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MISS BROOKS IN RECITAL AT NCCU
The Forum Committee at North Carolina Central Uni
versity presenting Gwendolyn Brooks, one of America's
most distinguished poets, on Monday, April 4 at 7 pjn. in the
Taylor Education Building Auditorium. ,
Miss Brooks has received numerous honors and awards,
including the American Academy of Letters Award (1946,47)
and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1950). In .1968, she was
named Poet Laureate for the state of Illinois, succeeding the
late Carl Sandburg. She is the recipient of thirty honorary
doctorates' and was recently elected to the National Institute
of Arts and Letters.
Miss Brooks' major publications are A Street in Bronze
vflle (1945); Annie Allen, (1949); Maiid Martha, (1953); The
Bean Eaters (1960); Selected Poems (1963); In The Mecca
(1968); and Report from Part One (1972) an autobiography.,
Lyon Pork Artists In Exhibition
U!DA llbt:rl:3
Writes Dook
Dr. Joel .Schor,- . an
agriculatural historian for the -U.
S. Department of Agricul
ture has published a book on
Henry Highland .Garnet, a
black 19th century abolitio
nist. ' . '
i - The book, which tells of
Garnet's public life from 1840
to' 1865, was ' published by
Greenwood Press of West port,
Conn. Entitled "Henry High-
1 land Garnet, A Voice of Black
Radicalism in the Nineteenth
Century," ; the hard back
volume says Garnet was the
first of his color to advocate
strikes on the part of slaves to
secure their freedom. " Garnet,
the books says, also worked
hard to obtain the franchise
for black Americans.
A native of Philadelphia,
Pa., Dr. Schor earned a B. A.
degree at Emory University,
the M. S. degree at Georgia
State, and the Ph.D degree
at Howard University,, where
he studied under the well
known black historian, Dr.
Rayford W. Logan. He recently
compiled a bibliography for te
the U. S. Agriculture Depart
ment, entitled Blacks in Ameri
can Agriculture. . .
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B0-0CCS
NEW BOOK: YESTERDAY
WAS TOMORROW, A LIFE
story, ;:u:.;..c;u...,,
: The book is? entitled YES
TERDAY WAS TOMORROW,
The Autobiography of John L.
Stewart. It is a story of sixty
eight years of his life which be
gan in Stewart ,v: County,
Tennessee. At the age of five,
he was moved to Montgo
mery County where he attend
ed the Rosenwald Ransom
School at Woodlawn ; and
worked with his father on a
small farm. Being in a black;
community in those days,
there waS.not much incentive
for achievement in book learn
ing or in a promising trade, but
somehow,' with, the love and
guidance' and friends, he
managed to grow up with a
determination to overcome the
adversities and to be some
body. . .
He got a chance to work
for - the Negro County Agri
cultural Agent as a means of
earning his way through Burt
High School in Clarksville. Be
fore finishing high school the
Agent, died. Stewart then
found' work at Dr. Robert T.
: Burt's home infirmary helping .
the yardman and at a garage
as assistant automobile mech
anic. At these places, the t
"earnings were not enough.
Te autobiography de
scribes his struggle during the
Great Depression of the early
thirties while working at a
parking prage in downtown
Indianapolis, and later as a
doorman at the University
Club of Indiana, trying to get
ready to attend college. He
convinced the manager of the
Club to give him a chance to
work and attend classes and
began his studies at Butler
University. The University
Club had to close the operation
of its house, and this left
Stewart again without means
means.
Although he had no ex
perience waiting tables, he was
given a job as a waiter at the
Indianapolis Press Club and a
chance to continue classes at
JOHN L. STEWART
Butler until he was encouraged
by many of the newspaper men
to transfer to Indiana Uni
versity at Bloomington.
Indiana, from which they had
graduated. The plan for young
Stewart to operate one of the
elevators in the Student Union
Building did not work out.
Consequently, during his first
year at Indiana, he earned his
meals at a sorority house as a
waiter, fired a furnace at a
fraternity house for money for
tuition and supplies, and, at
the Second Baptist Church, he
got a $12 oct month assign-
ment from the National Youth
Administration working with
, ine Negro youth of the Bloom
ington community, f. His
; summer vacation, the book re
lates, were spent as a dining
car waiter west of Chicago.
; During his last three-years
" at Indiana. Stewart worked as
waiter and general assistant for
Herman B. Wells, the presi
dent, to whom the book is
dedicated. Some intriguing
events, according to the story,
led up to getting this job. He
graduated with a Bachelor of
Arts degree and with a Master
of Arts degree, and certifica
tion by the State of Indiana
to teach high school science.
His first, job as a teacher
was at Alcorn A&M College in
Mississippi. After two years
there. Stewart was inducted in
to military service for World
War II. Following basic train
ing at McDjll Field, Florida, in
a medic program he worked as
a medical laboratory techni
cian. He was sent to officers
candidate school at Fort Bel
voir, Virginia, and from there
to the 92nd Infantry Division
at Fort Huachuca. Arizona. As
the details of his life story
reveals, after maneuvers in
Louisiana, the Division was
shipped fb Italy for combat,
and he went as message-center
chief for the 317th Medical
Battalion.
After the Germans and the
Jap vanese surrendered, Smart
T was ' put on specai duty to
ieach zoology at the University
of lflorence, Italy, for (he;,
v Unite d States Training"
Corrai land. Honorably dis
charge d a Fort Dix, New
. Jersey, t he did further study
' at Ner York University for
; eight impnths. ' . ...,-'
U accepted a Job at the
1 North Carolina College at
Durham in 1946 as biology
teacher at id dean of men. Later
. . he was d ean of students for
five yeani After 22 years
' developing aJ administering
the student personnel program
of the collide, he worked six
years as ft j0 time assistant
professor of 1 )klogy.
In 197.). Stewart was
stricken with , a heart attack,
later pulmon ary edema and
finally had op en heart surgery
before recover ing and writing
hisautobiograpi'iy- -
Stewart's life and his
career began in the South.
He was a part of the old South,
and he is part of the new
South. He is liv ing to recall,
and he seems to i'ike where he
is. with his wife, .Alice, at 109
Nelson STreet, Durham, N. C.
27707. He is t he author
publisher of YF.STERDAY
WAS TOMORROW, 631 pages,
24 chapters, libraiy of Con
gress Card Number 7642836,
ISBN 0-917798-01-5, Copyright
Decembw 1976.
fiteyisii Sdeliled lo Start OrDLOlk fa km
What happens when a
group of artists work together
under the same roof? You get
a wonderful combination of
talent and art objects, and
that's just what you'U see
when you visit one, or both,
of the exhibits of works
created by the Lyon Park
Artists. . The Lyon Park
Artists are a , group of
nine (9) who now use the
old Lyon Park School for
studio space; the group in
cludes two painters, two
jewelers, two weavers, a
photographer,, a,-quflter, and
a macrami8t,Last fall , two of :
them received' statewide''
recognition as prize winners
in the Thirty-ninth Artists
Annual at the North Caro
lina Museum of Art. .
The Lyon Park School
Building, abandoned by the
Durham City School System
as a place for public instruc
tion, is divided among several
organizations for rental
purposes. The Durham Arts
Council rents seven rooms,
which in turn are rented for
noi profit-to artists. -Thirteen
artists at on time usually have
studio space there, while a
long waiting list for avail
able space lengthens.
The Durham Arts Coun
cil, under its 1976-1977 City
Spirit Grant from The National
Endowment for the Arts, is
sponsoring the- Lyon Park
Artists, Who freely elected to
join the group, to show their
works at the- Horace Williams
House in Chapel Hill from 10
a.m. to 5 pjn. between April
18 and 26 and at the Graphic
Arts Gallery in Rowers Lounge
at Duke University from 10
a.m. to 5 pin. between May
8 and 30. Receptions, open
to the public, to meet the
artists will happen at both
shows: at the Horace Williams
House on Sunday April 24th
from 2 to 5 pjn. and at the
Flowers Lounge Gallery on
Sunday May 8th from 2 to
4 pjn. The public is most
cordially invited; tell your
friends, and. come see some
good art.
Abby Mann, the Academy
Award-winning writer, has
written the screenplay and will
be the director as well as exe
cutive producer of "King" the
four hour NBC World Pre
miere movie based on the adult
life-of the late Dr. Martin L.
King, it was announced this
week by John J. McMahon,
Vice President, programs, West
Coast, NBC Television Net
work. Production on the film
will start in June, with presen
tation planned for two succes
sive nights during the 1977-78
television season. Casting will
be announced shortly. '
"King" will be produced
; by Abby Mann Productions in
association with Film ways and
the NBC Television Network,
Ed Feldman, who has produc
ed such feature films as "The
Other Side of the Mountain"
and "Save the Tiger," will be
lhe producer.
"It's one of the ' bost
scripts we've ever received here
for a television movie," Mc
Mahon said. "The subject is of
extreme importance and we're
delighted that someone of
Abby Mann's stature is in
volved." Mann, who won an Aca
demy Award for writing
"Judgement at Nuremberg"
,- and was nominated for his
script for "Ship of Fools," in-.
terviewed more than 500
people during several months
of research in the South prior
to writing the screenplay.
"It's the most ambitious
thing I've ever done and cer
tainly the project that's closest
to my heart," he said. "I
sought to do more than a docu
mentary about King. I tried to
capture his human and touch
ing qualities."
The film will deal with the
life of the Nobe) Prize-winning
civil rights leader from the age
of 23 to his assassination at 39
in a Memphis, Tenn. motel.
New evidence uncovered
by Mann during his research is
partly responsible for the crea
tion of a special Select
Committee of the House of
Representatives to look into
the' murder. A former aide to
King, Rep. Walter Er Faun
troy (D. District of Columbia)
will be the chairman of the
committee. The Congressman
said that without MannVhelp
"we could not have secured
passage of the resolution to.es
tablish the select committee."
He said Mann may be the first
witness called when the
committee meets this year.
Mann says he has wanted
to do a film about King since
he first met the civil rights
leader in 1965. "At that time.
he asked me to write a film
about him and I was, to say he
the least, extremely flattered.
I hope this is the way he would
have wanted it done.
"As I see it, the things
that were most important to
him were things that were
never touched on in any pre
vious , theatrical work about
him," Mann said. "These are
his stand against poverty, as
well as his war against racism.
"I want to present him as
the leader of the only real re
volution in this country since
founding fathers. He
the face of this
more than any other
OUT
changed
country
American. Jimmy Carter would
never have been elected with
out the changes King brought
about."
Besides King, other per
sons portrayed in the film will
include his widow. Coretta;
Andrew Young, an early civil
rights leader and now U. S.
Ambassador to the United
Nations; John and Robert
Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson;
J. Edgar Hoover; and Ramsey
Clark, the former attorney
general.
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Julian Bond Will Do "tlDC's
Saturday Night" Host
Georgia State Senator
Julian Bond becomes the third
non-entertainment figure . to
host "NBC's Saturday Night"
when he headlines the April 9
editipn of the live comedy
variety series (11:30 p.m.
1 a.m. NYT) on the NBC
Television Network.
Consumer, adovcate Ralph
Nader (Jan. 1977) and former
White ' House Press Secretary
Ron Nessen (April, 1976) were
earlier hosts of 'the Emmy
Award winning program.
Bond will join the show's
repertory company, the ;Not.
Ready for Prime Time Players
Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi,
Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris,
Bill Murray, Laraine Newman
and Gilda Radner.,-
V Brick, a group- from ;
Atlanta, will be the musical
guests. , - , ;
Bond was elected to the
Georgia State Senate in 1974
after serving; four terms in
Georgia's House of Representa
tives. A civil rights activist oL
the 1960s, he became the focus
of national attention when
comments he made about the
Vietnam war led to his being
barred from the state legisla
ture after he was' first elected
in 1965. A Supreme Court
ruling subsequently overturned
the attempt to deriy him his
Bond's "Saturday Night"
hosting assignment will be his
first entertainment program
appearance on television,
though he has been on count
less news-oriented shows. He
recently had a role in a soon to
be released feature film,
"Greased Lightning", which
stars Richard Pryor and Pam
XJrien
Lome Michaels is the pro
ducer of "NBC's Saturday
Night"; Dave Wilson, the
director. .
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