBS-TV's "Sunday Edition."
At another tribute to King yesterday, children in New York City were asked to commemorate his call for nonviolence by turning in their toy guns at a rally near the United Nations.
King's widow, Coretta Scott King,
was not involved in yesterday's various
public tributes. She has said she
preferred to commemorate her late
husband's birthday, Jan. 15, 1929,
instead of his death.
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