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BLACK COLLEGES, BLACK STUDIES      FOSTER

teachers become more competent in teaching Black Studies, were conducted in various parts of the State. Several faculty members also taught three different Black history classes to diverse community groups. Newspapers, radio and television were media used to bring the Institute closer to the community as a result of our belief that Black Studies must reach out and involve all Black people.

In January, 1972, the Institute sponsored an assembly program to celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. This marked the fourth year the Institute has held this Convocation. Black History Week was celebrated from February 14 to February 18, 1972. The week was filled with activities all of which were designed to bring enlightenment to the College and to the community.

The Black Studies Institute cooperated in the sponsorship of the Thirty-First Annual Festival of the Arts. The Festival lasted from April 9 through April 15, 1972 and the Institute worked diligently with the Festival in making the Coffee House a success on April 15. The Coffee House enabled those attending to perform or just sit back and be entertained. The Institute worked very actively also with the Student Government Association in carrying out the Memorial Week Activities May 10-15, 1972, in commemoration of the slain young brothers, James Earl Green and Phillip Gibbs. The faculty was very proud of its role played in helping bring back to our campus during that week Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander, the director of the Institute who is now on academic leave from the College, as the main assembly speaker for the Gibbs-Green Memorial Commemoration.

Carter G. Woodson believed that "all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself."15 We think that in the decade of the 1970's, for those who take the business of education for Black people seriously, this is good advice. Black students must be taught self-reliance and enabled to effectively draw upon that reservoir of inner strength which prevailed within our forefathers to fight slavery, poverty and dehumanizing segregation laws. They must be taught to look to and depend upon themselves to build a new order wherein the welfare of human beings is the center of man's attention. Black students must be taught to build and to create, after they have been given a profound sense of what is presently the plight of Black people throughout the world. This means that an indispensable tool to be ever present in the Black student's weaponry compartment is a functional sense of analysis. For not only must he be able to analyze the world situation on an

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