The price of
of freedom is high
So long,
So far away
Is Africa.
Not even memories alive
Save those that history books create,
Save those that songs
Beat back into the blood—
Beat out of blood with words sad-sung
In strange un-Negro tongue—
So long,
So far away
Is Africa.
Bayard Rustin, Jack Greenberg, Whitney Young. James Farm er. Roy WUkins, M a rtin
Luther King. John Lewis, A . Philip Randolph.
Subdued and time-lost
Are the drums—and yet
Through some vast mist of race
There comes this song
1 do not understand,
This song of atavistic land,
O f bitter yearnings lost
W ithout a place—
So long,
So far away
Is A frica’s
Dark face.
Langston Hughes
James Meredith, shot in Mississippi.
Black Panther Party members attend Bobby H utton funeral.
Troop C, ninth US Cavalry, leading the charge at San Juan H ill in Cuba during the Spanish-
American War.
If a man ever stops looking
to the fu tu re
he's finished.
There m ust be a
tomorrow
and something to do.
— Benjamin Mays
Sue Wicklund Travel
1734 N.E. Broadway
249-8303
T hu rg ood M a rs h a ll (1908-
)
No Black American can deny the debt owed to
Thurgood Marshall, former chief legal counsel of the
NAACP and now an associate of the U .S. Supreme
Court. Ha was recognized as one of the greatest of all I
constitutional lawyers and helped lay the legal
foundation for almost all civil rights legislation of
modem times.
SHARING THE
NORTHWEST
""
Grace Collins Memorial
Center
128 N.E. Russell
281-6930
WAY OF LIFE
SINCE 1857
m eierTfrank
OREGON S OWN STORE
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