UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesdav. February 5. 1997
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Striking silhouettes
Chris Hamilton/KANSAN
Cutouts of a person line the windows of room 219 in Marvin Hall. The windows look out onto Jayhawk Boulevard, across from Snow Hall...
Not many restaurants in town feature conversation as part of the menu. But the Jubilee Cafe does.
By Chris Yancey Special to the Kansan
Cafe offers more than food
The cafe, which provides free breakfasts for the homeless in a restaurant-style atmosphere, gives KU students an opportunity to interact with the homeless and learn about their lives.
The cafe was established in 1994 and operates every Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1011 Vermont St. It is sponsored by the Hillet Foundation and the Center for Community Outreach.
The small setting of the cafe allows the volunteers to getting to know regular customers, said Chelsi Hayden, Alexandria Va., junior and project coordinator of the organization.
Amy Turnbull, Lawrence senior, and co-director of the Center for Community Outreach, has volunteered at the cafe as a cook and server since it opened.
"I've learned that it's not about the food. It's about establishing relationships," Turnbull said.
She said the guests frequently talked to her
about how they became homeless or how they lost their jobs, but they also liked to talk about news, politics and books.
Susie Wilcox, Gettyburg, Pa., senior, and a co-coordinator of the cafe, said she had learned from weekly discussions with the guests that the public had many misconceptions about the homeless.
"Homeless people are well aware of where they are at, and they are just as hard working as you and I," Wilcox said. "They deserve the same amount of credit."
Wilcox, who knows many of the guests by name, said the opportunity to talk with the homeless had been the greatest reward she had received from working at the cafe.
Hayden said she had enough volunteers every Tuesday, but she hoped more students would volunteer so they could better understand the homeless.
"If we get more volunteers, more people will see that the homeless are just like us, and it will get rid of many of the stereotypes," Hayden said.
Students interested in volunteering for the cafe can contact Hayden at the Center for Community Outreach at 864-4073.
Civil rights history woven from varied facets
Train car's trip honors union
By Sean Demory Kansan staff writer
History will be rolling past Lawrence in a matter of days.
"A. Philip Randolph was a great man for his support of the workers," said the Rev. Charles H. Askew, president of the Kansas City, Kan., branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It seems, though, that a lot of the problems he tried to solve are coming back."
The Overland Trail, which is coupled with a series of Amtrak trains,
The Overland Trail, an antique Pullman railroad sleeping car, is traveling cross-country on the Pullman Blues Tour. This is in honor of A. Philip Randolph, union leader and elder statesman of the civil rights movement, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African-American labor union to ever successfully negotiate a contract with a company.
will start its journey Sunday in Oakland, Calif. After a two-day layover in Los Angeles, it is scheduled to stop at 7:13 a.m. Feb. 13 in Kansas City. A ceremony and book-signing, involving Emmanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., mayor, and representatives from the NAACP and the A. Philip Randolph Society, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Pearson Auditorium at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
The train will continue on its way at 8:20 a.m. Feb. 14, and will finish its run Feb. 16 in Pullman, III.
Whistle Stop
David Perata, author of Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African-American Railroad Attendant and coordinator of the tour, said that his main purpose both in writing his book and setting up the tour was to educate.
"A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Thurgood Marshall — those names should all be as well known as Dr. King's," Perata said. "The Brotherhood and the NAACP's place in history should be noticed. But I don't think that parents are sitting their children down and teaching them the history. I hope that this tour can be a jump-start for that."
Schedule of events for the Pullman Blues Tour stop in Kansas City Feb. 13:
7:13 a.m. Overland Trail arrives in Kansas City
7:30 p.m. Book-signing and lecture with David Perata at Pearson Auditorium, UMKC
Babe and Virgil Smock, two former Pullman company porters interviewed in the book, will be traveling with Perata, as well as reporters from CBS and NPR and a goodwill representative from Amtrak.
Perata said that he hoped to eliminate some of the stigma surrounding the era and the railroad attendants.
"I think the younger generation views the attendants as an embarrassment — thinks they were just serving white people," Perata said. "I'd like to remind them that the Brotherhood fought and won, that they were a major force in the civil rights movement."
Panel discusses racial realities
By Umut Bayramoglu Kansan staff writer
While most KU students were gled to their televisions for the basketball game last night, about a dozen were discussing the civil rights movement and social changes concerning racial issues.
Cheryl Brown-Henderson, executive director of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research, and Dorothy Pennington, associate professor of African-American and communication studies, presented a panel discussion about the continuum of social change at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Brown-Henderson said that every generation believed that they would be the one to change the world, but that civil rights were on a continuum.
"We believed that equal rights would be established under our power, but we were not the first ones to think that," she said.
Brown-Henderson also criticized
society for commercializing the image of Martin Luther King Jr., instead of learning from his values.
"Self-appointed leaders today are concerned with gaining value for themselves," she said.
Brown-Henderson also said that the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case brought the following results:
segregated public education the creation of a law that limits segregation to elementary schools in cities larger than 50,000
the end of laws in 21 states that segregated public education
the guarantee that the state cannot limit the rights of U.S. citizens
Brown-Henderson said that people could not assume their rights without paying a price.
"Freedom is not free," she said. "You need leadership, social movement and political literacy to stay on the civil rights continuum."
Dorthy Pennington focused on the leadership of the civil rights movement during her talk.
She said that leaders such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had a charisma that was a vital element of the civil rights movement.
Pennington pointed out the strengths and limitations of the
movement.
"It gave society the ability to produce inclusion of African Americans," she said. "But there is still a need for unity on the part of the African-American community."
After the panel was opened to questions and comments, a student from the audience criticized the situation of the new generation.
"Most African Americans our age will complain about issues but not do anything about it. I think there is a lot of apathy," said Cassandre Beauboeuf, St. Louis sophomore and Black Student Union member.
Both speakers responded to the comment by emphasizing that it was up to young people to continue the civil rights movement.
Bridgette Roark, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said that she enjoyed the panel but wished that more people would have been there.
"I got a lot of questions answered," Roark said. "So could other people, but they missed it."
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