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law firm on the side.
One ource said that
Featherstone warned Lewand
- at a special caucus that he would
run against him, unless Lewand
agreed to erve full time as
chairman and work for his law
fum part time. The source
stated that since the state
chairman's salary was S5O,000, it
should be a full time position.
"We won't go back
to plantation
politic .
DETROIT - At the 1989
Michigan Democratic ConYeD­
tion, Detroit African American
political leader Arthur
Featherstone gave a rousing
speech challenging Democratic
frontrunner Thomas Le and in the state party and
for the post of Democratic State declared, "We won't go back to
Central Committee Chairman _ plantation politics."
- and at the end of it announced Then UDexpectedly in the last
he w withdrawing from the sentence of his speech, he said,
race for th of harmony." "In the name of harmony, I
Mildred yles, hoisheldby withdraw my name from
some m the party to repr .......... t nomination." .
� ie h State Representative Alma G.
, the Jesse Jackson wing of the s, w 0 n,?mlDated Stall orth, President of the
.party, nominated Featherstone, �eatherstone, told this reporter Metro Detroit Affiliate of the
calling for "a new agenda", . � the early part of the convea- National Black Oilld Develop­
notin&just after her nomination tion that she would oppose ment Institute aaaounced phase
of Featherstone "We' do have Lewand, even though she tated of the planning for the "Each
choices!" that at the time she did not know One, Reach One" tutorial
Featherstone, a congres- wJu:therf:herewasanyonetorun project which bas been funded
·onal aide to first district Con- 19a1Dst him. . by the W.K. Kellogg Founda-
gres.cman John Conyers, spoke In a verbal exchang� �th tion. Detroit aod Greensboro,
of his early efforts in the civil Lewand at the first. district N.e. have been selected as pilot
rights movement, of tanding up ca�us, � . � him �f not sites for this privately financed
to intimidation of the southern be� f�liar �th the �ues program through a $777,707
police and of Ku Klux Klan which divided different �oos four year grant
violence. He spo e of problems of the p� at the 1988 national The Each One, Reach One
faced by Detroit today and of at- oonwntiOlL . . tutorial project is a voluntary
tempts to "turn back progress" Lewand also criticized program which will match
on the national level. for saying he would serve only volunteers tuton and mentors
Then Featherstone criticized ,. a part-time state central com- to disadvantaged cb.ildren who
what he called ·policy baroos·· mittee chairman, kiDg� his
The source also expressed
concern that d came ih as
chairman fro outside the
'central commi ee,
He noted bert Holley, a
black political eader from the
first district, W 0 had served as
vice chairma of the state
central com ttee for years
"should have m ved up." .
Lewand's s pporter state
have been id ntified b)j the.
school as I w achievers.
Elementary s l-age �n
will be the rimary group
served. The utors wil be
recurited fr m within the
Detroit Public Schools, and
Bloomfi ld Hills School dis­
tricts.
Representative Stallworth
stated th� project will also in­
terface with efforts by NBCDI­
Metro Detroit'S Scholarship
Fund which was established last
year to .assist deserving high
school graduates. We must con­
tinue support and re-enforce­
iDeot at both eDds of the educa­
tiOnal pl'ocas-workiDg to retain
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that he served as campaign
manager for Senator 1 Levin
in 1978 and Governor James
Blanchard in 1982, was Oakland
County Commissioner from
1978 to 1980 and works as COUD­
sel to Wayne County Executive
Edward McNamera, the Oak­
land County Incinerator
Authority, and Macomb County
Drain and Road Commissions.
students beginning at the
elementary school level, and
working to sustain students who
desire to continue on in ,pursuit
of higher education.
Tutors will ork one-on-one
with children who meet at a
designated time, within a site lo­
cated within the northern high.
school community. An area
within Detroit which has been .
targeted by the Kell� Foun­
dation for Youth Initiative
Programs.
Persons interested in assi ling
with the p ojed should call the
affiliate office in Detorit (313)
342-4050.
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