The Coyote (Weatherford, Tex.), Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1968 Page: 2 of 12
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Martin Luther King
. . Mrs. Katherine Alexander
FACULTY ADIVSOR,
4
—William Shanahan
Stanyan Street
ROD McKUEN
Martin King is laid to rest.
♦ Hail, Brother, and farewell.
. .Ann Wilton
David Jackson
. .Dalton Fox
, .Avis Carver
The landlord to his church must come
To beg God’s love upon his slum;
He puts ten dollars in the basket;
A darker Christ lies in his casket.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
trative policy.
EDITOR........
MANAGING EDITOR.
SPORTS EDITOR. . .
BUSINESS MANAGER.
Why, we like niggers, Willy Mays
Can please us on our holidays;
And Satchel Paige plays Uncle Tom;
Let’s go build a home-made bomb.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
King and Evers, JFK;
Next time let’s get Cassius Clay;
Set on fire a city block;
Then imprison Dr. Spock.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
Sheriffs shine their guns and leather;
Riots cease in colder weather.
The way to stop “them.” Jim Clark knows-
Police dogs and the fire hose.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
There are roaring rivers to be
crossed
And bridges to build
And wild oats to sow as you
grow.
Rap Brown speaks; black racists listen;
Memphis wakes to see the mist on
Rifles held; the guard is called;
George Wallace says that he’s appalled.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
The klansman's helpmate scrubs his sheets;
The klansman brags of midnight feats;
The klansman’s daughter hugs her dolly;
Frater, Ave, Atque Vale.*
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
There are golden apples to be
picked
And green hills to climb
And meadows to run when you’re
young.
(The following is an address
given by Mrs. Susan Brantley
at the Grace First Presbyter-
ian Church in Weatherford on
the day of national mourning for
the death of Martin Luther King.
Mrs. Brantley is an instructor
in government at Weatherford
College. Her master’s thesis
dealt with the thought of King,
Thoreau, and Gandhi.)
Martin Luther King, Jr., born
Jan. 15, 1929, died April 4,
Janitor
WASHINGTON (CPS) - Gen.
Lewis Hershey has decided that
the Selective Service System
can find a better occupation for
a history professor than janitor.
Noel Brann, a 30-year-old
University of Maryland history
professor, who turned in his
draft card last October, was to
be assigned to do janitorial
work at the University of Kan-
sas by his Reno, Nev. draft
board. The board took action af-
ter receiving Brann’s draft
card. Brann is a conscientious
objector and was assigned civil-
ian work instead of being in-
ducted into the Army.
Although Brann had decided to
report for the job rather than go
to jail, he protested the kind of
The Coyote
The COYOTE is the student newspaper of Weatherford Col-
lege, published monthly except during summer terms by the
Weatherford Democrat, 110 Ft. Worth Street. Views presented
are those of the students and not necessarily those of adminis-
April 1968
Professor
Turns
Oh, way down south in the land of cotton;
All them jigaboos is rotten;
Johnson sheds a Texan tear;
He should have known the war was here.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
In Memoriam,
Martin Luther King
BILL SHANAHAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
AT IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY
In Memoriam, Martin Luther King
Red - necks snicker in their beer;
Two or three men shed a tear.
Ghandi, were he here, would groan;
The cracker asks for more cornpone.
Earth, receive an honored guest;
Martin King is laid to rest.
DATES TO REMEMBER
FINAL EXAMS May 23, 24, 25-
27
SUMMER SCHOOL
First term
Registration June 5
Classes begin June 6
Finals July 15, and 16
Second term
Registration July 17
Classes begin July 18
Finals August 27
FALL SEMESTER
Pre-Registration begins July
1.
REPORTERS. . . . Alana Gratts, David Cumming, Terry Mor-
rQwAvis Carver. Cheryl Barham, Mary Lou
Woolsey.
PHOTOGRAPHERS. . . .James Houston Doss, David Cumming
That summer King led the
famous March on Washington.
Less than three weeks after the
March King rushed back to Bir-
mingham. Four girls had been
killed when a bomb exploded in
their church. By his presence
and leadership King was able to
avert the major crisis which
might have resulted.
Not just in these instances
but in all his demonstrations
Martin Luther King sought one
main goal: that the American
people live their professed
creed. He asked less that
Americans change their ideals
than that they live up to their
ideals. King felt that in order
to achieve this he had to place
Americans in a situation which
would clearly demonstrate to
them the discrepency between
their beliefs and their actions.
The tool he developed for this
confrontation with white Ameri-
ca was non-violent direct ac-
tion - including demonstrations work to which he was being as-
and the disobeying of unjust signed. The news media got
laws. ahold of the story, and soon peo-
“King’s respect for the law ple all over the country knew
was such that he demanded that that Selective Service System
all possible alternative routes wanted to make a janitor out of
be tested before direct action a professor.
was undertaken. Negotiations, On Thursday, after a request
legal appeals, voter pressure from the director of the state
(where that was possible) were appeals board, Hershey decided
all tried before embarking on a that Brann’s draft board had
demonstration. He respected violated the regulations, and
the law enough that he was will- that it had to give him some
ing to suffer the full conse- choice of occupation.
quences of the law in order to According to a spokesman at
demonstrate injustice. Selective Service headquarters,
King’s devotion to non-vio- there will be “discussion” be-
lence was such that he refused to tween Brann and his draft board
allow any participants in dem- before he gets a final assign-
onstrations who were not thor- ment. The spokesman also said
oughly schooled and tested in that the change of a draft board’s
non-violence. Moreover, par- ruling by the national head-
ticipants had to accept non-vio- quarters is rare.
lence as doctrine not just as a
mShodking was convinced that THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
this summerof 1968 would mark
either the death of non-violence By TERRY MORROW
as a method of the Negro com- Weatherford College plays a
munity or a reexamination of the big part in the education of many
conscience of America. His phi- students in this area, thereby
losophy was being challenged serving the community wello
by militancy and violence. Al- However, a new and extended
though King himself would never manner in which the college can
have deserted the non-violent be of service to Weatherford and
position, he felt that if Ameri- surrounding towns has been en-
cans did not respond to it the visioned. As a community col-
inevitable result would be vio- lege which offers a variety of
lence. He was not seeking blind educational programs aside
acceptance of his point of view from the essential first two
nor was he expecting total na- years offered by junior col-
tional harmony on the means to leges, Weatherford College may
correct a problem. What he be able to furnish the surround-
sought was action. Action ing area with a wide range of
toward the goal of reconciling training programs which may
the stated philosophy of Ameri- or may not have transferable
’ ca with the everyday behavior college credit. These programs
of her population and govern- could include non-credit train-
ment. ing in technical, special and vo-
He himself said in an article cational fields.
published the week of his death: A good example of a college
“We have, through massive of this type is Del Mar College
non-violent action, an opportun- located in Corpus Christi, Tex-
ity to avoid a national disaster as. Del Mar, which began one
and create a new spirit of class non-credit course in 1945, has
and racial harmony. We can expanded to offer a wide range
write another luminous moral of courses serving the needs of
chapter in American history, adults wishing to gain educa-
All of us are on trial in this tional experience, and those
troubled hour, but time still wanting to improve and learn
permits us to meet the future skills necessary for their jobs,
with a clear conscience.” The Non-credit courses enroll more
death of Martin Luther King students, though the college is
shortened that time. st111 emphasized as being pri-
mamaaamaamua marily academically inclined.
UNEOU \1 DIVISION A few of the non-credit courses
NEW DELHI (AP) - Food offered at 1)61 Mar now are
Minister Jagjivan Ram says 90 per Basic Studies, Data Processing,
cent of the jobs in India are mo- Dental Assistant Training,
nopolized by people drawn from a Sales and Marketing Training,
segment of 10 per cent of the and Home making. These cours-
people. es help people to get better
Ram, a leader of India's 60 jobs and provide the city with
million untouchables, said only 20 well trained, skilled help.
per cent of this nation's 510 mil- It is hoped that programs of
lion people can read and write. this nature may be set up at
Weatherford College, thus help-
, "Democracy can not have any ing to furnish the area with
meaning unless opportunities for better educated and trained
employment are open to the entire workers.
community," he told a conference.
But later on the other side of “God is dead,” moaned the
time philosopher.
The apples no longer taste And he moaned about the
sweet. myth of God until he too died.
Bridges fall down. Meadows On his tombstone were writ-
turn brown ten his mortal words: “God is
As life falls apart dead.” Below this were these
in a little room on Stanyan words: “So is the fool who is
Street. burled here.”
1968. This man — son and
grandson of Baptist ministers,
grandson also of a share crop-
per — by his 39 years of life
enunciated a philosophy based
on the love of Christ, the demo-
cratic ideals of Jefferson, the
individualism of Thoreau, the
social gospel of Raschenbusch,
and the passive resistance of
Gandhi.
King’s career was highlighted
with movements in cities whose
names now sound like history
. . .Montgomery, Albany, Bir-
mingham, Selma. . .some suc-
cesses; some failures. But they
offer the best examples of his
philosophy.
In Montgomery King partici-
pated in the leadership of the
bus boycott, a movement which
began by circumstance and
thrust him into the forefront
of the Civil Rights Movement.
On December 1, 1955, Mrs.
Rosa Parks was arrested be-
cause she refused to give up
her seat on a bus to a white
man. The boycott was the pro-
test of the Negro community
to this arrest. After one full
year of car pools and walking
they won their simple demands.
In December of 1956 Montgom-
ery implemented the November
Supreme Court Decision against
the bus segregation laws. There
were a few days of peaceful
integration. Then some violence
broke out among some of the
Negroes of the community. Even
though these were not the train-
ed workers of Dr. King, he was
able to quiet the situation by
personally speaking to groups
of them at many of the gather-
ing places of the Negro com-
munity. Earlier in the year he
had similarly calmed a mob
which was bent on revenge for
the bombing of King’s own home.
The boycott in Montgomery was
not just a legal victory. Mont-
gomery Negroes experienced a
new-found pride, dignity, unity,
and respect for the law.
Some years later King was
again in Alabama leading
another successful movement.
This time it was Birmingham,
a city of consistent and legal-
ly enforced segregation. Parks
were closed rather than inte-
grated. Lunch counters were
closed to Negroes. Churches
and audiences for public gather-
ings were segregated. Voter
■ registration was fraught with
obstacles. The NAACP was
banned. In April of 1963 King
led demonstrations for fair hir-
ing practice, a bi-racial com-
mittee to seek solutions, and
desegrated facilities in down-
town stores. Marches were held
to city hall, downtown stores
were boycotted, kneel-ins were
held in churches and sit-ins
were held in the public library.
A voter registration drive was
begun. When Birmingham au-
thorities responded with violent
arrests national opinion seem-
ed to solidify on the side of
the demonstrators. A commit-
tee was empowered to seek a
solution. Agreement was reach-
ed on May 10, 1963. Soon there-
after several Negro homes were
bombed and a riot resulted.
Troops were sent. Dr. King
toured all parts of town in an
attempt to quiet the crowds.
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