University Daily Kansan
Friday Jan. 20, 1961
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City Makes Progress On Civil Rights Issue
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(Continued from page 1) and Negro leaders to raise the standards of their race, he said.
During another interview a member of the Lawrence City Commission said he felt there have been more changes in attitudes toward human rights in the last five years than in the past 25 years.
DR. TED A. KENNEDY, a city commissioner, said that at the next meeting of the Commission members would discuss further the formation of a human rights commission for Lawrence.
"To my knowledge this is the first time the city in its official capacity has shown an interest in the civil rights problem," Kennedy said.
"The function of such a commission would be to determine whether there is a problem. You could get a good argument on this, but I think the action at the pool this summer and a more recent episode have pointed out that the students feel there is a problem," the commissioner said.
PAUL E. WILSON, professor of law and one time assistant attorney general of Kansas, indicated through a resume of Kansas history that the attitudes toward the rights of Negroes has changed from past indifference to present concern.
"During the early history of the state we had a tradition of benevolence toward the Negro. Yet whites did not conceive of Negroes as equals," Wilson said.
Lawrence was the center of free-state activity, and many of its settlers were sponsored by the New England Emigrant Aid Society.
BUT WHEN the first constitutions were submitted for ratification, many of them contained clauses to expell Negroes and establish Kansas as a "free white territory." The Wyandotte constitution, which was eventually adopted, had no such Negro exclusion clauses.
Prof. Wilson said suffrage 100 years ago was limited to white male citizens.
During the period between 1876-1879, no restrictions were placed on education for Negroes, but in 1879 the state legislature enacted a law requiring segregation in the elementary schools for first class cities. The law provided that Negro children were to receive the same educational facilities as white children.
THE STATUTE which provided for separate but equal schooling remained until 1954 when it was declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court on the basis that segregation in schooling produced inequality. Equality of opportunity includes more than just equal facilities, the court said.
Only within the last five years, through an amendment of the state Civil Rights Act, have Negroes been permitted to eat in Kansas restaurants or attend a movie theater without having to sit in a special section.
PROF. WILSON said if the State Supreme Court is called on to express an opinion as to whether taverns would be included under the Civil Rights Act which makes discrimination a misdemeanor, the interpretation would probably be broadened to include taverns.
As a result of the recent action by student groups to attempt to integrate a few Lawrence taverns, there has been speculation that a test case may be brought against the Kansas statutes.
Final week is breathing down our necks and even the journalism students find it necessary to take a "break." As a result, today is the last day of publication of the University Daily Kansan for the fall semester. Class enrollment is scheduled for Feb. 2 and 3. The UDK will resume publication Feb. 6.
Today is Final UDK Issue for Semester
Official Bulletin
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office. 121 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. D not bring Bulletin materials. The Daily Kansan Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
German Ph.D. Reading Examination.
Sat., Feb. 11. Candidates must sign up
in 306 Fraser between Jan. 25 and noon
Feb. 3.
TODAY
Students who are or will be juniors in music education second semester preenroll with Dr. Elin K. Jorgensen, pro-音乐 education, today by appointment.
Mathematics Department Coffee and Lecture. 3.50 p.m. Coffee, 113 Strong. 4.15 p.m. Lecture 103 Strong Dr. Donorrion and Dr. Lee De Castro. Calvin College will present. Some Problems of the Mathematics Research Department of Sandia Corporation."
Philosophy Club. 4 p.m. Sunflower Room, Kansas Union. Dr. Alfred Lande, Prof. Emeritus of Physics, Ohio State University. Present "Dualism; Science and Hypothesis."
Jewish Religious Services. 7 p.m. Danforth Chapel.
Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship. 7:30 p.m. 825 Mississippi. Bible study and informal discussion. Refreshments. Call I 2-0292 for more information or a ride.
TOMORROW
Students who are or will be juniors in music education second semester pre-enroll with Dr. Erik Borgensen, pro-tenure staff; students today by appointment from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
SUNDAY
Catholic Services, 8 and 10 a.m. Fraser
Towers at the social at Union follow-
ing, 10:00 Mass.
MONDAY
Catholic Daily Mass. 6:30 a.m. St.
John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy
Mystery Mass follows 6:45 a.m.
Canterbury House.
NSA Committee. 4 p.m. Kansas Union.
Her name is Bobbie Williams...
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Cuban Professor To Teach Here
Marta de Castro, visiting assistant professor of art history from the University of Havana in Cuba, will teach Latin American art history the spring semester, a class that has not been offered at KU in four years.
The course, Latin American Art; from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present, is a survey of the art and architecture of Middle and South America from the great Indian cultures through Colonial times to the achievements of the 20th Century.
Prof. de Castro received her MA degree at the University of Columbia and her Ph.D. at the University of Havana. She has written a number of books on Cuban art and speaks English fluently.
Prof. de Castro will also hold a seminar on Cuban architecture.
Model UN to Discuss Congo, Cuban Issues
This year's model United Nations will consider the Congo and Cuban issues. The delegates will be required to contend with a theoretical crisis for which no preparation will be given.
Registration for the Mock UN will be held in Hoch Auditorium from Feb. 6-18. Choice of countries will be on a first-come first-served basis.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and very dead.-Sinclair Lewis
UN sessions will convene April 14-15.
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