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?