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TI)I�� Wcpk III
81�lCk History
APRIL 29, 983-
· H rold W hlngton was
, worn in a fir t Black
· mayor of Chicago. 1899 �
Duke Ellln ton, jazz
, mu ician, wa born.
· Which Black actor made
- a living as a comedian be-
- cause of social conditions
· at the time?
APRIL 30, 1843 -
Blacks participated in the
national poli tical conven­
tion for the first time in
• Buffalo, N.Y. 1961 - WII ..
lie May of the San Fran­
cisco Giants tied a major
, le ague record with four
home runs in one game.
· 1931 - William Clay, US
Congressman (MO), was
'>'born.
. '. How man members are
there of the A ME Church af·
filiation?
MAY 1, 1946 - Mrs.
, Emma Clarl sa Clement
became the fir t Black
woman named "Mother Of
The Year." 1917 - Charle
D. Bonner, physician, 'was
· born.
Which magazine deals
primarily with Black busi­
ness interests?
MAY 2, 1966 - Robert
Richardson he 1 ped Los
Angeles Times win the
Pulitzer Prize for its
coverage of the Watts riots.
1920 - Indianapolis ABCs
defeated Chicago Giants in
the first Negro .National
League baseball game.
1843 - Elijah McCoy, in­
ventor and holder of more
than 50 patents, was born.
Which American presi­
dent is believed to have
[athered several children
by his Black slave servant?
MAY 3, 1920 - Sugar
Ray Robinson (Walker
Smltb), boxer, was born.
1928 - James Brown,
singer; was born.
Which Black American,
other than George
Washington Carver, was a
pioneer and important
Black chemist?
MAY 4. 1893 - Bill
Pickett, Black cowboy,
originates steer wre tliqg.
1937 - Ron Carter, bas­
sist, composer, was born.
Were there ever all-
Black professional
, baseball teams inc or­
: porated in leagues with all
wAite teams? .
ANSWERS TO'BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
28th - In April of 1867
at Nashville, TN.
29th - Bert williams.
He read the classics,
philosophy, and would
have pr erred more
erious drama.
30th - More than
2,220,000 members.
MAY 1st - Black
Enterprise.
2nd - Thoma Jefferson
fathered several children
by his slave, Sally Heming.
3rd � Percy Julian who
formed hi own chemical
company.
4th - Yes. In 1889. the
Cuban Giant joined the
Middle States League. The
Cuban Giant were a
famous all:..Bla k ha. cball
team which la'led into the
40 .
by D
TH
univer al heal th c re i
id if done correctly.
Peter Pr it gree th thos
who have h alth in ur nee ar
ub idizing tho who do
not have health ;n urance. "I
thin through orne orr of
univer I y tern, you can get
that co t hifting under control,"
he id.
hurt if they w r orced to pro­
vide health are they could not
fford. He ugge t plan that
h ingle payer, li e the pI n
in effect in Ontario, might be
more f vorable nd could co t
le for employer th n tate­
mand t d mployee- ponsored
program. In Ontario, the
province provide health in-
urance to everyone nd i th
provin c ' only health in urer.
Pratt aid mall bu ine es
would prefer incentives in tead
of the tate-m nd ted health
care. "Mo t of th m ( mall busi-
don't of r he lth
ion,
L -z-
Boy Chair Co. thin that
he lth c re y tern where
employee do not p y could pell
trouble for hi comp ny.
Gene B i ly, m n ger of
employee benefi ts for the Mon­
roe-b ed firm, s id that mo t
re pon ible employer believe
they have mor I oblig tion to
ociety and would have to sup­
port the expan ion of acces-
ibili ty to health care t de r e.
B ily aid, though. that agree­
ment from the bu ine s com­
munity on universal health care
a different tory.
"I think that mo t of u .. .in
all along ethnic line has created
the division among Blacks.
Hani related the history of
killing off the true leadership of
the peo p le and buying off
leaders to work wi th the apart­
heid regime all contrib,uted to
the divisions and mistrust in the
society.
He told of how men are ent
off to bachelor quarters ringe
with barbed wire and treated a
animals.
HE TOLD how all of udden
there is a new organization, one
th'e government much prefer to
talk to, the Incata. "never een in
the arena of truggle" financed
by the government. This leader­
ship opposes violence again t
apartheid, but find it okay to
use violence against the ANC.
The whole focus of the
western pre s on the Black-on­
Black violence i part of the
South African government'
public relation campaign. Hani
aid.
"They have no political olu­
tion to apartheid," Hani said.
The ANC and the people's strug­
gle brought the deKlerk regime
to the table for talk .
"There i It mi. conception
BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICS! - baron Pratt Dixon, center, Mayor of Wasbington, DC, a
the main peaker for the recent 14tb Annual Dinner of the joint Center for Political and Economic
Studies in Wasbington tbat wa termed a .. Salute to Black Women in Politics." Witb tbe mayor_
are, from left, ddie N. Willi m , Pre ident of the Joint enter, Pbil Davi , Vice Pre ident, "tate
Government Affiair , Kraft General Food , Allene Robert, Manager, Public Program, Pbilip
Morri Companie Inc. and Wanda Hopkin, peclall t, Public Program, Pbilip Morri'
Companle Inc. Pbilip Morri and Its.operatlng companies are corporate upporters of tbe joint
Center, a non-profit, no-partl an organization tbat provide re earcb and analy I on the politic
and economic of African Americans. joint Center re earcb bas revealed tbat the fir t·
kno a-Black woman to bold elected office in tbe U.S. wa Mr. . Howard Harper, a member of
West Virginia' tate legislature in 1920. ome 1,950 Black women beld elected office In 1990.
Tbls was about 26 percent of the tot I number of Black elected official (7,400) t tbe time.
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': ... ; ·Maurice· Cattet;·:w· s
: arr este d in'· JanUary,
t97S fOJJ� the shoo ing .
two years earlier of then
Benton Harbor Detec ..
tivt .Tho.ma .Schadler.
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"; Carter to ';'the shooti�g�'
Then: a' £ront page pic­
ture of Carte..: in c.us�
tody. �t the police sta ..
tion ass'sted ehadlet
and hiS wife in pie ing
him out of line up.
Add • n a raei�l climate
of fear to fuel the need
to find the Blae man
who shot a white -officer
in facia 1y changing
city,
In conjunction wi h a
1 'two-par story it ired
on Maurice Calter in
1984, Cable New et·
wQr (C N) ad�
min· tered three 'lie'
detector te ts wb' ch
verified Carter- claim.
of innocence.
!
LAN ING - When peopl ho
have medic I in ur nee go to the
doctor' offi ,th Y don t u u 1-
ly worry if they will b Ie to
pay for th doctor' bill b c u
a health in urance u ually P y
good amount of th bill.
But wh t if that per on didn't
have m di I in uran e? How
would they pay for their family'
he lth bill?
Figure ugge t on million
Mi higani n Ia c thi in-
security.
There have been call nation ..
wide for orne kind of nation­
wide health care y tern to take
care of many unirr ured
American. In Michigan, there
ha been talk of health care for
all, something that is welcomed
by some, but not by other .
A legi lative aide to tate
Rep. David Hollister, D-Lans­
ing think universal health care
Hani
continued from Page 1
ders happen. 'He told of inci­
dents where the people a ked the
police to be on guard, knowing
that violence wa threatened,
yet the police never howed.
Hani said the ANC had sent
President de Klerk a letter out­
lining step fo r s topping the
violence and gave deKlerk until
May 9 to respond, "otherwise we
shall pull out of negotiation ."
THE ANC Ii ted these tep
for the government to take: top
the carrying of weapon; arre t
officers identified by witnesse
as being part of the violence or
doing nothing to ·top it; di band
the "armies () the night", tho e
thugs hired hy the force of
aparthied to kill agitator; and
appoint an imparti I comf!littee
to supervi c the implementation
of these tep .
Hani dealt at length with the
background to the Black-on­
Black violence howing it roots
in the divide and conquer tactic
of the racist government.
He said the creation of the
eparate "homelands" to which
each separate ethnic group i
relag ted, the creation of
eparate choo) and institutions
there i a messiah in the name of
deKlerk who has undergone a
change of heart," Hani said.
Western media has conveyed the
impre sion de Klerk is
reasonable and ready to talk.
"Many feel he should be
rewarded."
The need for de Klerk to talk
came about becau e of many
years of acrifice. "Many. have
died, lanquished in pri on, gone
into exile," Hani aid. South
Africa crossed border, bombed
the exiles in other countries,
"they killed us."
"APARTH JIB remain a
'y tern only bccau c of upprc -
ion by gun and pri on." Hani
aid. "Their doctrine i in disar­
ray."
By portraying the ANC as
weak and unable to top the
violence the government hope
to undermine ANC poopularity.
The ruling cia and the
"loyal press" have dubbed it
Bl ck-on Black-violence, while
ignoring the "ferociou
violence" over the year against
the Bl ck community. It i' a
choru picked up by the we tern
pre .
bu ine re ener Ily pect 0
overnment-run program , th t
th re typic Ily i hi h de
of inefficiency in tho e kind of
thing," he aid.
B ily would like to ee a pi n
th t employer would have to
provide minimum benefit .
He believe if the t te en­
do ed ort of "C dillac" pi n
th t would cover everything, it
would hurt La-Z-Boy.
B ily aid if there were
gram where the employee
not h ve to p y it could
doom. "We could have di ter
on our hands," he sid.
Baily said if employee do not
have to pay, they will not m e
co t-efficient decisions. Co t­
management ould belp
employee m ke an efficient
choi ce w hi ch, according to
Baily, would theoretic By lower
the 'Cost of health care.
Court to hear
Mi I Ippl
egregatlon
ca e
The Supreme Court ha
agreed to decide whether public
universitie in Missi ippi
remain unconstitutionally
egregated.
The Bush administration i
allied wi th Black parents on this
case and argues that Mi si ippi
hould dismantle a system in
which nearly all white student
continue to attend five bistori­
c lly. wbi r niver iti , \lile
m , t �.\ac� enr.� �n ,\hree
traditionally Black school .
WWI oldler receive
Medal po thumou Iy
Cpl. Freddie Stower ,
received the Medal of Honor
po thumou Iy April 24, from
Pre ident Bush in ceremonie
at the White House for the lain
heroes' isters.
Stowers, of Sandy Spring,
S.C., was killed in France on
Sept. 28, 1918 as he led his com­
pany in a charge to. take a Oer­
man-held hill.
At lea t 40 percent of
Stowers' roughly 200-man com­
pany died in the effort, accord­
ing to Army records.
The award come follo ... ing a
three-year review by the Army
into citation records of Black
veteran after historian Leroy
Ramsey publicjz� the fact that
none of the 1.5 million Black
who served in the world wars
had received the Medal of
Honor.
IRS worker target
agency for
"Rampant Rael m·
GAO Inve.tlgatlon .
R que.t d
WASHINGTON. D.C.-Three
pre ent and former Internal
Revenue Service employees,
charged top IRS management
with "rampant racism" today, as­
king Senator John Oleen (D-Oh)
to target the agency for � " wift
and thorough inve tigation" by
the ongoi ng gove rnment-w ide
GAO urvey on racial di -
crimination.
The three employee inde-'
pendently took their ca e to the
Nati9nal Coalition of IRS
Whi tleblower , establi hed by
the Church of Scientology'
FREEDOM MagaZine, after at­
tempt to handle the problem
were met with "superfici 1 and
inadequate" r pon e from the
agency.
The African-American are
Marion Mixon, a current IRS
employee from Jackson Mis is­
Sippi, Stephanie Patter on, a
former employee who until
recently worked for the IRS in
Indi n poli , Indiana and Jame
Cox, a former Equal Employ­
ment Opportunity Coun elor
who worked in the Norfolk, Vir­
gina IRS Office.