WYWUCGB TO KJEf
WHEN ROY WILKINS
began working for the NAACP
45 years ago, the United States .
wasa different country. Lynch
law ruled much of the South
". and some of the border states.
f Jim-Crow ruled in
accommodations, movie
theaters, restaurants and
hotels. Segregation, operating
under the tortured fiction of
"separate but equal, was the
rule in public education by
sanction of the Supreme Court.
Mr. Wilkins, now 75, has
announced that he will retire at
the end of this year, having
seen Jim Crow die, the
doctrine of "separate but
equal'' overturned and
thousands of blacks elected to
office-some of them
sheriffs-all over the South.
To say that Roy Wilkins had
a role in all of those changes is
an understatement. His
contribution to his people and
his country is beyond
calculation. Under his steadfast
and keenly perceptive
leadership-he has been the
NAACP executive secretary
since 1955 the association has
grown in branches, members
and influence. This is a better
country for having had a strong
NAACP to carry the flight to
the courts, the legislatures and
city hall for equal justice under
law for all Americans.
Because he combines such
special qualities of leadership
and grace. Wilkins is not
going to be easy to replace.
The NAACP's board of
directors has begun its search,
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but several members have
conceded that the task seems
enormous at the moment.
"Whatever qualities of M
Wilkins make that search
difficult, the problem is
compounded by the character
of the times.
The next . director of the
NAACP will probably take the
association from the
bicentennial year to within
hailing distance of the 21st
century. And so the search
committee is charged with
selecting someone who is
prepared to deal with the
question of what reace
relations should be in a world
rapidly approaching the year
2000.
Black America began this
century as a mostly rural,
Southern-based community.
The collapse of Reconstruction
brought on a reign of terror
that was to last well into the
first quarter of the 20th
century. Terror and the
depressed economy of the
South brought blacks to the
Northern cities in one of the
largest migrations this country
has known. Urbanism has
brought new problems and new
demands, and new forms of
inequality to be combat ted.
The NAACP has spent the
last two thirds of a century
helping shape the present that
the Negro experiences. It is
reasonable to expect that it
will have an important
influence on where the black
community seeks'to go from"
here and how' it chooses to get
there. Naturally, there are
other groups whose influence
will be felt. The National
Urban Coalition, a much newer
.organization, has demonstrated
remarkable leadership on the
cutting edge of today's urban
problems. The Congressional
Black Caucus grows in
potential influence as its ranks
grow and as its members gain
more and more power in
Congress. All those
organizations will be important
elements in a firmament in
which the NAACP once
operated almost alone.
Each of those groups will
have its say about the direction
of the black community in the
years ahead. Complex issues
regarding school desegregation,
welfare reform, U.S. relations
with Africa and a score of
others will face the NAACP
and the other equal rights
groups. When Wilkins
joined the movement, the
NAACP was in a position to set
directions almost by itself.
Today and in the years ahead,
its biggest challenge might well
be that of harmonizing many
different voices and approaches
to the problems that face black
America. That for more
sophisticated world would tax
the talents even of a Roy
Wilkins, which is why .the
searc. 'or the successor is so
important-and also why it
promises to be so difficult.
(Washington Post)
SOUL CITY
SOUl CITY FOOATIOX IX
. serving fflE-amrarv-
Assisting the neighboring
communities in establishing a
sound economic base has always .
been a major, priority of The
Soul City Company. In keeping
with its Project Agreement, the
Company moved to insure the
availability of the services
necessary for quality living in
the community. Four corporate
entities other than The Soul City
Company were established; The
Soul City Foundation, Inc.,
HealthCo, Inc., Warren Regional
Planning Corporation, and The
Soul City Sanitary District.
The Soul City Foundation,
Inc., was established in February
s vc
I
of 1969, as a non profit
tax-exempt organization. Its
broad charter allows the
Foundation to "spin-off
separate or satellite
organizations to deal with
Health, Education, Social
Services. Cultural Arts, Job
Training, Religious Life, and
Speical Projects. Because Soul
City is "free-standing", the
Foundation has the opportunity
to plan for the future in all areas
of social behavior; thereby
anticipating and preventing
problems before they
materialize. In its planning
process the Foundation works
dosely with local, stateand federal
agencies. In education, during the
summer of 1 973, the
Foundation established a
Learning Lab which was devised
to stimulate the educational
process through intellectual and
cultural enrichment programs.
Over one hundred Warren
County Junior High School
students benefited from the
experience. The Warren County
educational system has also been
the target of a Parent
Involvement program
administered by the Foundation.
Another organization which Referrai system serve M ait
was formed under the agency through witfch citizens
"umbrella" of the Foundation is age eO and over can receive help
the Interfaith Committee. It a in healtn care, education, food
responsible for planning a stamps, transportation and other
Parents in a local elementary religious life for the new town areas of concern.
school have been organized as and is composea of various The Foundation is
volunteers to assist in classroom church groups. The Soul City particularly proud of the fact
activities. Cultural Arts and Historical that it received funds to
Connecting job raining and Society was incorporated as a establish HealthCo, Inc. the
economic development, the nonprofittax-exempt organization Vance Warren Community
Foundation received funds to in April of 1974. As an agency Health Center. HealthCo has
build Soultech I, an industrial of the Foundation it is dedicated proved to be of significant value
incubator facility containing to promoting the visual and to Warren County because the
over 73,000 square feet of office performing arts in the doctor-patient ratio prior to its
and manufacturing space, community. Since its formation existance was 7,500 to one.
Soultech I will soon be owned the Society has successfully MealthCo's accomplishments will
by a community based involved over six hundred local be discussed in detail in the next
organiztion now being formed citizens, in music, art, dance, issue.
by the Foundation. In addition, drama, pottery, ceramics and Considering the fact that the
a Manpower Talent Bank was dress design workshops; annual joul City Foundation has
composed in conjunction with a Arts Festivals; cultural and depended entirely on its ability
survey of Warren and Vance recreational field trips; and a to seek out sources of financial
counties' employment bases. Summer Arts Program assistance, it has managed to
The Foundation has offered The latest accomplishment of amass an incredible track record,
on-the-job training to local tne Foundation is the formation The Foundationisclearlyabout the
young people, in cooperation of a piogram designed to assist business of caring about the
with the Neighborhood Youth senior citizens in Warren county, community's problems and then
Corps. The Outreach Information and doing something to solve them.
Meat Packer Gets 2-6 Years For
Meat Inspection Violation
WASHINGTON - A
Maryland meat packer
convicted last December
for violating the Federal
Meat Inspection Act
(FMIA) was sentenced last
week to at least two, but
no more than six years in
jail and was fined $4,000,
the U. S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA)
announced.
,. The sentence - which
Go.n e er n e d . felony
convictions involving the
FMIA - was pronounced in
U. S. District Court by
Federal Judge Howard F.
Corcoran in the District of
Columbia (D. C), where
the meat packer, James
Austin Fraley, Jr.,
operated two retail
outlets, according to
USDA's Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS).
"Most convictions
under the FMlA result
only in fines, " an APHIS
official said. "The stiffer
sentence by the Court in
this case should convince
potential violators of the
seriousness of these types
of crime against
consumers, who expect
and deserve to have an
inspected, wholesome
meat and poultry supply.
Violations of this type
cannot be tolerated. I fully
expect this action to
greatly enhance our efforts
in future compliance
activities," Milton L.
Goodman, director of
APHIS' Compliance Staff
for the Federal meat
inspection program said.
Fraley, president of
Fraley Packing Company,
Inc., convicted Dec. 2 on'
44 felony counts, was
found guilty of
transporting across the D.
C. -Maryland line and
offering for sale
nonfederally inspected
meat products: offering
for sale decomposing pork
products that had been
washed and reconditioned
order to deceive
buyers; and
to operate an
plant after it
suspended. He
enacted by Congress
protect consumers
helping to assure that meat
and meat foods products
transported and sold in
interstate commerce are
wholesome, not
adulterated, and properly
marked,
packaged.
to
by
Alliance
Continued from front page
Supreme Court to hear the
case to ' 'the years- Ion
collaboration between the
federal government and
North Carolina
authorities'' to deny civil
rights in that state. The
prosecution was aided by
Treasury and Justice
Department agents during
the Nixon Administration.
Rev. Chavis, a major civil
rights leader in North
Carolina, was singled out
for persecution in Justice
J. Terrell Whitsitt, Department memos,
acting regional director for Secret payoffs to
the U. S. Department of informers with police
Labor's headquarters in records for dealing drugs
J. TERRELL WHITSITT
J.T. WHITSITT
TO SERVE AS
LABOR REP.
labeled and
Philadelphia, will serve as
the personal representative
of the Secretary of Labor
in Region III, which
includes Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia and
the District of Columbia.
Judge
Sirica to Deliver
Duke Finals Address
were used to prosecute
Chavis in an earlier federal
case for which he was
acquitted, although a close
co-worker, Dr. James Earl
Grant, was sentenced to
10 years in federal prison.
The entire Alliance
statement follows:
"The U. S. Supreme
Court's decision not to
hear the casei of Ben
Chavis and the Wilmington
10 is of a piece with the
years-long collaboration
between the federal
government and North
Carolina state authorities
to destroy any form of
democratic movements in
that most repressive state.
The Rev. Chavis and his
co-workers are now
scheduled to go to prison
for 282 years. For some,
this means in essence a life
sentence. We cannot
accept this and we refuse
to allow these freedom
fighters to meet such a
fate. We will use every
mass means at our
disposal to secure their
freedom.
'3en Chavis' life in
particualr is immediately
in danger at the arbitrary
hands of the notorious
North Carolina prison
system. We call on all
friends of justice to
demand the immediate
granting of bail to the
Wilmington Ten while
they petition for a writ of
habeas corpus.
Throughout the United
States
world
and
the
around the
first demand
must be 'Bail, Not Jail.'
The same massive
movement once developed
for the freedom of Angela
Davis must now gather in
defense of the Wilmington
10, anc- the closely related
defendants known as the
Charlotte Three.
' Our demand for the
freedom of the
Wilmington 10 is made not
only because of our strong
feeling of love and support
for our co-worker and
vice-chairperson, the Rev.
Ben Chavis, but because
we believe this case tests
the limits to which our
constitutional rights can
be eroded. We have said it
before but we now restate
it: This case should not
have reached the U. S.
Supreme Court at all. It
should never have even
been brought to trial. The
essence of the case is the
persecution of ten young
people fighting for equal
education for Black people
in Wilmington, North
Carolina, who were
defending a church in that
city's Black community
from a four-day armed
siege of bullets and fire
bombs launched by the Ku
Klux Klan and other racist
fanatics. The wrong
people, the victims, rather
than the perpetrators were
brought to trial. Just as
they were wrongly tried,
they were wrongly
convicted; their appeal to
the state appelate court
was wrongly denied; and
the state supreme court
and now the U. S.
Supreme Court wrongly
refused to even hear the
case.
"We restate our
unqualified confidence in
the innocence and
integrity of the
Wilmington 10 and renew
our commitment to
guarantee that they never
serve a prison term for a
crime they never
committed but which was
comitted against them."
in
potential
continuing
unsanitary
had been
previously was convicted
on misdemeanors in 1963
and 1967 for transporting
nonfederally inspected
meat in commerce.
The Federal Meat
Inspection Act was
John J. Sirica, the
federal district judge who
broke open the Watergate
scandal that eventually led
to Richard M. Nixon s
resignation as president,
will deliver the
Commencement Address
at Duke University on May
9.
He was chief district
judge in Washington, D.
C, when the Watergate
burglary suspects were
brought before him for
trial. One of them, James
McCord, yielded to
courtroom pressure and
bared the suspects' .
connections with the
White House.
later
chief
Sirica, who
stepped down as
judge but who still sits on
the federal bench, was
widely honored for his
role in breaking open the
scandal.
The speaker at
undergraduate
baccalaureate services at
Duke on May 9 will be Dr.
Donald Schriver, president
of Union Theological
Seminary in New York
City.
Dr. Stuart C. Henry of
the Duke Divinity School
will deliver the
baccalaureate services on
May 8 for graduate
students.
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Paul Robeson
Continued from frontpage
Shakespearean play on
Broadway. He drew 20 curtain
World Council of Peace, wrote:
"The governments of the
United States, Western Europe,
Latin America, England and
India must hearken to the voices
calls tor the role at the Savoy in of thejr peopies
4 It is becoming increasingly Kico and
clear that this senseless dream of independence
American world domination will own destinies
remain a dream. The colonial
peoples of the world are not
London in 1930.
A lifelong proponent of
world peace, Robeson, in an
open letter (1951) to Warren
Austin, then chief United States
delegate to the United Nations,
defending tin1 proposals of the
"The people of the United
States have struggled throughout
our history with selfish and
greedy powerful few who have
never attempted to silence the
voice and will of the majority...'
interested in a new serfdom.
They will reject all efforts at
American domination of their
economies and ' their political
institutions,., the peoples of
Asia, the Near East, Latin
America, the West Indies, Puerto
Africa want
to govern their
And they want
peace. They signed peace
petitions, with their marks
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c-t-.i Congressman Hawkins
Congress insisted on a realistic personal There are some 7.7 million people
income tax decrease - which the President "officially" out of work today. Those
fought - and that this is the cause for that discouraged job- seekers that have stopped
strong showing. looking for work are not even counted
among the unemployed. As it is, if we total
On the question of unemployment tnose unemployed who are not in the labor
Burns, is blunt, cryptic, and not very force (but wn0 do want jobs now,) with
understanding or compassionate. He admits those that are currently unemployed, there
that unemployment is going to remain high
in 1976. But he feels that this is probable,
because the availability of unemployment
insurance is too long. (He thinks it ought to
be limited to 13 weeks.) Burns wants the
rederal Government to become the
are some 1 1 .0 million persons currently out
of work. The figure would be even higher if
we included the discouraged job seekers.
Consumer spending has been mainly
responsible for whatever boom there is, but
the U. S. Commerce Department says even
eyes;
employer of last resort" at below this will lizzie, unless ousiness spending on
minimum wages, and thereby employ the plants and equipment begins to grow,
unemployed. Indications are that businesses are not
This is a meritorious resolve in Burns' planning much of a 1976 increase in this
the irony is that unemployment is area. Theretore, iy6 win te a oaa
economic year ior aii oi us, no matter wnai
the happiness boys (Burns, et al)
predict. Truly then the recovery talk is
straight, deceitful politics.
Real economic recovery will occur only
when all those that want jobs, will have
inhumanely high today precisely because of
Burns sacrifice of employment productivity
in order to fight inflation. (Remember the
President's disastrous WIN Campaign?)
Burns obvioSsly does not read the
emolovment data of the U. S. Department
of Labor. If he did he could not be so jobs. Anything less than this is nothing but
.-tfSellous. , sham-
"As an American of African
descent born and rasied in these
United States of such horrible
contradictions, I am certain that
the people of Asia, Latin
America, the West Indies and
especially Africa, want us to
keep our Jim Crow practices as
far away from them as possible.
They say to us: 'Stop the terror
and age-long oppression of 15
million of our brothers and
sisters over there, and let us go
our own way. We will pick and
choose our own friends.' And
these colonial peoples cry out to
us, their brothers and sisters of
African descent: 'Why do you
come over here to harm us; why
don't you root on Jim Crow and
Ku Klux Klan terror in the
South of James Byrnes,
Talmadge and Rankin? ' The
struggle today is one for peace,
not war with anyone. The
people will never loose their
courage and strength to shout
for peace at the top of their
voices, to fight fascist
persecution and death, to labor
diligently every moment to save
themselves and mankind for the
constructive building of new and
rich cultures for the universal
attaining of full equality and full
human dignity."
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