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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 9 June 01, 1938

Negroes Can Think as Well as Sing

Negroes Can Think as Well as Sing

"The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, followed by similar groups from other schools, have carried the Negro spirituals to the far coiners of the earth.

"The work of Negro poets and writers has been translated into many languages.

"Paintings, sculpture and designs produced' by Negro fingers have been exhibted in art museums throughout the world.

"Yet the ability of the Negro to ex press his mind on economic, social, international and inter-racial questions is known to only a limited circle, even in our own country.

"An a round-the-world trip by a Negro debating team would reveal the intel lectual power of the American Negro to thousands of people in a very way . . ."

Thus reads the brochure issued by the Le Moyne College Debaters. At present, Le Moyne ranks among the leading Negro Colleges in the United States, The Le Moyne Debaters are embarking on a world tour, and will arrive at Auckland on 27th June. The N.Z. University Students' Association has arranged as comprehensive an itinerary as time will allow. After three days in Auckland, the visitors will travel down the North Island via Rotorua, Wairakei, Hawkes Bay and Palmerston North. In the South Island the two University centres will be visited, and also one or two provincial centres. The team will spend three days in Wellington (including a visit to Masterton) before sailing for Aus tralia on the 21st July.

Debates will be held with the four University Colleges and Massey Agricultural College lectures will be given to meeting of secondary school pupils, and public meetings will be held in the provincial centres. Radio talks will be given over the four YA [unclear: gitations].

The tour is an ambitious undertaking, and the various sub-committees will need the co-operation and support of all students.