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HARBOR - This
. city wiD lay to re
01 and best kn n reUgious
leaders hen mourners titer at
nelay, rch 25 for the
of ev. .E. £llis,
or of Pilgrim R t Baptist
urc .
Re. Ellis p d Sunday,
reb 17 just two days after
. congregation celebrated hi
93rd birthday ·th a special
rvice.
Burial will be in Crystal.
Springs C metery. Friend may
t Robbins Brothers Funeral
y from 11:30 a.m.
to 3 p.m. and t the church
fter 3 pm. Sunday.
Rev. Ellis born
15, 1892, in A8uilla,
He had been p tor of t Gar­
den of Gethiemane Baptist
hurch in St. Lou' 0., for
I 2 ye , hen h came to
Benton Harbor for a visit in
1940.
H a persuaded by the
congre lion to become p tor
Pi . m Re pt t Church,
Benton Harbor. and had held
. the po ition 'nee that time.
The church then w loc ted
t 227 Burton, but within one
y at of Rev. Ellis uming
p tor te unabl to ccomo­
d te the number of orshippers.
ddition to the church
n.
b oken
ae
••
e
o from
H poured t footing and
helped ith the cement blocks
in the 'de all. Thus, the
church w built with the labor
of its member under P tor
-Ellis'leadership ..
It since been remodel d
enwled and bric ed.
The church u boa ted a
membership of u high 800
with veral of the local church­
es emanating from Pilgrim Rest.
Rev. Ellis ordained nine min­
i ten in St. Louis, 0., and 14
in Benton Harbor.
Larry A. Sf
ASHINGTO , DC (NNPA)
Over 300 representatives of
national and community based
organizations convened here at
the ational Black Leadership
Roundtable conference at the
Howard University School of
Law arch 15-17, to decide
'here' e go from here",
according to Rep. alter E.
Fauntroy (D-D.C.),. minister,
U.S. Conge man and NBLR
chairman.
Reverend Fauntroy, a former
chief aide to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., and p t chairman of
the Congressional Black Caucu
h propo d a "Black family
plan for the unity, urvival and
pro re of Black people . . .
p
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ATTE 01 G.IT WAS A
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ARCH 20-23. 1 5
VOL. VII O. 1
E YORK NY P )
. - On April 4th protests gainst
U.S. inve ment in South Africa
ill b held at core of cam­
p and in m [or citie in a
national mobiliz tion initi ted
by the Am rican Committee n
frica (ACOA). This day i
past of a bro der effort build-
ing to April tions For Peace
. J ob and J u tice in W hington
DC (April 19-22) that includes
South Africa as a major focus.
On April 4 protests for di­
vestment of univer ity fund
linked to South frica ill
occur t Harvard, Stanford
Yale, Columbia, otre Dame
Dartmouth, Princeton, Hamil-
ton, Amherst, and ate uni-
v rsity campuses in California,
Colorado, ew Yor , Illinoi ,
Indi . hipn, Georgia
Mi' ouri, and Wis­
consin.
On that same day there will
be pro e ts against U.S. investor
in South Africa in veral
cities including: ew York,
Minh poli, Phil delphia, Chica­
go, Detroit, emphi, Portland,
Seatt e, Washington DC, Balti­
more and Albany.
The Detroit demon tration
ill feature a picket out' de
General otor he dquarters,
the ew Yor march will rally
out . de bil Oil headquarte
and the Minneapo . tion will
target the First . of St. Paul
because e are becoming
economically obsolete in thi
country ... "
o The meeting planned
I t ovember (after the na-
tional election ) and' "th
impetu for thi call i the
unsettling time for Blac
America. By any of the accept­
ed indicators of progre
education, employment, housing
voting right , and li e - many
of the gain m de ... in decad
p t are being badly ero d
by weD-organized element ,of
the .majority community and
misinformed elements of the
BI k community .. " Fauntroy
declared at one point.
The 6Black Family Plan"
de loped in a rie or tin
for its Krugerrand
S� ers at ralli
country will i ud
at UC Ber eley,
Congre n Ro d Dellu
h has introduced
to ban U.s. in estm nt .
South Africa, and Reverend
Je J c son at d.
Recent acti in Pit burgh,
e Yor City, 0 and, Do -
ton, e rk, Fran i 0
have brought the total of public
fund to be di ed of South
Africa-tel ted comp ies to over
S 1.2 billion.
Legi tion I pending in 28
at and many citie cro
country. Recent uni e ity
divestment ctio t Harvard,
Yale the City University of e
or , em . gton Uni-
rsity and Evergreen State ha
brought the camp dive tm nt
total to S 180 million . nee
1977.
According to Jennifer Da . ,
executive director of ACOA:
"The April 4th coordinated
prote s will iner pre ure
for local divestment action and
for national disinvestment legis­
lation." Among it ctivities
the April ctions For Peace
Jobs and Justi will involve
thousand of peop in an pril
22 national lobby day for South
African disinve tment and other
legislation.
er
•
with Blac leaders during the
. p t four years, . d Theodore
Adams BLR treasurer and
past pre 'dent of the
sociation of 81 c
ture. dams id repre nta-
tives of African organization
were invited to th ons s
"ob rvers."
Participant ere ong 500
delegate invited from organi­
zations repr nting agriculture,
bu . ne , civil right , profe ion,
1 enforcement, pri ners, en­
tertainment, athletics, cial,
fraternal groups, el cted offlc-
, ters, youth, health r-
vices, senior citizen and com­
munity groups.