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Theßole Os the Negro Newspaper Black Women Outdoing Men In Economic Advancement Special Bureau Os Census Study Re weals Takeover WASHINGTON - Negro wo men have been found to be mak ing a lot more economic pro gress than Negro men. According to a special Bureau of the Census study of social and economic trends in the na tion’s 212 major metropolitan area since 1960, the propor tion of Negro women in white collar jobs has risen from 21 to 33 per cent from IS 59 to 1967. By comparison, toe percent age of Negro men in white collar jobs remained at 21 per cent. Central-city Negro men who worked year- round earned a bout 71 per cent of what their white counterparts made in both 1959 and 1967. But Negro women, during that period, raised t‘ eir proportion from 59 to 73 per cent. The study otherwise reported a mixed picture of boti Negro economic gains and setbacks in the nation’s cities. One of ihe more significant gains is the decline in the number of poor people- both Black and white. Put the num ber of poor whites dropped 38 per cent between 1959 and 1967, compared to 21 per cent for Negroes. In cities, there were 3.‘-mil lion poor Negroes in 1967, com pared to 4.1 -million in 1579. By comparison, the number oi poor whites in the central cities dropped from 7.1-million in 1959 to 4.7-million in 1967. In New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, t! e number of poor Black people rose l-'tween 1959 and 1967. The serve., however, did not explain whet :er this rise was due to the in-’ .igra tlon of pool people or to in creasing poverty. On a brighter not , central city Negro families’ median in come rose 28 percent from $4,- 397 in 1959 to §5,623 In 1967-- based on dollars of equivalent purchasing power. By comparison, wh it efr mi lies’ income rose less from $7,- 160 to $8,294. In other good news, Negro families’ income increased INSURANCE o RENTALS o SALES TERRACE INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY «34 KILL STREU T T B. JILLS, Mgr. 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C. | from 61 per cent of white fami lies; income in 1959 to 68 per cent 2967, The increase in rel ative Negro income was most pronounced in the South. There was also a dramatic increase in the proportion of Negro families with higher in comes.” Seven per cent of Blackfami lies in central cities had in comes of SIO,OOO or more in 1959, compared to 18 per cent in 1967. <. But there were also these gloomy findings ’ --Negro teenagers' unem ployment has risen from 22.7 per cent in 1960 to 30.4 per cent In 1967. --Black men’s income lags behind whites; as much as 16 to 35 per cent. --The percentage of urban Negro families with both a hus band and a wife decreased from 73 to C 6 per cent between 1969 and 1967. $50,000 Gift To St. Paul’s LAWRENCEVILI.E, Va. - President Earl H. McClenney of Saint Paul’s College here announced last week a single gift of $50,000 from an unan nounced source on the eve of a drive for $135,000 for special projects, and two major changes in the institution’s administra tive setup. Approved last fall by the col lege’s board of trustee, the campaign will be formally launched during observance of Founder’s Weekend, March 14- 36. Chairman of the fund-raising committee is Charles A. Carr, a Saint Paul’s trustee and chair man of the board of Dibrell Bros., Inc , Danville, Va. The $135,000 is sought to make possible additional faculty-staff housing, the ex pansion of student facilities, in- EXPANDS BLACK BUSINESS-A r! hu r T. Gist. Jr., left, president of black-owned Kili manjaro African Coffee. Inc., New York City, importers and processors of coffee products, is now conducting a nationwide our establish ing distributorships for his firm. IV a Iks with his brother. Berman Gist of Greensboro, re cently named distributor for North an 1 South Carolina and border points in Virginia. Both are graduates of A&T State University. Teacher Still Important Part Os NCC’s Program DURHAM - A tentative calendar released this week by the North Carolina College Summer School office reveals that teachers are still expect ed to compose an important part of the summer student body. The Department of Education offers the widest range oi course offerings, a total of 40 and of these only six are at the undergraduate level. All ter: of the courses offered in this department during the six-week intersession beginning June 23 are at the graduate leve. The intersession, which be gins two weeks after the re gular summer session of nine weeks, is in fact exclusively or graduate students, most if not all of whom are teachers whose schools closed later t han the beginning of the regular ses sion. Two undergraduate mathematics courses will be of fered, but they are mathematics for the elementary school teacher and algebraic sym- St. Aug. Presents Black Rhythmic Choir Here Fri. The Student Council of Saini Augustine’s College will pi e sent in concert on Marc! 2), lri the Emery Health and Fine Arts Building, the Black Rhythmic Choir from Washing ton, D. C., at 8 p,m. The Black Rhythmic Choir is Intended for spiritual growth and to help lead others to new religious horizions through symbolic movement of song and dance. Members of the Choir are high school and college students as well as professional musicians. Mrs. Gwendolyn H. Jennifer, instructor of music at Saint Augustine’s, is a mem creased resources for student financial .aid, and certain de layed repairs and maintenances requirements. mmmmmm «■■■■■■ • TIHES w „ . • BATTERIES «ep our «r ® AUTO ACCESSORIES * WASHING fjtePhk y 4r K^Ji X * LUBRICATION I# <@ OFFICIAL Licensed L Inspection Station I Credit Cards Honored DUNN’S mo SES«CtmtS See Us For Complete Car Care! DIAL 852-8486 SO2 S, BLOOBWOKTH ST. I C ’ holism for the elemental’ 5 school teacher. The old concept of summer school as a tin.* to make up courses failed seems to have gone by the boar is. Those old bugaboos, mathematics - and English, are not heavily re presented in the program foi the summer. English composi tion in only scheduled for two sections; as are two sections of fundamentals of mathematics and college algebra. Courses a:e offered in every department of the college ex cept for German, Latin, and Philosophy. Afro-American Studies pro grams offered include a course in Afro-American music, a course in poetry and prose by- American Negroes. In addition the intersession will offer a course in selected problems in Negro history, ar, institute in Negro literature and history will be offered, and an insti tute on Afro-American Geo graphy will be conducted. ber of tlie Choir. Each, choreographic inter pretation used attempts to pro vide the participants the per formers and audience--witt: a feeling that they have had their sights lifted, theii imaginations challenged. Funds from this activity will be donated to the Student Union Fund and Building Program at Saint Augustine’s College. For further information, contact Donnell M. Morris, president of the Student Council, or Miss P.ebecca C. Weatherford, ad viser. ** * France and Soviet agree to double trade. * * * Cons u m e r panel criticizes warranties. "Freedom’s Journal” Was First Paper,l42 Years Ago I Y CHAS H. LOEB During the week beginning March 16,1969, Neero editors and publishers tinoughout the nation will mark the 142nd an niversary of the founding of the I OfNDER JOHN B. RUSSWURM . .First American Negro Editor First Negro American College Graduate FREDERICK DOUCEASS ADVOCATE ERI DERICK DO CGI ASS first Negro newspaper, Free dom’s Journal” on March 16,1827. P was on that day that John B. Russwurm, a Audentat Bowdoln Coliege, and the Rev. Samuel Cornish met in the home of Bostin Crummell to launch their two-man enterprise. In setting forth, in their first editorial, the objectives which prompted the publication, the editors said “In presenting our first num ber of our patrons, we leel ail the diffidence of persons entering upon a new and untried line ofbusiness. Buta moment's reflection upon the noble ob jects which we have in view’ by the publication of this Journal, the expediency of its appearance at this time, when so many schemes are in action concerning our people - encour age us to come boldly before an. enlightened public. For we believe that a paper devoted to the dissemination of useful knowledge among our bretheren, and to their moral and religious improvement, must meet the cordial approbation of every friend of Humanity.” ' We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has tm public been deceived by mis representation in things which concern us dearly, though In the estimation of some mere trifiies; for though there are many in society who exercise towards us benevolent feelings, -—— Oj&I Boone 1 "ST fW Ml 86 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON ||KR| WHISKEY 1 Qmjßoo* t t „„„ *; ™ckv >OSO JAOO sthamny ißVftfoo wwtwn Pi NT 4/5 QUART old »oe*r o!ariu.e«vco C * CHARCOAL FILTERED ilfea. ?•&* »*•* IM* 0* <<•*•«*•« ~ f|i 'p«»4 the OLD BOOMS DISTILLERY Mtadowlawn, Kentucky still (with sorrow we confess it) there are others who make it their business to enlarge upon the least trifle which tends to the discredit of -any person of color. . “In the spirit of candor arid humility, we intend by a simple representation of acts to lay our case before the public, with a view to arrest the progress of prejudice, and to shield our selves against the consequent evils.” Like many of the Negro journals to follow, “Freedom’s Journal” was largely a one-, and endeavor with extremely limited circulation, and seldom, if ever, profitable. It served a purpose in an age when the black man’s quest for freedom upon the spoken word, the flaming rhetoric of black orators, of which the great Frederick Douglass was the most superb. Negro historians have broken down the field of Negro ora’ory into three periods. The first from 1619 tc 1832; the second from 1833, and the third from 1863 to the present. Douglass, whose ac tivities on the platform occured in the second - and most glorious period - is regarded as the finest of a group that included Charles Lennox Remond, Samuel Ringold Ward, J.W.C.Pennington, Henry Highland Garnet, William Wells Brown, Sojourner Truth, Luns ford Lane and others. The smoother platform presentations and better diction had been preceded by an illit erate but powerfully eloquent group of black preachers who crusaded for freedom from the pulpit. A few of the outstanding ones Included Uncle Jack, Lemuel Haynes, Andrew Bryan, Henry Evans, Black Harry, John Stewart, Lott Carey, Absolem Jones, and Richard Allen, foun der of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. With no es tablished Negro Press, few of their speeches were ever re corded, and the South's reaction following the Nat Turner insur rections, so rigidly curbed re ligious organizations and preaching tliat none of these first-period orators had Douglass’ chance to reach a national audience". Douglass, better than his con tern poraries, had a keen sense of awareness of the physical lim'taUons of a one-man cru sade. He was one of the earliest of great American Negroes to appreciate the power of the press, and it was this instru ment, which spread his philoso phy throughout the nation and the world, and which brought him into possession of political influence. Douglass Interest the news papter field on his return from England, determined to dedicate his life to the anti-slavery movement. He settled i n Rochester, N.Y. and edited the "North Star” in which he wrote for the enduring record, power ful editorials against salvery. Combining his newspaper propaganda with his matchless arguments from public plat forms during the Civil War, Douglass worked for the broad ening of the aim 3 of the struggle against slavery, defended the Union, and urged the enlistment of Negro soldiers in the THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N C.. SATURDAY. MARCH i * Northern armies. As the leading figure among the Negro people, he was called into conference by President LlncoLn several times. Finally the president agreed to enlist Negro troops, and Douglass issued his famous clarion call to the Negro people to take up arms. They responded in great numbers and Douglass’ two sons were among the first to enlist in what was later to become the famous 54th and 55th Massassachusetts Regiments. While today most Negronews papers are profit making ven tures, must of them printed in modern plants and employing thousands of trained Jounalists and technicians, the motivation of the press and its crusading spirit is still m ilded in the pattern of Russwurm and Douglass. Negro newspapers are read regularly by nearly four m ’- llon Negroes each week, most of them between the ages of 18 and 49. These newspapers are the primary source of informa tion in the all - important area of employment. They have a belieabtllty that other news papers do not have, for they are the only media that expres ses the Negro point of vie w on community affairs which is recognizable and accepted by Negro readers. Negroes rely aim d completely upon their newspapers for social and re ligious news, and are the major source of positive news aboT the Negro’s contributions to the American way of life. Negro newspapers devote more space to Negro progress than all other newspapers com bined, and growing circulation reflects the growing apprecia tion of the Negro newspaper’s role by its readers. Though there is no central organization that sets policy for Negro newspapers, the Na fional Newspaper Publishers Association has served mem ber-newspapers as a forum and research arm since 1940. Its membership reflects about 30 percent of the total circu lation atnang Negro newspapers in the U lited States, with most oi the largest ones enrolled as members. Back In 1949, the late Thomas W, Young, then business man ager of the Norfolk Journal and TEffisSsr | SERVICES ; * ? INTEREST ONLY K % new Var I J LOANS i AUTOMOBILE LOANS ji Keep the cost of a new car down by using a bank finance plan. You pay only reasonable bank loan rates and improve your credit standing in the community. Say My Friendly Bank, That means \ the same as our signature below. Let l us be your bank for all your banking i needs ... in a ‘Soul-Fashion’ wav. MECHANICS ANB FARMERS BANK J Large enough to serve you . . . Small enough to know you. RALEIGH—DURHAM—CHARLOTTE Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation u Guide, reiterated the chief aim - of the Negro pres: Said Young “The chief aim of the Negro pr-ess is to maintain a united front to protest and expose every condition inconsisten l with the dein era tic concepts w? all treasure, and to give coverage to that news of the Negro population which is ig nored and distorted by white , papers, Young stated that the Negro press serves to inspire the race to greater accomplish ment by publishing news of out standing achievements and strives for greater cooperation and unity between white ani Negro newspapers. Since Russwurm and Dong lass' times, tlie issues • changed somewhat, but so Ion: as inequities exist in t; , work of Aim rican justice, tl,f Negro Press »ill remain tin most strident voice in the cru side for freedom. WINS DANFORTH FELLOW SHIP - Miss Sandra A. Can ton; senior English major AAT State University, last became tie first aat studo:' to win a prestigious Danfort’ Foundat ion Fellowship ft> graduate study. Miss Carlto. a native of V .rsaw, won > award in com; t iti on v.iti l,or other college riiors. 11
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