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. _ UNITED CAB CO� ICHI A 7 ·2551 122·7�38 3 YEARS OF "BLACK" 24 HOUR SAFE A 0 COURTEOUS SERVICE FEBRUARY 13 -19. 1985 T�E CITIZEN PAGE NI E 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 GENERAL PMCTIT10HEA 8AN