{"id":3738,"date":"2013-03-18T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2013-03-18T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:42:00","slug":"emphasis-68-wilkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback to Emphasis &#8217;68: Roy Wilkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty five years ago this week, The University of Alabama began its second annual symposium on contemporary issues. Known as Emphasis, it ran from 1967-1971, with varying degrees of success.\u00a0This week, we revisit some of its more memorable speeches and speakers, as chronicled in various Digital Collections here at UA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/86925\">Emphasis &#8217;68<\/a> was the high water mark of the program, drawing prominent thinkers and politicians who spoke on a variety of hot-button issues. The slate of speakers included Robert F. Kennedy, who had only days before announced his bid for the presidency and who would be killed just a few months later. Hear his speech <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/133744\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On March 21, 1968, the first day of the program, Roy Wilkins, the Executive Director of the NAACP, spoke for about an hour on the topic &#8220;Race Relations at the Crossroads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/wilkins_photo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1744\" alt=\"Wilkins_photo\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2013\/03\/Wilkins_photo.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"740\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(<small>Image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/35174\">1969 Corolla yearbook<\/a><\/small>)<\/p>\n<p>For background on Wilkins and a preview of his speech, click on the image below to read an article from UA&#8217;s student newspaper, <i>The Crimson-White<\/i>, in its <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/37773\">Emphasis &#8217;68 Special<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/wilkins_article\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1743\" alt=\"Wilkins_article\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2013\/03\/Wilkins_article.jpg\" width=\"1303\" height=\"615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the audio files in Acumen\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/86915\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or for an overview of the speech, click on the image below to read the follow-up article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/37775\">March 25, 1968<\/a>, edition of <i>The Crimson-White<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/wilkins_report_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1745 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wilkins_report_1\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2013\/03\/Wilkins_report_1.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"1110\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/wilkins_report_2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1746\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1746 aligncenter\" alt=\"Wilkins_report_2\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/files\/2013\/03\/Wilkins_report_2.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty five years ago this week, The University of Alabama began its second annual symposium on contemporary issues. Known as Emphasis, it ran from 1967-1971, with varying degrees of success.\u00a0This week, we revisit some of its more memorable speeches and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8540,3756,3702],"tags":[5462,3704,3759,3717],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american-history","category-audio","category-university-of-alabama","tag-1960s","tag-20th-century","tag-civil-rights","tag-deep-south"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flashback to Emphasis &#039;68: Roy Wilkins - What&#039;s Cool at Hoole<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2013\/03\/18\/emphasis-68-wilkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flashback to Emphasis &#039;68: Roy Wilkins - What&#039;s Cool at Hoole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Forty five years ago this week, The University of Alabama began its second annual symposium on contemporary issues. 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