Appeal for Youths From Julian Bond on Scottsboro Echo
Julian Bond urges students to support a SPLC letter about Dawson Georgia killings. He recounts the 1931 Scottsboro case and warns five black youths face possible death in an alleged store holdup murder. The piece stresses innocence and asks readers to help.
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Julian Bond
Southern Poverty Law Center
Friend
Scottsboro
Alabama
Scottsboro Boy
South
Dawson
Georgia
Plains
Legacy of Cuban Roots and a Georgia Murder Case
The piece contrasts Cuban heritage with U S assimilation and shifts to a Georgia murder case involving Roosevelt Watson and four others. It details delay in identification, coercive rights waivers, and a poverty law group appeal for defense support, urging donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery.
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Myra Rodriguez
Alex Haley
Guantanamo
Cuba
Terrell County
Joan Little
Georgia
Southern Poverty Law Center
South
Hull Street
P.O
Montgomery
Alabama
Scottsboro
Dawson
Volunteers Needed for Black Children at Boston College Campus School
Doxie McCoy reports twelve black students at the Boston College Campus School in Roberts Center seek volunteers. The school serves seventy multi handicapped youths ages 4 to 21, with various disabilities. volunteers can give even one hour weekly during 9 am to 2:30 pm. Contact Campus School Ext 3460.
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Fidel Castro
New York
United States
Doxie McCoy
Boston College
Roberts Center
Boston
Fernald
Fisk University Seen as Key to Black Roots and Education
Former Black Students' Forum president Tracy Jenkins extols Fisk University as a pivotal institution for preserving Black records, culture, and tradition. She notes Fisk’s selective history, transfer programs, and its role in shaping education as anti-racist action, while highlighting personal identity and empowerment found there.
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Black Students’ Forum
BSF
Fisk University
Tracy Jenkins
Harvard
America
Fisk
Miss Jenkins
Nikki Giovanni
Univer
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