NOW 1970

NOW 1970 

“As a student who has witnessed Stanford ’66 through ’70, just to see this Yearbook produced is a testment to the progress of our Black Students Union asn as such the Spirit of Black people on campus: Nairobi Schools are functioning beautifully, giving young Black minds real education with the help of Black Stanford students; the Afro-American Studies Program is flourishing under St. Clair Drake; there is an Afro-American Collection in the Undergraduate Library and we all feel very much like visible people as we greet each other on campus. Yet Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and other political prisoners remain incarcerated; Martin Luther King, Jr., Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton and Ralph Feathersone lie dead; Adam Clayton Powell has not yet regained his Senate seat; the inhumanities, injustices and deprivation rage on most violently against Black people from Harlem to Vietnam. We still have not fulfilled Interact’s goal of providing leadership for our younger brothers and sisters in Nairobi. We must certainly look with reservation at our progress and still work and struggle for the future survival and liberation of Black people in America.”

Sylvia Evans