:\. ( , \ \ ., I) t i ( ) /',
ov ing efforts to turn the former
on into the Medgar Wylie Ev rs Mu urn.
Blac judges want courts
to reflect popul tion
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Milwauk ' thr Black i ui Court
jud recommend th number of minoriti serving on the
bench hould proportion 1 to th population th y erve.
When they look for upport for their id a, only three other
jud endorsed the d laration that BI cks re entitled to ix
morejud hi .
Forty jud hav not replied, including two from minorities:
Elsa Lamelas, .a Hi panic, and Jacqueline Schellinger, an
Indian '
Some observers objected to the idea of a minority quota. Th
declaration was drafted by Black judges Ru ell W. Stamper,
Stanley A. Miller and Maxine Aldrid White.
,,-
IT I TO b consid red thi fall by a tate meeting of judges
in Appleton.
In an Aug. 23 m mo to Milwauk County's Circuit Court
judges, the three judges r u ted ignature of upport. John
F. Foley, John E. McCormick and Mel Flanagan signed. "1 am
not happy with the response," Stamper id, "I ut I'm not
· ·d . X>tH"8 1
"I'll be 50 n xt month
k b t
and I'm past th poin of being
y em' r to w 1 .... l.-_
. I long ago 1 t my id lism with
CHELLINGER aid she believ the Black judge are
implying critici m of voters and Gov. Tommy G. Thompson,
who make ppointments to fill court. vacancies.
"Tommy Thompson has done mor to make minorities part
of the judicial proces than anyone who pr ded him,"
Schellinger id.
"I am not awar in r nt tim of ny person who falls into
a racial minorit wh ha run a good hard campaign nd w
excluded on the ba i of ra . I don't think the voting public
des rve to be chastised."
t d
Civil W r m morial to honor the 185,000 Black oIdi r
who erv d with the Union force fter Lincoln ign d the Emancipation Proclamation.
ed Civil W r troops. The monument, thr e-toot-h gh
curved tone w II with tainle teel plaqu s, will b in the-Shaw neighborhood, one of the
shington.
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Mll.WAUKEE (AP) - Officials
blame unrelenting inner-city
violence and poverty among
Wisconsin's Black r idents for
raising the proportion of minor­
ity criminal among th rising
num r of state prison inmates.
Th pri on population in
1983 ha increa ed from b ut
4,600 to more than 9,500. Th.
proportion of Blacks incr ased
from 37 per n in 1983 to about
46 percent in 1993, the Division
of Correction aid.
Th Bla k pro
consin's pop\' A i
cr fl III b ut .
5 p r nt b
1 90, th U
id.
Rep. Antonio Ril v. a Bl ck
legislator rvin a Milwauk
As mbly di trier, id th tat
n ed not b ntl with viol nt
criminals who vi timize their
neighborhood
"Let's ha v tough la ws; let'.
throw those OBs in prison:
three strikes and you're out; th
whole schmear," Riley aid.
"BUT AT THE same time, we
have got to rt s ying: What
can we do to try and tern h
increase in violent pIe in our
society?' More pri us will not
that. Only prevention will."
Attorney neral Jam E.
Doyle Jr. told The Milwauk
J ourn 1 t h t h n in t h ra­
ci I mpr sit.ion of state prj ons
show "what he - ht .n d III
r it i i 1\ t h h- t H
rson a dangerous
p on." F lmers 'haney, presi­
d ntoftheMilwaukeechapterof
th tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
r commends halting the drug
traffic that invites inner-city
tn-a rs to make money ille­
gally.
H gets many letters from
nviets who think they are ra­
ial vi ims of th legal system,
h s�d. .
"It kind of makes a demoral-
RI 0 • B
• c:
The NAACP said the 5-4 city
council vote to put the measure
on the ballot wa illegal and
should be rescinded. Mapp said
state law requires two-thirds of
the nine City Co.uncil memb rs
must vote for a referendum that
would mend the city's charter.
Bu City Attorney Randy N )-
son said that home rule provi­
sion requiring a two-thirds vote
appli s only to sp iallegislative
matters.
"The ' nothing in our char­
ter or anywh re els that re­
quires a two-thirds vot for a
charter amendment," he said.
AACP considering
lawsuit over school merger
..
OTHERBLA y
th r al issue is th eff ct th
cha nge would h v.e on Black
I dership in the long run.
�W 'd lose r presentation in
t rm of the school bo rd," City
ou nci l ma n Leamon Pierce'
id.
Mapp Cl d Mayor Geo
Roberts upport of City ouncil­
man David Distefano in 1992
over incum ent William Co ton,
who i Bl ck a a signal that
official want 0 limit th num-
r of BI c in pow rful po i-
tio '
But Roberts said that' on
example of th wild t t 01 n
that are ing made. .
"The truth is: I did not sup­
port DiSt f: no, but I'm glad h
was el . I think he's mad a
first-rate city councilman," h
said.
F r nin ". car-ol I ami n 1 ichc], I h dr xun i to becom a d( 'tor. r th
'ollcge Fund. thai' a dl C,lIl1 t l ) I I C 'tOll", t let di
.( r m rc than 50 'C( r . we've en h Ipin!! briuht. II rvin tud nt: get th
du ati n th n II t ) turn th .ir hop ... Into r allt.it: .
I ave i e ncr lU 1 . 'Yi )UI -onn it litton could help orne ne li ar I n
mak a -ontnbution that benet it C\ 'I �()IlC Call I I ( () 3 ,'� T.
l . '1 Il·1) H,;IU) COl I 1· a, .. '. I
mind i J t errible thin to \, ... ste.
CHATTANOOGA, TElItlN. (AP)
- Local Black leaders id they
are considering a I wsuit to keep
a refer ndum on closing city
schools off the Nov. ballot.
NAA P officials aid t.h y
the plan to merge city schools
into the Hamilton ounty sys­
tem s an ffort to dilute Black
power.
"W f 1 if the un t y ha to
take them, and it's forced, th n
it would m n r I iv ly poor
educat ion for city (stud nt
Right now the only hope for
quality ed.ucation for blacks is
that th city maintain its public
schools," id the Rev. C.H.
Douglas, pa t pre ident of
Clergy Koinonia, an organiza­
tion of Black ministers.
Jam s Mapp, president ofth
local chapter of the National A -
s iat i nforth Advan m ntof
010 I P ple, id th organi-
z bon j", (',,1 id ring 1 w uit t.o .
fight l'Ol ohdation.
(ISSN 1072-2041)
M PP AID Hamilton
County has a poor record of hir­
ing min rity teachers and ad­
ministrators and city children
would suffer from the lack of
Black teachers.
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