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DETROIT - The Michipn
Leadership Conference (MLC),
a tewide civil and ecceomic
righ organization;, elected to
their board a cross section of
repre entatives from labor,
bu ine , education and
religion, to serve one to three
year terms, ccordiDg to Joseph
diso MLC Chaiiman.
The governing board in
cludes: Rev. Loyce Lester, Co-
ch irman and pastor of The
Original e Grace Baptist
Church; C therine Murray, -.
Secretary- Treasurer; Tom
Turner, labor eader; Arthur
Fe the one; D . · . ;
Rosa Par of Detroit; Father
Casmier Paulsen, of Dearbom
Heigh who pent the last 26
years in South Africa; Rev. Cur
tis Baker, of Holly, ·chigaD;
Dr. C1ayzeU Jones, Professor of
Education at the University of
Michig n; Eulaine Stevens
J olm on, Affirm tive Action
Director fo the City of Saginaw;
Julius W tson, Bailiff from
Detroit; Attorney Charles
Taylor of Detroit; Joe Green,
President, OSAS· #28; Mary
Cleveland, wife of Detroit
Councilman Clyde CleYeland,
and community activist; O'Neil
Swanson, Sr., Chairman of
sw DSon Funeral Home; and
Thomas M. Woodhouse, Assis
tant Superintendent of Housing
for the City of Detroit
Since· founding in March
What does all of this mean
Harding asked, it means that
America does not belong to one
type of people, but it belongs to
everyone. But the task of
making America great for
everyone is a great one, and the
people ·must pull together to
make it work.
Harding stated that the
people cannot wait for others to
achieve this freedom for them,
but we the people m take con
trol.
He stated that we must start
where every mOYement starts,
here we are. What can we do
to change the City of Detroit?
First of all the people must
decide that we are going to dedi
cate ourselves to a cause, and
ork with and for that cause.
He . d that America has all
kinds of different cultures living
together; there are Africans,
Asians, Hispanics, Europeans a
wide variety of peoples, and this
makes America unique. This
gre t mix of people gives the
people of America the oppor
tunity to find out how human
beings ere meant to live
together.
Harding tated th as we
move into the Twenty-rust Cen
tury we must realize that we can-
no undermind others. Human '
beings, to be human beings,
must have a responsibility. A
person cannot be human simply
with rights, human responsibility
and human rights must go hand
in hand The people must take
board
the MLC been successful in
reaching amicable agreements
for econmic rights with Min
neapolis based The Center
Company, a JIWla8C1DCnt com
pany for Northland Ma1l1ocated
in Southfield, Michigan,
Madison said
MLC meditated the negotia
tions regr diDg the Ann Arbor
school racial harassment issue
and negotiated an incrcue of
Black empIoyecd in the Holly
scboo1 district, Madison said
MLC recently concluded a
bo)'a)tt against Hermans, World
of Sporting Goods, for its al
leged harassmeDt of females,
discriminatioD against blacks in
hiriDs and the exploitation of
)'GUllI workers.
In addition, last winter MLC
sponsored a sleep-out, to sup
port the need for Federal aid for
the City'a home families.
M diso said, "This. the
DCW of civil rights, it has
changed from social to
ecomooic rights in the twen
ty )UI'S and MLC will be the
vanguard of this ncw IDOYCment
in Michigan."
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again
responsibility for others as well
themselves.
He stated that we must have
responsibility in order to have
any type of real movement for
freedom and justice; because of
we do not know what we are free
for, we are not free.
Harding went on to restate
the meaning of the preamble to
the Consitiution of the United
States: We the peop e of the
United States in order to form a
more perfect union, establish
justice, insure domestic tran- .
quility, provide for the common
defense promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings
of liberty to our children and our
grandchildren, for all people
from Asia to Russia.
He read from James Baldwin,
saying that we the people, means
that people of all races: black,
yellow, brown and magenta must
not falter in our duty to make
others aware, and to end the ra
cial madness that we can achieve
our country.
In other words, to make
America, America again.
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Higher spee limi
pus . up patro s
By Kathl ad
CapItal News Service
LANSING While
Michigan motorists can now
drive 65 m.p.h. on some rural in
terstates, they had better watch
their speeds on the other high
ways in the state.
With the raising of speed
limits on ill) miles of highway in
the state Nov. 29, Department of
State Police Director Ritchie T.
Davis restated the five-mile
tolerance that troopers usually
give motorists.
In ddition, Davis advised his
patrols to "not be overzealous" in
their enforcement while drivers
and police get used to the new
limits.
But anxious motorists
shouldn't take that as an invita
tion to "put the pedal to the
metal.
According to the State Policr
public affairs representative
Paul Hill, the department has al-
Herman's
reaches pac
i h LC
Vincent Harding: Making
America, America
ByJedOD Mattb
DETROIT -- "Moving into
the Twenty-rust Century: The
Next Great Social Movement for
Justice and Freedom", was the
topic of a lecture by author and
theologian Vincent Harding
December 1, at Wayne State
University.
Harding a historian at Den
ver College in Colorado came to
Wayne State as part of a lecture
series sponsored by the Black
Studies Department.
Harding has been working
with the issues of justice and
freedom for many years, and out·
of that or came a book:
"There is a Rivet" which as
published in 1981. The boo .
bout e Black experience in
America, and the troggle of
Blac people for freedom and
justice.
He began his talk by ying
that "Education was not meant
to t e us ay from our com
munity, but to take us deeper
. into our community to serve it."
He spo e about the great
trength and courage of Rosa
Par Cezar Shabazz, and Mar
tin Luther King. and the need for
new movement,
Harding stated that if we are
to h ve a new movement, we
must tart with our artists, who
by nature are visionari . We
must 100 to these visionaries for
ide 8J!� ��t.
He re d from L ng ton
Hugh : "America never
America to me, and yet I swear
it will be ... "
learning 3 R's
'end .boycott
DETROIT - Herman's
World of Sporting Goods has
learned its 3-R's, announced
Michigan Leadership Con
ference (MLC) Chairperson
Joseph Madison, as the
civil/economic rights organiza
tion called a halt to its 9O-day
boycott of the chain.
An agreement between
Herman's and MLC will
demonstrate the store's
knowledge of economic respect,
rights and responsibility,
Madison said at a press con
ference held Dec. 8, t Original
New Grace Baptist Church.
Under the terms of the pact,
the sporting goods store will end
"any unpublished, two-tier wage
agreement or policy," Madison
said. MLC had accused
Herman's of paying Black store
employees less than their white
counterparts in some of the sub
urbs.
Continued on
OTICE
The Michigan Citizen of
fices will be closed Wed.,
December 23 at 5 p.m. and re
open Mon., Jan 4 in order
that our employees may enjoy
the holidays with their
families.
Monday, December 21, 12
noon is the deadline for all
ne and as copy for publica
tion in the December rJ and
January 3 issues.
lotted overtime pay for em ....
troopers to patrol state roads,
effective Dec. 1.
Rather than concentrate
those troopers in the areas
where limits have been raised,
Hill said, the department is
keeping a close eye on roads
pos ed at 55 m.p.b. and 10 r.
"Overt speeding will no be
tolerated," Hill said "We may
use more effort making sure
people don't take too m ny
liberties on the roads where
limist weren't raised."
Meanwhile, Hill and other of
ficials say, the state is doing
much as possible to make the
speed limit transitions as smooth
as possible for both mo orists
and police.
The department ofTranspor
tation w scheduled to erect
200 signs on the roads by ov.
30. Of those 200, 1:1 warn of
"reduced speed ahead" on 65
m.p.h. approaches to urban
areas where the 55 m.p.h. limit
will remain in force.
State officials don't want
drivers to be confused about the
s peed limits in any unclear
areas, Transportation spokes
man Maggie Fountaine said.
A total of 30 De 55 m.p.h.
signs were erected at urban
boundari and signs at all the
interstate routes that enter
Michigan form another state
(Interstate 75, 94, and 69) indi
cate the speed limit change.
Where the limit has been
changed, aluminum overlays
replace the 55 with 65.
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