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Jesse sees rainbow after flood
ST. LOUIS (AP) - There will be a rainbow after the flood, the
Rev. J e Jackson preached t a small Baptist church.
During a rousing sermon, Ja on called on city, state and
federal officials to capitalize on the disaster by putting people
to or rebuilding homes and businesses, repairing streets
and bridges and levees.
it will stop raining. It's time forth rainbow," Jackson said.
Jackson and his activist group, the Rainbow Coalition, were
in St. Louis to visit city officials and o rgani ze jobs and aid for,
rebuilding when the waters recede. It was one of many stops
he bas made during a tour of the flood-ravaged Midwest.
KANSAS CI'IY - The Negro
Baseball Museum has discov
ered the existence of the original
Articles of Incorporation of The
Negro Le gue of Prof s ion I
Baseball Clubs, a document pre
viously believed lost.
The document was located re
cently by Larry Lester, director
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of research for the Museum, who
found it in the Illinois State Ar
chives. Announcement of the
find was made as the Museum
moved into a new storefront loca
tion in the historic 18th & Vine
District on an interim basis until
completion of a permanent facil
ity.
"Although it has long been
known that the NNL was organ
ized at m ting in Kansas City
on February 13, 1920, no actual
evidence of its incorporation had
ever been found," said Lester.
"The key to its discovery was
ch king fil systems for all vari
atioru of th official corporate
name, which was thought to
have b n the National Associa
tion of Colored Professional
Baseball Clubs and the Negro
National Le gue.
At h request of the Museum,
the Illinois State Archives has
'agr to remove the original
document from its research files
and plac i in he state'sdocu-
men f , Les er noted.
IL I 01 DOE OT al-
low original document to be ac
qu ir d or borrowed, hut the
Whites heckle Black protesters
Archives has prepared seal d
facsimiles for the Museum's col
-Iection. The facsimiles will
displayed at the Museum and in
its traveling exhibits.
"The Articles ofIncorpor tion
provided new insights into th
history of the NNL, " said Lester.
"For example, the Leagu w
not incorporated until No m r
18, 1924, and it was in Chi go,
Illinois, the hometown ofLe gu
founder Andrew "Rube" FOster:
"The League's original incor
porators were Foster, Willie Fos
ter, J.L. Wilkinson, Rus II
Thompson and Walter Farm r.
Willie Foster was Rube Fos er'
20-year-old brother and origi
nally held a 40 percent m jority
of the tock. Rube Foot r nd
Wilkinson, owner of the Kansas
City Mon rehs, each held 20 p r
cent. Busin men Thomp n
and F rm r held 15 percent an
5 percent, r peetiv ly.
It was no until S pt mb r21,
1925, when the League was r or
ganiz d, that the w 11 known
groLeagu clubowners In on
board as tockholder, said
Lester.
Vatican newspaper
criticizes U. . in omalia
building to pro
old Black boy.
The whites shouted racial slurs and phr
out of our town" toward th protesters. About
police officers kept the two sides separat .
Oregon polic Officer William eals, 4 , w indic
Wednesday for felonious ult in conn ion with h shoot-
ingofChristopherB llofTol o on July 17
Beals, who was off duty, said th shoo ing w . accid n 1.
Beals, a 25-year police veteran, id the gun fired rule he was
investigating some children throwing roc into hi wimming
pool.
A review board ruled that the shooting was unjustified
under the police department's firea policy. Th bo rd's
finding meant Beals will moo admini trative cha
L'O. � .rvatorc s: ld,
"BEFORE IAKI c: :EIU·
o S .usauor» It � ould he opp ir
tune t learn a rut the situatron," and
to take into considcranon the PO"I
nons ot local leaders and not just mi
litia commanders, It ald.
Th Vatican has n teen rcn .cnt
ab ut xpr in 1 I� view: on the
Clinton adrmru tration. In January, It
criucizcd lmton' de I Ion to rcl:
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A'I1(, (II'Y (AP)--Vatl 'an criu-
'I. mot th .•. role In ornalia harp-
en d Tuc da WIth the Holy Sec's
official nc .. "\ I aper impl 'in Amen
can f rccs \ c . Ign rant the itu
ation there.
The c drnorn shrncnt came a I� Y a -
tcr the Vatican announc .d Pop J hn
Paul II W( uld meet With P , id nt
Clmton dunng a tnp to the United
tat n t month,
points. ,
"It has ru thin J to do with 'I andon
In' a mIS\IOn, a U .. military
. uthonti 's maintain, but a chan C ot
ta u whi .h oda xiuld lead t he
return to a dial u v ith th malt ,"
operation
Redistricting ruling called 'racist'-
CHARLO (AP u.s. Rep. Mel Watt, whose congres-
ional district is threatened by a recent U.S. Supreme Court
deci ion, id Monday that parts of the ruling are "absolutely
r cist in their umptio "
Last month' 5-4 ruling in Shaw v. Reno 'questioned the
shape and the purpose of Watt's Black-majority 12th District,
which snakes through Charlotte on its way from Gastonia to
Durham.
Watt id the ruling signals trouble for the 1965 Voting
Rights Act, which he fears the court may declare unconstitu
tional.
National Guard troops have been deployed for routine
police duty in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the m.ove has
angered residents. "The use of the National Guard for this
type of activity is a dangerous steptowardthe militarization
of a democratic soclety.r a lawyer at the Puerto Rico Insti
tute of Civil Rights, said. "This not only violates the Con�ti
tution and the principle of civilian control, it's an affront to
democratic values. There is no threat to national security
here so there can be no justification for tnis."
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