SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY, FLY, FLY
Dr. Boskin Cites Negro's Dignity Rise
‘'Sometimes / feel like a morning dove, Sometimes I feel like a morning dove. Sometimes I feel like a morning dove,
Wring my hands and cry, cry, cry,
Wring my hands and cry.
“Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Wring my hands and cry, cry, cry.
Wring my hands and cry.
"Sometimes I feel like I got no home. Sometimes I feel like I got no home, Sometimes I feel like I got no home,
Wring my hands and cry, cry, cry,
Wring my hands and cry.
“Sometimes I feel like the eagle in the air, Sometimes I feel like the eagle in the air, Sometimes I feel like the eagle in the air, Spread my wings and fly, fly, fly Spread my wings and fly.”
—Old Negro Spiritual
The American Negro has begun to spread his wings and fly. Dr. Joseph Boskin said Tuesday, in a psychological shift from a motherless child to a free man.
Speaking on “The Negro’s Conception of the Civil Rights Movement.” the history professor quoted the old Negro spiritual “Motherless Child,” often sung by whites without its last verse, as an example of the evolution within the movement.
Beginning in 1954 with the “Separate but Equal" Supreme Court ruling, the Montgomery bus riders and the contagious sit-ins, the non-violent, up-from-the-depths phase reached its apex with the 200.000 strong march on Washington in 1963. he said.
“I have a dream,” he remembered Dr. Martin Luther King saying that day, “that the sons of slaves and the sons of slaveowners will be able to sit down on the hills of Georgia at the table of brotherhood.”
“But brotherhood was not to come easily,” Dr. Boskin noted, and as the Negro’s psychological conception of the movement changed, so did his reactions to it.
Refering to Negro humor. Dr. Boskin noted that for many years the majority of the population
knew little of black humor because Negroes would rarely express it in public.
But as their freedom and self-dignity increased, their humor became more public, being used to lessen tensions.
The double entende also became important in the early 1960s. he noted, as the Negro was able to express his feelings in favor of civil rights while seeming to disapprove of it.
The Negroes also began to express themselves in other ways, he said, including what has come to be called the urban, social riots.
“Related to this spread' of violence.” Dr. Boskin said, “is the concept of Black Power.”
Originated by one-time Muslim Malcolm X, the slogans’ impact, he said, was especially important to the younger generation.
Whereas “Freedom Now" had been directed to the whites, “Black Power.” was pointed at fellow Negroes.
“Essentially the shift in the Negro’s conception has been psychological.” he reemphasized.
“It has to do with dignity, and with manhood.
“Black Power.” meant to Malcolm X a way for equal dignity, he said. “It was one man’s way to heaven.”
University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
Vol. XXVII
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY. JULY 14, 1967
NO. 7
Take a Test, Drop a Class Or Co Join the Peace Corps
LAST LIGHT BEFORE THE DARK
Cramming for mid-terms goes quicker with easy companionship
Today really doesn’t mark much on the Summer Session calendar for the 6.450 students studying here, unless you’re taking mid-terms.
Wednesday -was the mid-way point for the regular 7-week session, but today is the most convenient Friday to assess the damage.
For those who feel they may not survive, professors should have the tests returned by next Fridaj', which is the last day to drop a passing subject.
And for those who didn't even think to miss a wink
studying last night, there are only three weeks to go before taking finals and registering for the 4-week post session.
Today, meanwhile, is on the regular university calendar the last day for regularly enrolled students, the registrar says that’s 80 percent of you. to join the 6,500 who have already preregistered. New students will have until Aug. 12.
And tomorrow, on the calendar of anybody who’s interested, will be the first of three dates to take the Peace Corps Test at 1:30 p.m. at
Friends of Libraries Turn Into Peeping Toms at Literary Salute to Three Biographical Authors
By ANN SALISBURY
Friends of the Libraries turned into Peeping Toms last Sunday noon, when biographical authors gave them glimpses into the lives of Somerset Maugham, Harry Cohn, and Cole Porter at a book and author luncheon.
The authors read sections of their books and answered questions directed to them by the audience and moderator Charles Champlin, entertainment editor of the Los Angeles Times.
Garson Kanin, author of “Remembering Mr. Maugham," described Maugham as a person with an insatiable interest in human beings, whose stammerfng lent force and emphasis to his words.
“The last part of his life was sad. It was filled with family quarrels, fading productivity, and was a sad depressing ending,” he said.
“I didn't write my book chronologically
because I didn’t want the people to re- quipped that Cole Porter was the hardest member Mr. Maugham unhappily.	man in the world to interview aside from
“You don't remember a friend chrono- Calvin Coolidge.
logically, but ratherly whimsically.	.
° J „	He briefly described portions of a ro-Bob Thomas, reporter for Associated
Press, had lived only five houses away from	mantlc world of European excitement Por-
the motion picture producer Harry Cohn	ter had experienced, but this was all seen
when he was a child.	through the shadow of misery.
Although his father had worked for	When Porter was a young man he had
Cohn, Thomas doubted whether an ade-	fallen from a horse and had damaged both
quate biography could be written about the	legs so severely that they should have
man because he had such a secretive life,	been amputated.
“One of his press agents called him a ‘-Expert doctors were called in, but his ‘Jewish Howard Hughes he said There wifg ingisted that if thg j were amputat-was so little written about him. that the ed k wQuld injure his ide and gtifIe hig only way to get information was to talk creativit The doctor finaU a d tQ
to people who knew him.
to save the legs, but for the rest of Porter's
He had a bizarre funeral. It was so jjfe j,e went through many operations and big it only proved what he used to say: was in constant pain,” Eells said.
Givem what they want and they 11 show
up for it.’ M	“His music started out light and gay,
George Eells. editor of Signature and but as he got older, the pieces seem to be a former entertainment editor of Look,deeper and more emotional,” Eells noted.
various Southland locations, including:
Los Angeles, 2018 Federal Building, 300 N. Los Angeles St.
Long Beach, 3rd Street and Long Bach Boulevard; Pasadena. Post Office Building. 28t E. Colorado Blvd.: Pomona, Post Office. 440 S. Thomas St.: Santa Monica, Post Office Building, 1248 5th St.
Lancaster. Cedar Street Post Office; Riverside, Post Office" Building, 5th and “D" Streets: Santa Ana, Main Post Office. 6th and Bush Streets; Ventura. Post Office. 675 E. Santa Clara St.
MORE YAWNS, LESS CULTURE
Less is more they say, but in this case more its more tests and less culture. But for the hearty (irrman spirit there are two offerings tonight.
SPECIAL SCHUBERT RECITAL—(inevieve Weide, soprano, assisted by James Low on the piano in the works of Fran/. Schubert at 8:30 in Hancock Auditorium.
“TRIUMPH OF THE WILL”—DKA summer film, for those with enough triumph of the body to stay up after an all-nighter spent cramming, at 7:30 in 133 Founders Hall. 75 cents admission triumph also required.