The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1960-06-25

Relations
Race.


and crucial developments in
race relations in the United
States will undergo detailed
analysis and discussion at a
meeting of several OF the nations
OPP experts to be held at Fisk
University June 20 through July
in the 18th Annual Race Rel
itions Institute.
Sponsored by the Board OF
Home Missions of the Congre
,ational and Christian Churches,
with the cooperation OF FISK
University, the institute is expec.
ted to involve 100 participants
from 20 states in the effort to
draw practical lessons for effec
tive leadership action in race
relations throughout the country
"As we enter the decade OF
the COS, following ten years oil
the most far-reaching progress
in American race relations, We
face the seeming paradox OF
the issues of race and minority
being more urgent and more
demanding then ever before;
the makes ii extremely Impor
tant that religious. educational
md civic leaders in local com
munities throughout the nation
be parpared and informed in
facing the new challenges and
opportunities now at hand, DIR
Herman H. Long, Director OF the
Institute, pointed out in explain
ing the purpose OF the institute
He cited the student sit-ln
demonstrations, the increased
demand of Negroes in the South
Tor full voting rights, the add
tional initiative provided by the
Federal Government in recent
civil rights legislation, the re.
appearance of anti-Semitic and
anti Catholic propaganda, anC
the continued increase in the
size of the Puerto Rican popu
latlon on the mainland as sign
ificant fastors of the intergrouf
relations situation in this new
decade.
Among the group of expert.
to speak at the Institute are:
DR.. Richard Scammon. Washing
ton, ID. c., Director of Election.
Research for the Governmental
Affairs Institute; Attorney Thur
good Marshall, Chief Legal Coun-
sci for the N. A. A. c. p; Mr..
Harold Braverman. New York
City, Executive for the Anti.
Defamation League OF B'nai
Birth; DR.. j. Oscar Lee; Di-
rector for Race Relations of the
National Council of Churches,
New York City; DR.. Avery Lei
serson, Head of the Political
Science Department, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tennessee;
and DR.. Robert Johnson, Con
sultant in Race Relations for
the Field Foundation, New Yor,
City.
The Institute will concert itself
with the problems facing Negroes,
Puerto Ricans, Indian Americans
and the major religious minor
tiles in this country. Because
of the Importance of public pc
Icy. Dr. Long explained, ma.
tlonal and local politics are be
coming the central events
through which basic human
rights issues arc being resolved.
TWO major presentations at the
Institute will deal with this con
Germ: the first by DR.. Richart
Scammon on Population Poll
ties and Race; and the second
by DR.. Avery Lciserson on Sou
hern Politics and Race Rela
TONS"
Subjects TO be covered in the
daily seminars for the first
week include: THE Religious
and Moral Dimensions of Human
Relations; Indian American
Rights and American National
Policy; Racial Differentials in
educational Achievement; AN
ti-Scmitism--Past and Present;
md The Significance of Africa
n the World Struggle for hui
nan Rights" Mr.. Harold Elem
ing of the Southern Regional
Council will give a special even
ing lecture during the first week
on Race in the Perspective Of