ti e' Day of co
SWEETHE TSOF 1985
The Usher Board o. 2 of
Q een Esther . ionary B P:
ti t Church, 2220 Superior,
uskegon Height held its an
nual Valentine Social Time, Sun
d y, Feb. 10.
. and r. illiam Pollard
ere cro ned, the 1985 S eet
hearts.
U r Board o. 2 mem-
b r include:Georgia P kel,
pr ident; Theo Jone , vice-pre i;
dent; Cele tine John n, Jean
D vis, nnie Tucker, Rosie
Bu ary Bell, Ella Cope-
land, Vivian cCoy, Dorothy
Jordon and Janice oody.
Flo er for this event were
don t d by Erma Se in
m mory of her late hu and,
Uly al. The ere
the S of 197 .
Among the Bl ck History
on th programs at Queen Es
ther Baptist Church will be
a Youth Social from 8:30 to
12 midnight on Saturday, Feb.
16 at the Christian Communi
ty Center.
Sis. Carol ilson is chair .
There will be F ashion and
Talent Show. A DJ. will spin
records. Barbara Cooper is
president.
Refr shmen will be rved.
On onday , Feb. 18 there
will be Senior Citizen Ban-
quet from 5 p.m, to 7 p.m.
Headlining the event is attie
Davis, reno n Go pel r dio
ow ho te. 0, former pas-
tor of John esley A. .E., the
Jones will be a
pe ere
In ddition there .will be
poetry and readings. The pub
lic is invited. _
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Continued from P e 7
History. The man that I am
going to I about not only
has been a great out tanding
per on in the world today,
But I like him because he is a
born-agan man. The man I
am referring to the Rev.
Je Jackson.
"J e Jackson as born on
October 28, 1941 in Green
ville, . orth Carolina and he was
raised among the city's poor
Blacks. His parents never
married each other and he has
recalled that the other chil
dren teased him about no
father. Thi only helped his
d ermination to make some
thing of himself. While he wa
till a child, his mother, Helen,
married Charie Henry J ac on,
a janitor and rs. J ckson
orked a maid in a hospital.
Between the couple they
brought home in pay around
$35 to $40 dollars a week,
enought to keep a roof over
the heads of their fi e children,
and to provide a lot of grit ,
collard greens, chitterlings, and
neckbones.
'Like that of other American
Blacks J ckson's southern child
hood was scared by the humilia
tion taught by a hostile hite
culture. One of his biggest
childhood - memorie was of
listening silently with a group
of Black children, out ide a
cig r store in the Greenville
busine district, to a radio
broadcast of a Joe Louis cham
pionship fight, and not daring to
rai hi voice to the victory
decision of Loui over hi white
opponent, because he kne it
ould anger the white owner.
"Rev. Je Jackson's pride
and self-confidence developed
early. He got his first job when
•
In
h was only six year old,
working on a true delivery
tove ood from his gr nd-
father woodyard to local
hou s. At 11 he w put in
charge of th woodyard, hiring
and ruing men, colle ting the
money and making up the pay
roll. By then he h d com
pleted the fourth gr de in
school and was better educated
than any of the twenty men
employed in the yard. At thi
point the only other with more
education wa his mo her t who
had completed the IJth grade,
and who was determined that
he would not be deprived of ta
college degree.
"After graduating in 1954
from Greenville's all-Black
Sterling High S 001 where he
started on the football, ba et
ball, and baseball team, he wa
offered a contract with th
ew York Giant, who h d out-
,
bidded the Chicago White Sox
for him and. Greenville's other
top baseball player, a white
student. The white student
o
as offered IS 000, lac
was offered only 6,000. H
refused and too an athletic
cholar hip at the Univer ity of
Illinoi in tead.
"After gr duating in 196
with a Bachelors degree .
Sociology, he orked briefly
with Jerry Sanford, Governor
of orth Carolin organizing
Young Democratic clubs. .I
1965, fter a period of arch
ing If-doubt and brooding on
his future social rol , he cho
the ministry and entered th
Chicago Theologic I minary
on a scholar hip. Although h
had alway attended church
faithfully, the move urpri d
many friends in view of hi
outspoken dislike for the trad
itional ima of the South rn
Black pre cher who encouraged
Black to 100 for a re ard
not in thi world but the next.
"In recent time Jes Jack
n h been an in piration to
all people. H was respon ib
for the most m ive voter
See "Oratory" Pg. 10
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