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Chicago Cartoonist
exhibtts art
Ti m J ck on Chica 0 car
tooni t, will h ve his first ever
010 Chicago exhibit March 5
thru April 2 at the Carter O.
Wood 011 Regional Library.
Call (312) 747-6 9.
Oakland University
offers Wordperfect
workshops
Wordperfect basic will be
instructed in tI ew U er Ba ..
i "on Thu day . beginning
March 11 nd ending April 8 at
Oakland Universi Wordper
fe t document enhancement
work hop will be held on
Wednesday, March 10
through April 7. Both courses
will be he from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. All cl ses are hands on
and have limited enrollment
(8). Tuition ranges from $75 to
4155. For information, call
(313) 370-3120.
Amnesty International
offers fello'NShip ..
Application fo Ralph J.
Bun he fellow hlp, a pro ram •
encouraging the involvement
of people of color in the inter
national human rights move
ment, are now bcin pted.
The program begins in Septem
ber of 1993 and runs through
the end of June of 1994. Re
sponsibilities include organiz
ing communitie , coordinating
work against the death penalty,
etc. Deadline for applications
i April 15. Call (312) 427-
2060.
Music auditions
scholarships.
The music faculty of Mary
grove College announces audi
tions for music cholarship for
th 1 3-94 year. For more in
formation, cont t Sue Vander
beck at 862-8000, ext. 316.
Women's Role in
World Peace subject
for seminar
Women tole in creating
world peace and harmony will
be the topi of di cus ion at t�.
Women' Federati n for World
Peace, aturday, February 27
at 7: p.m. t the Kresge.Cen-
t r, 161 () '" hi nd Dr. For'
, rrnano n ' all 755-
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BEST CHANCE
Itch F.b. 17, 1
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ai 'dzed polic:e fo �ir
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"1 think there a police rio "
·d ha wz who filed the fedeJal
It for the Haiti ."1m umca
� city' wron oing in matter ,
and we're very p "
The July 5, 1 incident occurred
during a period ofhigh 1CnSion between '
Hai tian-Americ n and Igir.:�"IilIdt]'i�1I
Cuban-Amen in the w of an
official nub of South African BI
leader elson Mandela.
Mo t Cuban-American city
officials in the Miami area re to
honor Mande 's ··t or anem his
June 1990 speech in Miami Beach
beca the South African activist d
pr ised Fidel Castro. Mandela i
considered a hero in the Haitian
community for hi fight against
NEW Y ,(AP) - The Rev. AI
Sharpton, facing a 45�y jail term
for staging the 1987 "Day of
Outrage" pro , until next
month to appeal . case to federal
court, his attorney and the di trid
attorney' 0 ce'd may.
If the federal court reject
Sharpton' appeal, he m t return to
Brooklyn Criminal Court on Man:h 5
ben he will likely be ordered to
begin his sentence, pokcsman Pat
Clark of the Brooklyn district
attorney's office said.
Sharpton faces the sentence for his
conviction on charges lemming
from the "Day of Outrage" protests
in the city, which followed the
Howard Beach racial slaying.
"We're till in the process of
preparing federal papers to challenge
the conviction and sentence on con
stitutional grounds," said Michael
Hardy. Sharpton's attorney and chief
of staff.
" The community activist was
forced into federal court by a Coun of
Appeals ruling that the state's highest .
panel would not hear an appeal of his
ALSHARPTON
While the protest disrupted nsh
hour traffic, it was non-violent and
resulted in no injuries.
MaWAUKEE(AP)-An utborwho
escaped from a lynch mob 62 years ago
in Indiana has received a pardon for a
conviction that he yswas rigged by a
jury: K1 lOan heri "
lame Cam ron, 78, founder of
Am 's Black Holocaust \BeWl1 in
·I�aukee, was 16 when he aOO two,
companions were dragged from a.jail-in
Marion, Ird., after being accused of
murdering a white man and raping his
companion. ,
Cameron, author of U A Time of
Terror," said his two companions were
hanged. Trere was a rope around his
neck when someone in the crowd came
to his defense ard he was returned to
jail, he said. . .
After four years in prison for being
an acce sory to vol untary
, manslaughter, he was paroled. He
began petitioning in 1991-for a pardon.
Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh issued the
pardon Thursday, saying Cameron
"has remained crime-free for 61
years" and has • 'earned the confidence
and support from his peers in the com
munity."
manJ<KphL Smith said ina telepoone
interview.
It means the state "forgives you for
that crime," Smith id. "It does not
c the record. n
HIt's qui 'an emotional thing,"
Cameron said after getting the news in
a call from Smith. "I'm going to pray
tonight."
He said there may be a celebration
when � next vi its Marion. He was in
the community Iest month for the Blaqc
History Council of Marion's celebra
tion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday.
"The wbole city, I think, is going to
join in," Cameron said.
Cameron's cousin 1)lomas Wise, a
Marion police detective, said Cameron
"has really lived a model life since that
incident If be would have his slate
cleared, that would mean an awful lot
to him."
A publisher plans another printing
of Cameron's book. He said it will con
tain new information about a sheriff
who he says was a Ku Klux Klan mem
ber at the time of the incident Aug. 7,
1930;and about grandjwy records that
show "it was a put-up job."
Adventl e
Development & Relief
Agency (ACRA)
Box 4289
SIlVer Spring l.1D 20904
800) 424-ADRA
Afrlcare
440 A Street W
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 462·3614 .
Amer can Friend
, Service Committee
'501 Cherry Street
P llaoetptua, PA 19102
�15) 24 ·7158
American Jewish
World Service
15 West 26th St 9th FL
New York, NY 10010
(212) 683-1161
B ptl t World Aid
6733 Curran Street
McLean, VA 22101
(703) 790·8980
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fo d r
lndlana
THE I DIANA Parole Board
recomm n�d the pardon 4-1, chair-
CARE
660 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
(212) 686-3110
CONCERN/America
2024 N. Broadway
PO Box 1790
Santa Ana. CA 92702
(714) 953-8576
Doctors Without
Border
30 Rockefeller Plaza .
#5425
ew York. Y 101 2
(212) 649·596
Food for the Hungry
7729 E. Greenway Rd
Scottsd�e,AZ 85260
(800) 2-HU{'JGER
Internatlon I
edlcal Corps
5933W. Century Blvd.
#310
Los Angeles, CA 90045
(31 0) 670-0800
International Re cue
Committee
3'86 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
(212) 679·0010
Lutheran World Rell f
390 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
(212) 532-6350
MAP International
2200 Glynco Parkway
Box 50
, Brunswick, GA 31 520
(800) 225·8550
Operation USA
7615 1/2 Melrose Ave'
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(213) 658·8876
Oxt m America
26 West Stre,et
Boston, MA 02111
(SOO) 225-5800
Pre Idlng Bishop'
Fund for World Relief/
Epl copal Church
815 Second Aveue
ew York. NY 10017
(212) 867-8400
malta
ow
Save th Children
PO Box 975-D,ept.1
Westport, CT 06881
(800) 532-1818
UMCOR, United
Methodist Committee
of Rell f
475 Riverside Drive
Room 1374
New York, NY 10115 •
(212) 870-3816
US Committee for
UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
Dept. SR
ew York. Y 10016
(212) 922·22590/1
World Concern
PO Box 33000
Seatt1e, WA 981 3
(206) 546-7201
World VI Ion
PO Box 1131
P sadena, CA 91131
(800) 423�4200
"Well. we didn't try to hide anything .
We rough: everything right out in the
open.
'W BRO GHT ITin 11 the
community leaders we could think of
and asked hem to hare 'heir concerns
with us. ... We went into the com
munities ourselves and talked to people,
we didn't wait for intelligence com
to us," � said.
,. And mostly, I think the ople
realize that violence i oot the arswe '!
The night the deci ion was an
nounced, Mayor Michael R. White
urged dozens of religi us, po!itical an�
community lcade to go Into th ir
The coroner id Pipkins, who had neighborhoods to keep the ituation
been arrested on suspicion of dnving a und r ontrol. .
stolen car, W' legally drunk and had •• I drove around th ighborhood
the hallu . na� drug PCP in his y - and found every thin to be normal, '
tern. said Charle McBee, a member of th
Ct ty leader had wor the city's Community Relations Board.
d C1 Ion would lead to riots like th
that occurred in Los Angel after of
fi IS were cleared of beating Rodne
King.
"7. What did we do right?" asked th
Rev. -Eugene Ward, the chaplain.
.A D (AP)- meeting of
community le oers'corcerned about a
deci ion n t to file charg against
white police officers in th death of a
Bla k man they were arresting helped
avert rio ,th city chaplain said.
Cleveland Pro ecutor Barbara 1.
Danforth I t week ann unced that no
criminal charg \ uld be filed against
Michael Tanke ley and Jeffrey Gibson
10 thc death of Michael Pipkins Dec. 28.
Pipkins, 23, died when a patrolman
trying to restrain him put p ure n his
neck, cutting off th tl of blood to th
brain, the Cuyahoga County coro r
ruled.
conviction.
THE GROUNDS FOR a
federal appeal would be twofold:
a violation of due p tem-
mi from the trial m1 a m the
sentence was un uaUy ba h
on race, Sharpton d (
week.
"There are peaceful protesters
all over this state-- abortion
people on both' eYen a man
who haOOeda fe toBiUainton
who are not doing 45 days,"
Sharpton said.
"Why' there a double stand
ard? What about the gay ctivis ,
� abortion activists? Why are
we doing time and no one else?"
The "Day of Outrage"
protests followed the 1986 slay- .
ing of Michael Griffith, a Black
man killed by a car while fleeing
a white gang. Sharpton aM others
were arrested when they violated a
court order by stopping nsh-bour
traffic, blocking a Bridge aOO climb
ing onto subway tracks.
r
8.1 ID the resident
learned from a 1 riot and the 1
hootout tween police and black
nationalists in the Glenville neighbor
hood.
The Children of
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