Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

the spread of Black studies programs
across the country . According to
this report, "nearly all educators
believe that the ultimate and ideal
way to handle material on blacks
and other ethnic groups is to weave
it into the regular curriculum as an
integral part of everything that is
taught from kindergarten to grade
12 ." The report is available from
the Division of Press, Radio and
Television Relations, National Education
Association, 1201 16th Street,
N.W ., Washington, D . C., 20036
. In Chicago, a number of law
firms formed the Legal Opportunities
Scholarship Program (LOSP) "to
increase the number of Black and
other minority group persons in the
legal profession by encouraging and
assisting them to follow a career in
law ." According to a press release
from LOSP, "The program is designed
to: find and encourage Black
and other minority group students
who wish to go to law school, assist
the students in gaining admission to
law school, render financial assistance
and provide summer employ-,
ment in the Chicago area law firms
Pictured on the next page are the
four winners of the Literary Awards
which were announced in the January
issue of NEGRO DIGEST . Two of
the winners are teachers . Mrs .
Eugenia W. Collier, who received the
Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Award
for fiction, teaches literature at Community
College in Baltimore . She
presently is co-editing a fiction anthology
. Herbert Clark Johnson, winner
of the Broadside Press First Publication
Prize, is a public school
teacher in Philadelphia . He has pub-
NEGRO DIGEST March 1970
Literary Award Winners
for those LOSP students who are
attending law school ." It turns out
that although Blacks represent 35
percent of Chicago's population, less
than two percent of the city's lawyers
are Black . Not only that, but
fewer than three percent of the
students in the city's four major
law schools are Black. Edmund A .
Stephan, of the law firm of Mayer,
Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown &
Platt, is chairman of the board of
directors of LOSP . Information on
the organization can be obtained by
writing to 208 S. La Salle Street,
Chicago . . . Chicago's Du Sable
Museum of African American History
offers a correspondence course
in Afro-American History . For details,
contact the museum's director,
Mrs. Margaret Burroughs, at 3806
S . Michigan Ave . . . . The Center
for Black Education in Washington,
D . C ., sponsored an educational field
trip to Trinidad for a number of the
students enrolled at the Center . The
Center publishes a newsletter, the
Pan-African . Address : 1453 Fairmont
Street, N.W .
lisl:ed one collection of poems,
Poems froan Flat Creek . Mae Jackson,
recipient of the Conrad Kent Rivers
Memorial Fund Award, is a SNCC
worker in the New York area and a
resident of Brooklyn . She has published
a collection of poems, Can
Poet With You? Brenda M. Tones,
a native of Tennessee, lives in Chicago
where she and her husband are
students .
In January 1971, two additional
literary prizes will be offered through
NEGxo DIGEST . Awards for Criticism
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