VIEWS OPINIONS ..--:- What do Leroy Carr, Mer- line Johnson ("the Yas Yas Girl") and Tampa Red have in com­ mon? In w ich state of the US is it believed there is only one AME church? NOVEMijER 6, 1946 - JeweU K. n, educator, was born. 19 - Coleman y 0WlI was elected mayor of Detroit. What was the important in­ vention of Lewis Temple? - NOVEMBER 7, 1746 - bsalomJo , founder, BI ck Episcopal Church, w born. 1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist, died. 1989 - David Dlnldns was elected first BI ck Mayor of New York, .Y. Which Black American na­ val hero shot down four or five Japanese Zeros during World : War II? NOVEMBER 8, 1914 - � T.Johl18On, educator, was born. 1966 - Edward W. Brooke became the first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruc- tion. . Who was the first Black professor to teach at the Bar- .. vard Medical School? NOVEMBER 9, 1731 Benjamin Banneker, scientist, wasbom. the first Black pitcher in the major leagues to get a !W­ hitter? ANSWERS TO SLACK HISTORY QUESTIONS , 3rd - Tree branches with forked ends which held together . �ve'slaves by the neck. Later, coffies werre simply metal chains which served the same purpose. 4th - All were very popu­ I .. blues singers in the 1930s. 5th - Vermont. r 611- Louis temple invented speci . harpoons for ecuring the catc of whales. 7th - Dorie Miller, a mess­ man aboard the Arizona at Pearl Harbor. He later went down with the Liscombe Bay - still 'a rnessman. 8th - Dr. William A. Hin- ton. 9th - Sam "Toothpick" Jones of the Chicago Cub ,May 17, 1955. Send all news and information to: Michigan Citizen P.O. Box 03560 Highland Park, MI 48203 Or Call 869-0033 n gotia- xist re­ into th Blacks, Uni . By NORMAN HILL Much has been made ct the chang­ ing nature of the American wotface and population over the coming en to one hundred years. Perhaps too much, because the unstated implica­ tionoften is that all American Blacks need to do is sit b ck and w it for the numbers to be in our favor, and vic­ tory (r cial equality and the end of de facto greg lion and economic hardship) will be ours. The question i , however, not one merely of numbers. but one of power. While the majority of new entrants into the AmErican workface by the year 2000 will be minority and female, we must also pre­ cisely what arts of jobs, wages, working conditions and bargaining power. will those minorities and women have in those new jobs? ennore, while the non-white population of the U.S., given current birth rates, could well surpass the white population by the year 2080, e must ask in what sort of society, nomy. and world will we inherit such electoral and political influ­ ence? Continued pot.izalioo d the-races in America's society and economy will never be in the interests of American Blacks, no m tter how numerous we are, because of how power is distributed currently. The best, if not the only 'way to chanse the cUrrent distribution of economic and political power in America is fbr us to build a multi racial coalition that will have ts core the alliance between the Ameri­ can labor movement and the Black community . iv of waiting for gnfitti­ �& '-'Wo 611hy trains in wine-s1erICJlE� ( WE'QE �OLD'N6 JUDGE nlOMA\S vP It) AN UNFf,.1 STA.N��D. �SHOULDBLACKSc.e .about unions, and why hould un­ ions care about Blacks? Much of our e.lier history, and even present-day experience, seems to imply that our interests collide: competition over scarce jobs, seniority ystems, the .J Dr. Monnin Marabl is Profi - or of Political Scienc History, University of Colorado, Build r. "Along the Color Li "app rs in over 200 publicatio internation­ allY, and is broadcast over radio sta­ tions throughout the United State. . • 1 WoNDER If: TllE SA� TEST , OF S£)(.VAL. WA.RASS�T WERE A�PLIEO it) -mE. Sf.N,\TORS tiERE, HOW MA\NV WOClL.D PASS. � / ns, and America' fu ur of Blacks 1riIcebre ers, rac- ist union constitutions, te. We must are served by the hard-hat, blue-collar, r . t white union ranIc-and-file. The fact is that Blacks dispropor­ tionately benefit from strong unions, and that the union movement needs BI in order to have a strong future. Ever ince the I gely suc­ cessful activism c:l Black labor A. Phillip Randolph and his efforts to de gregate the American labor CONVER L Y, Blacks offer a movement, lab