Durham and Dance Festival To
Do Showcased Nationally
SAT., JULY 28, 1979
THE CAROLINA TIMES-1 3
Durham, North Carolina
and the American Dance
Festival will be showcased na
tionally on Saturday, July 28
at 9:00 p.m., when public
television broadcasts, live, the
Festival's grand grand finale
program, "The Paul Taylor
Dance Company." Part of
SUMMERFEST '79, the per
formance can be seen on
UNC-TV Channel 4.
The evening's program will
feature a world premiere
dance, "Profiles," commis
sioned by the American Dance
Festival and choreographed by
Taylor. The musical score by
Jan ' Radzynski is also newly
commissioned by the Festival.
Other dances that will be part
of the night's performance in
clude "Book of Beasts," "Big
Bertha" and "Airs."
The Paul Taylor Dance
Company has been called by
critic Clive Barnes, "one of
the most exciting, innovative
and delightful dance com
panies in the entire world."
The troupe has toured exten
sively in this country and
abroad and has represented
the United States at over thirty
international festivals.
Commenting on the live
broadcast of his world
premiere dance, Paul Taylor
said, "To perform locally and
be seen nationally is a new
courtesy of public television.
You don't have to live in
Durham to see the Paul Taylor
Dance Company perform on
July 28. This is an exciting
first for us a double live
event live in performance
and live on television."
The six-week long American
Dance Festival has been a mec
ca of American dance per-
foramnce since 1934 when
Martha Graham, Hanya
Holm, Doris Humphrey and
Charles Weidman founded it.
Offering performances, in
struction and service pro
grams, the Festival is
celebrating its second year in
Durham. A profile of the
Festival and interviews with
Paul Taylor and Festival
Director Charles Reinhart will
be aired during the intermis
sion break of "The Paul
Taylor Dance Company".
The live broadcast of the
grand finale of the American
Dance Festival is the fourth
presentation of SUM
MERFEST '79, public televi
sion's three-month long series
of Saturday evening perfor
mances, broadcast from sum
mer music and dance festivals
across the country.
Book Review
By Rev. R. Edwin King, Jr.
Denver. Sitfe off Aoisacjio!
0 i2egi Conchve
Maurice Huntley, of
Winston Salem, Grand
Chaplain of the Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity will be
one of the top Omega of
ficials to attend the up
coming Omega Conclave.
The 50,000 member
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
will meet in Denver, Col
orado in its annual con
clave from August 5-11,
led by Dr. Edward
Braynon, Grand Basileus
of Miami, Florida. The
1979 conclave theme is "
Omega Focuses On The
Family; Keystone Of Our
Society." This theme
parallels the 1978 interna
tional year of the child.
According to Dr.
Braynon, "When Omega
was founded in 1911 on
the campus of Howard
University, the founders
recognized the importance
of understanding the role
of the family."
In the famous mile-high
city of Denver more than
5,000 men representing
500 chapters of the frater
nity will be represented
during the five-day ses
sion. Some of the 68 year
old founding topics and
activities will be emphasiz
ed. They include social ac
tion, talent hunt, scholar
ship, and uplift.
traditionally, the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
has taken part in social ac
tion projects. This year,
280 chapters initiated and
implemented immuniza
tion programs for their
local school age children.
Churches were contacted
and door to door visits
were made. Omega men
cooperated with local
boards of health in com
pleting their projects.. The
Grand Basileus directed
Carter Portlock to coor
dinate the program within
the fraternity. Portlock is
Basileus of Mu Omega
Chapter in Philadelphia.
He was one of the several
people who responded to
the National Immuniza
tion Appeal issue by
former HEW Secretary,
Joseph Califano.
The annual talent hunt
will be a highlight at the
conclave. After a process
of talent elimination by
500 chapters throughout
the country, young
finalists will appear before
the entire Denver au
dience. They will perform
vocal, instrumental, and
dance renditions.
During the year the Na
tional Scholarship Com
mittee of the Fraternity
conducted an essay con
test among high school
students. The awards have
been made, however, "the
names of the winners will
be announced at the con
clave. Dr. Braynon is the
outgoing Grand Basileus
of the 68 year old Frater
nity. He is past president
of the Dade County
(Florida) Dental Society.
He is past president of the
Dade County Academy of
Medicine. Braynon served
in the United States Air
Force during World War
II in the rank of captain.
He was elected Grand
Basileus of the Fraternity
in 1976. He has two
awards for outstanding
community service.
OMEGA CONCLAVE
HIGHLIGHTS
When the sixty-eight
year old Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity meets in
Denver, Colorado from
August 5-11, there will be
several notable highlights.
Christopher Edley, ex
ecutive director of the
United Negro College
Fund and a member of the
Fraternity, will speak on
"Reinforcing The Support
Of The Fraternity Toward
UNCF Schools."
Former Grand Basileus,
Clarence F. Holmes will
be memorialized. Holmes
died in 1978 at the age of
86. He was born in 1892.
Holmes, a dentist by pro
fession, as the fifth Grand
Basileus of the Fraternity.
He was among some of
theearly initiates after the
founding of the Fraternity
in 1911 at Howard Univer
sity. Holmes was a resi
dent of Denver.
In keeping with its prin
ciples of scholarship, the
Fraternity will make
scholarship awards to four
outstanding Denver high
school students.
A salute to the families
of Omega will highlight
the Friday session. This
will be in keeping with the
conclave theme "Omega
Focuses On The Family:
Keystone Of Our Society."
This is the first fully detailed
report of any major southern
civil rights struggle of the six
ties. In these pages, John R.
Salter, Jr., one of its key
organizers and leaders, re
counts the inside story of what
is now known as the Jackson
Movement the first massive
nonviolent direct-action pro
test in Mississippi, which
culminated in the tragic
murder of Medgar Evers on
June 12, 1963.
Beginning with a mere
handful of dedicated,
courageous people, the
Jackson Movement took
shape in the increasingly
perilous atmosphere of
Mississippi in 1962-63, first as
an effective consumer boycott,
then as a massive upsurge in
volving thousands of black
Mississippians and their too
few non-black allies. Their
visibility and passive defiance
in the face of bloody repres
sion, characterized by mob
violence, night-riding ter
rorists and assassins, court in
junctions, and mass arrests,
are now part of history.
In what can only be con
sidered a betrayal, the
previously remote national of
fice of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, together with
the hitherto distant federal
government, sought first to
retard, then, apparently, to
suppress the burgeoning
movement. In the view of
those who were on the scene,
the conduct of the NAACP
and the government at that
time did much to precipitate
the high factionalism and bit
ter divisions that have since
marked the freedom move
ment. From all appearances,
in 1963, civil rights politics
took precedence over civil
rights action.
No one who reads this book
will ever forget the account of
the murder of Medgar Evers
and its aftermath on the emo
tions of his co-workers. No
one will ever read a more mov
ing portrayal of human
tragedy and destruction.
This is the story of the
Jackson Movement, but it is
also the story of John Salter
and his family, of Medgar
Evers, of Edwin King, and all
the rest who against terrible
odds and against the primitive
power structure of Mississippi,
considered by many to have
been at the time the most clos
ed and repressive of the
southern states fought the
war for civil rights.
They may have lost their
particular battle, but their
struggle, along with others in
the 1960s, will surely go down
in American history with the
grandeur and tragedy akin to
that other most traumatic ex
perience the Civil War of
the century before.
About the AuthorrJohn R.
Salter, Jr., a half-blood Mic
macPenobscot Indian, grew
up in Flagstaff, Arizona. A
sociologist, he has been in
volved for more than twenty
years in grass roots communi
ty organizing, human-rights
endeavors and Indian pro
jects. He was the controversial
activist director of Catholic
social justice activities at
Rochester, New York. In addi
tion to his community action
involvement, he has taught at
Tougaloo College, Mississip
pi; Goddard College, Ver
mont; Coe College, Iowa; and
the University of Iowa. He
was chairman of the Strategy
Committee of the Jackson
Movement. He has written
and lectured widely on grass
roots community action,
Native American affairs, and
civil rights.
Salter did extensive civil
rights work in North Carolina
during the 1964-67 period
most of it as field represen
tative for the Southern Con
ference Educational Fund
(headed by the Rev. Fred
Shuttlesworth of Alabama)
and with a heavy focus on
Halifax, Northampton and
Bertie counties. Later, he did
some work for the North
Carolina Fund. He is well
known in North Carolina.
He and his wife, Eldri, have
a daughter and two sons. At
present, he teaches sociology
and social work at Navajo
Community College, Navajo
Nation, Arizona, the first
tribally controlled higher
education institution in the
United States.
Jackson, Mississippi: A n
A merican Chronicle of Strug
gle and Schism was published
in May of this year by Exposi
tion Press, Inc., 900 South
Oyster Bay Road, Hicksville.
NY 11801. ISBN
0-682-49353-8.
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If you wear a white rose you are saying, "I am worthy
of you."