Native Americans
grapple with ARDS
Thi i th voice of a BI k B i­
n man in the nation's capital th
city where Lincoln i ., ed the Eman­
cipation Proclamation wh re Martin
Luth r King Jr. marched to th Lin!
coin Memorial to proclaim hi dream,
and wh re a piece of that dream came
tru with th p ag of groundbreak­
ing civil rights law ,in the 1
I1IRTY Y later. Wash-
ington and its 6OO,<XXl residents are
till divided by racial and economic
barrie .
The Georgetown neighborhood
and oth r reas of th city' mo tly
white upper northw t side are among
th country' m t affluent. Housing
in parts of Washington' predorru­
nantly BI ck southeast side rival
blighted areas in New York's Harlem
and South Central Lo Angel .
The median housebold income in
JA N,M. AP)-Whenanas-
in' bullet hit Medgar Evers in the
ba k, a chari matic leader of the civil
ri hts movement died, but hi legacy
urvives 30 years after the murder.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike
Espy recall the fear he felt when Evers
was killed.
As a 9-year-old living in Yazoo
City, "I w cared, and I knew how
important Medgar' work had been to
our state," Espy aid.
Espy who went on to become the
tate' first Black congres man since
Reconstruction, credited Evers for hi
uccess.
"I know that Medgar' p ion for
justice helped make changes in our
tate that led to my election to Con­
gress in 19 ," Espy said.
A ut I .. -third 0 th di triet'
1 1 00 Bla hou ehold. earn
5. rdin to
Ce igures. Th city a pov rty
rate 0 16.9 percent, rankin it 17th
among Am rica' 25 larg t citi .
But outside wor t e city' Bl
remain ocial!y parate from th ir
white collea u ,ob ervers said.
"Th federal presence maintains a
u tantial white prof ional cl in
the city in a way that there really i a
ort of apartheid b tween that group
and the larger Black middle cl and
the undercl ." aid Howard Uni­
versity political ientist Ron Walters.
"Th irony i that (the Black middle
class) is till largely eparated from
. the white middle cl in terms of
ocial relationship .'
Middle- and upper-middle-cl
Bla k neighborhoods are cattered
through th city, particularly along
16th Street in Northw r, an area
known th Gold Co t because of
Legacy· of Medgar
�-Mt'��--v'er IV n 30 Y a
after his assassination
F r way from compatriot nd their lawyers, about 18 Haitian refug e
of Mark vUle, LA. bec u Federal uthoritl cl 1m that th Krome Av nue Det ntlon
Immigration F cility In Miami, wher the other Haitian are being kept, i too crowd d. The
Immigration ervice ha al 0 plac d 15 Haitian at a privately run Jail in Lar do, T xa and
88 at an I.N.S. detention center in Port I abel, Tex. Th refugee of Mark ville are hou ed In
wlndowle jail and when th Sheriff of th Avoyell Pari h faCility, Billy Belt wa
interviewed, there wa ome uncertainty a to how oft n the Inmate are let out. ·1 think we
let them 0 thr e day ., a week, he �aid. Th Haitian ay they are let out once a week.
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The MI IUGAN CITIZE is
avaUable n lltle t/l1ollqll Etlinlc
New Watch awl tu Sill> 'Til> 'rs
oj M ad Data c 'flll ai.
"Blacks really anticipated funda­
mental change with integration. They
have en enormously di appointed.
. They've till been hut out of the y -
, tern," h said.
Although the Rev. Martin Luther .x.u
King was "more eloquent, Medgar If Mi i ippi' top civil rights
poke from hi heart' he id.' 'You leader had urvived, h had the poten­
could tell he meant everything h aid. tial to become the tate's first Black'
Y u were willing to follow him." vern r, aid former Gov. William
Slaughter-Harvey went on to be- Winter.
come the first Bl k woman to gradu- While he would have faced the
ate from the University of Mi i ippi same problems that Black leaders now
Sch 01 of Law. face, Winter aid, "He had unusual
. Ed Kin w a college student leadership kill that might have en-
when he found hi way through Evers ablcd him to overcome orne of the
into the civil righ movement in 1956. problem that others have n t been
, "(Eve ) b me my guide and' abl t a,ver orne." .
fnend at a time when h could have Myrtle Evers compares her lain
very ily been 0 militant and fright- husband t a modem-day Mo
ening that I could have n ver moved
v ry far at all," aid King, who tea bes
iology at th University of Mi is-
ippi Medi al Center. .
I 1 Aaron Henry now a t te
r .presentanv • and King ran or ov­
crnor and Ii utcnant overnor resp -
nvely in mock 1 ction howing
K BI ck Mi i ippians d ired
to v te ut were un Ie to.
M ny b me t Bla k voter r gi -
tran n cxi ted prior to the federal Vot­
in Ri hts Act of 1 5.
,37, field ecretary for the
Mi i ippi NAACP, 'vas hot in the
back outside his Jackson home as he­
arrived on June 12, 1 . 0 date is set
for the third murder trial of hi accused
ass in, Byron De La Beckwith.
Constance Slaughter-Harvey, a
Mi i ippi i tant _ ecretary of tate,
was a 16-year-old college tudent
when he met Evers ix day before he
died.
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