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Build for 1980. September 1, 1979. Atlantic Pack to Salazar E.L.A. Circular crest on left side: August 29 Continue the Struggle. Black font on orange background.

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James Farmer, civil rights activist and first national director of the Committee of Racial Equality, speaks at the Kellogg Center. Topics include his concerns with the increase of unemployment in the African American community, training for unskilled black individuals, and a need for more colleges for black students.

Scope and Contents As part of the Associated Students of MSU's Great Issues series on "New Politics", American social activist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and member of the Georgia House of Representatives Julian Bond speaks at the MSU Auditorium. Quoting from the poetry of Jane Stembridge and the words of W.E.B. DuBois and Frederick Douglass, Bond urges young people to leave their campuses, hit the streets and radicalize their peers. In front of an audience of about...

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New York Attorney Mark Lane, conspiracy theorist on the assassination of John F. Kennedy and author of the book Rush to Judgment, speaks at a Great Issues lecture in the Michigan State University Auditorium. The event was hosted by the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU).

Scope and Content From the Record Group: The Hannah papers include general files, speeches, materials relating to Hannah's work with the Commission on Civil Rights, the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, and the Michigan Constitutional Convention, publications and appointment books, ephemera, and audio-visual materials.See large historical collection 00042 Waldo Family Papers for a folder of photograph christmas cards John and Sarah Hannah sent to Eleanor Waldo. The cards date 1982-1988, undated and are photographs of...

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Civil Rights leader and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Stokely Carmichael speaks in front of more than 4,000 people at an ASMSU-sponsored Great Issues lecture in the Michigan State University Auditorium.

Scope and Contents Whitney M. Young, executive director of the National Urban League, speaks at the annual Urban League banquet at Michigan State University's Kellogg Center. Young says "we might have come over (to America) on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now," and urges the audience to recognize that Lansing has racial issues, but notes some positive changes - a great university president and a great superintendent of public instruction who both happen to be black, and good written...