Hays, Brooks

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Speech given at the National Conference on Citizenship on 1960s cultural change -5- (5) Concern that their universities and their faculties are not being responsive to the demands of our time and are undertaking activities that are unrelated either to appropriate educational processes or the problems of their communities; (6) General disillusion with the performance of the older generation in living up to the ideals of Western civilization or in failing to adapt to new moral and ethical requirements; and (7) A growing awareness that there are techniques available which if utilized with conviction and sound organization can triumph over the weakness of the Establishment. To turn to the minority revolt, among the basic causes of disillusionment with the American system on the part of young Blacks as spelled out in the Kerner Commission Report, are the following: (1) Pervasive discrimination and segregation as evidenced by continued exclusion of great numbers of Negroes from the benefits of economic progress through discrimination in employment and education and their enforced confinement in segregated housing and schools. The corrosive effects of this continue and the attitudes that underlie it are the source of the deepest bitterness and at the center of the problem of alienation from American society. (2) The massive and growing concentration of impoverished blacks in major cities resulting from their migration from the rural South, rapid population growth and the continued migration of whites to the suburbs has created a growing crisis of segregated facilities and services.

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University of Arkansas