02-10-94 Authors of Controversial Book to Speak

AUTHORS OF BOOK ON ORIGINS OF DIXIE TO SPEAK DURING UBWM

     COLUMBUS -- Howard and Judith Sacks, authors of Way Up North
in Dixie: A Black Family's Claim to the Confederate Anthem, will
speak at a United Black World Month presentation at The Ohio
State University.  The Office of African American Student
Services will sponsor the presentation from 2 to 4 p.m. on Feb.
24 in the River Den of the Drake Union, 1849 Cannon Drive.

     Judith Sacks, an independent scholar and historian,
researched the material for the book along with her husband
Howard Sacks, a professor and chairman of the anthropology
department at Kenyon College.  The Sackses claim that Dixie, a
Confederate anthem and a frequent rallying song for the Ku Klux
Klan and other white supremists, was actually written by a Black
family.  During their presentation, they will explain their
startling findings and discuss the impact of this knowledge on
the song's popularity.

     The presentation is free and open to the public as well as
to Ohio State students, faculty and staff.  A full calendar of
United Black World Month activities is available in the African
American Student Services, 345 Ohio Union, 1739 N. High St.

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Contact: Joyce Vaughan, director, Office of African American
Student Services, (614) 292- 6584.


[Submitted by: REIDV  (reidv@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
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