WORDS OF WISDOM
Praise warms out of a man the good that is
in him. — Anonymous
Nothing can be truly great which is' not
right. — Samuel Johnson
Wherever there is growth, there is grief.
—Hal Stebbins
"VOLUMES! -NO 19
Community Continues Quest On Many Fronts To
OBTAIN
Registration Went Well
But The Power Is Won
At Proper Polling Place
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Central Carolina's blacks, parts of the country, Durham
collectively are a strange en- and surrounding communities
tity. Compared to other noted have enjoyed the calm, mild-
Brief Bl
Edited by MA!
REPORT OF BLACK
NEWSPAPER PATRONS
Advertising Age reports a
study which says that 77.8%
of a sample of 1,000 urban
blacks answered "yes" to the
query: "Did you read a black
newspaper yesterday?" Among
men, 53.3% said they read
Jet; Women, 46.7%.
THE ROLE OF THE
"BLACK COP"
"The Black Cop" in the
current struggle for freedom;
this is just one of the problems
Black Journal focuses on, in a
two-part program to be seen
Tues. May 9th and 16th on
PBS. (In New York City at
9:30 on May 9th and 16th and
repeated Saturdays, May 13th
and 30th at 7 p.m.)
The Black cop has tradi
tionally walked the beat of
conflict. Where does his allegi
ance lie -• with his people or
with the ruling white society?
How can he reconcile the fact
that he is part of a system
deemed oppressive? And can
he use his role to work for
the dignity, pride and free
dom of his people. These are
questions that the four partici
pants of the program, who
are policemen from New York,
Pittsburgh, and Chicago, will
consider.
EARTHA KITT BARRED
' Singer Eartha Kitt has been
barred trom pertorming at a
local city hall in South Africa,
because municipal regulations
reserve the hall for exclusive
use by whites.
Miss Kitt planned a per
formance before a white au
dience at the hall May 23rd,
Democratic Committee
Urges Greater Precint
Involvement In County
E. Lavonia Allison, the act
ing chairman of the Durham
County Democratic Executive
Committee urged all Demo
ants to attend and participate
in the Democratic precinct
meetings on Tuesday, May 9th
1972, at 8:00 p.m. to be held
in the polling places of every
precinct in North Carolina. All
registered Democrats are eligi
ble to participate in precinct
meetings. If a quorum is not
present, a second precinct
meeting must be held on May
16th, at 8:00 p.m.
Precinct order of business
must include the election of
officers: Chairman, vice-chair
man, who must be of opposite
sex of the chairman; second
vice-chairman, who must be
of a race other than that of
the chairman and first Vice
Chair, if that race constitutes
at least 20% of the registered
Democratic voters in the pre
cinct; third vice chairman who
shall be thirty years of age or
ck Issues
Y C. JONES
and permission had been
granted. But municipal offi
cials reversed the decision
when they realized Miss Kitt
was black.
BLACK AIRMEN VICTIMS
HOUSING DISCRIMINATION
White racism coupled with a
chronic shortage of housing
make life miserable for black
servicemen stationed at Myrtle
Beach Air Force Base.
Recently, an 18-year-old
Black airman, who went
AWOL when local whites re
peatedly refused to rent him
trailer space, was court mar
tialed, docked $75 out of hk
monthly pay for three months,
reduced in rank, and sentenced
to thirty days hard labor.
WHAT ABOUT THE BUS?
The Bus: A barometer of
racism, and an opportunity
for politicians ready, to make
hay with the emotions of fear
ful people.
Has there ever before been
more political chicanery in
handling a public issue than
there is currently on school
desegregation? At first, it
seemed that the "busing issue"
was just this year's code, suc
cessor to the "guidelines is
sue," and the earlier "federal
tyranny issue," a device for
exploiting racial issues with
out mentioning race.
BLACK SOLDIERS IN
VIETNAM
A report from the Veterans
World project says: Black
soldiers are not treated on the
same footing with their white
counterparts.
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HONOREE—Members of the
North Carolina Central Uni
versity mathematics faculty
recently honored a longtime
colleague, Dr. C. E. Boul
ware, shown above, on the
occasion of his retirement.
Dr. Boulware, who has been
under; Secretary- Treasurer;
and five other registered
Democrats in the precinct as
members of the Precinct Com-
Chi Carwla Ciws
BLACK BALLOT POWER
mannered black residents.
Other cities-many larger, some
smaller-have suffered the
paralysis of black rage. And
many of these same cities have
suffered a recurrence of spora
tic and uncontainable surge of
vengence and violent defiance.
Through it all Central
Carolina blacks have main
tained a steady and persistent
hum of black pride and pro
gress, void, for the most part,
however, of the visible urge to
strike back and destroy; to
probe into the gratifying realm
of vendication; or to honor
"an eye for an eye" pledge.
Can this, then, mean that
this area's blacks are pacifists;
or worst still, satisfied with
the role of being denied the
very best there is to be had
See BALLOT, Editorial page
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Dr. V.Cla
Wins Woods
Hole Gr
Dr. Vemon Clark, Associate
Professor of Biology at North
Carolina Central University,
has been selected as one of
eight biologists to conduct re
search and study this summer
at the famous Marine Biologi
cal Laboratory in Woods Hole,
Massachusetts. This program is
funded by the National Insti
tutes of Health. 1
Although research plans are
not final, Dr. Clark anticipates
continuing study on anaerobio
sis in freshwater turtles. An
approach to certain enzyme
systems that function in car
bohydrate metabolism will
probably be outlined and exa
mined. This work could be
valuable to understanding the
critical effects of oxygen de
privation in higher animals.
Recently, Dr. Clark was
elected president of the Na
tional Institute of Science, an
organization that includes
See CLARK. Editorial page
acting cnairman of the de
partment for the paat two
years, haa taught mathe
matics at N. C. Central aince
1043. He Is a member of the
Durham City Council, to
which he was first elected
In 1967. Mrs. Boulware Is
shown seated at right.
mittee. These five members
must be elected so that the
composition of the Precinct
See Electoral, Editorial page
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1972
2nd District Candidate
Howard Lee Critical Of
Tax Reform Act Of 1969
ROXBORO—Howard Lee,
Mayor of Chapel Hill and Can
didate for Congress from the
Second District, said the Tax
Reform Act of 1969 should
be called the Tax Loophole
Act of 1972.
In a speech to an Issue
and Answer session here May
or Lee said, "In spite of the
Tax Reform Act of 1969, last
year over 1,300 rich Ameri
cans with incomes of more
than $50,000 paid no federal
income taxes and 43% of
America's corporations paid
The African Liberation
Day Committee
In The Nation's Capitol
In response to deliberate
omission from coverage by the
major news and information
media of serious wars of libera
tion currently waged by Afri
can peoples throughout the
continent and to protest the re
actionary role of the United
States in those wars, a mass
mobilization has been called by
the African Liberation Day Co
ordinating Committee in Wash
ington, D.C., for May 27.
Presently in Zimbabwe (so
called Southern Rhodesia) a
white minority of 250,000 do
minates a Black majority of 5
million. The United Nations
has called a boycott of Rhodes
ian exports to protest the white
oppression. The United States,
however, has deliberately vio
lated this United Nations reso
lution. In Azania (so called
S>uth Africa) 14 million Afri
cans are ruled by a Fascist re
gime of fewer than 3 million
whites. The United States con
tinues to give aid (more than to
all other African countreis com
bined) and to trade with South
Africa and in the process di
rectly supports the white domi
nation. As well, in Angola,
Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissao,
which Portugal attempts to
hold as colonies, there are full
scale wars of liberation being
conducted successfully by the
African populations. The U.S.
response has been to supply
Portugal with weapons to sup
port its Fascist tyranny over
Black people and even to train
Portuguese soldiers at Ft. Bragg
All of these actions are kept
quiet as much as possible in an
effort to hide from Black peo
ple in the United States what
Block Political Caucus Calls Nixon
Hypocrite On Vietnam Bombing Issue
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Continuing the massive bomb
ing of the North Vietnam areas
of Hanoi and the Haipong
Harbor by U. S. Air Force and
Navy aircraft is a bold hypo
critical gamble by President
Nixon which further erodes
the faith of all Americans.
The order by President
Nixon for the bombing raids
was in itself a shocking realiza-
no corporate income taxes.
"The average working men
and women have no tax loop
holes, but there are plenty
for big businesses, big corpora
tions, and millionaires. Our
tax system is progressive in
name only. We must change,"
Lee said, "a tax system that
sometimes lets millionaires and
corporations pay less taxes
than working people and small
businesses."
In his travel throughout
the Second Congressional Dis
trict, Lee has found the in
this country is doing to con
tinue the vicious enslavement
of our brothers and sisters on
the African continent. Conse
quently, a national
which represents all the various
elements of Black communities
throughout the United States
has been formed to dramatize
and publicize the hypocritical
nature of U.S. policyon Africa
and to demonstrate our support
for and solidarity with African
peoples everywhere. This ap
paratus is the African Libera
tion Day Coordinating Com
mittee, which is planning at the
national level the action for
Washington on May 27.
In concert with the national
structure, we are announcing
the formation of a Durham
Liberation Day committee to
plan, coordinate and raise funds
for transportation to Washing-
See AFRICAN, Editorial page
WAFR Will
Premiere Rag
Musk Soon
Durham, N.C.-WAFR, The
Community Radio Workshop,
will broadcast the premiere of
"rag" musician (rag is the musi
cal precedent to jazz) Scott
Joplin's folk opera "Treemon
isha" on Monday, May 8,1972,
at 7:00 P.M.
The operatic story centers
around Ned and Monisha, re
cently freed Blacks, and their
daughter Treemonisha whom
they found under a tree out
side their cabin one morning.
They send Treemonisha to a
See WAFR, Editorial page
tion that the Nixon Plan to
end the war and the much
heralded , Vietnamization
strategy have failed. The Con
gressional Black Caucus feels
that even more serious is th
arrogant announcement tha
the United States is prepared
to extend the bombing any
where In North Vietnam.
The testimony of Secre
tary Laird before the Senate
equities of the tax system to
be a major issue in the minds
of the voters. "Unless there
is true tax reform," Mayor Lee
predicted, "there will be a
major tax revolt."
In order to have true tax
reform, Lee continued, "we
must send leaders to Congress
who are not afraid to stand
up and speak out for the pub
lic interest of the people in
stead of the special interest
of the few."
"The value-added tax," Lee
said, "is nothing more than a
national sales tax that will
See LEE, Editorial page
J.M. Rodgers
To Receive
Local Honor
James M. Rogers, Teacher
at Durham High School and
recent winner of the National
Teacher of the Year Award
presented by the Britannica
Encyclopedia, will be honored
at a reception on Saturday,
May 6, at 6 p.m., in the Edu
cation Building of the Mount
Vernon Baptist Church, 1000
South Roxboro Street. The
reception is being sponsored
by the Celestial Choir of
Mount Vernon in which Rog
ers has held membership since
its inception in 1961. The pub
lic is cordially invited to
attend this affair.
J. Henderson
Chairs Board
Of Hampton
HAMPTON, VA-Mr. James
J. Henderson, Chairman of the
Hampton Institute Board of
Trustees announced today that
the Hampton Institute Board
held its semi-annual meeting
on the HJ. campus, April 27
and 28, 1972. Mr. Henderson
stated that the Thursday, April
27th sessions were consumed
with the meetings of the
various standing committees of
the Board with their counter
parts at the administrative and
student leveL
The regular session of the
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J. J. HENDERSON
Foreign Relations Committee
indicates the serious credibility
gap of this Administration re
garding the fighting in Viet
nam. The vote of the Com
mittee on Monday should have
been sufficient for the Presi
dent to end his war games.
The Congressional Black
Caucus is especially alarmed
with great despair overs the
bombing and escalation, of a
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HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH
WHATS HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH
New Black South Shows
Marked Improvement In
Political Representation
By JOHN MYERS
Prior to the passage of the
Voting Rights Act in 1965,
the number of black officials
In the South was fewer than
100. Since 1965 the number
has maintained a steady pro
gression to the total, in 1972,
of 873. In Mississippi and
Louisiana, the number of
black elected officials in
creased sharply as a result of
JAMES M. ROGERS
Gala Tribute Scheduled
For Blacks In American
Politics In. D.C. In May
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Washington—A gala tribute
to the achievements of blacks
in American politics—featuring
members of the Congressional
Black Caucus and key figures
in tht movement to strengthen
the influence of minorities on
the electoral process—will be
Board began at 9:00 a.m. on
Friday, April 28, 1972 in the
Katharine House, which rests
on the southwest edge of the
campus where it borders the
waters of the Hampton Roads.
Mr. Henderson noted that
the Board was pleased to have
two newly elected trustees
present. One was a student
representative, Miss Patricia G.
Lark ins, who was in fhe Hamp
ton Institute graduating class
of 1971. She is now in graduate
advance degree work at Michi
gan State University. The
other person who was wel
comed to the meetings was the
Honorable G. Mennen Willi
ams, former Governor of the
State of Michigan and now
Associate Justice of the Su
preme Court of the State of
Michigan.
The meeting opened with a
See Henderson, Editorial page
war in which Blacks have suf
fered a disproportionate share
of the casualties. At a time
when a decline in the fighting
was indicated, the adminis
tration's actions can only serve
to compound the disillusion
ment of returning Black Gl's
and indeed all Black Ameri
cans.
Among the recommenda
tions presented to President
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recent statewide elections.
According to a year-end
report, released by the Voter
Education Ppject, elections in
the southern states produced a
significant and historic in
crease in the number of
elected offices won by blacks
in 1971.
Although 1971 was con
sidered an "off-year" in terms
of national electoral politics,
the year provided an oppor
tunity for black candidates to
build a formidable foundation
of newly-won elected offices
which will serve as the launch
ing pad for a new form of
southern politics in the 1970'5.
Across the South, from Vir
ginia to Texas, black incum
bents were highly successful
in winning re-election to office
and emerging candidates
gained valuable experience and
broke new ground by winning
many posts pre viously held
only by whites. As of Decemb
er 31, 1971, the total number
of black elected officials in
the eleven southern states was
See INCREASE, Editorial page
held here May 11.
Hundreds of professionals in
the political arena, including
black elected officials from a
round the nation as well as top
government leaders and mem
bers of press, radio and televi
sion are expected to attend the
affair, sponsored by the mostly
black Capital Press Club.
In addition to saluting the
12 black members of the House
of Representatives and Sen. Ed
ward Brooke, the Club also will
honor Clarence Mitchell, Jr. for
his efforts over the years as
"the 101 st Senator" in legisla
tive actions on behalf of civil
rights; Rep. William McCulloch,
for his untiring efforts in this
field; and all local black elected
officials for their achievements
in government.
Ethel Payne, president of the
Capital Press Club, announced
that Clarence Hunter, director
of public relations for Howard
University, is serving as chair
man of the event. Proceeds
from the dinner to be held in
the Sheraton Park Hotel, will
be UM-d for the Club's Second
Annual Whitney M. Young, Jr.
scholarship awards to high
school seniors.
Nixon on March 25, 1971, the
Congressional Black Caucus
called upon the President to
"effect disengagement from
Southeast Asia as soon as
possible, preferably by the end
of 1971, and definitely within
the lifetime of the 92nd Con
gress." In 1972, we find our
selves not only still engaged,
but witnessing another form
of escalation.