94-02-21 Public Service Announcement

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

     On Wednesday, Feb. 23, Kwame Ture will speak on "Black People
Need Organization Not Leaders" at 9 p.m. in the University of
Virginia's Gilmer Hall Auditorium.

     Ture (born Stokely Carmichael) was active in the movement for
civil rights and was a leading proponent of black power and pan-
Africanism during the 1960s.  As a student, he worked with the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee from 1960 to 1967
radically changing the focus of the organization.  Ture has served
as an organizer for the All-African People's Revolutionary Party in
the People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea, where he has lived
since 1968.

     For more information, call the Black Student Alliance at (804)
924-3589.

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                                                February 21, 1994

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:   Feb. 24, 1994
  

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Tue, 22 Feb 94 09:26:21 EST]