Saturday, March 18,1972
Second Section 6 Pages
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Civil Rights Neglect Must Be R i Fear
CONVENTION ASKED TO SET UP NEW POUTICAI UNIT
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HONOR SOCHTY MEMBERS These four
North Carolina Central University students
wert inducted Monday into the North Caro
lina Central chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, a
national history honor society. From left, the
four history majors art Miss Frankie Mc
intosh, a senior from West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Nixon Administration Accu Of
Neglecting Civil Rights By Muskie
WASHINGTON - For the
last three years, the Nixon Ad
ministration has shown Black
America that it was not in
cluded in the President's pro
mise to "Bring us together. No
modern Administration has
done so little for the progress
of civil rights," claimed Sena
tor Edmund S. Muskie. His
statement on the issue of civil
rights continued: "For 11
BROTHERHOOD MEANS SPENDING FOR GOD
Attorney Spaulding P
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Union Baptist Brotherhood
By GEORGE B. RUSS
The 4th Sunday in February
was a bright, crystal clear day;
except for a brisk, . northerly
wind, winter had vanished
from these mundane shores.
And, except for an announce
ment in the out-door Bulletin
Board, Brotherhood, as a fore
most topic of discussion, was
well in the background at
Union Baptist Church. With
everyone except Messers James
and Charles Cameron. These
twins were not hiding their
enthusiasm. The speaker for
the 11 o'clock worship service
is a personal friend of this pair
of twins who are directors' of
the Union Baptist Sunday
School; and, Committeemen
for the 1972 Brotherhood Ob
servance service. "Attorney
Kenneth B. Spaulding is our
guest speaker -• he is very
good - and, he is a very good
friend of ours." The com
mitteemen were sincere in their
plea, however, the congregants
of Union Baptist really aren't
looking forward to seeing and
hearing anyohe in the pulpit
Sunday mornings besides Dr.
Grady D. Davis; but, they will
go along with whatever pro
gram is slated. Therefore, they
had steeled themselves for a
lecture when the tall, slender,
handsome, young man appear
ed in front of the pulpit
after a splendid introduction
by Mr. Charles Cameron.
Attorney S either
a good psychologist or the
Christian tone that cropped up
his speech is genuine.
The tall, erect, handsome,
nattily dressed speaker had
Miss Brenda Mitchell, a junior front Atoskie;
Miss Janis Wiggins, a senior 1 from Wilming
ton; end John A. Hill, a junior from Ay den.
Membership in the honor society reflects
superior achievement by his majors both in
ano out of departmental courses, according
to Oaulbert A. Jones, faculty advisor.
months the President ducked
demands that he meet with the
Black Caucus in Congress. For
the 11 months since the meet
ing ha has evaded action on the
demands the Caucus presented
to him. Black officials find
themselves powerless outsiders
in a Republican Washington
where the Justice Department
now enters desegregation cases
in order to slow down the
eye-appeal; so Tar, so good.
His conversational tone of
voice was pleasing to the ear;
two good points is the speak
er's favor. Then it happened,
Mr. Spaulding explained that,
due to a busy schedule, he
had been on the verge of not
sccepting the invitation, but
after talking his situation over
with his mother and she had
encouraged him to accept the
speaking engagement, he had
heeded her advice. Here was ai
Salary and Wage Survey to
Be Made in the Durham Area
The Durham area is one of
93 important industrial centers
throughout the Nation in
whteh the U. S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics is conducting
a major wage survey during the
1971-72 period, according to
Brunswick A. Baddon, South
eastern Regional Director.
In order to update and ex
pend statistics on salaries and
wages, the Bureau started Mon
day, March 13, its April 1972
survey of the Durham metro
politan area. Mr. Bagdon stated
that Information will be
secured from approximately
65 firms in manufacturing;
transportation, communica
tion, and other public utilities;
wholesale trade; retail trade;
finance, insurance, and real es
tate; and services, representing
about 24,000 workers in the
Durham area. These establish
ments will be requested to
provide earnings in informa
tion for office, professional
and technical, maintenance and
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pace of school integration.
So the first priority for civil
rights in 1972 Is to bring a
Democrat, committed to jus
tice and deoens opportunities
for all Americans, to the
White House. To do that we
must have a candidate who can
unite the whole country. We
cannot afford to lose this elec
tion by voting for symbols in-
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real human interest story, heart
warming and soul-touching.
You could feel the effervising
hearts of hundreds of mothers
going out to the young man.
The audience was ready to
hear the speaker.
Had the attorney continued
talking about the mother and
son relationship, he would
have had an attentive audience
but he was here to share the
fellowship and deliver a Bro-
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powerplant, and custodial and
material-movement occupa
tions. In addition to salary
and wage date, information
will be secured on supplemen
tary wage provisions, including
paid holidays; health, in
surance, and pension plans; and
formal paid vacations.
Results of this survey will
enable business and industry,
labor, and government agencies
to make salary and wage com
parisons between various occu
pations, between industries,
and between Durham and
other important metropolitan
areas, and will providt current
data to meet the continuing
demand from the general pub
lic for wage information on
community lewis.
The report will be available
about July. Copies may be ob
tained upon request to U. S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Suite 540, 1371 Peachtree
Street, NE., Atlanta, Georgia
30309.
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA
C onyers Ask Conve
Up Program To Elect More Blacks
An Independent
Black Political
Unit Called For
Congressman John Conyers
announced his intention to
seek support for the establish
ment of a new political unit
independent of existing organi
zations. In a resolution sub
mitted to the National Black
Convention in Gary, Indiana,
he urged the platform com
mittee to undertake to deve
lop an independent political
apparatus that would selec
tively concern itself with
electing additional Blacks to
office, and at the same time
undertake the responsibility of
challenging incumbent racists
who occupy political office at
all levels in both parties. This is
particularly applicable where
the incumbents have consider
able Black constituencies or
where concentrated Black po
litical activity in a given elec
tion could influence its out
come. Concerted political ac
tivity in both the North and
the South could substantially
increase officials over the cur
rent figure of 2,038, out of
over a half million elective of
fices.
The resolution describes the
recommended political appara
tus as unique since it "could
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Indian Professor Delivers Talk
On Black Kingdom of India
Dr. Vasant D. Rao, an
Indian historian from Fisk Uni
versity, Nashville, Tenn., will
speak at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday,
March 14, at North Carolina
Central University's student
union on "The Black Kingdom
in India."
Dr. Rao's lecture is spon
sored jointly by the NCCU
Forum Committee and the
NCCU Religious Affairs Com
mittee.
The speaker is a native of
Bombay, India, and is the
former head of the department
of history at Ramanarian Ruia
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MAYOR HATCHER
Mayor Richard Hatcher, of
Gary Indiana, hosted the first
National Black Political Con
vention. Approximately 7,000
Blacks attended and drew up
an agenda for 1972 elections.
operate nationally or locally as
necessity would dictate. It
would be a straight out politi
cal operation unencumbered
by the limitations imposed by
the Internal Revenue Service,
the laws regulating non-profit
groups and foundations, and
other similar considerations."
Mr. Conyers observed that
since the Congressional Black
Caucus, the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People, the National
Urban League, the opportuni
ties Industrialization Corpora
tion, and a variety of civil
rights organizations do not as
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SPAULDING
College, Bombay. He wu a
founding member of the Indian
Congress of American Hktory,
and has written numerous
articles on Indian history and
foreign policy.
Dr. Rao has taught at
Utah State College, California
State College, Los Angeles, San
Diego State College, and Wash
ington State University.
According to Dr. Rao, black
rulers held sway in southern
India for many years and con
tributed greatly to the diver
sity of Indian culture.
S. Chisholm
Tells Students
To Be Serious
The first Black woman, the
first serious woman to cam
pa gn for the Office of Presi
dent of the United States of
America, Shirley Chisholm
told more than 1,000 Albany
State College students, "I am
unbought and unbossed."
Mrs. Chisholm was intro
duced as the next President of
the United States. She opened
her remarks by saying "There
are some mixed up and con
fused people, but we need to
get it together."
"The black people of this
country have been hearing
about the American Dream for
so long but do not know
what it means, and asking
what do these phrases really
mean for us, we are sick and
tired of tokenism but see how
far comeism" and this state
ment brought the crowd to
their feet.
The told the audience thai
every four years an important
thing happens In this country
and they need to be a part of
those happenings. The impor
tant thing is the vote, and the
people don't have to make a
choice between tweedle dee
and tweedledum. She made
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Convention Delegates Made Aware Of
Commanist Party Program To Curb Racism
GARY, Ind. Delegates to
the Black Political Convention
held here this week-end, were
made aware of the Communist
Party's program aimed at curb
ing racism and advancing
Black America to a mere equal
status in the United States.
Thousands of copies of the
party's 45-point program were
distributed to the delegates
and observers and to residents
of Gary, and black folks in
the nearby cities of East Chi
Art Museum Schedules Exhibits
N. Carolina Central University
The North Carolina Central
University Art Museum will
preaent an exhibit of 41 paint
ings by Jacob Lawrence, his
"Tousaaint L' Ouverture
aeries," Thursday, March 9,
through Sunday, March 26.
The exhibit had originally been
scheduled to open March 3.
Lawrence, a celebrated
black painter of subjects from
Haitian and Afro-American
history, began at age 20 the
series on the lite of the cele
brated Haitian general who
won that nation's freedom
from France.
In 1940 the series of paint
ings was hailed at the Chica
go Negro Exposition as one of
the most symbolic narratives of
its time.
Since that time, Lawrence
has continued to work with
the theme of black history,
with paintinp such as "The
Migration," "John Brown,"
"Harriett Tubman," and
Local, State and National
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OIL HIMES SPEAKS FOR BROTHER—Dr. Joseph ««■,
center, now a member of the faculty of the Univertity o#
North Carolina at Greensboro, spoke for his brother, novelist
Chester' Himes, seated, during a visit by Chester Himet to
North Carolina Central University recently. Dr. w™—. who
formerly taught at NCCU, aiad his yrothei*s health did not
permit public addretaes. Also shown is Miss Jeanette Pure
foy, who introduced the Himes brothers in hef capacity at
; Miss Student Union.
Panther Denies Perjury Charge
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SAN FRANCISCO
David Hilliard, Black Panther
party chief of staff, pleaded in
nocent Monday to a three-count
federal indictment charging
perjury.
Hilliard, 29, was brought be
fore U.S. District Court Judge
cago and Hammond.
Ishmael Flory, Communist
candidate for Governor of
Illinois, mobilized the distri
bution. He described it as
being "one of the most con
crete and positive programs for
Black Liberation yet devised,"
and declared that "the Com
munist Party is pledged to do
all that is necessary to bring
this program about."
He quoted from a speech
made by Jarvis Tyner, a young
"Frederick Douglass."
According to Davis Driskell
of Fisk University, "The
artist's choice of dealing with
his own people as subjects
grew out of his dedication
and interest in the history of
Black People in the new
world. The struggles that Black
people had to endure in Haiti
and the United States were of
great interest to him and he
has recorded them in narrative
sequence, telling stories of
heroism and bravery, failures
and rears."
The Toussaint L'Ouwrture
series begins with an account
of the discovery of the island
by Columbis in 1492, then
depicts incidents leading up to
Toussaint's victory over
Napoleonic forces and the
Haitian Declaration of Inde
pendence, signed January 1,
1804.
n»e exhibit will be open
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Alpbonso J. Zirpoli from the
Vacaville State Prison where
he is serving a MO year state
prison term in an assault on an
Oakland police officer. Zirpoli
set the next hearing for April
20.
black teamster who is the
Party's candidate for Vice-Pre
sident in the coming election.
Addressing the National Com
munist Party Convention, held
recently in New York, Tyner
said.
"Throughout the centuries
my people have fought for
liberation. Today, the fight for
liberation and equality, for the
most elementary human rights,
has reached a new stage of
militancy and effectiveness.
But the fight cannot be com
pletely won as long as we live
under capitalism, for capita
lism spawns racism inequality
and inhumanity daily. It
thrives on it, cultivates it, re
quires it as a prime instru
ment of division and confusion
to be used against the entire
200 million people it ex
ploits.
"Complete liberation will
be won rapidly when the peo
ple of the United States u a
whole get rid of_ capitalism,
win working people's political
power, and substitute capita
lism with a socialist society."
Tyner, in recent years,
helped organize the Young
Worker's Liberation League, a
Manxst-Leninist organizations.
He is on the Party's Ticket
with Gus Hall, its Presidential
candidate, a steeb-worker who
is General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the
United States. Tyner's picture
appears on the front page of
the 4-pace tablois given that
wide distribution.
Highlights of the 4&-point
program deal with ending the
racist war in Southeast Asia.