lIy
Edwards.
lightly.
The r ce leaves Roemer
b ckers in . quandary. Do they
support Duke. a m verick Re­
publican with a hi tory as a Klan
. le der' and neo-Nazi sympa­
thizer? Or do they go with
Edwards a liberal Democrat woo;,
left th tate n Iy billi n in
d bi after thr t rm gover­
nor and remains tainted despite
acquittal on rackete ring
charges?
Both candidate tried to
downplay their pasts in the de­
bate.
"The thing that' affected me
more than anything else ... is my
relationship with Christ." Duke
said when asked why he has
backed off racist remarks made
during his Klan days.
Edwards said he was very
concerned about leaving a bet­
ter record for historians. "I'm
now 64. I'm more mature. a wiser
man."
Duke. 41, claimed Edwards
is waging a racial campaign.
"He's gone to the black commu­
nity and said 'Vote fot me be- .
cause of who I am. what I stand
for," puke said.
Edwards snapped. "What
should I say. that they should
vote for me, for who you are? I
, think they'll probably vote for
: anybody because of who you
. are."
I
: Jesse Jackson
: promotes
: school levy.
• CINCINNATI (AP) - A city
: school levy proposal teceived a
: boost from the Rev. Jesse Jack-
son on the eve of the election.
The former Democratic
presidential candidate urged
· residents Monday to support the
: levy to bailout the city's finan
: cially trapped system. .
He aid the nation must edu­
cate its children better if it is to
compete with other countries.
"America's economic security
· is tied in with its commitment to
educating its children," he told
I about 300 people.
"The world will be controlled
by those whose minds are most
developed. "
Healsosaidth n tionneeds
to spend more on its chools,
"We spend I and get less."
he said. "You can either fund for
Yaleorjail. Buildingjails while
closing schools' immoral. "
WORLD AND NATION
2000".
ti
ingth n N ional Commis ion on'
Afric American Educ ion formed
during th r cent Congr s ional
Bl c C u legisl tive weekend.
DR. WaBERT J. LEMELLE,
P president of th Phelps-Sto
Fund is Commission chairman and
Dr. Elias Blake, president of the
Benjamin E. M ys National Educa­
tional Resource Center. Inc., is vice-
- All children in Am . will
art hool ready to learn.
- At least 90% of high 001
studen will graduate.
- Students hould demons1rate
competency in such subjects En­
glish. m th, science, history and ge­
ography.
- U.S. students will be first in
the world in science and math
-Duetot
off andCUU)8CICS AmenallllS1:udE!:Ilts
falling
- U.S. studen rank behind stu­
dents in J apin, Korea, the Uni
Kingdom, C ada and Spain in m th
and science.
- Only 10% of individuals with
literacy problems ed by the
Adult Education Act and volunteer
literacy movements promoted by
Barbara Bush serve only 200,000 of
the 30 million, functionally illiter-
id th commi ion
THE COMMI�O equally
deplores the fact that there is no
alternative to "America 2000" being
offered by a congress controlled by
Democr ts.
ates. "While e pplaud individual
- Three to eight percent of high pieces of legislation such the Ur-
Duri.n& a reeent meetinK at the
United Nations. Rev nd Leon
H. Sulllvan (center) debt
relief for ub-Saharan Atrian
eountri with Secretary Gene ....
Javier Peru de Cuellar &eeond
from left). They agreed that the
United Natio ould ebserve a
day devoted to Africa hieb will
foe on the debt eo 1bis spe­
cial on held on Odober
28,1991. AlIopraentatthemeet-
ere: Honorable I Diallo,
Special Assistant to the Secretary
General and Executive Secretary
of the Economic Colllllll.lon for
Africa; Mrs. Leon (Once) Sullivan
&eeond from rI&ht); and Dr. C.T.
Wright, Executive Director of
IFESH (far rIpt).
AKA memorial a Pearl
Harbor' honors Dorle Mill r
Visitors trekking to Hawaii
December 7 for the 50th com­
memoration of the attack OR Pearl
Harbor will be able to vj� the
first non-military-sponsored Pearl
Harbor memorial to a Black ser­
viceman, a bronze cast plate of
World War II hero Dorie Miller.
The plate, mounted on a 5-ft.
lava base, is located at the entrance
of Miller Park, a Naval housing
installation which the Navy dedi­
cated in 1989 in honor of Miller, a
Black mess attendant who brought
down four Japanese planes during
the December 7, 1941 attack.
The memorial, commissioned by
Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) as the.
first in its Black Faces in Public
Places series, was Unveiled Oct. 11
by AKA Intetnational president Mrs.
Mary Shy Scott of Atlanta, Ga., who
saluted Miller for his "extraordi­
nary gallantry" aboard the USS
West Virginia.
Other speakers, including Rear
Admiral William Earner, Pearl
Harbor Naval Base commander,
also praised Miller's bravery. "He
disregarded his own personal
safety for the sake of his country,"
Adm. Earner said.
WORLD WAR II TRIBUTE - Among th jolnin AKA international p dent Mary ry Scott and
Pearl Harbor commander Rear Admiral William Earner (next to memorial) for the unve1lin&otthe Dorie
Miller Monument ere O-r): Dr. Gloria Smith, Job Corps chainnan, E. Lansln MI.; Dr. Bella Parker.'
International regional �rector, Ann Arbor, MI.; Dr. Ev L. Evans, tint vice president, Lansl MI.;
Mrs. ott, tlanta,Ga.; Adm. Eamer; Dr. PhyllisRobl n.GreatLakesregionaldlreetor,Detroit,MI.;
. Mrs. Dori Osborne, Corporate Liaison chairman. Colom Oh.; and Dr. Pamela Redden, Program
committee member, Clev and, Oh.
African-Ameri'can- .
heritage explored
By CAITLIN O'NIEL
Special to Michigan Citizen
Canbrid .MA-OneofAmeric 's
oldest cities, renowned for its role in
the Revolution and in education, has
begun an intensive search for its Af­
rican-American roots.
The Cambridge African Ameri­
can History Project, spearheaded. by
Cambridge Discovery, the city's tour­
ist and resident information service,
and the Cambridge Historical Com­
mission, is searching nationwide for
wormation on historical sites and
people, photographs, letters, and any­
thing that will help document the
African�canexperieocein Cam­
bridge.
THE PROJECT was launched
in July by a $10,000 grant from the
Lotus Foundation. The first task is to
ider:ttify, analyze and preserve the
historical sources and sites. Once
this is accomplished, the two newly­
hired researchers will generate an
outline of . Cambridge's African
American history.
This information will be com­
piled into teacher packets for the
Cambridge Public Schools and
schools visiting Cambridge from
other communities.
Cambridge Discovery will also
produce an interactive walking tour
and the Historical Commission will
. hang site markers. Then, dults and
children, visitors and citizens, will
"discover" the neglected contribu­
tions of African Americans that
helped to shape their neighborhoods,
their city, and their nation.
IN 1620, the Pilgrims voyaged to
America. Just 11 y later, thelnt
Blacks settled Cambridge and began
a historical tradition that h , U(ltil
now, been largely ignored.
Most children and adults, Black
and white alike, are unaware th t
W.E.B. DuBois, founder o! the Na­
tional Association of the Advance­
ment of Colored People, once 'lived
here. Or that Charlotte Hawkins
Brown, who founded the first �fri­
can-American prep school, WIS" •
nl!live. OrthattheCambridgebranch .
of the Underground Railroad Iuw'­
bored slaves, gave them jobs, Md
helped them over the border into
Canada.
According to Vice Mayor Ken­
neth Reeves, the trail will also eluci­
date the present and inform the fu- .
ture. ,iKids can be psychologically
helped if they know they are a 1*1 of
a long, significant, historicaltradi- .
tion," said Reeves. "A kid living in .
the Riverside cornmunity mipt ben­
efit from knowing that DuBois lived
nearby.Itmightgivehimrnorepide I
in himself and his neighborhood."
PEOPLE WITH information •
should contact the Cambridge Afri- I •
can-American History Project, c/o
Cambridge Historical Commission,
57 Inman Street, Cambridge MA,
02139. (617) 349-4683. The Com- f
mission will duplicate materials if
owners wish to keep their originals. �
outh African strike'
JOHANNESBURG, Souch Africa (AP)
- Here is a brief look at the issues
behind the strike by black workers in
South Africa:
Organizers -The African Na­
tional Congress, the leading black
opposition movement, and the allied
Congress of South African Tr de
Unions, the country's largest 'labor
federation, called the two-day
stayaway to protest a new tax. But
the action is part of the . go�g
political battle between the white
government and 1he black opposi­
tion.
Tax -'The govemnen.tamonth
ago imposed a 10 percent value­
added tax on almost .,.1 goods and
services, replacing a 13 percent sales
�thatexempteditems uch basic
foods. The govemmen� says the new
,
tax i$ pread more evenly across the :
nlwv..... . the
economy. _1'�It1ongroups say :
tax hurts poor blacks.
Demands - The ANC and the :
trade union movement want a role in :
fomiulating economic policy, which :
the govenunent has resisted. The :
opposition has threatened additional :
mass action if the dem ds aren't :
met.
Outlook - The s1rike w one 01 :
the most effective � by oppo- :
sition groups in recent y . How- :
ever, some businesses and all
tial -services continued to operate. :
The government and the ANC w '
to start taUcs soon on � new constitu- :
tion and neither side' likely to push :
for an extended confrontation that :
would sour relations.