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thttribunal aid VOLUME 1, NO. 20 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1973 SERVICE TO ALL 15 CENTS PRESS RUN 5000 HIGH POINT THOMASVILLE WINSTON-SALEM In Flute Recital jg Coiiduct Revival Services Miss Linda Parker, ter’s Degree from the Johnella Lucas Edmonds daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W.C. Parlcer will be presented in a flute recital on October 14, 1973 at the First Baptist Church on East Washington Street at 6:00 P.M. Miss Parker is a graduate of William Penn High School. She received her B.S. degree in Music Education at A cfe T. State University and her Mas- University of Iowa in Iowa City. She has traveled in Europe with the Virginia State College Band and served as Director of the Summer Music Institute at Virginia State College. She is presently an instructor in flute at Virginia State College in Petersburg, Virginia. Miss Parker will be accompanied by Mrs. who is an instructor in piano and voice at Virginia State College. Mrs. Ed monds received her Bach elor of Music Education from Howard University and the Master of Music degree from Catholic Uni versity in Washington, D.C. Also performing with Miss Parker will be her niece, Lavonne McCall. A&T Foundation Speaker GREENSBORO, N.C.— Congressman Andrew Young of Georgia will be the keynote speaker for a Black Tie Dinner to be sponsored by the A&T University Foundation Nov ember 9, 1973. The dinner, which will serve as a salute to the university’s alumni, friends and corporate supporters, will be held at 6:00 p.m. in the Hilton Inn. Marshall Colston, secre tary of the foundation, said that 400 invitations have been issued for the dinner, one of the major community efforts in the foundation’s current $4 Vi million campaign. He said a progress report on the drive will be presented at the dinner. Contributions reported this week totaled $32,535. The amount included $26,000 from Dow Chemi cal USA, $3,300 from the Amoco Foundation, $2100 from the Boeing Vertol Company and $1,135 from Western Electric. Congressman Young first gained fame as the executive assistant for the late Dr. Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. For nearly 10 years, Young was instrumental in organizing voter registra tion drives across the South. He participated in most of the historic marches with Dr. King and he also helped in the drafting of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. When Young won the general Congressional e- lection in 1972, he became the first black Congress man from Georgia since 1871. Congressman Young serves on the House Banking and Currency Committee. Revival Services will begin at the Calvary Baptist VAfM Church Sunday, October SSSi 14th through the 19th. Evangelist for the week will be the Rev. James D Ballard, pastor of the United metroploitan Bap- tist Church of Winston SS:::: Salem, N.C. Schedule of nightly i::::::::* services is as follows: Prayer & Song Service 7:00-8:15 Preaching 8:30 The Reverend James D Ballard, the son of Mrs J.H. Ballard and the late Reverend J. H. Ballard was born and reared in High Point, North Carolina, ^ receiving his elementary and secondary education m that city. Immediately upon being graduated from the William Penn High School, he served four years in the United States Air Force as assistant chaplain, having been licensed to preach by \ the First Missionary Bap tist Church of Biloxi, Mississippi. While in the Air Force, he served tours of duty in the Philippines, Still Being Fired REV. J. D. BALLARD Formosa, and Turkey with intermittent short stays in Germany, Italy, and Greece. After being discharged from military service. Reverend Ballard, ordained bv the Rowan Baptist Association of North Caro lina, served as assistant pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church of High Point, while attending Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. While at Shaw, he was an honor student selected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, inducted into the Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society, sang in the University Chorale Society, worked with the student govern ment, taught in the Sunday school of the University Church, was chaplain of his Freshman Class, president of his Sophomore Class, and was graduated with the A.B. degree as salutatorian of his class in 1962. From Shaw University, Reverend Ballard moved to Duke University in Dur ham, North Carolina where he became the first Negro to enter the Divinity School. While at Duke, he was a three time recipient of a Rockefeller Grant for The ological Education, an award given annually to twenty-five students in the United States and Canada. He was graduated in 1966, receiving the M. Div. degree as one of the top ten (10) students in a class of !77 students. From 1959 through 1965 Reverend Ballard was pastor of the First Institu tional Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, North Car olina. In August of 1965, he was instrumental in effect ing a merger between the First Institutional Baptist Church and the West End Baptist Church, another church in Winston-Salem, thus becoming the pastor and founder of the new United Metropolitan Bap tist Church. Reverend Ballard is married to the former Miss Eleanor Pearl Adams, and the two have one son, Derek Durrell. Racism At Floodtide WASHINGTON, D.C.— Unless concerted action is taken, progress toward racial harmony can be slow and tortuous in a commun ity where the scars of past violence and polarization have not fully healed. That is the central message of “Cairo—Racism at Floodtide,” a major publication focusing on conditions in Alexander County, Illinois, which was issued today by the U.S. Commission on Civil - Rights. Written by Paul Good, a journalist and author who specializes in human rights subjects, the book is based on hearings held by the Commission last year in Cairo and on subsequent interviews designed to update the information. Cairo, located at the southern tip of Illinois, was the scene of repeated clashes between white and black elements from 1967 to 1972. Groups organized under such banners as the "White Hats” and “Black United Front” brought contervailing pressures. - Charges and counterchar ges flew involving discrim ination in housing, employ ment, health care and other aspects of living in “Little Egypt." As recently as September 14, 1973, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit charging the Alexander County Housing Authority with unlawfully segregat ing tenants by race. It asked the U.D. Disrict Court in Danville. Illinois, to enjoin the housing authority from perpetuat ing segregated housing, and to require correction of the effects of past discrim inatory practices. The book published today recounts that the Commission’s effort to find the facts about public housing segregation in Cairo was “ a trail through a bureaucratic labyrinth sim ilar to many encountered in other hearings where a high tolerance among public officials for broken civil rights law is every where in evidence.” Despite public attention generated by the hearing, conditions have changed little in Cairo, a city 40 percent black. Barely 10 percent, of the city government employees are black, and the fire department remains all- white, Good reports. Local dentists, he writes, do not treat black patients, who must rely exclusively on the services of a black dentist who flies in from Chicago for a portion of each week--while the pa tients hope that toothaches do not develop at other times. Author Good concludes his book with these observations: “During the hearings, one listened in vain when State and Federal officials testified, to hear a tone of outrage in their voices at conditions in Cairo. Some sign that they were offended, first as human beings and then as Americans, that color could tear a town and the people in it apart. But the capacity for outrage over racism seemed to have deserted them, if they ever posses sed it “Their attitudes, per haps. are understandable at a time when national leaders are not above using code words that are really racist shibboleths, as they practice their politics. The officials take their cue from those on top and when ‘leaders’ choose to lead backwards subordinates... follow... “Cairo whites have been conditioned to act the way they do by their total American experience. They have been getting a message from Washington and Springfield for the last 100, the last 50, and the last 4 years. With varying degrees of explicitness, that message has been: Racial equality laws are an inevitable legal outgrowth of the Constitution but enforcement will be satis fied with apparent, not essential, change... “Racism isn’t regional today and never has been. That is an American truth as evident on a Cairo levee as it is on Broadway. Whether this truth turns the American Dream into the American Tragedy depends on the national conscience and will. No Commission can judge that. But ultimately, that will determine the future of Cairo, the fate of us all.” The Commission is an independent, bipartisan, factfinding agency con cerned with the rights of minorities and women. Vice Chairman Stephen Horn is President of California State University, Long Beach. Other mem bers of the Commission are Mrs. Frankie M. Freeman, a St. Louis attorney; Dr. Maurice B. Mitchell. Chan cellor of the University of Denver; Robert S. Rankin. Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and Manuel Ruiz, Jr., a Los Angeles attorney. John A. Buggs is Staff Director. Courts Little Help Expo '73 Great Experience To Black Teachers WASHINGTON, D C.—Racial discrimination in the dismissal or demotion of black teachers and black principals continues to be extensive in the South even though a 1969 court decree strictly banning such practices has been the official guideline, the National Education Association and the Mississippi Teachers Association have declared. Analyzing statistics of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), some of which had not previously been published, NEA and MTA informed the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans, that many school districts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi “have deliberately depleted the ranks of their black teaching forces:” Analyzing statistics of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), some of which had not previously been published, NEA and MTA informed the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans, that many school districts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi “have deliberately depleted the ranks of their black teaching forces.” DATA FROM three-fourths of the districts in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi show a decline of more than 2,500 black teachers between 1968 (the year im mediately prior to the start of meaningful desegregation) and 1972 (latest available figures). During the same period, there was an increase of 3,387 white teachers in these districts. Data from 70 percent of the districts in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi show that between 1968 and 1972 these districts eliminated almost 2() percent of their black prin- cipalships while increasing their white principalships by 6 percent. THE FIGURES on depletion of black educators are included in a friend of the court brief filed last week with the circuit court 6v NKA and-the MTA, its state affiliate. The associations are supporting three black teachers and a black assistant principal who were terminated by the Columbia, Miss., school board in 1970. The case is designated Willie McLaurin v. The Columbia Municipal Separate School District. The educators allege that they were discriminatorily discharged and that the school district failed to comply with the Singleton decree which requires school districts un dergoing desegregation in the Fifth Circuit to select any educator for discharge on the basis of objective and reasonable, nondiscriminatory standards. IN AUGUST 1971 the U.S. District Court in Hattiesbury, Miss., ruled that the educators were validly dismissed for cause and that Singleton’s Plans Minority Hiring Programs The Department of Labor has taken steps to give more help to Federal contractors who are requir ed to develop affirmative action plans for increasing employment opportunities of minority and women workers. The Department’s Office of Federal Contract Com pliance (OFFCC) and the Manpower Administration are working together to make standardized packets of local workforce data available to contractors across the country. “Furnishing localized in formation packets to Fed eral contractors is another step toward the goal of equal employment oppor tunity for the Nation for the nation’s workers,” said Peter J. Brennan, Secretary of Labor. Brennan reiterated the Labor Department’s com mitment to equal employ ment opportunity, and said, “It particularly benefits the low-income workers, wo- Continued on Page 7 By Delores Mitchell ‘People, peopTe, and more people.’ These words describe PUSH Expo ‘73 recently held in Chicago’s International Amphithea ter. Rev. Jesse Jackson, Director of PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) emphatically said in a statement of Expo’s suc cess, “I think the most significant part of Expo itself was the fact it was able to pull together colleges from practically all over the country. We have raised the issue of saving the Black colleges to its highest level and I feel Expo is quite a success.” Black Expo is the annual exposition of Black busi ness. However, this year, the Expo emphasized cultural and scientific achievements as well. The theme of Black Expo was “Save the Black Colleges” and several universities were represented including A&T. Many Black and several white businesses were sponsored in PUSH Expo ‘73. Their purpose was to show Black people that there are opportunities available and that we must demand more employment of minority groups in the working force. Rev. Jack son, who, incidentally, is an A&T graduate, stressed that Black sponsors of PUSH Expo must' urge Black businesses which have made significant gains over the last 20 years to move forward to obtain more equality by way of economic and consumer power. An estimated 10 to 15 thousand people turned out to Black Expo. Throngs of junior high, high school and elementary school students kept the amphitheater vigorously alive. Several students stopped by the A&T booth to receive information about entrance requirements. VVanting to see how others viewed the Expo, I talked with some exhibitors as well as the general audience on the success of the event. Mrs. Icie Goodwin representing the Federal Transportation De partment said, “It appears to be a large showcase and its not oriented to small Black businesses.” She added, “I’m not sure if people are getting the real message of Expo.” Tyrone Holmes, a sightseer said, “I haven’t seen too much togetherness, although the people are here.” Joe Lovell, Director of Place ment at Shaw University, explained that according to the theme of PUSH Expo, it has been quite beneficial. He continued by saying, “I feel its beneficial because of its exposure to the Black community of the existence of Black colleges every where. It’s really a privelege and opportunity to be exposed, he said. The loquacious Lovell also added, “Students don’t realize the importance and they aren’t aware of the true significance and ob jective of Black universi ties. By being here to elaborate on the schools’ objectives this should generate more interest on a whole.” Among the keynote speakers for the Black Educators Breakfast were Dr. Benjamin E. Mays and Howard University Presi dent, Dr. James E. Cheek. Dr. Cheek emphasized the point that many Blacks feel that because of the progress we have made over the past 350 years we should stand up and give ourselves a cheer. But the educator forcefully stated. Continued on Page 3 w AUTUMN WITCHCRAFT - Pretty Fayetteville State University senior Virginia Graham is getting “set for the Halloween season by getting her Jack-O-Lantern early. She is an honor student majoring in his tory and political science. Virginia, a native of Pink Hill, N. C., is editor of the student newspaper, THE VOICE. SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPER!
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