This Week In
Black History
APRIL 22, 1990
Michael Jord n of the
Chicago Bull won hi
fourth NBA coring title,
averaging 33.6 points.
1882 - Benj min G.
Br wley, e d uc tor,
author, was born. 1922
- Charle Min u , ba -
ist/compo er, was born.
Name the first play by
a Black woman to be per­
formed on Broadway.
What is her name?
APRIL 23, 1872 -
Charlotte E. Ray was
the first Black woman to
graduate from law
chool (Howard Univer­
ity). 1856 - Granville,
T. Wood, inventor, was
bo r n . 1943 - Del no
Merriwether, t r a c k
star/physician, was born.
lOut 0/ which NYC
church did the AMEZ
denomination emerge?
APRIL 24, 1884 -
The Medico-Chirurgi­
cal oclety, t he oldest
Black medical associa­
tion, was organized in
Washington, D.C. 1951
- Universi ty of North
Carolina admitted its
first Black student. 1922
- Aaron Bell, bassist,
was born.
Which American
president willed that his
slaves be set 'free at his
death?
APRIL 25, 1918 -
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz
singer, was born.
What was the earliest
· rationale for the
enslavement of Black
Africans?
APRIL 26, 1886 -
• Ma Rainey, blues
singer, was born. 1866
- William L. Daw on,
U.S. congressman, (IL)
· was born.
Who are Garrett Mor­
· gan and Andrew Beard?
APRIL 27, 1927 -
Coretta Scott King,
e widow of Martin -Luthe r
• King, Jr., was born.
When and where was
- the first "[u lly salaried"
Black baseball team 10-
- cared?
. ANSWERS TO BLACK
. HISTORY QUESTIONS
21st - Ma sachusetts
in 1841.
\ 22th - Raisi n in the
Sun, by Lorraine
Hansberry.
23th - The John
· Street Methodist Church
in New York City.
24th George
Washington.
25th - They were
· considered heathen and
needed to be converted
to Christianity. But the
.p r a c ti ce quickly e ca­
lated and slaves were
seen as cheap labor.
26th - Morgan in-
vented a gas rna k, and a
; traffic signal: Bea rd i n­
r vented a co up lj ng device
� for railroad cars and old
, it for $50,000.
: 27th - At the Argyle
7: Hotel at Babylon, Long
.. Island, New York, 1885.
c
pondut
cro
the
her.
One woman, Gwen Gill Jone ,
remained tru to her origin I te -
timony: "A God i my witne ,
Maurice Carter i not the man
who hot Officer Shadler."
ancy Butzbach wa a
secretary in an attorney' office
in a building kitty corner from
the Record Shop where the
hooting too place. Over the
two years intervening between
the shooting and the trial,
Butzbach went to work for the
County Pro ecutor and changed
her description of the assailant.
On the day of the shobting,
Butzbach testified she saw the
" hadow of a Black man" fleeing
the Record Shop. At the trial -
Butzbach wa now an employee
of the man trying to convict
Carter, the County Prosecutor -
she testified the man was about
. five feet, 11 inchc tall, wi th a
"high forehead" and a "straight
nose" of medium build. '
In contra t, the one witne s
who said the sam thing in 1975
at trial-that she aid in 1973 and
said it with great certainty and
emphasis was Gwen Jones, the
clerk who had waited on the as­
sailant in the Record Shop before
Schadler and hiswife entered tbe
store.
Gwe nes testified that
the man appeare i nki ng
and was "acting all rvous and
jittery and kept asking for a
record that we did not have."
Jones testified the man began
shooting' at Schadler's neck and
head after the officer and his
wife entered the store while
doing Christmas shopping.
Schadler fell to the floor, his
wife screaming and beating on
the gunman who then fled the
on
w we rin
gr y trim on th 011 r, or it m y
h ve be n grey over bl c nd
thin po ible ( ic) may have
b n rever ible, it ppeared
li e uad in ide."
Sin e no weapon,
fingerpnnts, or any other phy i­
cal evidence was pre ented at
Carter' trial, the rna Her of cloth­
ing and personal attribute be­
came important. De cription of
wi tne es were all the jury had to
consider in reaching a deci ion.
On the day he W3 hot,
Schadler. told officer the gun­
man wore "a gr en field j c et
with dark colored pan ."
At. the trial Schadler aid at
first he could not recall what the
gunman wore, then testified the
coat was "fade, green, pos ibly
an army field jacket."
Other witnesses who were all
in the vicinity of the store when
the gunman fled running down
the street, testitifed to a variety
of coat lengths, colors and
tyles: tan, a coat with lettering,
a coat with no lettering, hip
length, three-quarter length.
ir t ne p per report
c rried the de cription put out by
th h I ht the police dep rment, th of
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tal heal h cu
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re patient
By DENNIS L. SANDERS
Capital New Service
LANSING-The lives 'of
workers and patients have. been
changed due to the closure of
Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric
Hospital which officially closed
Saturday (April 13).
Because of state budget cut,
the 'D epa r t men t 0 f Men tal
Health is closing four state-run
mental health facilities and Yp­
silanti Regional is one of them.
The decision will place patients
in new environments and leave
some worker with uncertain fu­
tures.
T Club Annual Millionaire's
Party fund raiser for Youthw held recently at the Kof
Hall, Michi an Avenue. M �or Holiday(left) i congratulated
by Marvin Davl , the event' ch lrper on, on winnln color
TV. (Photo by Marcu Patton)
. The H rbor Wig Record Shop a It ppe red In story
of the hootln of off-duty Detective Thom ch dler. Two wltne es, 0 e
African American clerk In Ide the hop wher the hooting occured, nd ODe
white woman aero the treet in a econd floor window. Which wltne did the
ali-white jury beljeve in the hooting ca e of white omcer by a Black
a allant?
Acting Director Bob Glees
said some of 650 workers w
. worked at the hospital will con­
tinue working for the tate, in
most cases at orher P ychiatric
ho pi tats. Glees said the
majority though will be laid off.
"All of state government i in
a mode where there just isn't
much hiring going on," he said.
Glees said that the un­
employed will be placed on a
recall, meaning that when open­
ings arise in state government.
that need to be filled, the un­
employed will �e given priority.
GLEES SAID the closing of
the ho pital surely will have' a
negative economic impact, but
he is not sure how dramatic it is.
The hospital stopped admit-
,
staff
f ) J .,
.. I II I
ti�g pa,tients in February, Glee
said, wuh orne of the remaining
250 patient transferred to other
hospitals in Northville
Coldwater, Westland and Pon:
tiac. The other patients were
placed in groups home or di _
char�ed to live independently.
. WIth Ypsilanti Regional clo _
ing nearby, the' clinical director
of Monroe County Community
Mental Health Service aid the
closing will not have a major im­
pact becau e his agency already
has been diverting clients from
the hospital for quite some time.
Mark Ha kin said the agency
has contra led wi th ho pi tal in
Trenton ami Tecum eh to handle
Involuntary patient'.
THE CHANGES in the
Department of Public Health is
not just affecting Southeastern
Michigan, but the entire state.
Department of Mental Health
Director Jim Haveman aid that
since the first of the year about
1,000 employee hav een laid
off due to the clo ing of the tate
hospital .
Haveman aid additional
propo als have been made for
clo ure of facilities in Newber­
ry and Coldwater.
Glee aid there 'arc everal
alternatives for the YpsiJuti
hospital's land after the facility
closes. He said the land could
be used for providing mental
health to pri oners but no
decision ha been made yet on
future use.
....
Demand for 'assertive' tecnnotoqv
By rn:PHANIE BRINKER
LANSING-People in
Michigan want and need "a -
i tive. technology," officials
at the Michigan Commi ion
on Handicapper Concern
(MCHC) said.
As istive technology can
be defi ned a a ny de vi ce that
could be u ed to improve ac­
ces i b i l i t y , for example, a
wheelchair. "A ist ive tech­
nology liberate. not con­
fines," Mikc Ga rnb o u o , an
MCHC commis ioner 'aid.
MCH 'hope' that with the
aid of a half-million dollar
Gannett
support young
Journalists ,
The Gannett Founda­
tion recently announced
a $50,000 grant to up­
port the American
Society of New paper
Editor program for
recruiting minoritie
into news career. The
g r n twa p or e n ted a t
the opening of the
Society'S annual conven­
tion in Bo ton.
ASNE" program in­
clude job fairs around
the coun tr-y, a urn me r
job . program, and
cholarships. Effort in­
clude working with hi -
torically black college
and minoritie currently
eeking job in the field
of journali m.
Recognizing a .. tati -
t i c a l ly in ignificant"
ri e of les than half a
percent for rnf nor irics in
the nation's new 'room ,
Gannett Foundation
deputy chairman John
Qui nn said, "Increa i ng
progre toward in­
tegrating new paper i
the bigge t p r o b l e m
Iactngu in journalism."
Currently, minorities
have about 7.8 percent
of new job in the U.S.
federal grant from the Nation­
al Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Re earch ef­
f.orts to improve access to as­
s is tive technology could be
cooridinated.
MCHC hopes to find out if
it will receive the grant by the
middle of March. MCHC is
the voice for 1. 7 million hand­
icapper in MIchigan, said
Gambotto, who is al 0 a hand­
icapper program pecialist at
Michigan State Univer ity.,
"TH 4 HANDICAPPER
movem nt in MIChigan ha n't
gotten off of fir t ba e in a
long time,'" Gambotto said.
Among the goals that
MCHC hope to accompli h
with the grant money are:
-To fa ilitate communica­
tion am ng a i tive technol­
ogy developer, vendors,
human rvice provider,
em�loyer ,'purcha e r s and
con umer .
-Identify and catalog as­
i tive technology ervice
throughout Michigan and in
adjacent se rv ice area.
-Coordinate acce to in-
formation on a i tive tech­
nology through the
e tabli hment of a tate-wide
cleari nghouse.
�Develop a model of as­
s i tive technology service
provis io n for Michigan ba ed
on trategic a naly is and plan­
ning.
-Provide information and
e r v e as tatewide om-
budsperson for technology
use, repair and maintenance
ervice·.
A survey on a i live tech­
nology distributed by MCHC
showed that 76 percent of the
re pondent did not know
where to get money to pur­
chase a sistive technology.
That wa e pecially true
for northern Michigan, Gam­
botto aid.
"We get the feeling th t
they like to take c re of them-
elve," Gambotto said.
Gambotto characterized that
people in northern Michigan,
for example, are le apt to
re-apply for Social Security
benefits.
There i Ie government
involvement in personal af­
fairs, Gambotto aid.