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The South's Outstanding College Daily

10, 1968

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

LIX, No.

Vol.

133

Blacks And Whites
Meet Separately
On Urban Crisis
By DANA EVVELL

The Urban Crisis Committee came to one decision Tuesday
night next time black and white leaders will meet together.
There will not be one meeting, a white one, being held at Second
Presbyterian Church while another meeting, a black one, is going
on at Pralltown Community Center.

Almost 750 people crowded
into Second Presbyterian at 7:30
p.m. to hear the Lexington crisis
aired by clergymen and community leaders.
"Let me tell you, brothers,
the crisis does exist and you will
feel it," said Rev. Craig
the Church Community Service.
Rev. Frederick son, a white
minister who lives in predominantly Negro Pralltown, continued, "I think if Negroes see
us set up one more study commission we've had it."
"The people of good will of
our community are going to have
to come out to reassure our black
brother that we have faith in

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Urban Crisis Meeting

William Bingham (left), a representative from the Mack Coalition which had met earlier, receives a
standing ovation as he steps forward to speak to the white gathering of the Urban Crisis Committee
held Tuesday night in the Second Presbyterian Church. UK professor Lawrence Tariey (right), joins
hands with John Conipton. from () juration Reconciliation of the Urban Emergency Program, as the
group sings several verses of "We Shall Overcome."

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Two-Pa- rt
Program
The program was divided into two parts, the first consisting
of introductory remarks made by
members of the Urban Crisis
Committee (of minister) and
other community leaders.
The second half of the program was a statement of priorities of the Negro community presented by the leaders of the Black
Coalition after their meeting in

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Plans for the two meetings
evolved shortly after Friday me- -

The funeral of Dr. Martin
Luther King was marked on college and university campuses

around the country Tuesday with
memorial services, vigils and
sympathy marches. A large number of schools cancelled classes
entirely, while others called off
classes for part of the day.
Students from as far away
as California traveled to Atlanta
to attend the funeral. Interracial

SG Polls

Polling places and times
for v oting in the Student Government elections today are
as follows: Student Center,
S a.m. to S p.m.; Commerce
Building, S a.m. to 4 p.m.;
Complex, Blazer and Donovan cafeterias, 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Students must present
their ID to vote.
Candidates for SC president are Jolui Cooper, Herbert Creech and O.K. Curry.
Vice presidential candidates
are Wally Bryan and Linda
Rogers.

contingents from some southern
scliools, including Vanderbilt
in Tennessee and
University
Clemson University in South Carolina, made the trip to Atlanta
for the funeral.
Although most of the activities connected with the funeral
were peaceful, there were some
relatively militant demonstrations.
At the University of Michigan, for example, about 150 black
students blockaded the doors to
the administration building early
this morning, allowingonly black
students to enter.
The demonstrators presented
a list of demands to university
President Robben W. Fleming,
including a demand that a Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship
fund be set up, and the demand
that there be an endowed chair
for a black professor. They also
said black representatives should
be employed on the university's
admissions staff and on its athletic staff.
While a group of white students picketed in support of the
black students' demands, President Fleming and alocalNAACP
official discussed them with lead- -

Nearly 3,000 copies of Tues-

7

p.m. Tuesday night.
A light blue and white 1963
Chevrolet .was seen driving out
of the Student Center parking
lot with a Ijox inside containing numerous copies of the paper.
The license number of the car
was taken, and the owner was
found to be a resident of
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Pralltown.

Delayed by lengthy debate
over their demands and means
for achieving them, the representatives of the Black Coalition
did not arrive until after 9 p.m.
Greeted by a standing ovation, William Bingham, chairman
of the Pralltown Community Interest Group and one of the leaders of the coalition, apologized
for not having a structured state-

a few blocks down
street.
University Police were informed of the incident, and they
are working on the case.
When the Kernel learned of
the missing papers, pressmen
were called back to work at 8:30
p.m. to print 5,000 more issues
which were distributed to the
Student Center and the Complex
dormitories.
Vice President for Student
fairs Robert Johnson said he was
"concerned aljout the incident"
and offered full cooperation with
the Kernel in investigating the

matter.

freed. Mr. Newton,

and discussions on the race

At two schools Amherst College in Massachusetts and Carle-to-n
College in Minnesota students and faculty members began
a fast in memory of Dr. King.
According to a spokesman at

body has agreed to give up some
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In New Bninswick, N. J.,
following yesterday's march by
more than 1,000 students from
Rutgers University and its sister
Douglass

ment of demands.
The young Negro with tie
and collar loosened, said the
other meeting at Pralltown had
started out on a bad tone because of the use of the term
"Black Coalition."
Mr. Bingham said that many

Carleton, about half the student

of the militant Black Panther
party, has been charged in the
October 1967 slaying of an Oakland policeman.
The march, which was sponsored by the Peace and Freedom
party, took place without violence, although the marchers did
not succeed in getting to negotiate with Alameda County of-

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the city to protest discrimination there, students held a strategy session to plan further action.

racism was set up at Rutgers
over the weekend.
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In the New York and Chicago
areas, most major colleges and
universities cancelled classes entirely. In at least one instance,
though, the cancellation was the
result of student pressure rather
than action by the administration. Students at the Washington Square campus of New York
University held a demonstration
to demand that classes le called

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The owner of the car report ed
to the Kernel that a friend of
his had asked for a ride because
"someone is after me. "Theowner
then left the unidentified rider

ers of the demonstration. After
President Fleming announced
that he thought the demands
were "reasonable," the students
ended their blockade.
An estimated 3,000 marchers,
most of them students at the
University of California at Berkeley, took part in a march from
the Berkeley campus to the Alameda County Courthouse in nearby Oakland, where they demanded that Huey Newton be

An emergency committee against

Kernels Stolen Tuesday
the

day's Kernel were taken from
their stands between 4:30 and

For King

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Christian Church explained
that at that time both black and
white leaders had decided the
separate meetings would behest.

Some 'Militant9 Demonstrations

Many-- Colleges

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Racial Discussions
When NYU President James
Hesger agreed to their demand,
he also announced that he was
setting aside all class time prior
to 4 p. in. Wednesday for seminars

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I Won!
This is how Mary Jo Anderson looked when she was proclaimed
Miss Lexington Tuesday night. She also won a talent award for
her modem dance routine. Miss Anderson is a senior history
major at UK. Other University coeds among the finalists were
Patricia Beasley, Neysa Routt and Carolyn lloneck.

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