In this "Lnternationat Year
0/ the Child, .. 19 9, it should
be ignificant for our oun
er and older readers to
e 'plore some 0/ Ih inner
orkin 0/ a distin uish d
bla k American. James Wel
don Johnson. who shares th
often painful rets 0/ his
childhood and early life ith
us.
James eldon Johnson
(/87/-1938) wrote =un
Every Voice and ins." often
catted "The e ro otional
Anthem." He as a poet,
composer, educator and dip
lomat. A worthy project for
students as well as for adults
would be to locate and
examine as man. James el
don Johnson materials as
possible. We shall 100 to
gether at only a smaH portion
0/ his rich life in this ten-part
series.
no that in riting the
following pag I am divulg
ing the great ecret of my life,
the secret hich for orne
years I have guarded far
more carefully than any of
my earthly po . es ion ; and
".,,....� 10 it is a curious rudy to me to
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the
of the
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South Africa. He
. custody, and
iDa111e1t • to . death lit
p South African
teu. of apartheid for the
oriel to see.
Courtesy: Unesco Featu
wn not
lin, team."
In )'Our dramatization. did
� th me sequence 0/
nts tIS in t court-room?
0, the court-room event
too ° er three ee
=-thirteen days of evidence, a
day of ubmissions by the
AU �UST 15 - 21, 1979 THE CITIZEN PAGE 5
analy
prompt m to d it.
that ) am led th me
impulse hich fore th un
found-out criminal to ta e
omebody into hi confi-
den e, ahhou h h no
that the a t i Ii ely, even
almost certain, to lead to hi
undoing. I no that I am
playing ith fire, and ( feel
the thrill hich a ompanies
that mo t f cinating p -
tim ; and. bac of it all, I
thin I find a ort of sa a e
and diabolical de ire to
gather up all the little tra e
di of my life. and turn them
into a practi al jo e on
oci ty.
And. too, I uffer a va ue
feeling of unsati faction, of
regret, of alm tremor e,
from hich I am ing
• relief, and of hi h I hall
spea in the last paragraph of
this account.
I as born in a Iittl to n
of Georgia a fe year after
th cI of th Ci il ar. I
hall not mention the name
of the to n, becau there
are peopl till Ii ing there
ho could be connected ith
thi narrative. I have only a
faint recollection of th place
of my birth. t tim I can
close my eyes and call up in a
•
curi
in n
rem mber to thi day the
pain caused by th trong,
ran oap' gettin into my
ey .
(For CIauoom ad GroMp Dileu"; J
la ers, and, on the last day,
the jud ement tUch, inci
dentally, lasted only 4S sec
onds. we decided not to
folio the chronoiOU of the
court-room, but· rather that
of Steve Bi 0·5' propess to
his death, intercuUinJ-to
. term-the
witDe!lIae5. So you see
o it desaibin bo
he found Biko OD a certain
day, and another wit
ness describina the same
ev t, and so 00.
You produe«l th telni
sion �f'Sion ill lin iJrc:ndibly
sltort time. TMn you ItUwl
pro/essiofllll tlCton. Where
did you film 1M pkly?
This i one of those rather
iron' coincidences that occa
. onaUy happen in real life.
The inq tin Pretori too
p in the main mqis
trate's court hich' a
decon ecrated ynalolue
here a number of important
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p . Since not
ab to film
tudios hich ere complete-
ly boo ed up, found a
small theatre in the east of .
London, the Half - oon
Theatre, hich is also a
deco rated yna ope.
After th� t�/ntis;on ver
sion. whiclt n by
about J 0 million p«Jple. you
re IlpprOtlChed by th�
Royal Shllk�peare Company
whose programs are drown
up months all d. How in
this very short time, between
January when you wrote the
play, and February wh n it
tIS taged three times in
entrance money
donated to the Int.erDaticl'"
Defense and Aid Fuad for
Southern Africa
to defend political detldDees
their . families
semi nates information
South Africa.
Benton Township,
Mich., Aug. 16 - The Gen
eral Education Development
Test, designed to recognize
and certify the chievement
of an educational level equi
alent to high school, will
be administered by Lake
ichigan College on Tues-
day and ednesday, Aug-
ust 21 and 22.
The series of examina
tion will be given from
5: 30 to 10 p.m. in Room
o
tions, each of which t
up to on and on half
hours to comp teo The
Total te t y require
t 0 evening to finish.
Fee for the te
S 15. Tho intere t d in
taking the test, Dahrn id,
can either contact his office
at C at 925·3571 for
further inform tion or
simp} appear in Room
0.201 at 5:30 p.m., Tue •
day Augu 21 to begin
the examination.
o
OT
0.201 on the GED te t
ing program at the college.
"Successfully passing
this test rves rveraI use
ful purposes" Dahrn said,
"including qualifying for
adrni on to Lake ich
igan College, satisfying ann
ed forces educational
requirement, and meeting
educational requirements
for employment and job
advancement."
The GED t t battery
co . sts of fi ex.amina-
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