Senator calls for black unity
By CHARLENE MULLER
Kansan Staff Writer
Colorado State Sen. George Brown Jr., said Monday that the black man could no longer tolerate continued abuses of white racism.
Brown spoke to Lawrence High School students, launching LHS Black Heritage Week.
"This is our country." Brown said. "If we are to be free it must be on
this land and we must help make the terms of our freedom."
The senator called on the white man to be maladjusted to injustices
against the black man. He said he could never adjust to segregation and discrimination, economic unfairness, abandoned minorities, rat-infested housing, inadequate wages and poison streams of poison minds.
"I will never adjust," Brown said, "to those who think of integration as a dream of tomorrow rather than as a dream of today."
Brown called on the white man to develop attitudes of understanding and to listen with understanding. This will create a meaningful and relevant system for all, he said.
In the last half of his speech, Brown appealed to the black youth to be proud of themselves and to prove themselves. He said black students had a responsibility to themselves to do well in school, to
keep their bodies healthy and to love one another.
"Unity is as important as pride," he said. "The black man's 11th commandment should be: 'Thou shalt not tear each other down.'"
Brown said if the black youth did not get involved in the agenda for change, they were part of the problem.
At the end of his speech, Brown received a standing ovation from both assemblies.
Brown, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Brown Sr., 1215 New Jersey Street, was born and raised in Lawrence. He received a degree in journalism from KU in 1950 and joined the staff of the Denver Post, where he was night city editor until one year ago. At that time he became executive director of the
Metro-Denver Urban Coalition.
His political career began in 1955 when he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives. A year later he was elected to the state Senate, a post to which he was re-elected in 1960, 1964 and 1968.
He has received a number of awards for his work in human relations, including the American Civil Liberties' Carl Whitehead Human Relations Award and a similar award from the Denver Cosmopolitan Club. In 1958 he was named by Esquire Magazine as one of the nation's "Fifteen Bright Young Men" in the field of politics.
Other activities at LHS during the week include a lecture on black art by the Hank Smith Art Gallery of Kansas City, Mo. and a talent and fashion show.
Photo by Tom Slaughter
Papers down the drain
An uncounted number of the Kansans seized by members of the Black Student Union were finally found in Potter Lake. Students walking by the lake were seen picking out the dryer copies to read.
Diamonds
Women Want Them Men Give Them We Have Them
DIAMONDS
JEWELRY
"THE COLLEGE JEWELER"
809 Mass.
CHINA GIFTS
Kansans confiscated
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The BSU demands to Chalmers concerned suspension of the Harambee last Tuesday. Employes of the KU Printing Service walked out for 30 minutes protesting an alleged obscene poem in the Harambee. The BSU asked Frizzell to rule on the legality of the walkout. Frizzell did not immediately make a statement, so the BSU had the paper printed by a private firm in Wichita.
Monday they went to Chalmers for a decision, but they
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didn't get it. The result was $8,000 worth of publication lost and a lake full of papers.
Weather
Cloudy with some fog and light drizzle this forenoon. Becoming partly cloudy most sections with fog lifting by late afternoon. Continued mild with variable winds 5 to 15 mph today. Tonight clear to partly cloudy and colder with winds shifting to the north 10 to 25 mph. Wednesday clear to partly cloudy and colder. Highs today 52 to 62. Lows tonight in the 20s.
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