THIS WEEK IN BLACK HISTORY
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t what radio tation was
B.B. King a D Jay?
How many non-Blacks led the
NBA in r bounding from 1957-
1 7 ?
FEBRUARY 1, 1S65-John
. Rock, first Negro to practice
before U.S" Supreme Court.
1902 - Playwright/poet/author
Lang ton Hughe was born in
Joplin, 10. 1960 - Four orth
Carolina tude t� �e
first sit-in at n F.W. Woolworth
tore in Gr nsboro, .C. i977'
- Clifford e ander Jr. was
named first Black cretary of
the U.S. Army. 1949 - We ley
rown b me th firs Afri­
n-Am rican to graduate of the
U.S. val A demy.
In what prison was Cleaver
serving time when he wrote
"Soul On Ice"?
FEBRUARY 2, GROU D­
HOG DAY. lS07 - Congr s
banned slave tr de. 1915 - Bi­
ologist Erne t E. Ju t receiv d
Spingarn Medal for pion r re-
earch on fertiliza ion nd cell
division. 1776 - George
Wa hington answered letter
from Phillis Whea ley. 1933 -
97 percent of African-American
college stud nts were enrolled in
institutions in th South. 1972
- Benjamin Hook was the
first Black appointed to the Fed­
eral Communications Commis­
sion.
The first "Marchon Washing­
ton" was held on what date?
FEBRUARY 3, lS6S,-John
Mercer Lan ton spoke t
Alabama capitol. 1956;- uth­
erine Lucy enrolled as the first
Black student t the U nive ity
of Alabama. 1990 - Touring
Theatre Ensembled (Greens-
Who wds tit fi r t cutio
c tary of tit atwnal Urban
Leagu ?
Nam one of the Caribbean
countries involved in the U.S.
iponsored Caribbean Basin In-
itiative. ·
FEBRUARY 5, 1934 - Major
League home run ch mpion
H nry aron w s born. 1956
- L.R. utier became first
Afric n-American admitted to
th tion 1 Pr Club. 1 62-
R b rt mall pilot a Confed­
erate ship into Union lin and
was later named aval Com­
mander in the North. 1972 -
Benjamin Hoo was the first
African-Am rlcan appointed to
he Federal Communicatins
r· ion.
• I.
. Archie Bell i the brother of
what Tampa Bay Buccaneer
football player?
Answers'
30th-WDIA.
31st- one.
I t - California's Folsom
Prison.
2nd - August 2S, 1963.
3rd - Eugene Kincle Jones.
4th - Jamaica, Dominican
Republic or Barados.
5th - Ricky Bell.
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One exrunple of tb con inu­
ing burden of racial i�equality i�
our moo is found In Conn cti­
cut the nation's ealthie t
state. Today, the enrollment in
1 0 of Conn icut's 166 school
di tric remains 90 percent
hite with SO percent of the Af­
ri n-American and Latino stu­
den concentrated in 10 percent
of all school ystems. As of Octo­
ber, 1992, Hartford, the state
capital and largest city, ha� 9�.1
percent minority tudents m Its
public chools.
C DE
1991-92, 66 percent of all Afri­
can-American studen and 73 Across the Connecticut River,
percent of all Latino students E t Hartford's public schools
were in predominantly minority . were 38.1 percent nonwhite. But
schools. 'I'hi was the highest the racial percentages in Hart­
concentration of Black people in ford's other suburbs' public
segregated schools in nearly. a schools were strikingly differ­
quarter century. ent: only 7.6 percent nonwhite
The largest increases in ra- students in Newington, 6.7 per­
cially polarized public schools cent in Wethe�field, 17.2 per­
were found in Michigan, Mary- cent in West Hartford, and 8.3
land, New Jersey, Connecticut, percent in Glastonbury. State­
Tenn , and Alabama. The wide, African-American and
... ' ..
Was Ronald Reagan really
sincere when he recently invited
Colin Powell to California, gave
Powell the Reagan "Freedom
A ward," and said he would like
to see Powell in the White House
as President?
This Reagan act and its po­
tentially big political conse­
quences were treated almo t
casually by the m dia. It ap­
peared briefly on C ews
and-appear d rather inconspicu­
ously in newspa rs.
M ny people are not a w re
that this co rvati, two-term
ex-pr sident R gan who op- .
posed most civil righ laws vi-
dently chan , now aying h
ould like to Bl ck man in
the Whi Rous ident.
Along
Color
Line
tino uden oomp mo
than 0 fourth of the te' to­
tal public school enrollment.
For n rly thirty , there
ere efforts to deracialize Con­
necticut' public choo s. In
1966, a voluntary d gregation
plan called "Project Concern"
was initiated, with 266 Black
inner-city students transported
into tb whit ubur . Project
Concern sent counselors to an­
swer the questions of Black par­
ents whose children participated
in the program. By 1969, 690
children took part in Project
Concern, which received Fed­
eral, state and foundation fund­
ing.
BUT PROBLEMS surfaced
almost immediately. Project
Concern soon encountered
vere budgetary problems. By the'
late 1970s, Project Concern
reached 1,175 children in twelve
grades. But by 1992, its enroll­
ment had fallen to 680 children.
Critics conectly called it an ex-
IF 1"H( et.AC I'(. �'. v en � MY ," -' , • !' .• � -...;, ', ::, ample of racial "tokenism." ere-
• '. :-. h"�J\AAUN \ 1'( WAS . ',;.;; �ONc Y t' ':;" '. .. .• , •. : •.. : .' ating a one-way street for Black
: .:.' . -: AN�;ND€peNDEl'lT . I' : �', -PlEAsE: � « , ', ;��I�"� .:.: children into the white suburbs
.•.•.• : .' COV� w€' tJ.)OOt.Pt�!7J .::::==-. � .J '-: perpetuated the illusion that in-
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." .,. ., . ..' \-\�\)e: ft... � • :.' � , .' 't:.;"",.. .�. : tegration in the classroom was
: .' -.' ' .•.... ;. : .. ' T�t'E. reFIOr . • • �... : .�,;:'" .; • •• , ';'" identical with academic excel·
• .. ..�. :'�" .:,. .',....... (),�, 'f'. -'; Ki'«JWING" lence. It did nothing to trans-
WAAT WOOLD MOO : .� ".' ... _. ... , .. � t' ,��, ·:·'.�t'·"n�T OUR ANOCSTOflS form the curriculum or
• • . • . ., . J. •. ,: '. dynamics of learning.
IF TKE. BLACl<. MfJ'J IN " � : ", · .. ' · . ',' .' , ..... ,.: .sTRUGGlED �t> [2@ In April, 1989, Civil Rights
THE C��,uNIT'{ bAntERED '�.�:: ... '�. '�. �� •. ".'.�:::' FOR �\ AN\) proponents filed a lawsuit on be-
• I' O\GN\T'/ ' If oj Hartford's Black schooi
� 1l\E SiREE, ,tQRN� '�' •. �'. 1,/. '�:!, /. \txi) CAN 6�E'�'� children, Sheff u. O'Neill, charg-
WHERE V ,. ', '. t� .:' MA.N JUSTlPI aw� ingthat Jim Crow conditions ex-
DRUG DEAL-tFS ',:,' ." : - isted in the public schools. To
\ .... ,.�._ �1l\ER BLJa..� .. - footer educational equality will
· .,. · l� r require a fundamental change in
how education is financed, and,
an infusion of capital and re­
sources into predominantly mi­
nori ty schools. The pursuit of
racial equality must be waged in
our public schools.
.. . . .
WE OW m d
us h
wanted to influen th political
direction of this n tion Wh her
the statement w made with
sincerity and in good faith is con-
Dr. Mann.ing Marable is Profusor of
History and Political Science, and Direo-
. tor of the AfriCXJ.r. American Studies I n.$li­
tute, Columbia University, New Yo"
City. "Aloo.g the Cob- Line" appear' in
over 250 publication, and is broadcn&t by
75 radio station! internationaUy.
By -James E. Alsbrook
jecture based on one of these
three theories:
n xt v nt t
in the D.S. Senate.
REAG OW people
like Powell's communication
skills, his mainstream personal­
ity, his charisma, his modesty
and his brilliant military record.
Reagan believes Powell would
win the pr sidency for Republi­
cans and be a good and strong
I der.
Theory No.2: Assume Rea­
gan was not incere. If this is
true, Reagan endorsed Powell
b c use he has a "hidden
a nda" nd wants to k p Pow­
ell from divulging information
that would discredit th Reagan
d.ministration just as the Wa-
rgat affair di credi ixon.
Pow 11 could v. rely damage
R public n hopes for a 1996
Pr id nil I ion victory.
n kno Powell has re­
ived off rs of betw n 4 mil­
lion nd $6 million to writ his
autobiography including his
m moi .
inc Pow 11 wor ed with
R gan hims If, v rious cabinet
offi rs and oth r high officials,
he know damaging information
about h Rea n administra­
tion, including th "Iran-gate"
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affair (arms and money for hos­
tages, etc.), criminal charges
against cabinet officers and
White House aides, the illegal
shenanigans of Oliver North, the
multi-billion dollar savings and
loan scandal, and various other
illegal and embarrassing events
that could humiliate the history­
conscious Reagan forever.
REAGAN KNOW that the
"clean" and credible Powell
could include in his forthcoming
book a hailstorm of damaging
facts that would further ully
the Reagan image and further
injure Republican election hopes
in local and national politics.
In short, Reagan's early en­
dorsement of Powell as a Presi­
dential candid te could be
simply a bait and lure to k p
Powell from. exposing further
the unethical, ill gal, debt-load­
ing nd dangerous adventures
that characterize the eight years
of ganism and Reaganomics.
Th ry No.3: Assume Rea-
n is ince and lie Pow-
ell would be the whit .
conservatives' Dncle Tom robot
and flunky like Clarence
Thomas.
Which is correct?
