WORDS OF WISDOM
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
~r— Samuel Johnson
To be thrown upon one's own resources is
to be cast into the very lap of Fortune.
—Benjamin Franklin
VOLUME 51 NUMBER 50
NAACP Files Petition Challenging
Calif. Anti-Integration Proposition
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ANGELA DAVIS IN CHARLOTTE
Wakefield Amendment Would
End Integration in Schools
The NAACP today b*gan
its legal challenge to Proposi
tion 21 the anti-school inte
gration measure, with the filing
of a court petition in Sacra
mento calling for the courts
to declare the controversial
measure in direct conflict with
state and federal law and with
the UJS. Constitution's Equal
Protection Clause.
Nathaniel S. Colley, Western
Regional Counsel for the NAA
CP, filed the petition in Sacra
mento Superior Court against
the Sacramento City Unified
School District. Named as
plaintiffs with the NAACP are
Erma J. Mason, a Sacramento
manpower director for the
county poverty program, and
his two daughters, Lorlashone,
6, and Ermajean, 12. Both
are students at Camelia Elemen
tary School, which the petition
states has an enrollment 90 per
Unbiased Military Justice Is the
Goal of Task Force Report
NEW YORK-A Defense
Department report which the
Hational Association for the
advancement of colored People
played a significant part in
shaping has again called atten
tion to the existence of deep
seated racism throughout the
military.
The Task Force Report on
Administration of Military Jus
tice, as this study is called,
is especially significant in that
Itr is based on findings in all
branches of the Armed Ser
vices. Previously, studies u
sually concentrated on racial
conflicts in the Army and Air
Force. This report was sub-,
mitted to Defense Secretary
Melvin Laird in Washington on
November 30.
An earlier study was the
NAACP's "Search for Military
Justice," which was submitted
to the Secretary of Defense in
April, 1971. That study was
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MORGAN STATE COLLEGE'S
president, Dr. King V. Cheek
(center) accepts a contribu
tion from Charles R. Hoffman,
a partner of Ernst & Ernst, to
be used by the College to pro
mote accounting excellence.
Looking on, from left to
right are: Dr. Haywood Har
cent Black.
The petition states that pas
sage of Proposition 21, called
the Wakefield Amendment, for
bids the school district from
taking affirmative action to end
school segregation in Sacramen
to. It contends further that
the measure may result in the
federal government's cutting
off federal funds to the school
district, because Proposition
21 violates the U.S. Constitu
tion, and makes it impossible
for the district to comply with
its non-discrimination agree
ment with the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
There is no doubt the Wake
field initiative is void,, Colley
said. "It's really tragic that
these emotional issues mean
more to some people than the
Constitution of the United
Continued on page 10A
fully financed by the NAACP.
It was primarly based on an
investigation conducted among
Army bases in Germany by a
three-man NAACP team, under
leadership of General Counsel
Nathaniel R. Jones.
The basic conclusion of the
present Task Force is that "sys
tematic racial discrimination
exists throughout the Armed
Forces and in the Millitary
Justice System. No command
or ; installation—and more im
portant—no element of the mi
litary System—is entirely free
from the effects of systematic
discrimination against military
servicemen as individuals and
as groups."
Commenting on this latest
study, Mr. Jones, who with
Lt. Gen. Clair Hutchin, co
chaired the 14-person Task
Force, said:
"Certainly, this effort re-
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rison, vice-president of Institu
tional planning and develop
ment at Morgan State; Gary
Carter of Ernst Frnai jnrt
currently on loan as a visiting,
lecturer in accounting; Presi
4ent Cheek; Mr. Hoffman and
Dr. Broadus E. Sawyer, chair
man of the College's depart
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BROWN
Tony Brown
Affair is Set
For Dec. 10th
"We are creating an institu
tion," Robert Spruill, of WAFR
FM community radio worshop,
Inc. commented recently. He
announced the upcoming "Tony
Brown Affair" as the latest
event in a campaign to solicit
stronger communtly participa
tion and to provide funds for
expanded services.
WAFR's service concept em
braces varied activities on the
drawing boards in addition to
broadcasting such as a training
program with Durham College
granting Associate Degrees in
Radio Communications.
Toney Brown, Executive
Producer of Black Journal and
Dean of the Howard University
School of Communications
has lent full support to the ef
forts of WAFR. Brown will
be featured guest of a Dec.
10th banquet at North Caro
lina Central University.
The banquet will include
dinner and live entertainment,
Spruill said. He added, How
ever: "We hope to come to
gether for a good meal and fun.
But the major emphasis is to
bring together members of the
community sharing a common
interest. An interest seeking to
r"»'ntain one of the most im-
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ment of economics and busi
ness. The grant by Ernst &
Ernst, one of the big eight
international accounting firms
is awarded annually to assist
the accounting program with
in the College's department of
economics and business. The
stipend, the third such aw^d
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1972
Queen City Host to Rally to
Free State's Political Prisoners
CHARLOTTE - Angela Da
vis will be the main speaker at
a rally here Dec. 8 to free all
political prisoners in the state.
This will be part of a grow
ing movement in behalf of nu
merous people, black and white,
held in jails and prisons through
out North Carolina.
Movement leaders charge
that federal state, and local
authorities are working tog»
ther to stop the struggle for
black liberation, especially in
dependent political action.
The North Carolina Political
Prisoners Committee says:
"The state is conducting a sys
tematic campaign to jail every
black leader. They are using
the tactics of fabricating cri
minal charges and purchasing
witnesses."
The freedom rally will open
at 7:30 p.m. in Park Center,
310 N. King's Road. Other
speakers will include Mrs. Eli
zabeth Chavis, of Oxford, N.C.
mother otthe Rev. Ben Chavis,
one of the prisoners.
Chavis is an organizer for
the Commission for Racial Jus
tice, a branch of the United
Church of Christ, and a mem
ber of the board of directors of
the Southern Conference Edu
cational fund (SCEF) civil
rights group based in Louisville,
Kentucky.
Chavis, eight other young
men, and a white woman were
recently sent to prison for a
total of 242 years as a result of
a protest movement in Wilming
ton, N.C., in 1971. Then
bonds total $400,000.
Other prisoners include Jim
Grant, an organizer and report
er for SCEF; T. J. Reddy, poet
and writer, and Charles Parker.
They are in jail here under
sentences of 25, 20, and 10
years as a result of a stable fire.
Eleven boys and young men
from Ayden, N.C., were sen
tenced to a total of 133 years
in prison after a bomb went
off in a school toilet. This hap
pened during the protest over
the killing of a black man by
a state policeman. There is
much doubt as to the guilt of
from Ernst & Ernst since 1970
is used to promote research by
accounting faculty, the acqui
sition of library holdings and
maintenance, equipment and
supplies needed in the insturc
tion fo accounting, and pro
motional materials related to
accounting!
the young men.
Three members of the Black
Panther Party were sentenced
in High Point after a policeman
was shot during an attack on
Panther headquarters. The Pan
thers say he was shot by other
policemen. One Panther was
wounded.
There will be a state wide
conference in Raleigh, N.C.
on Dec. 7 to bring together va
rious groups working to free
these and other prisoners.
Greenville Man
Shot and Killed
By Patrolman
GREENVILLE—A white po
liceman shot and killed a
black man Wednesday after
noon, touching off a night of
rock throwing and sporadic
shooting in this eastern North
Carolina university commu-
According to Chief E. G.
Cannon the death that touch
ed off the violence occurred
accidentally after the officer
had attempted to make a rou
tine arrest.
Hours later, police and re
inforcements from the High
way Patrol and the Pitt Coun
ty sheriff office manned bar
ricades around a 30-Mock
section of west Greenville,
where a steady stream of mo
torists had reported damage
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Owen Receives
Silver Beaver
Scout Award
Pictured above is Lewis N.
Owens honored, recently, by
the Reverend A. D. Mosely,
pastor of Mount Gilead Bap
tist Church. The award was
presented at a Pot Luck Din
ner held November 6 at the
Central YMCA; sponsored by
the Durham District, Occon
eechee Council.
For the past 16 years, Mr.
Owens has made tremendous
contributions to scouting at
Mount Gilead Baptist Church,
He has been the center of
leadership, serving as Post Ad
visor, Post 190, Neighborhood
Commissioner, District Cabinet
Advisor, District Commissioner
Vice Chairman, Cheyenne Leaf
District. He received the Dis
tinguished Service Citation in
1958. Many other contribu
tions have been made to the
total scouting program in the
area of training and recruiting.
Mr. Owens, a masonry con
tractor, is a graduate of Voor
hees College, Denmark, South
Carolina and Tuskegee Insti
tute, Tuskegee, Alabama. He
is a member of the American
Legion; Durham Committee on
Negro Affairs; NAACP, Tuske
gee Alumni Club and Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity.
Puerto Rico Voted
Bill Of Rights In, 1952
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
The Puerto Rico Bill of Rights,
approved in 1952, provides the
right to a free education, pro
hibits the death penalty and
wrietapping, designates a work
day of eight hours, insures the
right of labor to organize and
to bargain collectively, and
limits imprisonment prior to
trial to six months.
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SACRAMENTO, CALIF:
Yvonne Braithwaite Burks, 40,
attractive, vivacious and chic
California State Assembly wo
man, will be the first black
congresswoman from the west
First BlackCongressWomanFrom
West Is Washington
Mrs. Yvonne Braithwaite
Burke, the first black congress
woman from the West is eager
to concentrate on the unt and
bolt measures she considers im
portant to her district.
Commerical development of
inner cities, housing, child-care
centers and increased benefits
to domestic workers are some
©f these aßfTs. Reporting "1 do
not believe in grandstanding",
but in the poverty areas if
there is something we need,
then I'll go after it.
Unlike Mrs. Chisholm, Mrs.
Burke feels she has been dis
criminated against more as a
black woman as woman.EJT
amples she cites could be given
by most blacks such as those
times when you are not served
in restaurants, because you are
black or when you cannot find
decent housing and employ
ment game, when the position
has been given as being filled
and a majority member walks
in and gets the position. One
is well aware of the super
ficialities listed as to why you
had a difficult time in moving
into the smoke filled rooms of
politics." "If the decisions are
made in smoke-filled rooms,
that's where I want to be,
or token decoration.
It will be called that Mrs.
Burke, poised, elegant and with
OWENS AND MOSELEY
GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE
SCOUT CORNER By R. L. R-Xi»*f
PREGNANCY PLANNING By G - B,gpbee
DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By M«. Symhier D«ye
WRITERS PORUM B y George B. Umm
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH
FROM BLACK B T * >l,n Hud * ins
FROM THE PEN OF DONALD LOVE
when the new Congress con
vened . Mrs. Burke, who made
her first splarfi on the national
political scene before millions
of viewers watching the Demo
cratic National Convention on
outstanding legal ability was
elected California's first black
woman legislator in 1966. Mrs.
Burke attributes much of her
Dr. Ralph Abemathy to Head
Geoorge W. Carver Celebration
PITTSBURGH—The Reve
rend Dr. Ralph David Aber
nathy will be the guest speaker
at the George Washington Car
ver Day Luncheon and a Gulf
Oil Corporation sponsored re
ception on January 5 at the
Webster Hall Hotel.
Both events are included
in the annual George Washing
ton Carver Week activities, Jan
uary 1-7. They will highlight
national observances through
out the nation since Pittsburgh
was the home of the late Dr.
Alma Illery whose efforts
helped to have the week r.u
thorised.
Reverend Abernathy, who
suceeeded the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, jr. as President
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, is the
chief administrative officar of
the conference, its various ex
ecutive staff members and the
100 or more field staff across
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television, says she's eager to
enter "the smoke-filled rooms"
in Washington but "not just
as a wallflower or token de
coration.
political success to luck. She
cites the selection of her as
Vice Chairman of the' Dem
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the country.
Reverend Abernathy rose to
national prominence when he
and Dr. King led the famous
Montgomery, Alabama Bus
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