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As part of the 1988 concert in
the park series, Iso Com­
munity Assn.· preseotiog the
Gospel' Park program,
held at Hackley Park i
downt. kegoD OD Sun-
day, July 17 &om 4 to 9 p.m.
This' the first of the concerts
for th' 'seasoll d the program
features me of·
gospel religioous Dl • In­
cluded are West Michigan
Choirs and Gospel� Te -
tatMIy scheduled:
Down Home, Sounds- of
Faith, Tri-Cities Children's
Oloir, Mt. OIM: BaptSt a.urcb
Choi , Steve Potter RNer of
Life, St. '5 Folk Group,
Julie Is and West Shore
Chapter - Gospel u ic
Workshop of America.
There will Iso be an
audience sing-aloag at the end
of the COOcerL
The concert is free and the
public' invited to attend
Seating t Hackley Par .
limited and visitors are urged to
bring a chair or blanket, ac­
cording to Mr. Ollie Vance,
vice-chairman.
Fo further informatio con­
tact Ollie Vance, vice-chair­
man, at (616) 725-8189.
abamaU -
25 years aft
l-'1A.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA
(NNPA) - With 1,467 African­
American tudent enrolled
among 16,210 total students at
the University of Alabama, UA
the second largest percent­
(9.05) oC Black enroUment of
the 15 southern state institu .
of higher learning.
Only the University of South
Carolina, . 2, 735 Blacks out
22,685 den a higher
rcentage (12.06) and the
niversity of Te (Austin)
. U6S B out of 46,140
oaly 3.39 percent
remain' stale institu­
ranked ccording to per:
e are Maryland, orth
l.:al101lu. 1..0 • . tate, Var-
Florida State, M' . . ppi,
Te nessee, Arkansas, Ok­
labcaa and West Virginia.
though some southern
. educators prepared for in­
tegration several years before
the desegregation and Civil
rights IDCD b iness and
political leaders were slow to ac­
cept the change , Dr. Frank
Ro c;, former UA e ident,
told a posium on r ce rela­
tio at the university here 25
years after Gov. George Wallace
- tood in the schoolhouse door"
to block Black enrollment.
Witho-Ul continued emphasis
on improving r cial conditions,
t region oould still undergo a
period imilar to the post -civil- .
ar reco ruction of the 18905
en BI Americans lost pre-
vious citizenship rights, Rose A. H ., Fr nk Ross".
warned YeS • of fear and WASHI GTON, D.C. The Grand-March is more
prejudice" still remain in the (NNPA) - Blac Americans' than a march. It incorporates a
area he told SOO guests at may soon be getting married to folk dance, such as Africa'
theclosiDg cbeonofthethree the strai of the tie Grand moving Harvest dance"
day ses ion in the Paul W. March-National Black Folk celebrating our great culture,
(Bear) Bryant Center. Dance, instead of to the long an vivid songs, R explains.
Rose amoaga dozen key traditional scherzo in For the first time i.n the his-
participants, indudingAlab ma Mendelsohn' MidSummer to� of Black America we n w
school teacher Autherine Lucy, Night's Dream, if Cleveland, ha a unifying folk traditi nal
who was immediately expelled educator F. Russel Ross has his dance that wiU make our culture
,to keep students hom rioting str ng like the other ethnic
after the first Black d- ... and an associate . gr ups," Ro s decl re. I
mined to the UnMrsity in 1956, Vargmaa ha secured the beli ve th National Black FOl
and Vivian alone J es, the endorsement of several school Dance is nalogu' to the a­
farst BI ck tudent to graduate systems and educat?rs in Ohio, tio I Black Anthem, 'Lift Every
after Wallace attempted to as weU as a oommltment from Vo ce and Sing'. We must t, ch
block her eatraace in 1963. the CIeYeland AACP branch 0 children the tradition of the
"Fear of Black success and in- to urge the ational NAACP at C· Rights Marches "of Selma­
dependence that provoked �annualoonYentiootoendorse. M ntgo�ry, Ala, and Mem-
whites to violence daring It. ph -Washington, D.C.
Reoonstruction proved equally . Rep. Lo .Sto (D., OH) oss pent 20 ye rs re-
devastating when ra- IS re�te� '?eblDd the � and searching.folk dances and says i
tio of Blacks, who had never states It IS �portant to .Inf�rm is past time for the Black folk
experienced slaYery, sought to Black Ameraca about this miss-
dvance themsel in a society ing Black 01 tradition. And
that refused to reoognize their e National Alliance of Blac
basic civil rights, e n eir School Eductors, Inc, at i 15
umanity," said Prof. Leoa F. annual conference in Detroit,
· Litwack. The racial at- Mich., last fall featured the
�l"� llr demanded and c- Grand March, led by "dance re­
tioned D inferior place for searcher and NABSE member
Black men and women could I
emerge again.
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Dancing lI'as one of tIle slaves' I fat.orite pastimes.
Grend arch-Dance
in Blac 'Am
dadoe to be dorumenteJ! a
tr eli . nal dance, Th b d
King' aYe co-authored
k, "Multi-cultural Dance,"
records and documebts the
ad e of many ethni groups
t thro fo dance,
The dance is easyto learn, h
. Pi any person r domly
fro an audience, and th y can,
execute th dance ps in sh t
or r.
o , who gr du ted from
Central tate University with a
degree in education, and has a
ters of educati n from John
Carroll U niversi y, says the
Grand March "is being danced
in aaamento, Calif., Denver,
Chicago, Detroit, St. Loui ,
C land, New Yor City Bal­
timore, Washington, D.C.,
Por land, Ore., and Roano e,
Va.
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Anger,
natural 'emotion
By • 11 yI
DID YOU KNOW ... that
people 0 spend their lives
suppressing their anger are
more likely than others to "ex­
plode" into a sudden d of ex-
.treme violence. Expert say
anger is a natural human emo­
tion d those who fail to fmd a
safe way of releasing their anger
are se ling up an "emotional
time-bo "inside the Ives.
DID YOU KNOW .. _ that
despit the geaer lIy good
ceo omic ne being reported
in the natio th cloud on the
economic horizon is the
tinued failure of Americans to
save. In fact, the natinal savings
r e actually dropped to •
per cen � it" st I vel in
over thirty years.
DID YOU KNOW ... that
ideal blood pressure' 120�. If
your blood pr ure is higber
- tbaa this your heart i ha� to
k too hard to pump blood .
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