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History professor Ed Cox autographs copies of his first
book, "Free Coioreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitt's
and Grenada: 1783 to 1833," yesterday at the Faculty
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1985 Pulii/er Prize for a scries of articles 011 and not being
college athletes and academics, said he hopes major problcr
the pri/e \sill focus attention on the problem to look at with
of student-athletes who fail to graduate. parently, we w
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Complaccncy is (he greatest problem facing the civil rights
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"The real problem is that many of us are so complacent and
so satisfied. . . Too many of us want to reap the harvest, but
we do not want to plough the ground," said Abmiathy, a cofounder
of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and
close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. during the 1950s
and 1960s.
Called one of the "civil rights twins," he spoke with the
knowledge of having fought for the rights that blacks today
rnrniilcr ha<ir he ?:?wt
"COMPLACKNCY has scl in," he repealed. "We think we
have won the battle and we think that we even won tlie struggle.
. . We've come a long way, but . . . complacency is
eating away at the heart of America."
Glancing down in serious moments, gesturing with his arms
and dressed in a grey and lavender suit, bright red tie and
pocket handkerchief, Abernathy spoke quietly at times and
then with passion on his subject: "The Unifinished Task in the
Field of Human Relations." The lecture was sponsored by the
Afro American Studies Advisory Committee.
The 59-ycar-old civil rights leader was president of the
Southern Christian l eadership Conference after King's 1968
assassination.
The pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta
talked about past and present racism, black American heritage
and black unemployment.
ABKRNATHY'S AUDIKNCK filled all but the first few
rows of the auditorium and responded warmly to his comments
as he reviewed the history of the civil rights movement.
"I could tell you about the period we labored under (he
theory of separate but equal ? when we majored in the
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separateness and (did) nothing ahoui the equalness in this
land."
With humorous anecdotes, Ahernathy described
demonstration incidents, including a time dogs were let loose
on demonstrators. He said he remembered thinking, "Bruno,
why can't we be buddies and friends? We have been treated
like dogs all our lives."
111 iiny ease, nungi y ;mu vicious nogs couiu not slop us.
lie said.
AT ANOTHER demonstration, when lire trucks directed
water hoses at crowds with a "pressure so powerful ami
cruel," the people sang, "I have been hapii/cd once; I don't
mind being sprinkled again."
Abernalhy also described his commitment to the civil rights
movement. "I have been in jail 44 times for the rights of m\
people. My home has been bombed, my church has been
dynamited, and my body has been beaten. And now I stand on
higher ground."
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