contlnu
1
-I ould .
through the he
Dracula," id
h indignant
the her eoll gu
tradition-bound Senate.
A fi t tt mpt to table th
Helms proposal fi iled, 52-48.
During that YO , only four mem­
be of Lincoln' Republican
Party voted ith Mo eley­
Braun. But on a su u nt vote
after her h felt ppeal, the
original four Republicans and 17
other GOP member joined
Moseley-Braun and 53 other
Democrats in tabling th Helms
amendment, 75-25. She had per­
suaded 23, enators to chan
their minds.
THEY
eLUDED Sen.
Howell Heflin, an Alabama
Democrat and grand on of a
Confederate Army urgeon. His
ancestors "thought what they
were doing right, but we are
living today in a different world,"
he said "We must get racism
behind us and must move
forward. "
-Sen. Ben Nighthorse Camp­
bell, D-Colo., who was with
Moseley-Braun all the way on
• the Confederate flag issue, said
he was sure some senators had
voted with Helms earlier be­
cause of some "misguided idea
that they were preserving some
sort of tradition. "
"I thinkyou saw here today on
, t floor of t te one of th
reaL80IlS why 1 'and ot have
been saying for so long there is a
Mississippi, 1918
On Friday night, December 29
1918, four Negroes, Andrew Clark,
age 15; Major ClaIk, age 20; Maggie
Howze, age 20; am Alma Howze,
age Hi, were taken from the little jail
at Shubuta and lynched on abridg
over the Chickasawba River. They
were uspected of having murdered
a Dr. E. L. Johnston, a dentist.
An investigation disclosed the
following facts: That Dr. Johnston
was living in illicit relations with
Maggie Howze and Alma Howze.
That Major Clark, a youth working
on Johnston's plantation wished to
marry Maggie. That Dr. Johnston
went to Clark and told him to leave
his woman 'alone. That this led to a
quarrel, made the more bitter when it
was foUD! that Maggie was to have a
child by Dr. Johnston; and that the
younger sister was also pregnant,
aid to be by Dr. Johnston.
Shortly after this Johnston was
mysteriously murdered. There were
two theories as to his death; one that
be was killed by Clark, the other that
be was killed by a whi te man who
had accused him of educing a white
woman. It was generally admi tted
that Johnston was a loose character.
Alma Howze was so near to
motherhood that when lynched it
was said by an eye-witness at 'her
burial on th second day following,
that the movement of her unborn
child could still be detected.
- "The Lynchings 0/ May, 1918,
in Brooks and Lowndes Counties,
Georgia" by Walter P. White, pub­
lished by the National Association
for the Advancement o/Colored Peo­
ple":'
Minority movie
I awards planned
LO GELES. CA-In a
bid to recognize the achieve­
men of minoriti in the
movie industry, the first Mi­
nority Motion Picture
A wards will take place in
Us Angel on September
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, tainment. Those being
awarded will include Eddie
Murphy, Halle Berry, John
Singleton, D bbie Allen,
Cheech Marin and Denzel
W hington,
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