Relevance
For 84 years The Call has addressed many civil rights issues plaguing the African American community of Kansas City, the Midwest, and America as a whole. One example of this is Franklin urging blacks to vote. Another example is The Call’s protest of the urban development in inner Kansas City designed to keep blacks segregated from the whites, who were beginning to move into suburban developments in the 50’s and 60’s. The paper condemned the building of projects which displaced many and encouraged segregation as well as critiques of the Housing Authority for their policies and the gentrification of black neighborhoods. Another issue was mentioned earlier, one that Lucile Bluford took on personally, and that is the issue of separate but equal in education (especially the case of Lloyd Gaines). Bluford and Gaines were both rejected from furthering their education based on the color of their skin, and both Bluford and Franklin used The Call as a platform for defending their cause- including encouraging readers to donate to the NAACP. The Call provides empowerment and the avocation of self-reliance to better the success of the African American community.
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Famous quotes containing the word relevance:
“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance—due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author’s attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful—and possibly the only—help that can be given.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)