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N.C. Black Youth Corps
BENNETT BANNER
May 20.1971
The North Carolina Black
Youth Corp is an effort to
organize and employ the
talents and energies of Black
Youth in building a strong
unified state organization. For
the past two years, the efforts
by Black people to gain a
better life has been
fragmented, uncoordinated
and lacking a clear set of
guiding principles. This
situation has aided in the
maintenance of white control
over our communities while
creating a sense of dependency
and confusion among our
people.
It is timely that a
determined effort be made to
eliminate fragmentation and
confusion by welding together
the masses of Black people in
the state into a strong, unified
political organization governed
by sound principles and
cooperative work, self
development. Such an
organization would become
involved in a number of areas.
For example, farm
consolidation and
development, the control of
city development. Programs in
the Black community,
participation in the electoral
process on county and state
levels. The organization would
in essence be an independent
political party which would
speak to a range of problems
affecting Black people.
The development of such
an organization will require
the voluntary services of every
possible Black person. The
North Carolina Black Youth
Work Corp will undertake a
portion of the task of building
this much needed political
organ. The work corp is
interested in recruiting serious
young Black people to work
on a full and part-time basis.
The full time worker will be
placed with a county or small
town organization to work
directly with the people. He
(or she) will be given five days
of intensive training in
ideology and the general
techniques of working in the
community. There will be no
salary. The full time worker
will be provided food and
lodging, plus a small stipend
for toiletires and other
necessities.
The part-time worker will
form voluntary cadres in
whatever section of the state
he happens to be in. The
part-time workers will help
with general organization;
research or population ratios,
voting pattersn, purchasing
and marketing patterns, or will
conduct voter registration
campaigns. Part-time workers
will also provide valuable
contact in communities
throughout the state. It is
absolutely necessary that every
Black person residing in the
state of North Carolina fill out
a Black Youth Work Corps
form. On the form you can
indicate whether you can work
full time, part-time or any
time.
It does not matter how
little or how much time you
have. If you believe that our
people should be unified and
should seek to control our
own destiny, then you can
help, you should sign up now.
The summer portion of the
program begins June 7 th and
terminates August 30th. Upon
receipt of full time or
part-time forms, additional
information will be forwarded
to you giving specifications,
training location, site
placement, etc.
Contact: Bro. Jerry Walker
S. G. A. President-North
Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
27707
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He cited that very effective
teachers find themselves
moved out of the classroom
and promoted to
administrative posts which
results in the stifling of
intellectual minds on black
campuses.
He advised students to
“keep up and get ahead at the
same time. There must be
effort put forth to overcoming
prejudice and still continuing
to seek intellectual pursuits.
Intellectualism is learned in
the total educational process.
Another renown speaker
was Dr. Broadus N. Butler,
former assistant to the U.S.
Commissioner of Education
and Special Assistant to the
Associate Commissioner of
Higher Education. He is
presently serving as the
president of Dillard University.
His lecture was entitled “The
Black Intellectual:
Commitments and Concerns.”
Dr. Butler advised each
college campus to retain a
good Black intellectual on the
campus for a short period of
time so that he could interact
with the students.
In his talk, he described an
intellectual as anyone with a
skill of knowledge. He is also a
creative genius. He cited that
so many intellectuals like
Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Mark Twain were not
appreciated for the
intellectualism behind their
novels. They were rejected
because they were not “on the
streets as Lloyd Garrison.
He noted that “Intellectuals
must decide whether they
want to be commercial or
social functionaries or commit
themselves to the arena of
their disciplines.
He added that we cannot
accept the term “Black”
without digging Into the
intellectualism behind the
thinking of men like Malcolm
X., Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B.
DuBois. He stated: “We have a
sufficient body of knowledge
which must be synthesized
intellectually.”
Harold Cruse, from the
University of Michigan, spoke
on the theme of “The Black
Intellectual.” He is author of
“The Black Intellectual ”
which is a classic cultural
history. He has worked as a
full time television film
director and a theatre and film
critic.
Cruse’s stimulating message
was based around thesis that
Pan-Africanism must decide
upon the priorities of the
movement. He said that
“discussing the Third World
involves all kinds of
problems.”
“Black students have
challenged the intellectuals to
meet the problems of today.
In meeting this challenge we
must decide what is the point
of our getting into world
perspectives. Fu-st we must
confront the American
Intellectual world. We must
deal with one specific role and
arrive at a better definition of
the American past and develop
totally new frameworks of
reference.”
The symposium was
organized by the Division of
the Social Sceinces, the Special
Services Program, the
Association of Colleges and
the Universities for
In ter national-In tercultural
Study. The Symposium
committee consisted of faculty
members and six students. The
students were Savannah
Cotman, ’71; Myra Davis, ’72;
Linda Gerald, ’71; Carolyn
Riley, ’71; Madie Robinson,
’72; and Ivana Trollinger, ’71.
Dr. George Breathett was the
Program Coordinator and Dr.
Dorothy Bardolph, Program
Associate.
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Veronica Pickett and Lynnette Pratt participated during a week
of May honoring secretaries
SOBV Conference
The Student Organization Brothers Cleveland Sellers and
for Black Unity held its second
national conference at Penn
-Center Conference Site In
Frogmore, S. C. It was held
April 1-4,1971.
The Conference was well
attended by about 150
representatives from a variety
of Black colleges, Black groups
on white campuses, and Black
community groups from across
the country. The goals of
the conference was defined to
be “to facilitate the dispersion
and consumption of
information, an analysis and
evaluation of current activities
on campuses, the development
of program priorities, and the
defining and refining of
instruments of implementation
and coordination.
The schedule of the
conference included an address
by Brother Owusu Sadaukai
(Howard Fuller) Mwalimu of
Malcolm X Liberation
University in Greensboro, N.
C. Brother Sadaukai stressed
that as students we must study
but we must not loose sight of
the reason for studying; we
must not oversell ourselves to
Black people. He emphasized
that we, the students, must
develop the correct political
ideology, we must develop a
skill that can be useful in the
Black community and we must
have total allegiance to Black
pe(^le.
Other speakers were:
Mark Smith who gave us an
overview of the movement of
the last ten years. They went
through SNCC, Mississippi
Freedom Riders, CORE and
other student groups. They
also analyzed the trends and
methods used by the groups.
Bro there Tim TTiomas traced
the history of the Pan-African
Movement mentioning such
famous Pan-Africanist as W. E.
B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, and
Kwame Nkrumah. A
Pan-Africanist was defined as
ohe who was for and believed
in ail a African people. Brother
Milton Coleman spoke on the
overall direction of S. 0 B. 1.
and some of the plans for the
next year. He stressed that our
people are determined and we
must move on and be about,
the serious business of the
complete liberation of all
Black people.
Apanel consisting of
brothers Bob Brown, Willie
Ricks, Alvin X and Otu
Lumumba discussed the
concept of community control
and its significance in the
struggle for total liberation.
Also scheduled were
discussion groups on
Pan-Africanism and workshops
on Black studies: Which
direction? Save Black schools,
Struct u ring a viable
communications system, and
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