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uuv)*a» »? - *>*»' rw ? ? Temporary Restraining Order * * * * * * ****** * * * * * * * * * 5000 Hear Powell Describe Black Power At Tuskegee F?- & JJF EL \u25a0 MRAF^#VT^WUMMKLF M, ? \ FWRLII^M^ ! Solon Wants Kennedy-Bond Ticket for 1972 Che Catqiitta & TUSKEGEE INHITIVIK Ala.- Harlem Congreaaman Adam Clayton PoweU kept some 5,000 persons applauding here this week aa he defined "Black Power," suggested a Ted Kennedy - Julian Bond Ticket for 1972 and urged the purging of "Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas" from the ranks of Negro leadership. "Black Power ia not anti white except when white peo- ple are anti-black," the Con- gressman explained. "We (Negroes) don't believe in vio- lence, nor deo we believe it total non-violence," suggesting that "anybody that believes in total non-violence is a damn fool.' : Powell appeared at Tusk eg ee Institute under the auspices of an Interim Committee which planned a variety of activities for students remaining on cam- pus for the interim between the first and second semester. Discussing "Esack Power" at length, Powell said: "Black power means black dignity... it means black is beautiful... black power means we want equality, Now!" Powell called for more and new Negro leadership, pointing out that there was "not a single Negro organization of any meaning" where Negroes were in control. He called on young white militants" to "come and follow us (Negroes). And why not," Powell asked. "We have earned the right." Powell, who was recently allowed to recalim his congres- sional seat after being fined and stripped in his 22 years of seniority, called for a Ted Kennedy - Julian Bond ticket in 1972. Such a ticket, PoweU said, would "for the first time give us the kind of republic and democracy that this nation has never had before." NAACP OFFICERS FOR lHf ?Election of officers of the Durham Branch of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People was held at the Morehead Avenue Baptist Church, Sunday, Febru- ary 2. Installation of the offi- cers was conducted following the election. The officers shown above, front row from left to right are: Rev. B. A. Mack, Dr. Grady D. Davis, Dr. William H. Fuller, all of the executive committee; Miss Lydia Spicer, assistant-9ecertary; Alexander Barnes, president; Mrs. Gladys McKinney, chairman Special Events Committee; Dr. A. D. Moseley, retiring president and executive committee; Rev. L. A Miller, Chairman, Political Ac- tion Committee; Rev. Walter Phillips, Executive Committee. Back row: Rev. F. D. Terry, Executive Committee; Bur c h Coley, Chairman, Program Com- mittee; J. R. Philyaw, and Mrs. Mabel Powell, Co-chairman, Membership; William Gilliam, Executive Committee and J. A. Tucker, Executive Commit- tee. (Photo by Decatur) VOLUME 46 No. 6 DURHAM, N. C.; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1969 PRICE: 20 Cents Puerto Rican Chief Justice Presented Judicature Award jttfr im i I L i ? A&Wkk.vfiS \u25a0;j nv H VID Iki \u25a0 ? nffl \u25a0 a v \ ,^F^"*, '^?m D3- «* Ma x Imjl' f ? . Bw - .-<^H \u25a0 4,^' Luis Fernandez Honored at Chicago Meet CHICAGO - Luis Negrdta Fernandez, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and President of the Judicial Conference of the Americans, an international organization of Chief Justices of the Su- preme Courts of the Western Hemisphere, was presented with the American Judicature Society's Justice Award at its midyear meeting today in Chi- cago by the Society's president Gerald C. Snyder. The Justice Award is given by the Society in recognition of "distinguished service in promoting the efficient ad- ministration of justice." Ros- coe Pound, late dean of the Harvard Law School, and re- tired Justice Tom C. Clark of the United States are among few recipients of this award. The honor was conferred on t » Chief Justice Negron Fernan- dez for his outstanding con- tributions in court administra- tion, judicial education and in- ternational leadership in judi- cial reform. He provided the leadership for the founding in 1965 of the Judicial Confer- ence of the Americas. He was its first president and has been twice reelected to that post, which he holds today. During the first session of this con- ference a Declaration of Prin- ciples on behalf of an inde- pendent judiciary and the rule of law in the administration of justice throughout this hem- isphere was unanimously adop- ted. The Judicial Conference of the Americas cooperates with the American Judicature Society and other national and international organizations in FOR 25 YBAIU SERVICI Bishop Stephen Gill Spotta- wood, chairman, NAACP Board of Directors, presents Certifi- cate of Merit to Mrs. Ruby Hurley for "15 years of coura- geous, devoted and successful service to the NAACP." Ap- plauding is Klvie Kaplan, NAACP president. The cere- mony took place during the anqual Fellowship Dinner of the NAACP in New York City on January 12. See AWARD page 2A Final Hearing Of Set For March LOCAL ALLIANCE VOTES SUPPORT OF CLERGYMAN Superior Court Judge Coy E. Brewer dissolved the court order here Wednesday, January 5, he had signed on January 20 restraining Rev. Zebedee D. Harris from entering the grounds or edifice of the Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Church at 801 Colfax Street, as pastor or otherwise. The action of Judge Brewer permits Rev. Harris to tempo- rarily continue as pastor of the church until a full hearing of the case, which has been set for the March term of Superior Court. This, a final verdict in the case must await the deci- don of a jury of 12 yet to be selected for what the members and friends of Rev. Harris hope, will be the fourth and last court battle to be added to the three others already won by him in past actions brought by various members of the church. Judge Brewer's order came after three days hearing in the case during which plaintiffs offered testimony with the hope of making the restraining order permanent and following a motlbn of their attorney to that effect. Those filing the complaint against Rev. Harris on January 20 ware Robert Avery, Herbert Mangum and R. T. Robinsoa, trustees and General F. Bruton, Arthur Burton and Robert Covert, deacons. Others signing as members were: James GUlis, AuiUiui Brunson, Sr., Henry Robinson, Jr., Collie Gilßt, Mabie B. White, Pinkie Rlgsbee See OAK GftOVI 2A Atty. Michaux Calls for Identity, Solidarity at Mass Meet Sunday Black people must develop "a sense of somebody-ness" and must work for identity and solidarity in order to win the struggle for equality, a prominent real estate dealer and attorney declared here last Sunday night. Speaking to the weekly maaa meeting of the Black Solidarity Committee for Community Improvement, attorney H. M. Michaux, Jr., said black people everywhere must get rid of any "nagging sense of nobody-new" before they can solve their dil- emna of racial inequality and discrimination. "Our dilemna is serious," he said, "but equally serious is our creative will" to win the current fight for basic human rights. "We must not let a repree- it MICHAUX sive society shackle our mind*. We must refuse to be ashamed of being black. We don't need bleaching creams to make us See MICHAUX page 2A Yet Administration Warns About Giving of Erroneous Information WINSTON SALEM-Errone- ous information has been pop- ping up all over North Carolina, that the Veterans Administra- tion is going to pay a special dividend to all veterans who ever held GI Insurance, accord- ing to W. R. Phillips, Manager of North Carolina VA Regional Office. "Nothing could be further from the truth," Phillips sald.| VA has received a deluge of applications rrom thousands of World War II veterans seeking the special dividend reported by the false rumors dissemi- nated by work-of-mouth, let- ter, and stories in newspapers and magazines. "We are deeply concerned," Phillips said, "That so many veterans entertain the fake hope that they are in for an Insurance dividend windfall. They are not." See WARNS page 2A Dr. Hollis Price To Speak at Livingstone Col SALISBURY - Dr. Hollls F. Price, president of LeMoyne College, Memphis, Tenn., will be the featured speaker for the annual Founder's Day and De- dication Service at Livingstone College on Tuesday, February 11. beginning at 2:30 p.m. in Varick Auditorium. The an- nouncement was made today by Dr. Victor J. Tulane, acting president of the college. Three new buildings will be dedicated during the service, with ribbon-cutting ceremonies scheduled to follow at 4 p.m. The three buildings to be dedicated include Walls Heri- tage House, the S. E. Duncan Natural Science Building, and the Social Communi- cations Building. In addition, Inspection tours will be ar- ranged. for the new annexes by Carnegie Library and Trent Gymnasium as wall u all other campus facilities. Other features of the Founder's Day observance will be the semi-annual meeting of See ntlCI page 1A PRINCETON, N. J. - An order of Worship produced in a two-year process for "the congregations of those churches which have resolved, by God's help, to restore cor- porate union one with an- other," has been published by the Consultation on Church Union. Fully titled "An Order of 'Worship for the Proclamation of the Word of God and the Celebration of the Lord's Sup- per," the order is in book form and Includes a commen- tary on Its structure and con- tent. The worship order "is by no means a definitive ser- vice to be imposed upon the uniting churches," its authors emphasize, but rather is "sole- ly a means of ssristing us towards the common goal of Church Union Publishes Order of Worship Book understanding ind reconcilia- tion." Written in contemporary English, the service includes versions of the Lord's Prayer, Apostles' Oeed, and Nicene Creed, agreed upon by the Consultation, the Intar-Luthe- ran Commission on Worship, and the International Commit- See CHURCH page XA NCC Conference On Black Lawyer, Black Law Schools Slated Feb. 21-22 Meeting Expected To Attract Large Student Group A conference on the role of the black lawyer and the black law school will atrnct stduents from schools across North Car- olina to North Carolina College p Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22. Donald Pitts, chairman of the NCC chapter of the Law Stu- dents Civil Rights Research Council, which sponsors the event, described the purpose of the program as being "to increase the interests of black undergraduate students in the legal professions, to give them a perspective of what the jobs are that black lawyers must do, and to bring some order into the somewhat dismantled civil rights program in this state." Among the speakers sche- duled are Dr. James H. Brewer, LeMarquis DeJarmon, Kenneth L. Pye, Dr. J. Neal Hughley, and Buddy Tiger. See LAWYERS page 2A Former Durham Citizen Passes In N. Y. Following Long Illness BROOKLYN - Emanuel Garland Spaulding, 83, former resident of Durham, North Car- olina, died early Sunday morn- ing at his home in Brooklyn where he had resided since moving here from Durham sev- eral years ago. Spaulding was born a native of Columbus County, North Carolina. Early in life he moved to Durham where he attended the public schools. He also attended Shaw Univer- sity of Raleigh and Howard University of Washington. Fol- lowing several years as an em- ployee of N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Company, he enter- ed private business in Durham | as an undertaker. He moved to Brooklyn with his family about 30 years ago. Funeral ceremony was con- ducted in Brooklyn Thursday A. i SPAULDINC morning at 10:00 a.m. After- wards, the body was flown to Durham where graveside rites were conducted by Dr. Lorenzo See PASSES page 2A Zl& t ;- V -9^^B Hp--' \u25a0 », i^H ATTEND ARTISTI fXWMT ?Dr. Ralph Bunch and his wife at the January 22 preview ex- hibit of Black American Artists at the Lee Nordness Galleries, New York, discuss the show with Clifford Cooke (1), Smirn- off National field Promotion Manager of the Heublein, Inc., and two New York artists dis- playing their works, sculptor Jack White (center) and paint- er Arthur Coppedfe (r). Dr. Bunch was co-chairman of this preview of the works of ten artists, which was for the benefit of the NAACP Special Contribution Fund. English Prof of NCC to Address Univ. Col. Meet Dr. Sylvia Lyons Render, Professor of English at North Carolina College at Durham, will deliver a major speech and aerve as a consultant on Negri leterature on both the Denver and Boulder campuses of the University of Colorado during its observance of Black Aware- ness Week, February 9-15. Dr. Render will outline the usefullness of Afro-American literature in promoting inter- racial understanding in the United States. She is a recog- nized authority on Charles W. Chesnutt, having done exten- sive post-doctural research and writing on the late nineteenth- century author under an award from the American Philosophi- cal Society and as a 1967-68 Fellow In the Cooperative Pro- pram in the Humanities at Duke University. Her biogra- phy of Chesnutt in the 1969 edition of Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica received special men- tion in the editors' annual report, Encyclopaedia Britan nica in 1969. She prepared the introduction for the Aiao Press edition of Chesnutt't The Marrow of Tradition, to be published this spring, and is working on a bio-critical study of Chesnutt for the Twayoe U. S. Authors Series. In addition to having stud- ied at the University of Chic* go and the University of Wl»- consin. Dr. Render holds the B. S. degree from Ten nin A. & I. State Univsrdty, the M. A. from Ohio State Uator rity, and the Ph. D. from See MKOP page U

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Page 1: VOLUME FEBRUARY PRICE: 20 Cents Puerto Judicaturenewspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn83045120/1969-02-08/ed-1/seq-1.pdf · Black people must develop "a sense of somebody-ness" and must

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Solon WantsKennedy-BondTicket for 1972Che Catqiitta &

TUSKEGEE INHITIVIKAla.-

Harlem Congreaaman AdamClayton PoweU kept some5,000 persons applauding herethis week aa he defined "BlackPower," suggested a TedKennedy - Julian Bond Ticketfor 1972 and urged the purgingof "Uncle Toms and Aunt

Jemimas" from the ranks ofNegro leadership.

"Black Power ia not antiwhite except when white peo-ple are anti-black," the Con-gressman explained. "We

(Negroes) don't believe in vio-lence, nor deo we believe ittotal non-violence," suggestingthat "anybody that believes in

total non-violence is a damnfool.' :

Powell appeared at Tusk eg eeInstitute under the auspices of

an Interim Committee whichplanned a variety of activitiesfor students remaining on cam-pus for the interim betweenthe first and second semester.

Discussing "Esack Power" atlength, Powell said: "Blackpower means black dignity...it means black is beautiful...

black power means we wantequality, Now!"

Powell called for more and

new Negro leadership, pointingout that there was "not a singleNegro organization of anymeaning" where Negroes werein control. He called on youngwhite militants" to "come and

follow us (Negroes). And whynot," Powell asked. "We haveearned the right."

Powell, who was recentlyallowed to recalim his congres-

sional seat after being fined and

stripped in his 22 years ofseniority, called for a TedKennedy - Julian Bond ticketin 1972. Such a ticket, PoweUsaid, would "for the first timegive us the kind of republicand democracy that this nationhas never had before."

NAACP OFFICERS FOR lHf?Election of officers of theDurham Branch of the NationalAssociation for the Advance-ment of Colored People washeld at the Morehead AvenueBaptist Church, Sunday, Febru-ary 2. Installation of the offi-cers was conducted following

the election. The officers shownabove, front row from left toright are: Rev. B. A. Mack, Dr.

Grady D. Davis, Dr. WilliamH. Fuller, all of the executivecommittee; Miss Lydia Spicer,assistant-9ecertary; AlexanderBarnes, president; Mrs. Gladys

McKinney, chairman SpecialEvents Committee; Dr. A. D.Moseley, retiring president andexecutive committee; Rev. L. AMiller, Chairman, Political Ac-tion Committee; Rev. Walter

Phillips, Executive Committee.Back row: Rev. F. D. Terry,Executive Committee; Bur c hColey, Chairman, Program Com-mittee; J. R. Philyaw, and Mrs.Mabel Powell, Co-chairman,Membership; William Gilliam,Executive Committee and J.A. Tucker, Executive Commit-tee.

(Photo by Decatur)

VOLUME 46 No. 6 DURHAM, N. C.; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1969 PRICE: 20 Cents

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Luis FernandezHonored atChicago Meet

CHICAGO - Luis NegrdtaFernandez, Chief Justice of theSupreme Court of Puerto Rico

and President of the JudicialConference of the Americans,an international organizationof Chief Justices of the Su-preme Courts of the WesternHemisphere, was presentedwith the American JudicatureSociety's Justice Award at itsmidyear meeting today in Chi-cago by the Society's presidentGerald C. Snyder.

The Justice Award is givenby the Society in recognitionof "distinguished service inpromoting the efficient ad-ministration of justice." Ros-coe Pound, late dean of theHarvard Law School, and re-tired Justice Tom C. Clark ofthe United States are amongfew recipients of this award.

The honor was conferred ont »

Chief Justice Negron Fernan-dez for his outstanding con-tributions in court administra-tion, judicial education and in-ternational leadership in judi-cial reform. He provided theleadership for the founding in1965 of the Judicial Confer-ence of the Americas. He wasits first president and has beentwice reelected to that post,which he holds today. Duringthe first session of this con-ference a Declaration of Prin-ciples on behalf of an inde-pendent judiciary and the ruleof law in the administrationof justice throughout this hem-isphere was unanimously adop-ted. The Judicial Conferenceof the Americas cooperateswith the American JudicatureSociety and other national andinternational organizations in

FOR 25 YBAIU SERVICI

Bishop Stephen Gill Spotta-wood, chairman, NAACP Boardof Directors, presents Certifi-cate of Merit to Mrs. Ruby

Hurley for "15 years of coura-geous, devoted and successfulservice to the NAACP." Ap-plauding is Klvie Kaplan,NAACP president. The cere-

mony took place during theanqual Fellowship Dinner ofthe NAACP in New York City

on January 12.

See AWARD page 2A

Final Hearing OfSet For MarchLOCAL ALLIANCEVOTES SUPPORTOF CLERGYMAN

Superior Court Judge CoyE. Brewer dissolved the court

order here Wednesday, January5, he had signed on January 20restraining Rev. Zebedee D.Harris from entering thegrounds or edifice of the OakGrove Freewill Baptist Churchat 801 Colfax Street, as pastoror otherwise.

The action of Judge Brewerpermits Rev. Harris to tempo-rarily continue as pastor of thechurch until a full hearing ofthe case, which has been setfor the March term of SuperiorCourt. This, a final verdict inthe case must await the deci-don of a jury of 12 yet to be

selected for what the membersand friends of Rev. Harrishope, will be the fourth andlast court battle to be added tothe three others already wonby him in past actions broughtby various members of thechurch.

Judge Brewer's order cameafter three days hearing in thecase during which plaintiffsoffered testimony with thehope of making the restrainingorder permanent and followinga motlbn of their attorney tothat effect.

Those filing the complaintagainst Rev. Harris on January

20 ware Robert Avery, HerbertMangum and R. T. Robinsoa,trustees and General F. Bruton,Arthur Burton and RobertCovert, deacons. Others signingas members were: James GUlis,AuiUiui Brunson, Sr., HenryRobinson, Jr., Collie Gilßt,Mabie B. White, Pinkie Rlgsbee

See OAK GftOVI 2A

Atty. Michaux Calls for Identity,Solidarity at Mass Meet Sunday

Black people must develop"a sense of somebody-ness"and must work for identityand solidarity in order to winthe struggle for equality, aprominent real estate dealerand attorney declared here lastSunday night.

Speaking to the weekly maaameeting of the Black SolidarityCommittee for CommunityImprovement, attorney H. M.Michaux, Jr., said black peopleeverywhere must get rid of any"nagging sense of nobody-new"before they can solve their dil-emna of racial inequality anddiscrimination.

"Our dilemna is serious,"he said, "but equally serious isour creative will" to win thecurrent fight for basic humanrights.

"We must not let a repree-

itMICHAUX

sive society shackle our mind*.We must refuse to be ashamedof being black. We don't needbleaching creams to make us

See MICHAUX page 2A

Yet Administration Warns AboutGiving of Erroneous Information

WINSTON SALEM-Errone-ous information has been pop-ping up all over North Carolina,that the Veterans Administra-tion is going to pay a specialdividend to all veterans whoever held GI Insurance, accord-ing to W. R. Phillips, Managerof North Carolina VARegionalOffice.

"Nothing could be furtherfrom the truth," Phillips sald.|

VA has received a deluge of

applications rrom thousands of

World War IIveterans seeking

the special dividend reported

by the false rumors dissemi-nated by work-of-mouth, let-ter, and stories in newspapersand magazines.

"We are deeply concerned,"Phillips said, "That so many

veterans entertain the fakehope that they are in for an

Insurance dividend windfall.They are not."

See WARNS page 2A

Dr. Hollis PriceTo Speak atLivingstone Col

SALISBURY - Dr. HolllsF. Price, president of LeMoyneCollege, Memphis, Tenn., willbe the featured speaker for theannual Founder's Day and De-dication Service at LivingstoneCollege on Tuesday, February11. beginning at 2:30 p.m. inVarick Auditorium. The an-nouncement was made todayby Dr. Victor J. Tulane, actingpresident of the college.

Three new buildings will bededicated during the service,with ribbon-cutting ceremoniesscheduled to follow at 4 p.m.

The three buildings to bededicated include Walls Heri-tage House, the S. E. DuncanNatural Science Building, andthe Social Communi-cations Building. In addition,Inspection tours will be ar-ranged. for the new annexesby Carnegie Library and TrentGymnasium as wall u all othercampus facilities.

Other features of theFounder's Day observance willbe the semi-annual meeting of

See ntlCI page 1A

PRINCETON, N. J. -Anorder of Worship produced ina two-year process for "thecongregations of thosechurches which have resolved,by God's help, to restore cor-porate union one with an-other," has been published bythe Consultation on ChurchUnion.

Fully titled "An Order of'Worship for the Proclamation

of the Word of God and theCelebration of the Lord's Sup-

per," the order is in book

form and Includes a commen-

tary on Its structure and con-

tent. The worship order "isby no means a definitive ser-vice to be imposed upon theuniting churches," its authorsemphasize, but rather is "sole-ly a means of ssristing us

towards the common goal of

Church Union Publishes Order of Worship Bookunderstanding ind reconcilia-tion."

Written in contemporaryEnglish, the service includesversions of the Lord's Prayer,Apostles' Oeed, and NiceneCreed, agreed upon by theConsultation, the Intar-Luthe-ran Commission on Worship,and the International Commit-

See CHURCH page XA

NCC Conference On Black Lawyer,Black Law Schools Slated Feb. 21-22Meeting ExpectedTo Attract LargeStudent Group

A conference on the role ofthe black lawyer and the blacklaw school will atrnct stduents

from schools across North Car-olina to North Carolina College

pFriday and Saturday, February21 and 22.

Donald Pitts, chairman of theNCC chapter of the Law Stu-dents Civil Rights ResearchCouncil, which sponsors theevent, described the purposeof the program as being "toincrease the interests of blackundergraduate students in thelegal professions, to give them

a perspective of what the jobsare that black lawyers must do,and to bring some order intothe somewhat dismantled civilrights program in this state."

Among the speakers sche-

duled are Dr. James H. Brewer,LeMarquis DeJarmon, KennethL. Pye, Dr. J. Neal Hughley,and Buddy Tiger.

See LAWYERS page 2A

Former Durham Citizen PassesIn N. Y. Following Long Illness

BROOKLYN - EmanuelGarland Spaulding, 83, formerresident of Durham, North Car-

olina, died early Sunday morn-ing at his home in Brooklynwhere he had resided sincemoving here from Durham sev-eral years ago.

Spaulding was born a nativeof Columbus County, NorthCarolina. Early in life hemoved to Durham where he

attended the public schools.He also attended Shaw Univer-sity of Raleigh and HowardUniversity of Washington. Fol-lowing several years as an em-ployee of N. C. Mutual LifeInsurance Company, he enter-

ed private business in Durham |

as an undertaker. He moved toBrooklyn with his family about30 years ago.

Funeral ceremony was con-ducted in Brooklyn Thursday

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SPAULDINCmorning at 10:00 a.m. After-wards, the body was flown toDurham where graveside riteswere conducted by Dr. Lorenzo

See PASSES page 2A

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i^HATTEND ARTISTI fXWMT?Dr. Ralph Bunch and his wifeat the January 22 preview ex-hibit of Black American Artistsat the Lee Nordness Galleries,New York, discuss the show

with Clifford Cooke (1), Smirn-off National field PromotionManager of the Heublein, Inc.,and two New York artists dis-playing their works, sculptorJack White (center) and paint-

er Arthur Coppedfe (r). Dr.Bunch was co-chairman of thispreview of the works of tenartists, which was for thebenefit of the NAACP SpecialContribution Fund.

English Prof ofNCC to AddressUniv. Col. Meet

Dr. Sylvia Lyons Render,Professor of English at NorthCarolina College at Durham,will deliver a major speech and

aerve as a consultant on Negrileterature on both the Denverand Boulder campuses of the

University of Colorado duringits observance of Black Aware-ness Week, February 9-15.

Dr. Render will outline the

usefullness of Afro-Americanliterature in promoting inter-racial understanding in the

United States. She is a recog-nized authority on Charles W.Chesnutt, having done exten-sive post-doctural research and

writing on the late nineteenth-century author under an awardfrom the American Philosophi-cal Society and as a 1967-68Fellow In the Cooperative Pro-pram in the Humanities at

Duke University. Her biogra-

phy of Chesnutt in the 1969edition of Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica received special men-tion in the editors' annualreport, Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1969. She preparedthe introduction for the AiaoPress edition of Chesnutt'tThe Marrow of Tradition, to bepublished this spring, and isworking on a bio-critical studyof Chesnutt for the TwayoeU. S. Authors Series.

In addition to having stud-ied at the University of Chic*go and the University of Wl»-consin. Dr. Render holds theB. S. degree from Ten nin

A. & I. State Univsrdty, theM. A. from Ohio State Uatorrity, and the Ph. D. from

See MKOP page U