Atlanta Daily World

Race Relations Institute Opens At Fisk Today

Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Kyle Haselden, minister of Baptist Temple, Charleston, West Virginia, will open the first program session of the Sixteenth Annual Institute of Race Relations, Fisk University, today. Dr. Haselden is to discuss "The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective."

In his recent book, The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective, Dr. Haselden states. "The major sin of the white Christian church has not been merely its passive default in the field of interracial relations, but even more, its direct, positive and sometimes malicious contribution to the race-caste system in America." Dr. Haselden is a native of South Carolina and graduate of the Colgate - Rochester Divinity School. He has pastored churches in Yonkers, N. Y. Minneapolis, Minn., and Rochester. N. Y.

The Race Relations Institute opened formally June 29, with a keynote address, "Process and Promise in Human Relations." Dr. Herman Long, Director of the Institute and the Race Relations Department of the American Missionary Association, is to deliver the keynote speech.

The Fisk Race Relations Institute is held each year under the co-sponsorship of the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Christian Churches and Fisk University. This year one hundred and twenty-five human relations experts, community leaders and scholars are expected to attend. It is primarily a leadership training program and will be in session June 29 through July 11.

Dr. Horace Mann Bond, Dean of the School of Education, Atlanta University, and former president of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania is another featured opening speaker. Dr. Bond is scheduled for two addresses, Wednesday, July 1. In the morning session he will discuss, "Discovering and Developing Talent of Minority Group Youth." He is to present the 'Significance of Africa in the Struggle for Human Dignity' at a public lecture Wednesday evening.

Formerly a Fisk staff member. Dr. Bond has had extensive teaching and administrative experience at the college level. He directed an educational survey of West Africa in 1949. Dr. Bond is the author of Education of the Negro in the American Social Order and Education in Alabama. A Study in Cotton and Steel. He won the Educational Research Association of America award for the latter in 1940 and the Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize for an outstanding thesis in the social sciences.