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Sho sponsored by. . Benton
tWbor - St. joseph Brmch of
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Uni ity om n.
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Benton Harbor Public
Library, th site of the event,
h entry blan for artists ish­
ing to enter.
A fee of $6 for dults
an $3 for high school seniors
ill be charged conte tants •.
Registration' deadline is March 7.
Tone categories ha
'been add d this ye - metal­
smithing and photography.
Other categories r
I original or includ mobil s,
oodcarving, dra ing, gra lc
, textiles, sculpture, and
inaJ ceramics.
Adult arn
up to three entries. Entrants
'11 have t least one wor on
display.
Artists must submit work
ready for display - atercolors
framed under glass; oils, dry and
ftamed; prints, dry, matted and
framed; and, framed ork with
ire securely attached.
orks ill be sold at the
o if artists so desire and
rna e prior arrangements.
Patroniz
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Yvette joh�, President of
Delta Phi Psi at L C, delivered
the folio' ing address as part
of Black Hi tory k at the
coli . Here Me excerps of
her speech "Look Back, ot
in Anser, but in Pride," which
also the the of thi ' .
yeM'S eel bration.
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HIGH
The ladies ere p enpful
in their due, the bmed
abolitionist Sojourn Tru and
the lady they , s
Harriet Tubman who ran the
underground railroad,
In the orId of mathm -
tics there is a man who see
daily on our walls md in our
homes. . • Benjmlin Banacker,
he mad the first clock and to
say the least he dre up the
plans for Washington, D.C.
and the White House ris a
product of his architectural
ability.
In the world of medicine
e're in there too! A young
. r
blat man through his scien-
1 tific wonder brought forth a new
dea to the operating table, his
name is Dr. john Dre , his
contribution was that of the
blood plasma. It is a shame
that in his day he died for the
lac of the very same th ing he
introduced because a little t
in' Georgia "didn't serve
people."
One Saturday e ening in
Chicago a man came into the
em gencv room of Provident
I Hospital ith multiple stab
wounds in his heart, a young
doctor took a �h� and per­
formed surgery . • .• e no
have the first.open eart surgery
o be performed and e than
yo Dr. Daniel lUle illiams.
. In the y fifties there
an underground I atory
�t, the University of Chicago.
The ork th y e doing was
hi technical cI sified.
e of those 0 did great
things was Dr. Percy julian, a
young black.
U. C KE
There's __ ,,_,.
it can be t.e.
10 the
Amb�orof
Louis (Saleh
There's
found ....
ting ne 5
your most roy
of Ellington.
listening pIu
hear from ...
W.C .• H nely •
ashington . . .
Smith ... Othis R
King. �. Mr.
Suddendy e Second
class citizen ould be no mor .
o simply
"had
a dream", and th rid el-
corned Dr., artin uther King,
There as another who started
a fervor, who told fol s that
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'FebrwIry 20, 1979 TH CITIZE
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the � re Blac and prou
and gav them the theme of
"Black Po. er" . . . . Brother
Huey ewton who brough
fol ks together in a quiet ay ...
he simply signed his name
Malcom X.
Out of these times there
were more groups to be born
but the AA{:.P still wore her­
cro n with hitnev . Young
carrying her scepter. There as
a Congress on Racial Equality
to pe found - CORE h d its
head with r. J mes Farm r,
Then the st dents came to
fight for their rights they h d
the S CC . . . Students on­
violent Co-ordinati g Committee
and their Ie der r. Stokley
Carmich el. All during this tim
the first blac ne paper started
by r. Phillip Abbott ... the
Chicago Defender was still
printing the ne s of the time.
Dr. Ralph Abernathy was at the
co trol of the SCLC . . . when
there came to man to" PUSH,
the people United to 5 ve
Humanity, and e told the
JUKE
By Y tte n n The only thing about the white
When I 0 bac t ho slav as that he could run away
y forefathers came to this and not be noticed. Also h
ntry from ica, stripped of ould serve out his debt of
their pride an dignity, where ind nture for I his . �assag to
they ere once in they re America or for the debt that
reduced than Cattle. he left in the Old W rid. The
They turned into difference between the slaves
robots ith no ride and no ere at nobody could find a'
reason to live. Th only h d a white sl ve when he dissa-
m r e istance, their nly ppeared, he look like everyone
was that of economics, else, .the black slave had one
s to pic cotton and ma e distingushing trademark - his
babies to b sold as slaves to color. Stacks were made to
make the master rich and they think that they re anything
themsel es ere valuable if they but human, they ere demora-
re treated right. . I \iZed, told that they' were
Wh asia ould try any thin but intelligent, that
to run he ould hav a foot cut. they could not possibly read, or
off or mamed in som other ite or do any. mathmatical
y. I is true that there ere equations, let alo ·master the
o . 51 brought to Am rica. sciences.
I can 100 bac in pride
of just ho ong they re.'
h e pride in the American
spo esman d statesman •....
Fredrick Douglass. There came
a man who found uses for the
peanut other than jus food. _ ..
George ashingto Carver.
They re those 0 founded
institutions of hi
learning ... 800 er T. ashing-
ton.
RICHA D CAN ADY
ON : .,.. • •••
world that U I A
SO E­
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a
BODY",
day Ion,
Jackson.
I As the list oes on y
heart s eels ith pride of those
gon on ho contributions
iIt be remembered rough an
et rnity .....
o on could ever forg t
the young man who came from
Louisville, Ky. and the set the
world afire in 1960 Olympics
his name as Cassius Clay and
boxing as his game. He on
the heavy eigh title nd
changed his name, uham,mad
Ali was no his claim to fame.
He lost the title once, h lost
the title ice but no it is for
the orld to' kno that h iSI
"THE GREATESt" for no man
can y that I have on b c my
title three times straight.
I can look bac 0 my
past and not be angry, for out of
my p st cam pride of a peop
yesterday, today, nd most of
all my tommorrowsl
• AMUS
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