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A M obilo , Alabama Saga ' i (Continued from Front) ; " 'X American community, as ! people questioned McLar-.. ty's competency to direct the investigation of the Donald lynching. .The' Police T ;: Benevolent Association (PBA), or organization ; of. black : police officers, claimed McLarty is a racist and demanded that he apologize for his remark. He refused. The Com munity Relations Service; of the : U.S. Justice Department, which is notorious for undermin-' ing movements for racial justice, was called in to; mediate. (See Southern Exposure, Vol. 8, No. 2, on CRS.) ., A few days later, there came the slaying of Eddie Lee Pritchett, a 21-year-old black man who had -escaped from the Mobile County Jail. A white Mobile policeman fired a shotgun blast into his back as he tried to escape his mother's house, which was surrounded by police. After we arrived in town, we read accounts at the Mobile Press Register of the arrests of three white men on charges of murder in the Donald death. They are Ralph Hayes, 23, and two brothers, Jimmy Edgar, 22, -and Johnny Edgar, 26. Their bond was set at $2$0,0p0. Hayes, a pulpwood worker, was paroled in 1978 from convictions for burglary and possession of marijuana. Jimmy Edgar was paroled in 1979 after serving a year of a twenty month sentence for burglary ' and carnal knowledge. Beyond this informa tion, nowhere could I find profiles of the alleged killers. There was no evidence that either of the; town's two daily papers was investigating and reporting reasons for the lynching and its after math. This was striking irony since Michael Donald was described by all who knew him as "clean-cut'.' and "industrious." Besides working part-time for the Press Register, he studied brickmasonry at the local ' technical institute. On April 1, I was talk ing with WBLX radio news reporter Paul Mykals when our conver sation was interrupted by a caller with a tip that a black inmate in the jail in Chickasaw (near Mobile) had been found hanged and dead in his cell. It turned out that Cleophus Powell had been found by jailers the night before. Powell, 31, was serving ten days for shoplifting. Two days earlier in Slidell, Ala., another Afro-American was found hanging in a jail. In both "hangings," .. authorities claimed suicide, Powell's mother said the day before her- son; was found dead, ' she had visited him and be was in good spirits, v Then, while we were in: Mobile, a Mobile Afro-! 'v American was fired as the1 top official in the Alabama Department ofy Pensions and Security.! There had been a dispute, over welfare cuts between: him and Alabama Gover-: nor Fob James. Cooper was fired after Afro Americans on his board" were removed by James Blacks across the state: protested. , Then I heard on the; town's grapevine that; black and white, students, had fought the previous day at Shaw High School in predominantly white West Mobile. The fight ... reportedly began after, empty nooses were found , hanging at the school. ; WBLX reporter Paul; Mykal said he learned that two other noose-hangings I had occurred two days!, earlier at Davidson High! School. The earlier in-j cidents had gone unreported by the daily j papers. School officials i dismissed all the noose in-! cidents as childish pranks. Meantime, parents alerted me to letters children had brought home from Booker T. Washington and Bessie C. Fonnville Schools warning them to beware of a vehi cle with a white male who; was attempting to pick up' children after school. School officials said the letter was a "precautiona r,y measure", in view of thV Atlanta murders. In the wake of these j reports from the schools, I had to think about a meeting of the Mobile Board of Education, which Judy Hand had at tended. Dr. Dan Alex ander, the board chair man, had protested a U.S. Department of Education dictum to desegregate the schools. He claimed the edict was "forced race mixing.' .. Alexander was the at torney for four white children whose parents defied a federal judge's order to send them to an integrated school fifteen miles from their home in Buckeye, Louisiana, a few. months ago. I talked with Mrs. Beulah Donald, Michael Donald's mother. Long before her son was lynch ed on March 21, her spiritJ had been lynched as she! reached adulthood in Mobile. Her father was a lumber mill worker and her mother a washwoman. Shortly before her son's death, she was "lynched" North Carolina Recorded Victims of Lynching Peter Bazemore Robert Berrier Mack Bess Joseph Black David Boone J. A. Burris Robert Charmers Jack Dillingham Kinch Freeman Harrison Gillespie John Gillespie Nease Gillespie William Harris Luw' -n . .lomas Johnson Henry Jones Thomas Jones Joseph Riser Isaac Lincoln Joseph McNeely Robert Melker John Moore Oliver Moore Lyman Purdee Hezekiah Rankin George Ratcliffe John Richards George Ritter John Sigmond Frank Stack George Taylor James Walker Nathan Willis James Wilson Thomas Whitson Unknown Negro Lewiston, March 26, 1918 Lexington, October 25, 1880 , Nearland, September 8, 1891 Kinston, April 5, 1916 Morganton, September 11, 1889 Albemarle, June 12, 1892 Cranberry, April 22, 1896 Salisbury, August 6, 1906 Winton, December 24, 1890 Salisbury, June 11, 1902 Salisbury, August 6, 1906 Salisbury, August 6, 1906 Asheville, November 15, 1906 Wadesboro, August 21, 1901 Concord, March 29, 1 897 Harps Cross, January 1 1, 1899 Seven Springs, August 25, 1902 Concord, May 29, 1897 Fort Madison, June 2, 1893 Charlotte, August 26, 1913 Cherry ville, April 13, 1941 Clarkton, August 27, 1905 Tarboro, August 19, J930 Elizabethtown, May 3, 1892 Asheville, September 25, 1891 Clyde, March 4, 1900 Goldsboro, January 12, 1916 Carthage, March 22, 1900 Stanley Creek, September 9, 1889 Morganton, September 1 1, 1889 Rolesville, November 5, 1918 Washington, March 25, 1902 Town Creek, November 27, 1897 Wendell, January 27, 1914 Asheville, February 24, 1893 Pocket Township, January 6, 1893 again this time by a - i welfare case worker who told her erroneously that" because of the cutbacks being ; sought ' by the Reagan " administration, : t her food stamps, y medicare, and subsistence, check had already been! cut back. The last time I saw her, her medicine prescribed for hypertension had run out. Her housing authori ty manager was threaten-' ing her with higher rent, ; after press reports on her; son's death disclosed that I he had held a part-time job to earn spending change and lunch money. , There's not much in! Mobile to make one hopeful for the future but as I talked with Mrs.: Donald, I felt a glimmer of hope as I recalled a meeting that had happen ed the day before. Heads of Mobile County's social service agencies had met to plan organizing against those budget cuts that threaten the existence of Mrs. Donald and so many .others. The agency heads 'were planning letter writing, mass meetings and other action. I. And meantime, Judy; Hand had been meeting! with white church leaders, , Jabor organizers, and: Other whites discussing with them the idea of a public statement express ing outrage at racist violence and institutional racism. That statement will probably be published soon. In the Afro-American' community, local NAACP leader Dr.! Robert Guillard was call ing on people to "keep cool." But several black leaders were con templating a boycott of the Chickasaw community and of several major stores in Mobile until racist violence ceases. Others discussed boycot ting one of Mobile's ma jor banks and asking blacks to remove accounts to the town's black-owned bank. The sentiments of grass root Afro-Americans could be summed up by Two Unknown Negroes Pitt County, May 1 1 , 1 899 Unknown Negro Forest City, September 1 , 1900 Unknown Negro Seaboard, May 19, 1904 Unknown Negro Pine Level, January 12, 1908 Unknown Negro Charlotte, May 26, 19)0 Unknown Negro Pelham, October 8..1910 jJof Louis' ' (Continued from Front) ' kind of drag on his gloves This conjecture ; was neither proved nor disproved to the satisfac tion of Joe Louis fans un-. til Louis put Schmeling .away in a resounding first round knockout in Yankee. Stadium, New York, on June 22, 1938. During his seventeen years as a boxer, Louis ad ded up a 68-3 record in cluding 54 knockouts. During fen years"? of his spectacular career, the record read thus: June 22, 1937 Joe Louis knocked out Brad dock, 8 rds. Chicago; . August 30, 1937 Louis defeated Tommy Farr, 15 rds, Yankee Stadium; February 23, 1938 Louis knocked out Nathan Mann, 3 rds, Madison Square Garden; April 1, 1938 Louis knocked out ' Harry Thomas, 5 rds, Chicago; 81-year-old tenant leader and retired school teacher, Mrs. Annie McGrue. Speaking at a Martin Luther King memorial ser vice on April 4 in Prichard ; near Mobile, she said: "These are moving times." She concluded that blacks in Mobile are heading back into slavery. Casmara Mani, at the same meeting, urged black unity and action and a progressive response from the white communities to combat the racist violence and racist mentality which, he said, "permeates America." "If intelligent white people do not take a stand against racism, we are go ing to have a Miami on our hands," Mani said. "I am speaking from moving around in the streets, talk ing to the project people, talking to the brothers off the avenues. People are fed up, and if they don't see somebody taking an initial move, you are going to start to find, people busted in the head and stabbed in the back out of the white community." SAT., APRIL 18. 1S31 June "22," 1938 Louis knocked out Max Schmel ing; 1 rd, Yankee Stadium; January 23, 1939 Louis knocked out John Henry Lewis, 1 rd, Madison Square Garden; April 17, 1939-Louis1 knocked out Jack Roper, 1 rd, Los Angeles; June 28, 1939 Louis knocked out Tony Galen to, 4 rds, Yankee Stadium; September 20, 1939 Louis knocked out Bob Pastor, 1 1 rds, Detroit; February 9, 1940 Louis outpointed Arturo Godoy, 15 rds, Madison Square Garden; March 29, 1940 Louis knocked out Johnny Paychek, 2 rds, Madison Square Garden; June 20, 1940 Louis knocked out Arturo Godoy, 8 rds, Yankee Stadium; December 16, 1940 Louis knocked out Al McCoy, 6 rds, Boston; January 31, 1941 Louis knocked out Red Burman, 5 rds, Madison Square Garden; February 17, 1941 Louis knocked out Gus Dorazio, 2 rounds, Philadelphia. March 21, 1941 Louis knocked out Abe Simon, 13 rds, Detroit; April 8, 1941 Louis knocked out Tony Musto, 9 rds, St. Louis; May 23, 1941 Louis knocked out Buddy Baer, 7 rds, Washington, D.C.; June 18, 1941 Louis knocked out Billy Conn, 13 rds, Polo Grounds, N.Y.; September. 29, 1941 Louis knocked out LOu Nova, 6 rds, Polo Grounds, N.Y.; January 9, 1942 Louis knocked out Buddy Baer, 1 rd, Madison Square Garden; March 27, 1942 Louis knocked out Abe Simon, 6 rds, Madison Square Garden; June 19, 1946 Louis knocked out Billy Conn, 8 rds, Yankee Stadium; September 18, 1946 Louis knocked but . Tami Mauriella, 1 rd, Madison Square Garden; December . 5, 1947 Louis outpointed Jersey Joe Walcott, IS rds, Madison Square .Garden. Louis spent the World War II yean in the Army. His contributions to the United States Government were numerous, including huge, outright financial gifts. He was, in later life, hounded by the govern ment and Internal Revenue for taxes. His first retirement from box ing was announced in March, 1949. A need for funds sent him back into the ring against Ezzard Charles on September 27, 1950 where he was beaten in a 15-round bout. Two months later, he was back in the ring again, this time with some bittersweet vic tories. On October 26, 1951, Rocky Marciano knocked Louis out in the eighth, bringing his ring career to an end. Joe Louis Barrow was Mrs. Weaver I Observes 90th Birthdate Mrs. Mamie Weaver of Brant Street observed ber -90th birthday anniversary ! on April 9., In addition to numerous . gifts, visits and cards from family and friends, Mrs. Weaver got a telephone call from her youngest son, Edward Troy Weaver, who is in Saudi Arabia. buried Wednesday among this country's honored at , Arlington National Cemetery, in the Nation's Capitol. DENTURE WEARERS A major advancement CUSHION GRIP DENTURE ADHESiVE one application holds comfortably up to i days. 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