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STATE AND NATION
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op oni r,
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B I ac A ric an Ito
, ceo pallied Peary to tlte
1Iorth pole. alld fir t to
et foot Oil the exact pot?
JU E 17, 1775 -
Itt r I
fou ht the Battle of
Bun er Hill. 1 71 Ja
Ido Jo 0, uthor
of BI ck national anthem
Lift Every Voice and Sin ,
born.
Who was the first ever
to et "the blue," into
m" ical core?
JUNE 18, 1889 - W.R. 0
Ie rd 0 p tents
children' carriage. 1918
Gardiner T ylor,
Cler y a, w born.
Were Black
Africall-Americall
forebears mostly
Christian ?
JUNE 19, 1968 -
Solidarity nay March or
Poor People' Campa. n
in W hington, D.C. 1909
:- - J 0 ep V. T 0 a jazz
saxophoni t, w m.
What famous New
Ellglalld family made a
fortune in the slave trau
and textlles?
JUNE 20, 1926 -
" . Mordecai Jo DSO wa
elected first Blac
pre ident of Howard
I University. 1858
Charle W. Che nutt,
, novelist, wa born. 1946
. - Andre Watt , piani t,
I • wa born.
How many Blacks
served in the US congress ....
between 1891 and 1945?
JUNE 21, 1945 - Col.
B.O. Davis, Jr. was
appointed to head a U.S.
,Air Force ba e. 1832 -
Joseph H. Rainey, US
congres man, was born.
111 1968, what was the
percentage of Black
physicians in the US?
JUNE 22, 1772 - ord
Man fteld issued
• S 0 mer set ' d e-c i ion,
aboli hing s lave ry in
England. 1937 - Joe
Loul received the world
Heavyweight title at
, Comi key Park defeating
James J. Braddock. 1949
- Heavyweight' boxer
Ezz rd Charle won hi
first title bout against
Jer ey Joe Wolcott. 1923
- Ella John on, jazz
singer, was born.
Which West Indian-born
. boxer was lenown as "Blacle
Prince Peter" and was
never an American
champion?
ANSWERS TO BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
16th Ma tthew
Henson, 1902, as Adm.
Peary'�valet and aid. Each
fathered' at least one child
while there.
17th - W.C. Handy,
circa 1912.
18th - Most were
Moslem or pagan.
19th - The Brown
(University) family:
Moses, Nicholas, Joseph
and 'John. Moses became a
Quaker and gave up slave
buying. ,
20th - Six. C.heatham
(NC), Murray (NC), white
(NC) DePriest (IL),
Mitchell (IL), and Dawson,
., (IL).
, , 2Ith - About 6% of the
total. Blacks represent
about 10% of the
population.
22th - Peter Jackson,
1881-1901, West Indian
, born, raised in Australia,
. and known as "Black
Prince Peter".
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�'Misp�aced
: .. rioritie ?
. One B-2 bomber co t $860
million; the U.S. is planning to
build 15 thi year, while provid­
ing $800 million in development
aid to sub-Saharan Africa.­
Bread for the World
c
Dr. Jo n en
tori n and prof
IpO e about hi
tlon: ·C,. fric,.
Th elve?"
Hi remar s
o troit Sunday, y 1 , at t
fint annual banquet for Dr.
Yo ef A.A. ben-Jochann n spon­
by AI ebul n, Ine., eld in
the Hall of atlon of t e Inter­
n tional I titute.
·This important que tion i
one African people m t decide
themselves. Addre in more
than individu ltsm, it reache
for collective olulion. Ho
they ee them elv ,ho they
accept what they ee and hat
they now about them etve ill
determine their ill and action:
he aid.
·We and no other people can
ave themselve ithout goin
within and !indin somethin
they value enough tOt fight for
and die for. We h ve got to take
a long 100 in the mirror and
remain there until e like hat
we ee."
• UROPE'S 0 SLAUGHT
of Afric tarted in 15 AD.
o Afric n lavery and coloniza-
J
dge
sees
econd
UTILE ROC ,ARIC. - One of
the architects of the 1954 Brown
v Board of Education Supreme
Court deci ion, Feder 1 Judge
Robert L. Carter, aid on Satur­
day, May 11th, that the decision
did not produce equal education
opportunities and still remaining
is the task of securing meaning-,
ful integration in the nation'
schools.
"We thought we won the bat­
tle with Brown, and that by dis­
mantling the dual school system,
equal educational opportuni ties
would CODle. We know now tba t
i not true.
"The Association now has to
reach the second phase, which is
meaningful integration. By tbat,
I mean the exposure of Black
children fully to all available
educational opportunities on the
same basis as that accorded
white children.
Judge Carter was the final
speaker at the conference Which
tbe NAACP designated as the
"Daisy Bates Educational
Summit', in honor of Mrs. Bates
who was a pivotal figure, more
than 30 years ago, in the integra­
tion of Little Rock' Central
High School.
In addition to the broad i sues
of desegregation, the Summi t
also covered uch areas as track­
ing, curricula, uspensions and
expulsion , African-American
acbeJ' ho , vouche plans
and Black maJe school .
"WE PLAN TO publish a
number of the important papers
tha t were presented at the Sum­
mit, along with our own posi­
tions, in the near future," Dennis
Courtland Hayes, the NAACP's
General Counsel, said.
In assessing the summit,. Dr.
William F. Gibson, Chairman of
the NAACP' National Board of
Directors, said:
Thi conference has given us
an opportunity to hear ideas,
concepts and program activities
from education professionals,
academicians, attorneys and
,NAACP debates
integration pro and cons
. UTTLE ROCK, ARIC. - Arthur
Fletcher, Chairman of tbe U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, and
Derrick Be, d Professor of
Law at Harva'rd University,
presented pro and con arguments
in a session at the recent NAACP
Daisy Bates Education Summit
in Little Rock. Entitled "Is
School Desegregation Still
Feasible?" The session was
moderated by Washington, D.C.
journalist Jos_eph ,Madison.
Presenting the pro side of the
debate, Fletcher strongly backed
the NAACP's eff()rts to
desegregate the nation's 'schools
and asserted that desegregation
remains an important issue
today, and the types of efforts
and actions that brought about
the Brown decision need to be
maintained.
Presenting the other side of
the �ebate, Professor Bell said
wbat needs to be looked at and
examined is the larger and more
curr�nt picture into which school
desegregation fits.
While he was not openly criti­
cal of the means the NAACP
used in order to achieve tbe 1954
landmark decision, Profes or
Bell aid the continuing fight for
educ�tional fairne and eqw ty
need to be examined and dis­
cussed in tbe context of the
nation's continued idea of racial
suppression. Professor Bell said
white society is willing to make
whatever sacrifices necessary in
order to maintain a strategy that
will thwart the racial progress of
Blacks. He also suggested that
the NAACP should have done
more strategic planning when it
was working to bring about the
1954 decision.
"Today we recognize a ,we
didn't then that racism is en­
demic and a critically important
tabilizer for this country," he
said.
AT A THE Friday night ban­
quet, Ernest Green, one f the
original members of tbe Little
Rock Nine" - the Black stu­
dents who, integrated Little
Rock's Central High School -
called the present educational
crisis in America "both a per­
sonal and a societal crisis."
Mr. Green expressed di -
couragement at the current statu
of education of Blacks and said
today's Black students do not
view education serioully or
recognize fully the merits of not
having to be educated in separate
school systems.
D CLA contend that In
the Ion ab ence from power,
t e methodology for obtalnin
and maintainin pow .. �.....w�m
e African'. memory.
"That me n that Black
people must reach back to un­
derstand their role in the hi tory .
of mankind 0 they will under­
stand where they are pre enny,
Once they learn to identify
themselves itb the things of
the world, they will be able to
look at them elves qu rely, to
kno pecifically what respon­
sibilie re nece sary in protect­
ing, upporting and giving to
those ende vors that build na­
tion onscio Clark
tated.
[ricans cr at d th world' old
c ltur and hav a conflict
believtng that truth and ho 0
001/0 lib atio
ovemment.
He lleve the ra menta-
tion of BI c movement tod y
In and outside Afric i due to
ot ItiC In to ether whole.
·We h ve to be accountable to
one another in buildin
Itrate les for "n lion structure."
On re on 0 m ny effort
are th arted and remain depend­
ent upon or continue to imit te
Buropean protype, i not
havin a cone ive pi n of c­
tlon. Acting on impul e and
sentiment is d ngerou! Black
people ri ht n�w re politically
naive b ed on p st and present
alliancel. Too often they have
been ho pi table to the invader.
We need to crutinize people
before favoring them nd if they
are not dependable ... don't
favor them. Iran lliance can be
broken without your consent,
then it is not an alliance.
Genuine amance il based on
collective agreement."
CLA ENVISIONS
unification of Pan-Africanism
and Black Nationalism into an
African orld network. "If they
Brown, Judge Carter served as
the NAACP's Assistant Special
Counsel and later a its General
Coupsel before being appointed
to the Federal Bench in 1972.
"There is evidence and data to
indicate poor Black children
from disadvantaged neighbor­
hoods can still succeed in
school, and that educators are
denying our children effective
curricula offering - putting
earth."
Are African ready for alva-
tioll? :
·Some re t in the intro-
pectlve 1 they need to men-
tally love them etve .
Chri ti nlly i not goin to bring
it, I lam on't either. Bl ck
people cquainted ith Islam
re Ar b or hiping. The
African who re facing them-
e lve are reclaimin true
Afric n v lue nd ptrttual­
ne , learning bout their cul­
ture and hi tory nd readying
them elve to be of ervice in an
Afrocentric environment. Their
confidence in them elve will
ay "we h ve changed the world
before, we can do it gain." .
"When Bl ck men and women
have the inner pirituality th y
need to be free, they will knoW
that each generation claims,
ecures and potects its 0 n
freedom," Clark concluded. •
base in Desegregation
Africa
tarve
, .
NAACP le ders that can go into
the development of policy po i­
tions that the Board of D'rectors,
with input from staff, can
develop for the Association, both
for immediate action and long­
range planning.·
As counsel for the NAACP in
the Brown case; Judge Carter
brought a first band perspective,
to hil closing remu about the
tatus of des regauon, After
them in tracks where they wiu
not be exposed to equal educa-
tion," he declared. :
•
ON THE SUBJECT of all­
Black schools that have be�
proposed by everal sourcej ,
Judge Carter aid:
"My feeling is this is just :a
gimmick and we are beiQ
seduced. We are going to have
reject that."
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