The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s

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Appendix IBW Membership, Conferences, and Symposium Lists The Institute of the Black World Governing Council—1969 Margaret Walker Alexander Walter F. Anderson Lerone Bennett Jr. Horace Mann Bond Robert S. Browne John Henrik Clarke Dorothy Cotton Ossie Davis St. Clair Drake Katherine Dunham Freddye Henderson Vivian Henderson Tobe Johnson Julius Lester Frances Lucas Jesse Noel Rene Piquion Eleo Pomare Pearl Primus Benjamin Quarles Bernice Reagon William Strickland Councill Taylor E. U. Essien-Udom 204 · Appendix C. T. Vivian Charles White Hosea Williams Library Documentation Project Advisory Council Ralph Abernathy Harry Belafonte Randolph Blackwell Horace Mann Bond Julian Bond John Hope Franklin Vincent Harding (director) Miles Jackson Slater King C. Eric Lincoln John D. Maguire (chairman) Albert E. Manley L. D. Reddick James Tanis Marian Wright Andrew Young LDP Staff Members Fired or Released in 1970 James Allen—student Willie P. Berrien Wilson Brown Darryl Chandler—student Debra Cheeks—student Pearl Cleage Louis Dunbar—student and/or summer employee Louise Gray Alvin Griggs—student Marylyn Henry—student Lois Johnson—student Keith Jones—student Ora Dee Jones—student Eloise Joyner Arlon Kennedy Dorie Ladner IBW Membership, Conferences, and Symposium Lists · 205 Sylvia Murrell—student William Porter Farrel Thomas—transferred to IBW Robert Todd—student Leah Wise IBW Administrative Staff in 1969–70 Judy Barton Jill Douglass Brenda Gregory Tina Harriford Mamie Jackson Barbara Knight Colia LaFayette Daulton Lewis Laura Luster Mayme Mitcham Ojeda Penn LaSayde Potter IBW Staff Fall 1969 Lerone Bennett Jr.: senior editor, Ebony; visiting professor, History Department Northwestern University, fall seminar: Black Reconstruction in America Christine Coleman: B.A. Clark College; Mississippi high school teacher; Southern Education intern; Child Education Task Force Robert S. Browne: economist (based at the Black Economic Research Center, NYC) Chester Davis: assistant professor of education, Sir George Williams University , Montreal (Black Studies and the Building of Public School Curriculum; Black Studies and the Training of Teachers); Fall seminar: Building Black Curriculum in the Public Schools Lonetta Gaines: B.A. Fisk University, New Haven, Connecticut; teacher; Southern Education Foundation intern; Childhood Education Task Force Vincent Harding: chairman, History Department, Spelman College; director of Martin Luther King Library Documentation Project (Black Radicalism and Black Religion) Stephen Henderson: chairman, English Department, Morehouse College (The Poetry of the Blues, Modern Black Writers); Fall Seminar: Blues, Soul and the Black Identity 206 · Appendix Joyce Ladner: assistant professor, Sociology, University of Southern Illinois (Black Women and the Ghetto; Black Student Protest; The Black Family); Fall Seminar: The Socialization of the Black Child Daulton Lewis: B.A. sociology, Wesleyan University; Southern Education Foundation intern William Strickland: consultant, CBS; lecturer, Department of History, Columbia University (Political History of Racism; Politics and the Black Urban Community); Fall Seminar: Racism and American Social Analysis Sterling Stuckey: Ph.D. candidate, assistant professor, Northwestern University (The Slave Experience; Black Americans and Africans) Black Studies Directors Conference, Partial Attendee List Vincent Harding (IBW) Lerone Bennett Jr. (IBW and Ebony) Andrew Billingsley (University of California) Robert S. Browne (IBW and Black Economic Research Center) Chester Davis (IBW) Stephen Henderson (IBW) Robert Johnson (University of Indiana) Joyce Ladner (IBW and University of Southern Illinois) Basil Matthews (Talladega College) Kwame McDonald (Livingstone College) Boniface Obichere (University of Southern California) Armstead Robinson (Yale University) William Strickland (IBW) Sterling Stuckey (IBW) Michael Thelwell (University of Massachusetts—Amherst) James Turner (Cornell University) IBW Staff and Associates December 1970 Georgianna Armour Judy Barton Lerone Bennett Jr. Eulalia Brooks Chester Davis Howard Dodson James Early Sylvia Ferrell Jyl Hagler Vincent Harding (director) IBW Membership, Conferences, and Symposium Lists · 207 Stephen Henderson Robert Hill Melvin Huell Henry Jackson Arlon Kennedy Joyce Ladner Mayme Mitchem Bryce Smith William Strickland Farrel Thomas Derek Wheeler Aljosie Yabura Associates Clarence Bayne Mary Frances Berry Andrew Billingsley J. Herman Blake John H. Bracy Jr. Robert S. Browne Roy Bryce-LaPorte Haywood Burns Lemoine Callendar John Churchville Kermit Coleman Norman Cook Dorothy Cotton E. U. Essien-Udom Marshall Hall Barbara Jones Mack Jones John O. Killens Julius Lester Frances Lucas Carman Moore William Mackey Jesse Noel Alphonso Pinkney Rene Piquion Alvin Poussaint Bernice Reagon 208 · Appendix Euguene Redmond Leslie Rout Councill Taylor George B. Thomas John Williams William J. Wilson Lloyd Yabura October 1970 Black Agenda Network Committee Chairpersons Communication: Lerone Bennett Jr. Cultural Definitions and Survival: Stephen Henderson Economic Development: Robert S. Browne and Robert Vowels (dean, School of Business Administration, Atlanta University) Education: Chester Davis Health...