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Joseph M. Russin, in the essay Democracy on the March (Summer News, August 13, 1963) raised questions having to do with the relation of means to ends in the civil rights movement. Russin argued, in part, that "an examination of the goals of the (March on Washington) suggests that few, if any, can be realized by this technique". The goals or ends are "Congressional approval of the President's civil rights legislation, solutions to unemyloyment in general and unemployment of the Negro in particular, and the maintenance and augmentation of militancy in the civil rights movement in local communities...
...take it that Mr. Russin is not questioning the right of citizens to march, or whether the March should be peaceful. He is raising fundamental questions of what are the best means available to effect social change. And, he has justified two means of effecting social change: legislative remedy and petition by the governed for the redress of grievances. One may assume, I trust, that these means of change are still real alternatives. And, I assume furthur, that Mr. Russin is not suggesting they are the only alternatives, that simply because Congressmen may not be responsive to the March, that...
...Russin's criticisms are well put. But he has committed at least two sins of omission. The first: James Baldwin has said that the Negro will have the white man. One reason is that we still believe in man. Therefore, we men, powerless as we are supposed to be, still believe that it is good, just and important to stand up for what we believe. Sometimes, just to stand, glad that we have freed ourselves so that we can stand, and march. For it is fundamentally a matter of our humanity. The March on Washington gives us a chance...
Named were: Adams, Bradford Perry, Ronald Rieder, Nicholas Bunnin, Andreas Teuber, Harry Owen; Dudley, John Murphy, Russell Beecher, Richard Szum, John Polacheck, Theodore Pappadopoulos; Dunster, John Purvis, Joseph Russin, Robert Inman, Martin Quinn; Eliot, Michael Dennis, Louis Williams, William Nitze, Michael Bassett, Christian Ohiri, William Southmayd...
Joseph M. Russin '64, who recently returned from eastern Kentucky where he researched an article for the CRIMSON, told the group that "there needs to be action beyond the coal fields--there just isn't enough work in the mines for all the miners." He said, however, that the miners themselves do not understand the need for this approach, and that instead they feel a strong union is the real answer to their problems...