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African Americans -- Civil rights

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

James Farmer Lecture at Kellogg Center, 1967-04-05

 Item — Box 5080, Reel: 17
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967-04-05

Julian Bond, 1968-11-01

 Item — Box 5080, Reel: 20
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...
Dates: 1968-11-01

Stokely Carmichael, 1967-02-17

 Item — Box 5080, Reel: 11
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967-02-17

Whitney M. Young Speaks at Urban League Banquet , 1970-04-20

 File — Box 5822
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...
Dates: 1970-04-20