The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1950-05-20
Boston Baked
Il am always reminding myself
that it is not /, the individual,
who is important, but my work.
ROLAND HAYES
By MAZE KoUNTzE

that it is not /, the individual
who is important, but my work
ROLAND HAYES
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THE JUBILEE has at last come
TO Boston in more ways than
one. The former Fisk Jubilee
Singer, Roland Hayes, is now .
part Of the Boston which once
stupidity tried to reject his SYM
phony Hall debut. Mr.. Hayes
kept faith in Boston. He finally
achieved his concert debut here.
Next he decided to live among
us. And now he has been APP
pointed to the Boston University
faculty
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY has
appropriately given due honor to
Roland Hayes by appointing the
world famous singer, 1924 Spin
garn medalist and l948 B. U.
Commencement degree Doctor of
Music, to the 1850 Boston Uni
versity faculty as an Instructor
in Voice. And appropriately
enough, too, the news of the
appointment followed quiet
May Day Tea with President and
Mrs. Daniel L. Marsh at their
Bay State Rd. home with DR.. and
Mrs Hayes their guests.
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DR.. ROLAND HAYES is now |
81 and a long way from his
Georgia birthplace where his be-
loved mother was an ex-slave.
She schooled him in the religious
faith which has now achieved
wonders. At 16 years old we
found Hayes working in Dixie /
foundry, just another coIored kid
seemingly without future. Any
Dixiecrat would call you crazy if
you said this lad would someday
sing before Kings, in Palaces,
with great orchestras, in great
symphony halls, and finally teach
in a great University, not jim
crow, but real AMERICAN
University
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THE DEMOCRATS and some
of their brother Northern-crats
may take a great lesson from the
true story Of DR.. Roland Hayes
of Boston University. He was the
SAME Brown obscure American
who started working at the age
of nine and who did about every
thing from scrubbing floors, shin
ing shoes, tending furnace, serv- /
ing as butler and doing other |
mental and odd jobs which some |
palefaces think belong to
eolored people as a fixed-future.
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THE GEORGIA of today, under
Talmadge, Junior, has not prog
zessed very much in some things
as when Mother Hayes took her
young brood from there to Ten
nessee. There have been bright
beacons" there like ex-Gov. Ellis
Arnall, author Lillian Smith, and
the famous Pearl Buck. But
generally the Khan state along
with other Dixie states has op-
posed the uplift Of colored Ameri-
rams.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS opposi-
ton from the south and in the
north as well, has kept this ma
ton from creating more Ameri-
cans like Roland Hayes. DR..
Carver, Walter White, DR.. Ralph
Bunche, DR.. Howard Drew. At
torneys Bill Lewis, Charles Hous-
ton, and long list Of dis
tinguished citizens who have
championed the cause Of William
Monroe Trotter. If Americans
admire these men and their
achievements, then America must
remove the poison that nearly de-
stroyed them. Boston will honor
such heroes at12th Baptist Church
Sunday night
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U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
Howard J. .McGrath was speak
ing on this subject last week
during the popular featured
Capital Cloakroom" interviews
by CHS. 1t seems that some
magic stroke always diaIs my
Hallicrafter to these and similar
programs purely by chance. So
there was the Attorney General
talking about Civil Rights and
urging both parties to pass the
bill this session.
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1T MEANS MUCH to our
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