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Monday, November 2, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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NAACP says equality hasn't been achieved
Group fights subtle discrimination
The Associated Press
SALINA — The fight for equality for blacks has moved from the public stage to behind the scenes, but the fight definitely continues, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said.
Most visible discrimination — such as segregated public restrooms — has disappeared, but subtle discrimination still exists in schools, government and other institutions, said James B. Boyer, professor of curriculum and ethnic studies at Kansas State University.
Boer was in Salina this weekend for the NAACP Kansas State Conference.
"Sometimes we don't see discrimination, but we feel the effects of it," Boyer said. "Our organization has existed since 1909, and we always have had the same goal."
"We must go to those institutions in our efforts to change policies in government, education, and where we live. Our assets. We have to be stronger," he said.
Louisa Fletcher, state NAACP president and national board member, said the organization was trying to make sure blacks have opportunities in all fields - education, social and economic.
She said some people thought that inferior education for blacks ended in Kansas in 1954 with the landmark brown vs. Board of Education case in Tennessee.
"But that was only the beginning." Fletcher said. "Every child needs a quality education to meet the demands of a technological society."
People may think a black high school student has the same opportunities as a white student, but that's not the case. Bover said.
"Salina South High School has only two black teachers," he said, "so a black child has almost no chance of being taught by a black male teacher."
He said discrimination also was shown by who teachers recommended for scholarships or for the lead in the class play.
"Some teachers think a black child can only achieve in sports," Boyer said, "and there's a subtle neglect of academics."
"We're having our celebration of the Constitution this year," Boyer said. "In the Constitution, blacks were not considered human, or were only considered three-fifths human.
"You've got to understand that I can celebrate the signing of that Constitution only with an understanding the fellows sitting around the table writing it weren't considering me. The document itself is noble and good, but there were inherent faults in that document."
Evelyn Roberts, St. Louis, who is a member of the NAACP national board of directors and president of Crisis Magazine, said the NAACP members also were concerned with issues that would like their place in the business world.
"We train young blacks and older blacks and try to redirect them so they'll have more earning power." she said.
Book traces KU school's progress
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
A new book about the history of KU's School of Social Welfare gave students, faculty and alumni of the school a chance Friday to celebrate and remember the school together
The publication of "Transition: The Emergence, Growth, and Development of the School of Social Welfare" was celebrated at a reception in the Kansas Union. About 50 people, many of whom were among the 84 listed as contributors to the book, attended.
A table was set up for the book's editors, Shirley Patterson, who was a KU faculty member for 21 years and is now a professor at New Mexico Highlands University; and Ben Zimmerman, professor emeritus of social welfare, to sign copies.
But the editors weren't the only ones busy with autographs. As copies made their way around the room, anybody connected with the book was asked to sign, like at a high school yearbook-signing party.
The book traces social work education at the University of Kansas from its beginnings as a few classes in the department of sociology in 1987 to today. The narrative parts of the text are interspersed with comments from people who attended or taught in the school through the years.
"My concept of the book is that it's something like a patchwork quilt," Zimmerman said.
The book focuses primarily on the school's development, but the school's changes over 50 years reflect the changes of the entire University and the nation. Zimmerman said.
"The 50 years this covers is really the history of the welfare state, reflected from the vantage point of the school," he said.
Patterson said she started work on the book about 3 years ago.
"I became very concerned that so many very special things about the school would be lost from living memory," Patterson said.
"It's very much like looking at the
became very concerned that so many very special things about the school would be lost from living memory.'
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Shirley Patterson Former KU faculty member
history of one's own family and looking at the meaning of the history and events in that family," she said. "It gives us some guidelines for the future and who we want to be as a social welfare education family."
The book tells the history of social work education at KU from 1937, when programs from the government's New Deal were sparking interest in social welfare education and Esther Twente was hired by the sociology department. Twente headed the social welfare program at
KU from 1937 to 1957.
The building that now houses the school is named after Twente.
The book follows the school's evolution through World War II and the postwar years, when the department of social welfare became a school; the turbulence of the 1960s and '70s, when Zimmerman said the school acquired a radical reputation; to the 1980s, when social programs were cut by the federal government and the school's budget was cut by the state.
Aase George, a faculty member from 1948 to 1974, was the only original faculty member at the reception.
"There have been a lot of changes," she said, "but some of the basic things in social work are still the same."
Ann Weick, acting dean of social welfare, said people in the school were excited about the book.
The book costs $12.95 and is available at the school's office. Proceeds from the book's sales will go to the school's scholarship fund.
National arts chairman visits museum
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts took a rushed tour of the Spencer Museum of Art yesterday, the first stop on his first visit to examine the state of the arts in the heart of Kansas.
Frank Hodsoil, who will address the Kansas Association of Community Arts Agencies today in Manhattan, said he was visiting Kansas to get a better idea of how the arts were doing at the local level, particularly in the more rural areas.
ory Hodsoll also talked briefly with some of the artists at the museum whose work he was familiar with, including Miklos Pogany, who spoke earlier yesterday, and Stan Herd, a crop artist whose work can be seen in front of the museum.
Hodsoll said during his tour that he knew he wasn't getting to know the museum thoroughly.
Hodson spent less than an hour touring the museum, which recently received a challenge grant from the national endowment. The grant will provide $200,000 in matching funds if the museum can raise $600,000 on its own.
tory of the museum and the exhibits.
Before he was whisked off to visit the Lawrence Arts Center, Hodson said he was impressed with what he had seen in the museum.
Accompanied by several museum officials, Hodsoll went through the museum's exhibits, pausing briefly to admire some. He frequently paused to examine some works closely.
"I had heard that the Spencer Museum was a great museum in national terms," he said. "And now that I've seen it I would certainly agree with that, and I'm very proud that we're able to provide a challenge grant to them."
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He also had plenty of questions for the museum officials about the his-
Doug Tilghman, acting director of the museum, said that Hodsdl's visit was a rare opportunity to show that a lot was happening at the museum.
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