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Identifier
Kanza1972_069
Object Type
Yearbook
Creation Date
1-1-1972
Description
A 1972 Kanza yearbook page detailing Rev. Andrew Young's visit during Black Heritage Week, including photographs of Rev. Young and attendees.
Transcription
Emphasis ‘71 Speakers bring out ideas on involvement of students and cause consternation over seating
The series of Emphasis ‘71 speakers included such people as William Kunstler, a lawyer who has represented such controversial figure as H. Rap Brown, the Berrigan brothers, and the “Chicago Seven”; Senator Wayne Morse; Reverend Andrew Young; and Lester Maddox, lieutenant governor of Georgia. Topics such as government power checks, the presidential elections, Attica prison, and the revolt which occured were discussed.
During the Maddox lecture there was controversy over reserved seating which resulted in students standing during the entire hour-and-a-half lecture. Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, has gained notoriety as a restauranteur who refused to racially integrate his chain of restaurants and closed them.
Wayne Morse spoke on advocating government power checks. He said, “Your generation has a responsibility to check the judicial oligarchy existing in this country today.” Citing several examples, he listed US involvement in Southeast Asia, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Bay of Pigs incident and the Cuban missile crisis.
Lawyer William Kunstler, defender of the “Chicago Seven”, appeared November 3. Kunstler centered most of his remarks on prison conditions leading to the Attica Prison revolt last September. Speaking of the warden of the Kansas Penitentiary, he said, “I think Raymond Gaffney is two-thirds right as to why I’m here; I don’t know Kansas and I am here to provoke. However, I think this will help.”
The Reverend Andrew Young spoke in conjunction with Black Heritage Week. Rev. Young, a black minister, has been an assistant to Ralph Abernathy and has been active in civil rights. He is presently running for a Congressional seat in Georgia.
Two other speakers Jane Fonda and Senator Gaylord Nelson cancelled their engagements.
Chairman of the lecture series, Dave White, said, “Speakers of current issues were invited to challenge people with new ideas, to help them form intelligent opinions.”
[Photo caption] Rev. Andrew Young on Civil Rights
“Do we have the discipline, the will and the hope to come together?”
