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Even while the bulk of the Negro community was in slavery, men like Crisus Attuches were fighting and giving their lives to make America free (it is paradoxical that America's freedom meant their slavery). The year 1863 came, and so did the Emancipation Proclamation. We were allegedly free by law, but as we see even today what should be, is not.
AMERICA OWES us Negroes a great debt. That debt is that we be recognized as first-class citizens. We have merited this position. We helped to discover and settle these new frontiers of the Americas. In slavery we toiled sun up, sun down for 244 years to make America strong.
The March on Washington is backed by 100 years of unfulfilled promises and gradualism (which has merely served as an apology for perpetual racial injustices), and the realization that the laws on the statute books are like an ungrounded lease around a mad dog's neck. For one hundred years we have been struggling to attain our sanity as well as our citizenship. This nation has not only been forcing us to forget that we have always existed by to forget also that we exist today.
I constantly encounter many individuals who justify their contempt for and inferior estimation of the Negro by their freedom (that we Negroes have ironically helped to win) as outlined in the Constitution. An
excellent example is the system of the Greek letter organizations here.
Last year I met a white friend whom I knew in high school in the Kansas Union. He was a member of one of the white fraternities. I told him that I had decided to try fraternity life and had pledged (though depledged later). He smiled, shook my hand and said, "Good thing there, Lacy, I'm glad to have you a brother in this fraternity system of ours. Which one did you pledge, the Alphas or the Kappas"?
I continued the conversation, to be sure, but only with a flaming humiliation inside of me. He obviously didn't know that I knew the truth about the euphemistic terms of "brother," "glad" and "our." I also know the truth about the other statements made by the white fraternities to justify racial discrimination and segregation. "We have the right to pledge whom we want to" simply means, "We have the right to segregate and discriminate on racial basis." But these houses, though privately owned, are dependent mainly or solely on the KU student body in order to subsist. They are also subjugated to university legislation. In these contexts I call them university living groups.
Anne is leading the Frosh Hawks — and campus fashions — in a red wool "little girl" dress — bow trimmed and here in many colors.
Anne Machin President of Frosh Hawks
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"Is it justifiable," I ask myself, "for university housing that is established for the accommodation of University to deny a qualified student the right to accommodations solely on account of color"?
And when I say "no" I do not only base my answer within the moral frame of reference but in the democratic one that in substance seeks to insure for one and all life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness. How can we live, be free and pursue happiness in the teeth of a system that makes it its business to prohibit us from doing so?
We have for centuries borne the cross of being Negroes in the midst of lynching, name calling, police brutality, economic exploitation, taxation without representation. We seldom said a mumbling word.
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We have for centuries been patient. We have been forced to live together in the crowded and delapidated ghettos, to tolerate each other (however difficult it may be for some of us), to know what we are rather than who we are.
I SAY NO.
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Now we are of age. We are the "New Negro."
WE ASK FOR the payment of overdue debt. This is the motive for the Washington March. This is why we walked and are walking today. And we shall continue to walk solemnly and peacefully for our freedom.
We march on not only for ourselves but for the new and true America which will evolve in the aftermath of this victory.
The theme song of the March ends my sav:
We'll overcome, we'll overcome,
We'll overcome some day,
If in our hearts we do not yield
We'll overcome some day.
Thursday, Oct. 24, 1963 University Daily Kansan P P
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