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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