CAROLINA TIMES
Sal.. Sept. H. 1973
Again, Counting On The "Cod Phrase". . . T Baynard Rustins
DITORIALS & COMMI
FEARS, HATREDS, AND THE DR. KING DREAM
MS&afll and remember the
time-some ten years ago, when Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led the civil
rights march in Washington, he spoke
particularly of the dream he had, a
dream that one day hate and fear
would be replaced by love and greater
understanding, that black people and
white people would come to realize
that all of us are a part of the same
great America and that this nation will
continue to survive only if we exercise
mutual trust and respect each ot
For those who were there, and to
those who witnessed it on nation-wide
media, the fellowship seemed
apparent on that memorable day that
many will never forget. Yet, fear and
hate has become so easy. It is available
to all of us. The distrust grows wider
each day. All we need to do is fear our
neighbors and it becomes much more
difficult to reach out. It also is much
more difficult to understand. And it
seems almost impossible for most of
us to accept the simple fact that we
are all children of the same God.
Dr. King's dream is still only a
dream to so many people and to
some, and even in some ways, it seems
even more remote than it was a
decade ago. There is much more
scientific technology than there was a
decade ago and yet it has brought
more depersonalization, more
ticky-tat, more junk, more plastic
unreality. Various surveys, if we can
believe them, show more young
persons doping themselves with pot,
acid, speed, and even many say that
the family even has gone to pot. More
adults are doping themselves with
Hollywood Squares, or Truth or
Consequences and of course that great
soap Opera, As The World Turns, even
over it seems, to watching the
Watergate Hearings which reveal the
political shenanigans of our elected
and appointed leaders.
Rhetoric, no matter how eloquent,
is r.o match for fears and hatreds. We
know tlat less than five years after
making that speech, in 1963, Dr. King
was murdered and it looks as if all
that remains of him is the
remembered rhetoric.
we destroying ourselves? Why have we
permitted our nation to become the
butcher of the world? We cannot feed
the poor, we cannot provide
educational facilities for the rising
population of our children, and we
cannot protect our environment, and
yet we are perfectly able to squander
billions of dollars to wipe Southeast
Asia off the face of the earth. Can we
never stop to think, or let alone feel?
For most of us, our idea of
ssion is a basket of
Thanksgiving or Christmas turkeys for
the poor. We have ravished the land;
we have apparently ravished morality ;
we equate patriotism with blind
obedience; we sacrifice freedom in the
name of spurious security; our
political leaders lie and our
government lies, and the thing is- as I
see it, nobody really cares. Truth
becomes too corrosive. Truth is too
easily dismissed, or ignored, or even
disputed.
And why? Because we are afraid.
Black people frighten white people
and white people frighten black
people, young people frighten old
people, old people frighten the young,
female "libbers" frighten males and
one wonders, where will it all end.
What has happened to that thing
called courage? Not the easy course of
hitting your neighbor over the head
with a club or sneaking away under
the cover of darkness to do a sneaky
thing. I mean the courage to do away
with the cheap emotions of hate and
fear.
We must, if we are to move ahead,
stop lying. We must stop fearing. We
must stop hating. We must stop killing
one another. Dr. King's dream is still
out there, far beyond the horizon, and
yet I believe that it can be attained.
The great task for us is to sincerely
respect one another and remember
that we are all children of God. We
must reject fear and hatred and seek
to climb to the top of that mountain
as so eloquently spoken of by the late
Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr. ,
If ii)f rlMtiii that this is
possible, then the task becomes easy
for both you and me, neighbors, of
the world.
HE SUGGESTED THAT
THE POLITICAL ESPIONAGE,
SPYING AND BURGLARIES
THAT FLOURISHED UNDER
HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD
THEIR ROOTS IN THE CIVIL
RIGHTS PROTEST MOVE
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Churches Put Pressure On American
Businesses' Investments In Africa
What has happened to us? Why are
Judge Sirica's Ruling
ful figures, perhaps
Judge John Sirica has taken a rea
sonable and tenable position in ruling
that his court should privately hear
White House tape relating to the Wat
ergate affair and then rule whether
they should be turned over to a grand
jury. The president, as expected, re
fused to comply with the order and
his lawyers are studying their next
move. -
In expectation that the ruling will
be appealed to the Supreme Court by
til White House, Judge Sirica stayed
his order for five days to give time for
the appeal. But he has given or so it
seems to us a suitable response to
White House objections to releasing
the tapes. Those objections revolve
around the contention that the private
conversations of a President must be
privileged since any precedent for
forcing them into the public domain
could seriously inhibit the conduct of
of
The White House has suggested that
there is material on the tapes record
ing Watergate conversations that cov
ers other affairs of state that could be
"dynamite" if publicly released. In
other words, it implies that some frank
language was being used in the Oval
Office in the days in question that, if
made public, might jeopardise the
President's relations with other power-
other heads
state. , . . u
Judge Sirica has met that, objection
by offering to take the responsibility
upon his own shoulders for deciding
what is privileged and what is, in fact,
relevant to the cases of Watergate de
fendants. There is nothing particularly
unusual about judges assuming re
sponsibility for in camera proceedings
of this type the only thing unusual is
that, here, the question of presidential
privilege is involved.
The judge's order also would seem
to meet White House fears that no one
would be satisfied with the evidence
adduced from tapes the White House
supplied and there would be demands
for yet more and more information
about what went on in the Oval Office.
If Judge Sirica culls the evidence, and
it is inconclusive, White House critics
can hardly blame the President for the
results.
The President has wisely said he
will abide by what the Supreme Court
finally rules in the matter. It may well
turn out that any information from the
tapes will not be conclusive in proving
or disproving the President's innoc
ence, which has been yet another
White House objection. But it would
seem that Judge Sirica has come up
with a viable approach to the problem.
You Should Know
TANNER
1859-1937
Born in Pittsburgh, PA.r son of an
A.M.E. BI8H01-THC MAN FRENCH EXPERTS
CALLED "0REATEST AMERICAN PA INTER" OFT
DAY! AFTER TEACHING AT CLARK UNIVERSITY,
HE WENT TO LIVE IN PAWS, FREE FROM RAC-
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NEW YORK. Churches win
continue to press American
corporations regarding their
responsibilities ss investors in
Southern Africa, says the co
ordinator for s coalition of
church groups that ap
proached U. S. companies
during the corporate annual
meeting "season" in late
spring.
Tim Smith, director of the
church project on U. S. In
vestments in Southern Africa
-1973, said hi evaluation that
public discussion has grown,
and more universities, founda
tions and other institutional
investors voted on church
sponsored resolutions and
wrote management expressing
their views than ever before."
The churches "are commit
ted to a long-term effort,"
he continued; "challenging U.
S. corporations and the U.
S. public to face the imputa
tions of investing in white mi
nority regimes like South Af
rica and Angola, une
product of church and
pressure is that numerous
companies have taken a small
first step by raising wages
for African workers past the
starvation level." He said the
Southern Africa Issue domi
nated corporate social respon
sibility challenges in 1173.
The church project operated
under the umbrella of the In
terfaith Committee on Social
Responsibility in Investments
of which Florence Little , treas
urer of the United Methodist
Women's division, is chair
person. The Interfaith com
mittee works on varied Is
sues of corporate social re
sponsibility of which Southern
Africa Is one.
Altogether 17 companies
were approached by churches
and church agencies in the
church project, s coalition of
seven denominational or ecu
menical agencies and one in
dependent group. The total of
17 represents the largest num
ber of corporate challenges
by the churches on issues in
Southern Africa, revolving
largely around apartheid and
colonialism. The resolutions
were aimed at situations in
three countries South Afri
ca, Angola and Namibia
(South-West Africa) which is
held by South Africa in de
fiance of a ruling of the Inter
national Court of Justice and
a vote of the United Nations.
Groups In the church project
who had a combined total
of well over 100,000 shares
of stock in companies chal
lenged were the National
Council of Churches, the Uni
tarian Universalis! associa
tion, Episcopal Churchmen for
South Africa and one or more
agencies of the American Bap
tist churches, the United
Church of Christ, the United
Presbyterian church in the
asraataaBi
church.
The actions were in the
form of stockholder resoiu
oy- fw"
Duboc I ru-
uons filed with the companies
for placement in annual meet
ing proxy statements and thus
on meeting agendas.
In U instances, the chal
lenge was the same: the com
pany was asked to make pub
he disclosure about its opera
tions in South Africa, includ
ing such Information as com
parative statistics on num
bers of workers, wages paid
and compliance with apartheid
laws.
In seven cases, negotiations
between the church agency
asking for disclosure and the
company challenged brought
agreement The companies
promised to send stockhold
ers information about their
South Africa situation, either
in a company publication or
through another channel. The
church agencies .then with
drew proxy resolutions they
had filed.
The companies willing to
make disclosure were East
KodaK company, lexacu.
Burroughs corporation,
ma! Telephone ana
Telegraph corporation
(I.T.T.), Ford Motor com
pany, Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing company (SM),
and Xerox corporation.
In four instances, compa
nies refused to disclose data
requested, and the proxy res
olutkms went to the annual
meetings. In all cases-Caterpillar
Tractor company, First
National City bank, General
Electric company and Inter
national Business Machines
corporation (I.B.M.), the res
oluUons were defeated by
large margins, but church
spokespersons said the goal
of raising the issues with
management, stockholders and
the public was achieved. .
The largest pro-disclosure
resolution vote was over 7
per cent at the Caterpillar
Tractor meeting. That Is be
lieved to be the largest vote
any challenge on a Southern
Africa issue has received.
The 7 per cent favorable vote,
with U per cent abstaining,
was called "amazing" by
Miss Utile, who personally
presented the resolution filed
by the Women's division.
Besides the disclosure res
olutions, a variety of other
challenges were filed as proxy
WWMpfc One, by the Epis
copal church asking Phillips
Petroleum company not to
start operations in Namibia,
garnered a comparatively
strong 4.5 per cent favorable
vote. The same resolution
was presented by a United
Church of Christ agency to
Continental Oil company and
gained over $ per cent.
Another church project
member, the Unitarian Uni
versahst association, request
ed Exxon corporation to es
tablish a special committee
to investigate implications of
a proposed investment In An
gola's off-shore oil fields. Al
so addressing the issue In that
meeting were statements from
the president of the Oil, Chem
ical and Atomic Workers union
and a representative of the
Organization of African Unity
The United Church . Board
of World Ministries filed res
olutions with Newmont Min
ing company and Mobil Oil
corporation asking equal op
portunity and treatment in
such areas as wages for all
the companies' workers in
South Africa.
Episcopal Churchmen for
South Africa challenged Amer
ican Metal Climax (AMAX)
and Newmont to withdraw
from Namibia. Support was
given by the president of the
South-West African Peoples
organization, a n African
movement working for the in
dependence of Namibia
Tips For Vets
Q - Is the Veterans Ad
ministration cutting back on
hospital care?
A On the contrary. An all
time high record of more than
one million patients will be
treated in fiscal year 1974.
Because of advances in
medical science and improve
ments in treatment
techniques, hospital stays will
be shorter and fewer patients
will be in bed on an average
day.
Q How can I apply for my
special dividend which I hear
the VA is paying to holders of
World War II life insurance
policies?
A Sorry to disappoint you,
but there is no special
dividend. VA pays regular
dividends to veterans who
have kept their World War II
"V" prefixed National Service
Life Insurance and World War
I "K" prefixed United States
Government Life Insurance
policies. Dividends are paid on
the anniversary date of each
policy and no application is
necessary.
Q Why is the Veterans
Administration's budget for
fiscal year 1974 being
reduced?
A - VA's budget is not being
reduced. Overall expenditures
will be some $300 million
higher than in the current
fiscal year.
O As a veteran is It pos
sible for me to get a physical
examination at a VA hospi
tal? A Under regulations, VA
hospitals are not permitted
to conduct such examinations
for mat purpose only. If you
can meet eligibility require
ments, you could receive a
physical to determine the
need for hospitalisation or
treatment
IAL PREJUDICE. HIS BIBLICAL PAINTINGS
WON COUNTLESS AWARDS THROUGHOUT THf
UNITED STATES AND EUROPE I gpp
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR J1N
gone since the March on
Washington awaseneu
America's moral eon
BdousMss to the cause of
racial equality. A quarter of a
rnilUon peopie participated to
a demonstration which would
be copied, but never
duplicated. In later years.
listened whue
Martin Luiher King told of his
dream, and found themselves
no longer ambivalent about
the Negro's right to be "free
at last" V
The March was a fulfiBent
of the social vision of A.
Philip Randolph, a man
capable, ss no other civil
rights leader was capable, of
reconciling high idealism
with pragmatic ac
cornpUsfament. Twenty-two
years earner, as America
lurched from depression to
war-time preparation,
Randolph proposed that
Negroes march on
Washington to demand that a
nation which asked them to
risk their lives guarantee
their access to an expanding
economy as well The original
march was ultimately called
off. but not until President
Roosevelt had issued the
Executive Order establishing
a Fair Employment Prac
tices Commission for the
defense industry, a move
which effectively brought the
Negro into industrial
America.
By 1963 Randolph believed
it was time to broaden the
Negro agenda to include
demands for basic social and
economic rights. To the
demand for freedom, he
joined a specific program for
economic Justice. Thus the
March ultimately came to be
known as a march for "Jobs
and Freedom"
Randolph saw the Negro
as the vanguard of a
movement to remake arid
democratise the nation's
economic structure. "The
sanctity of private property,''
he told those assembled at the
Lincoln Memorial, "takes
second place to the sanctity of
the human personality. It
falls to the Negro to reassert
this priority of values,
because our ancestors were
transformed from human
personalities into private
property. It falls on us to
demand full employment and
to put automation at the
service of human needs, not
at the service of profits."
Those who detract from the
March contend that the
soaring rhetroic and Ugh
topes of the day fame not been
matched by racial progress.
The intervening years, they
say in retrospect have left
blacks Utile better off than in
Fewer Gl Benefits
WASHINGTON - A
private research group says
Vietnam-era veterans who at
tend school under the GI Bill
are getting fewer benefits than
World War n veterans did. The
report to the Veterans Adminis
tration came from the Educa
tional Testing Service of
Princeton, N.J.
me days of Jim Crow that
proceeded the March.
Certainly the ptce el
progress has not been suf
ficient to satisfy a
legitimately revottiousry
rise in expectations. And it is
important for Hacks and
their allies to press ahead
with the struggle for
economic and social equality,
and not fall victim to
disillusionment when
progress is slow.
But we must also recognise
the considerable progress
blacks have made in the
years since the Mar A The
passage of three dvU righto
bills the 194 Civil Rights
Act the Voting Rights Act
and open housing - have
destroyed the legal In
stitutions of segregation land
discrimination. Black voter
registration in the South has
.ncreased by two million, and
the shrill racism of Ross
Barnett has been replaced by
more moderate vgkm..
There is no more sitting in
the back of the bus; the vast
majority of public ac
commodations serve blacks
and whites on an equal basis.
Negroes are no longer
automatically consigned to
thj worst Jobs; they art J
n-easingly visible as skilled
tradesmen, professionals,
factory operatives, and in
government.
High school students are
less likely to drop out; the
black graduate is in fact as
likely as his white classmate
to enroll in college. The black
worker is much more likely to
belong to a union, and to
enjoy the wages, benefits and
security of union contracts.
The March by Itself was not
responsible for the passage of
laws or the economic and
social progress of the past
decade. No single demon
stration and no individual
civil rights leader could have
been.
But the March offered a
national forum for the
demands which were to shape
the civil rights movement
and the liberal agenda for the
years ahead. It was a
program which addressed
itself to all poor people,
calling for a massive Job
training program, full em
ployment, a decent minimum
wage, and the extension of
the Fair Labor Standards Act
to embrace all workers.
Not all the demands of the
March have been met, of
course, particularly those
addressed to basic economic
change. There is still
widespread poverty and
unemployment and we still
have economic policies which
permit raging inflation to eat
away at the living conditions
of poor and working people.
But the program enun
ciated at the March remains
the only valid program to
remake America, and the
symbolic unity of blacks,
labor and mainstream
liberals remains the only
viable political means to
make this program work.
CHARLES W.
CHESTNUTT
PMONEER IN THE FIELD OF AMERICAN
NEGRO LITERATURE .THE FIRST
DISTINGUISHED NEGRO AUTHOR OF
CHORT STORIES AND ONE OF THE
FOREMOST AMERICAN NOVELISTS
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ELF-EDUCATED,ME BEGAN TO TEACH
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NOT THE BEST PLACE FOR HIS TALENT,
HE WENT TO NEW UORKCITV WHERE HE
WORKED ONA NEWSPAPER. THEN TO
CLEVELAND AND BECAME A COURT RE
PORTER, A POSITION HE HELD UNTIL
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DEPICTING THE LIFE AND '
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To the Editor:
Nial Ruth Cox, a black
woman, was sterilized as s
chid in Plymouth, North
Carolina on the ground Hut
she was mentally retarded. She
was not mentally retarded, just
black and from s poor family.
She has since come to New
York City and become a
trained nurse. In New York
you have to have an l.Q. above
average and be at least s high
school graduate just to get Into
nurses' training schooL
This is a damned outrage. It
is straight out of Hitlerism.
Hitler often sterilized people
who were members of groups
be did not like.
The American Civil
Liberties Union Foundation,
address 22 East 40th St, New
York City, is bringing suit on
her behalf for $1,000,000
against the authorities and
individuals responsible for this
dastardly sterilization, so they
won't do it again. They do it
too often to poor black people.
The A.C.L.U. Foundation is
tax deductible. I hope
everyone who feels this is an
outrage will contribute to
them, as I have done.
Miss Cox said on T.V. that
she had to turn down an offer
of marriage because she felt she
was only half a woman on
account of this involuntary
sterilization.
Alfred Baker Lew
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Do you believe in this New Day?
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By WILLIAM TH OR
There are many people who have said: "Give a man of any race
or color a nice home, pleasant surroundings, and the opportunity
for healthful recreation and a feeling of economic security, and
you give him peace and happiness. He will also cease to covet the
possessions of others or the desire to trespass." Now, do you
believe his grievances, real or imaginary, would have been relieved
and he will associate harmoniously with his fellow man?
Miss Ann Hyman, who lives and works in Durham had this to
say about the above statements. She quoted as follows: "Material
gains do not automatically insure happiness and peace of mind. A
person may have everything he or she thinks that they want, but if
love is not present, neither is happiness. Love of family love of
God, love of fellow human beings, play a very important part in
our everyday lives.
She also stated: " As for coveting the possessions of others, very
few of us can honestly say that we have never coveted; no matter
how much we have, we will always see something that someone has
and say: "I want that!" "There are some of us who can never
associate harmoniously with our fellowmen, because we thrive on
grievances and I think this is sad; probably that ultimate answer is
turning to God. He is the only one that can straighten out the mess
we have made of our lives."
After listening to Miss Hyman's comments, it gave me the
following thought.
A good example of this very fact has been life in this country.
The white race has been living in a land of plenty which has
contained resources and room enough for their entire populatioa
There have been room enough for them to grow and expand. As a
people, they have not been hemmed in or limited in any way. They
have been independent, individually, and as a nation.
But we must never forget that they, originally, took this land
from the Indians. They took it because they wanted more
individual freedom, more space, greater opportunity. And they
took it without regard for the rights of the Inlian who, even today,
is denied citizenship.
Their treatment of the Indians and the Black-Americans is just
one of the glaring inconsistencies of our American democracy
which is so hard for peoples of other countries to comprehend
when they proclaim, over and over, "Freedom and Equality for
all!" The Black man has been willing to serve and to die for this
country during the past, and has been largely rewarded with poor
housing, unequal opportunity and social and economic inequality.
In my opinion, there is a new day dawning. In this new day,
we're all probably going to give up many things upon which we've
placed high value but we're going to possess other things of real
and lasting value. This is the love and understanding of our fellow
man. I believe this one development alone is going to change the
face of the earth and all things upon it. Those who fail to recognize
this fact and insist on clinging to the old order of class distinction
and race prejudice and various kinds of hates, are most likely going
to find themselves out of step and unable to keep pace with the
new marching song of a united humanity.
National Businessmen Alliance
To Push Jobs for Disadvantaged
WASHINGTON - A
jobs and training for
hard-to-employ persons has
been launched by the National
Alliance of Businessmen (NAB)
in cooperation with the Labor
Department, Secretary of
Labor Peter J. Brennan has
announced.
Brennan said the NAB's
36,000 employer-members
have mounted a renewed effort
to hire, train, and retain the
disadvantaged over the next 12
months.
Through a five-point
program the NAB will continue
to:
Solicit business firms to
provide on-the-job training;
Give priority to placement
of Vietnam-era veterans
through coordination with
veteran groups participating in
the President's Veterans
Program;
Sponsor "outreach"
programs in minority and
poverty areas to create
awareness of job opportunities;
Administer a management
information system to measure
progress and make periodic
reports to the Labor
Department;
Maintain 107 metro
offices, with priority given to
the largest Standard
Metropolitan Statistical Areas
(SMSA).
The NAB will advise the
Secretary of Labor and other
U.S. Government officials
involved with the program as
to the most efficient methods
of hiring and training
disadvantaged workers.
As a helpful tool for
employers, the Department of
Labor has announced the
availability of a new operating
manual entitled, "Productive
Employment of the
Disadvantaged: Guidelines for
Action." Prepared by the
Human Interaction Research
Institute, the manual was
developed as a practical
reference document for
employers wishing to hire the
disadvantaged.
Since the NAB was
organized in 1968, it has
helped train and place 1.4
million disadvantaged persons
in private industry jobs,
including:
-360,000 placed through
the federally funded JOBS
program;
-300,000 veterans; and
-1,040,000 placed without
Federal funds.
Reviewing this record,
Brennan said Je saw NAB
becoming "Uw social-action
arm of business." He lauded
NAB's success in reaching
people who need help the
most, "the veteran- especially
the disadvantaged veteran
youth, welfare recipients, and
ex-offenders."
NAB President John Z.
DeLorean said: "The National
Alliance is the only major
peacetime cooperative effort
between the three great forces
in our country- government,
labor, and business," and that
as long as 25 million Americans
still live in poverty, "our job is
nowhere near being done."
Winston Salem and Charlotte
will share in the program in
North Carolina.
Warren To Build
Medical Offices
WARRENTON - The Warren
County Board of Commissioners
will open bids Monday at 10
a.m. at the County Courthouse
for three medical offices.
The bid opening was set Tues
day during a brief monthly
meeting of the board.
Gen. C. T. Bowers, chairman,
said he "hopes there will be a
gang of them (bids)" to be
opened. The bids will be sub
mitted by building contractors
seeking the job of building two
offices for doctors at Warren
County Hospital and one at Nor
lina. The constructions will be fi
nanced by the county, which will
own and rent the offices.
Helpful Man
Is Victim
Of Robbers
Two men repaid a truck driver
who helped them change s flat
tire In Durham early Thursday
by shoving a gun in his face and
robbing him of $55.
Durham police said Leslie L
Edwards of Harrisburg, Pa.,
was awakened by the two men
about 6 a.m. as he slept in his
truck at the Intersection of I-S5
and Guess Road.
Edwards told officers the two
men asked to borrow his jack,
which he lent them, and he went
to help them with the repair.
When the job was done, one of
the men pulled a .38-caliber
pistol and demanded his money,
the truck driver told police.
He said the men who robbed
him were both black and had
goatees and Afro hairstyles.
They fled in a 1972 model car
bearing a District of Columbia
license tag and were accom
panied by a black woman, Ed
wards told police.
Early 20th Cwitury Black Arfsf vf ,
Tanner Commemorative
Stamp Will Be Issued
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER,
an expatriate American painter
who emerged in the early years
of the 20th century as the first
Negro artist of genius dimen
sions, is taking his place as the
American artist in the
American Arts series of 1973.
The semi jumbo 8-cent
commemorative is being issued
on Sept. 10 at Pittsburgh. Pa.,
where the artist was born. It is
the third of a series of semi
jumbos combining a portrait
and a montage representational
of the phase of American arts
being portrayed. Preceding the
new issue have been stamps for
composer George Gershwin and
poet Robinson Jeffers. The
series will be completed with a
stamp for novelist Willa Cather.
All have been designed by Mark
English of Georgetown, Conn.
TANNER, WHO achieved
international distinction, Is
probably the best known of
American black artists, cer
tainly the most acclaimed of the
score of Negro artists of note in
the early decades of the cen
tury, even thoug he spent most,
of his life in Prance. During his
long career he painted aspects
of Negro life, seascapes,
upon his romantic landscapes
and his religious works,
animals and a few portraits, but
his renown rests principally
The stamp has on the right a
portrait of Tanner based on a
painting done in 1902 by Thomas
Eakins, who is himself
recognized as one of the great
figures of American art. The
portrait was executed during
one of Tanner's brief returns to
the United States. The montage
at left consists of an artist's
palette from which a rainbow is
emerginig. The background of
the stamp is brown, and the
inscriptions, in gold, are
"Henry O. Tanner" at the
bottom and "U.S. Sc" and
"American Painter" at the top.
BORN IN 1859, the son of a
bishop of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, Tanner was
seven when the family moved to
Philadelphia. It was in his early
teens, as he himself reveals,
when his interest in painting
was aroused.
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