This Week In
Biack History
Name the fir t per on
contr ted to perfor 010
ill in role at the
Metropolitian Opera
As ociasio
Which Black churchman
co iled a hymn boo and
wrote catechisms?
AUGUST 21, 1904
.- .. �-� lIIam 'Count' Ba Ie,
orebe tra leader, w born.
Which wa the first
Mil-Black cosmetics company
, to have an interracial tr�
how?
AUGUST 22, 1839 -
Be Ja in . Lundy,
· colonizationi t and
, abolitioni t, died. 1934 -
DI 0 S od actre s, was
born.
Who was the first draftee in
World War I?
AUGUST 23, 1892 -
O.E. Browo patents
horseshoe. 1928 - GU
C planist, w born.
Several "diseases" were
created lor slaves by a
· slave-owning physicima. What
were these If diseases ?"
AUGUST 24, 1950 -
Jud Edith Sampson named
first BI ck alternate delegate
to the United Nations. 1909-
Paul Webster, saxophonist,
was born.
Who is the Black who was
a world class bicycle rilkr and
racer?
" ANSWERS W BLACK
HISTORY QUESTIONS
18th - The (James)
Beckwourth Pass is in the
Sierra-Nevada mountains, and
is near the Nevada-California
state lines.
19tb - Robert McFerrin�
baritone. Father of Bobby'
McFerrin. Marian Anderson,
sang first however, out of
courtesy, in The Maske Ball.
lOth - Henry M. T mer.
21st - Clairol.
22nd - Black
Pinkney, erial number 258,
Order No.1, on August 2,
1917.
23rd - "Drapetomania,"
and "Dysaethesia
Aethiopica," Diseases created
by white slave-owner Dr.
Samuel Cartwright, circa
1851.
24tb - Marshall "Major"
Roberts, dubbed "The Black
Cyclone," and beating all
before him. He ometimes
"showed out" by smiling a lot,
taunting his white
competitors, and quoting
Biblical scriptures in the
process.
DID YOU KNOW
: Sudan was a U.S. ally from
:1979 to 1988, primarily because
f its proximity to hipping
lanes. In 1984, it was the third
Jarge t recipient of U.S. as i -
'tance (only Israel and Egypt
'received more). Recently, the
:U.S. ha withheld aid to the
�Sudanese government because
'of human rights violations and
.Sudan's improving relationship
-with Iraq and Libya. Last year,
,S udan 's government ent
:300,000 tongs of grain to Libya
,and Iraq in exchange for arms.
-Sudan shipped food to Iraq after
:the United Nations' embargo
:was imposed.
STATE AND NATION
o
courage 0 the South
a deeply op-
,..,....'r�"TY .. ::o'n'�·O the Pre Release cal on the U.S.
government and other govemmen to recognize that the
struggle gainst partbeid cannot be 'd to be truly won until
legal reforms re promulgated to i ue into a fum and equal
consti tution for all South Africans, regard) of race or color.
Finally, the Press Release says,"Th lifting of nctio
by the United States government. .. provide a trong incentive
"
have not."
The even-day march began Sun
day in Bridgeport, which has become
a symbol of the economic plight of
Am rica's cities.
Connecticut's largest ci ty,
bui
freed m, in in
th ir re olve nd
vi i) nee until th , !
go I 0 j tice,
equality
democr cy, b ed on one-m n-one-vet ere fj lly
hieved in South Africa.
To thi end, the OAU ad-hoc commit on So
, Africa would meet oon in Abuj to co . der the
propri te y 0 upport the tru e in
cumstanees.
pi te President B h' lifting of the ecolDOlDi UlDCIllODl
gainst South Africa, and that country' return to
Games fold, the time-long truggle gainst IPIIi1DCJ
tinue with vim and verve nd determination .
outside South Africa, and around the world. It will
the dcmi e of apartheid ....
, ,
Bridgeport unsucces fully ought
bankruptcy court protection this
summer. The march w to travel
through orth Haven and Wal
lingford today.
Jackson, a two-time Democratic
presid ntial candidate, is using the
march to appeal for a change in what
he calls the national economic equa
tion.
Throughout the march, he is
repeating the me sage that if the
of 1991.
First Fidelity spokesman Paul
Levine said Sharpton's request was
forwarded to bank officers. He also
aid that in August 1990, federal
bank regulators gave First Fidelity a
satisfactory rating, or a two, on its
efforts to reinve t funds into the
community.
The rating is based on a scale of
one to four, he said.
Sharpton was accompanied at a
news conference outlide Fir t
Fideli ty by Sharon Mayse, the
mother of pregnant 17-year-old
Tasba Mayse, shot and killed in a
stolen van after being chased by
police this year.
"If Ta ha Mayse had a
playground to go to, maybe it
wouldn't have happened," Sharpton
said. If bank officials will not meet
with him and agree to pump money
into the community, Sharpton said,
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEWARK, N.J, (AP) _ The Rev.
AI Sharpton is warning First Fideli ty
Bancorp. that he will organize a
boycott against the bank if it fails to
grant him a meeting and provide
details abou� community inve t
ments.
The Black activist said Tuesday
that First Fidelity is obligated to
return some of the money it earns to
the community. '
The bank lost more than $6 mil
lion in 1990. It rebounded to earn
$108 miJlion in the first six months
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CJ Y r 01
N W HAVEN, CODD. (AP) _
Hundred of marchers joined the
Rev. Jesse Jackson on th econd day
of a 54-mile march through Connec
ticut aimed at getting the federal
government to focus its attention on
America's unmet social needs.
The marchers covered 12 miles
on Monday, traveling from Milford
up through 'WI t Haven to the city of
New Haven, where they were joined
by about 1. more supporters at a
rally on the ew Haven Green.
At th rally Jackson focused on
cbool spending, telling supporters it
w immoral and illegal that the
weal thie t uburban towns in the
tate pend about twice as much a
pupil as the poore t cities.
"Why should these children be
persecuted this way and condemned
to failure and early death and jail?"
Jackson asked. "We're not talking
about less for those who have. We're
talking about equali ty for those who
Sharpton warns of bank- boycott if he doesn't get answers
BY TODD RICHlSSIN
OPERATION PUSH NATIONAL CONVENTION - Indlanapol
Mayor' BIU Hudout (left), welcomed omcl of Operation PUSH to tbe
city for Its national convention. PUSH, tbe Cblca o-ba d clvll-rt b
group founded by The Rev. Je Jackson, beld I convendon t the
Indianapolis Hoosier Dome and Convention Center In conJuncdon wltb
the Indl na Black Expo. Shown Ith Mayor Hudnut are Rev. J c n,
District of Columbl Sh dow enator; PUSH B rd Chairman Rev. '
WilUe Barrow, and PUSH Pre ldent, Rev. Chari WIlU on.
United State can pend huge
amounts isting foreign countries
and bailing out failed fiDaocial in
stitutions, it can bail out the nation'
cites.
The march' to end Saturday in
Hartford, the tate capital.
be will lead his followers to the
"next stage. " Asked ifbc talking
about a boycott, be replied: "Tbat's
what I'm talking about."
Bank official need to aDlwcr
whether they are red1inina -rcrus-'
ing to do business with people living:
in deteriorating neigbbo hoods -'
and how much money .
invest with First Fidelity, Sbalpton:
said. '
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Over 50% of II deaths among African-Americans lire caused by Sin king related diseuses,
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