F$U
The Voice
Speaking For Ourselves
Volume 37 Number 7
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.
April 28, 1983
Rare Occassion
By Cheryl Brown
Dr. John Hope Franklin, unforgettably,
entertained FSU and the general public in
the Seabrook Auditorium, Thursday,
March 17.
John Hope Franklin is a professor of
History at Duke University. From Harvard
University he received a A.M. and a Ph.D.
degree in History. Among the universities in
which he taught are Fisk University, NC
Central and Howard University. He was
chairman of the Department of History at
Brooklyn College and the University of
Chicago. Among the many books written by
Dr. Franklin are The Free Negro in North
Carolina, The Emancipation Proclamation,
Reconstruction After the Civil War, A
Southern Odyssey: Travelers in Antibellum,
and perhaps his best known book, used in a
history course at FSU, From Slavery to
Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. It
has been 20 years since Dr. Franklin spoke
at FSU. In 1978, he was elected to the
Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and also “Who's
Who in America” for his significant
contributions to society. In 1979, the
president appointed Dr. Franklin to the
advisory commission on public diplomacy.
In October, 1980, he was an US delegate to
the 21st General Conference of UNSEO,
L-R Dr. Irvin Veagie, Chancellor Charles A. Lyons, and Dr.
John Hope Franklin, (Photo by Rosemary Byrd)
Pitt Professor of American History and
Institutions at Cambridge University,
consultant on American Education in the
Soviet Union, Fulbrighl Professor in
Australia, and a Lecturer in American
History in the Peoples Republic of China.
Dr. Hope Franklin's lecture about the
forgotten Black historian, George
Washington Williams, will not soon be
forgotten. In recalling the events concerning
Washington's life. Dr. Franklin captivated
the audience with a series of events from a
period of his own life pertaining to
Washington.
Everyone 1 spoke with stated that they
enjoyed the assembly, but the only regret
was that Dr. Franklin could not stay longer.
One freshman student said that he would
remember the lecture in twenty years, but he
certainly hopes that it will not be another
twenty years before Dr. Fanklin visits FSU
again. In my own opinion. Dr. Franklin has
a conservative, but friendly personality,
similar to that of most of the faculty at FSU.
The assembly was presented by the Lyceum
Committee in cooperation with the area of
History.
Dr. Irving Veazie and Dr. Shelton Clark
extend their thanks to all members of the
Lyceum Committee, members of the greek
lettered organization, and those persons
who helped in making the program a
success.
Coleman
Gets Bid
By Emanuel Vaughn, Jr.
Nero Coleman, SGA Presidential
candidate for the 1983 academic year at
Fayetteville State University, has finally
won his bid for SGA President. Coleman's
first bid, although his name was not on the
ballot, suffered a defeat (80-81). He tried
again (82-83), but according to Mr. Crowe,
he was found to be ineligible by Dean
Hatcher, Vice Chancellor, Student^
Development, and not the election board. i
He was ineligible because he had not been in
attendance at FSU for at least three regular
consecutive semesters preceeding his
election (Student Handbook, Article III,
Executive Department, Section 2,
paragraph A).
This year proved to be the year that
Coleman would receive the bid for SGA
President. Coleman managed to continue by
“believing in myself and my supporters, I
only hope that those who didn't support me
will work with me and help to make the 83-
84 academic year a successful one.”
Nero Coleman
(Photo by Rosemary Byrd)
Jessie Jackson
for President?
Page 3
Martin Luther King Jr.
It's been fifteen years since the
assassination on April 14, 1968, in
Memphis, Tenn., at the hands of James Earl
Ray.
The manner of King's death was an ironic
and bitter contradiction of everything the
advocate of nonviolence stood for.
Born in Atlanta, G.a., King received his
spiritual guidance from his father, a Baptist
preacher. King was ordained a Baptist
minister at his father's church in Atlanta at
the age of eighteen.
With a desire to revolutionize the status of
the Southern blacks, Dr. King led a group of
Atlanta ministers to form an organization
which later became the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC), a prophet
of peace in a lime of trouble. Dr. King
became the impassioned voice of the
oppressed, upholding the philosophy of
nonviolence until his death by a sniper's
bullet.
Washington Declared Chicago's
First Black Mayor
By Jimmy L. Gibbs
Representative Harld Washington, who
survived one of the most racially oriented
campaigns in American Political History,
was elected mayor of Chicago, becoming the
city's first black mayor, defeating republican
Benard Epton.
Washington in his congratulatory speech
pledged to extend his hands in friendship to
everyone in the city of Chicago.
According to UPI, the National
Democratic Leaders called the victory “the
opening shot in the battle to regain the
White House next year through the coalition
of the poor, minority, and working people
hurt by Reagan.”
Contents
Campus Updates 4
Editorals 2-3
Political Satire 6
Sprots • • 11-12
Variety Page 7-8