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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 .