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SHI GTO , D.C. - The
tional Urban League's annual
State of 81 ck Americ report
"show American ippin back
into bein comfort ble with
re gr ation in the hool ,
ith a retr at from civil right
with drug bu , failed economic
d ci welfare policie and
inere sed Blac poverty" UL
pre ident John E. Jacob de
clared.
Surrounded by ten out and
ing expert in educ tion, health,
economic and government
affair, Jacob told tion
Pre Club udience "America
i becoming more divided every
d y. . . Divided by the growing
gap between the rich and the
poor; by the gro ing gap be
tween bite and Blae by
the growing gap between those
who have decent jobs and tho
who do not."
Although he did not urge
specific action, J cob appeared
to gre with recent official
call for new government
commi on on r cism urged
by or yor Ed d
Koch following the recent death
of Black man a he wa tt c -
ed by a hite gang in the city.
The NUL document echoed
the controversi al 1968 report
of a Pre idential Commission on
Civil Disorder issued after the
outbreaks following the as sin
ation of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. "Black American
enter 1987 besieged by the
resurgence of raw racism, per
si ent economic depre . on, and
the continu d ero 'on of pa
gains, the ne NUL report
STATE'S AFRICAN-AMERiCAN COMMUNITY"
FEBRUARY 1 -7, 1987
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The leader of the major
civil rights organization urged
the new Congre to e a
"full employment program.
_ a rna ive thrust to equalize
educational opportunities, trade
policie that stop the export
of job and- clo loopholes
in the civil rights law ... "
The pri te ctor, which pro-
vide the bu of pport for
Urban League programs, wa
urged to "rene its commit-
ment to civil right " and Blac
citizens were urged 'to continue
what we have been doing" . . .
by becoming involved in volun
tary, community ba d projects
to improve oUI neighborh d.
Y POLICE 'MASQUERADE'
Yor .Y. - ' asquerade" wa the ord u d 1a t
to de rib the police investigation into the recent at tac
on true Bl by group of whites in the Ho ard Bea h
cti n of Qu n .Y. One Black man died after bein
ru by a c r hile trying to flee the attac ers. Ho ever
Cedric andiford, one of the survivor told a pre confer-
ence that the police h d enga ed in a bad faith investigation
by failing to charge the driver of the r hich truck and
• killed hi stepson Mich 1 Griffith. The police ha maintained
that the driver of the car - 24-year-old court officer - had
nothing to do with the mob. Sandiford as al highly criti
cal of hi tre tment by police after the attac . He said that
although he wa bleeding b dly he was not offered medical
help for over 3� hour .