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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 19, 1964
Scholar to Tell Of Negro Revolution
"Time"-honored as one of the foremost Negro scholars in the United States is Dr. John Hope Franklin who will give a Humanities Lecture Series address on "The Civil Rights Revolution: Its Historical Setting" at 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 24.
The lecture will be given in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union. It will be followed by a reception at the Faculty Club. Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will introduce the visiting scholar.
Dr. Franklin was pictured in a full-color section of Time magazine's issue of January 3 devoted to some 30 outstanding Negroes in America. He is chairman of the department of history at Brooklyn College but will join the history faculty of the University of Chicago this year.
LAST YEAR, HE WAS Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University in England. From KU, he will fly to Hyderabad, India, to represent the United States at the opening of the American History Research Center at Osmania University.
At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24 he will speak on "The Past in the Future of the South" in the Jayhawk Room of Kansas Union; this matinee program will be sponsored by Student Union Activities.
At 4 p.m. on Monday, March 23, he will meet with history faculty members and graduate students in the Big Eight Room of Kansas Union; the discussion is being arranged by Dr. Stitt Robinson, history.
DURING HIS THREE-DAY visit to the KU campus, Dr. Franklin will also speak at 9:30 a.m. Monday in 110 Strong to History 184 on "The Role of History in Social Change." At 2:30 p.m. that day in 2 Strong Annex E and at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 25, in 110 Fraser, he will speak to Sociology 2 classes on "World History and Social Change." At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in 110 Strong he will speak to History 187 on "Rediscovering the American Negro's History."
He was born in Oklahoma in 1915, was educated in Tulsa public schools, received the B.A. at Fisk University, and the M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He was awarded Edwin Austin and Julius Rosenwald Fellowships and was President's Fellow at Brown University. He taught at Fisk, St. Augustine's College, North
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Carolina College, and Howard University, and has been chairman of the history department at Brooklyn College since 1956.
He has been visiting professor at Harvard, Wisconsin, Cornell, California, and Hawaii universities. He was professor at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria, was visiting lecturer at the Seminar in American Studies at Cambridge, and attended the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome. President Kennedy appointed him to a three-year term on the Board of Foreign Scholarships, and he held a Fulbright grant to several Australian universities.
He was awarded honorary degrees by Morgan State College, Virginia State College, and Lincoln University. He was the first Negro elected to the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.
Elwell, Wichita senior, said Ragsdale thought the picketing would put pressure on the Sigma Nu national chapter to remove the clause. "He's interpreting this as helping the Sigma Nu fraternity." Elwell said.
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ELWELL SAID THE picketing could influence rushees and could only hurt the chapter. He did not think that the picketing would have any influence with the national chapter.
CRCC To Picket Ceremony—
The KU Sigma Nu chapter unsuccessfully attempted to remove the clause at the last national convention.
Good looking co-eds who have dreams of becoming a beauty queen can learn the rules for the Miss Lawrence-KU Pageant at an orientation tea 10 a.m. Saturday in room 306 of the Kansas Union.
'Miss Lawrence' Entrants Invited to Orientation Tea
Ragsdale said the following organizations are supporting the CRCC: Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Tau, Kappa Alpha Psi, Kansas University Liberal Action Committee, Newman Club, Evangelical United Brethren, Don
Ragsdale said the decision of the All Student Council to not support the CRCC did no damage to the cause.
Single women between the ages of 18 and 28 are eligible for the pageant. The preliminaries will be held on April 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. in the Kansas University Ballroom.
The tea will provide an opportunity for prospective entrants to ask questions. Application blanks for the pageant will be available at the tea.
The annual contest, sponsored by the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce, is a preliminary to the Miss America Pageant.
Other qualifications for pageant entrants are: residency in Lawrence for the past six months; single marital status, never married, divorced, or had a marriage annulled. The entrants also must be of good character and must possess poise, personality, intelligence, charm and beauty.
In addition, entrants must give a three-minute talent presentation.
The talent may be singing, dancing, playing a musical instrument, dramatic reading, art display, dress designing, creative poetry, writing, or she may give a talk on the career she wishes to pursue.
An entrant may be either an amateur or a professional in her area of talent.
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THE LATEST CIVIL rights controversy on campus started on Feb. 12 when the Civil Rights Council petitioned the IFC to clarify its stand on the integration of minority groups into the KU fraternity system. At
that time the CRC asked the IFC to withdraw recognition from fraternities with discriminatory clauses.
The IFC took no special action and stated it would maintain the policy that moral suasion, not force, should be used to help fraternities remove discriminatory clauses.
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