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Keep on Rollin’ Along: The Temptations and Soul Therapy

Keep on Rollin’ Along: The Temptations and Soul Therapy Keep on Rollin' Along: The Temptations and Soul Therapy Nicholas Cooper-Lewter The Christian liberal arts college I attended in the late 1960s, lo­ cated in Ohio farm country about halfway between two major urban centers, was attempting to stay in step with the civil rights move­ ment. One major step was to bring in the largest number of African­ American freshmen in the school's history. Excluding the kitchen crew, the black students, all highly recruited athletes, then num­ bered about twenty-seven out of nearly two thousand students. Gauging by our very visible athletic teams, outsiders often believed the college was well-integrated. · However, not only were we a grossly outnumbered "minority," but the college was unprepared to meet our social needs due to the racial insensitivity of many of the white faculty, staff, and students. One of the football coaches (who offered incentives of "soul food" to help us play better) recommended that we do our "real socializing'' off­ campus, out on the farm on which most of the older African-Amer­ ican males lived. One of our football players was even told where, in a larger town nearby, to find "colored girls" for "social purposes" because he had been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

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Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press
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1043-9455
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Keep on Rollin' Along: The Temptations and Soul Therapy Nicholas Cooper-Lewter The Christian liberal arts college I attended in the late 1960s, lo­ cated in Ohio farm country about halfway between two major urban centers, was attempting to stay in step with the civil rights move­ ment. One major step was to bring in the largest number of African­ American freshmen in the school's history. Excluding the kitchen crew, the black students, all highly recruited athletes, then num­ bered about twenty-seven out of nearly two thousand students. Gauging by our very visible athletic teams, outsiders often believed the college was well-integrated. · However, not only were we a grossly outnumbered "minority," but the college was unprepared to meet our social needs due to the racial insensitivity of many of the white faculty, staff, and students. One of the football coaches (who offered incentives of "soul food" to help us play better) recommended that we do our "real socializing'' off­ campus, out on the farm on which most of the older African-Amer­ ican males lived. One of our football players was even told where, in a larger town nearby, to find "colored girls" for "social purposes" because he had been

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Black Sacred Music – Duke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 1992

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