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DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEWSPAPER DEPARTMENT DURHAM UC 27706 t . -. - . .. - . j .- " - . -..-- .- v '. - , t . . ; . . ; - . ' ;-,T.-.... r - . , ; .; -v.--. - ' ' 1 1 --i- . - USPS 091-380) Enjoy, The Entcrtainncnt Section Each Issue Vcrds of 171:: !:b A fool hjrt Hnds freater fool to admire him. Yoh wouldn't worry about what people think of yoo If yon kBew now seldom they do. ,a VOLUME 57 NUMBER 28 v j DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 fRICE: 20 CENTS DUKE PROF To Present a Major Paper To Select N.Y. Gathering .Professor CV Eric Lin coln of the Duke Universi ty Department of Religion will present a major paper to a select gathering of scholars in New.. York on July 13. The two-day con ference is being hosted by the Rockefeller Founda tion to assess the impact of the celebrated Bakke decision on higher educa-.. tion. A year ago, the Supreme Court ruled that while some consideration could be given to race in admissions practices at universities , and profes sional schools, specific racial quotas are illegal. The case originated when Alan Bakke, a 39 year old . engineer was denied ad mission to the University Of California Medical School at Davis, even though some blacks with lower scores were admit ted. Bakke charged "reverse discrimination," and his case was sustained on appeal before the Supreme Court. The Rockefeller Con-, ference is being called to assess the impact of the Bakke ruling on "affirmative action" pro grams sponsored by many businesses, universities and professional schools .concerned about . the under-representation of black and other minorities f in various jobs and profes sions. The 25 or so scholars participating in the Conference include Professor Archibald Cox of the Harvard Law School, who argued the Bakke Case for the University of California. Others participating in-. elude Harvard professor Thomas Pettigrew (a social psychologist), Richard Freeman an economist, also of Har vard, Professors Charles TO LECTUKiOM BAKtCi if If T. US tfi - .. '' , t ' p(tl,WWilii,iWWiiil.ii inutniM in i " , """ 1 . . i no i iwrni w , 1Vng American Charlie Smith (shown in 1973 photo) celebrated his 137th birthday on July 4 with a red, white and' blue birthday, cake. Smith is believed to be the oldest living person in the United States. Smith is an ex slave and claims to have ridden with the Jesse James Gang. UPI Photo Hamilton of Columbia, Ronald Dworkin of Ox ford, Phyllis Wallace of MIT and William Julius Wilson of the University of Chicago. Wilson,1 a . Continued on page 12 j. i 1 DR. LINCOLN V 1 C(LC And PUSIKI IFoirimD Mm imfm NAACP To Honor Conrad 0. Pearson The Durham Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will honor Attorney Conrad O. Pear son at its Fifth Annual Freedom Fund Dinner, Wednesday, , September as plaintiffs' attorney in numerous desegregation cases.' He filed the first desegregation lawsuit against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hodutt v. UNC, 26, 7 p.m.; at the Durham School Of Pharmacy, m Attorney Peirjorr has sidered perhaps the most irfade tfitariding: con tributions in the areas of human and c(vil rights through his involvement prominent and important desegregation case leading to the 1954 school AS l' . -h : - c. o. The parent (SCLC) and the child (PUSH) joined together Saturday and formed an action coalition for jobs and justice around the theme, "Pur America Back To Work." Reverend Joseph Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the guest speaker in Chicago at the regular Saturday morning national forum of Opera- "The World of Black Business" Special Feature to De Presented At NUL Conference In Chicago PEARSON Richmond Federal Reserve Dank Appoints Sloan Board Chairman RICHMOND, Va. -The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has appointed Maceo A, Sloan,' executive vice president 'and chief operating officer, North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company, Durham, chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Mr. Sloan's appointment fills a vacan cy created by the death of E. Angus Powell in May. Mr. Sloan, who was first appointed to the Board in 1976, has been deputy chairman since 1978. The Board of. Gover nors has also announced the appointment of Steven Muller, president. The Johns Hopkins Universi ty, Baltimore, Maryland, as deputy chairman of the Richmond Reserve Bank's board of directors. Mr. Muller was first appointed to the Board in 1977., Mr. Sloan was born in Newport, Arkansas.. He is a graduate of Prairie View State College and holds an X:' honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Livingstone College. Mr. Sloan is a member of the Board of Governors of the Univer sity of North Carolina and serves as chairman of the Board's Personnel and Tenure Committee. He is also president of the 'Na tional Insurance Corpora tion, a director of the Na tional Insurance Associa tion, and serves as presi dent of the Association's Five Billion Dollar Pro gram. Mr: Sloan is a direc tor of Duke Power Com pany and a former direc tor of the North Carolina State United Fund. He serves as the national Salvation Amry Advisory Board and the Durham Salvation Amry Advisory Board. Dr. Muller was born in Hamburg, Germany, and became a United States citizen in 1949. He holds a bachelors degree from the University'of California, a B.Litt. from Oxford University, and a Ph D from Cornell University. Dr. Muller has also been awarded a D.Litt. from Alfred University and an LL.D from the University of Maryland. He began his professional career as an assistant professor at Haverford College. Dr. Muller has also served as a member of the faculty and administration at Cornell University and as consul tant to the American Council of Education. He It'ontinued on page l "The World of Black brings together a group of the nation's leading business figures to res pond to questions from the press will be one of the special features to be presented in Chicago this summer as part of the' 1979 Annual Conference of the National Urban League. The program will take place on Tuesday, July 24, at 8 pjn. in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel. Ap pearing as guests will be John. H. Johnson, Editor and Publisher, Johnson Publishing Co.; George Johnson, President Johnson Products; Earl Graves, Publisher Black Enterprises Magazine; Barbara Proctor, Presi-,. dent of Proctor and Gard ner Advertising, - " and Charles Wallace, Presi- tion PUSH and emphasiz ed that, "we have come to a point in history when we must not only deal with America's head, but we must deal with the head and the heart. Racism has surfaced again in recent years, aided and abetted by economic uncertainty, a lack of a sense of na tional direction, and a loss of confidence in govern ment." He further stated that, "we realize that out of the 60's and 70's some pro gress was realized, to be deftt Wallace and Wallace crowded activity, the NUL PtwOirrrtdr number Of the nation's many of us thought we Dr. Robert S. Browne, a nationally known economist and President of the Black'; Economic Research Center in New York City, will be the moderat0r. '.The panel of journalists will include Vernon Jarrett, columnist Chicago(Tribune and Tom Picou, managing editor of the Chicago Defender. "The World of Black Business" is only one of a series of programs that have been arranged for the NUL's Conference which opens officially on Sunday night, July 22nd, with the keynote address of Ver non E. Jordan, Jr., Presi dent of the NUL. The Conference closes on Wednesday night, July 25th, with the annual ban quet. -In the four days of and must be revived. Rev. Jackson noted that, "it is dear that there is a greater correlation between pressure and progress than between presidents and . progress. We must apply pressure from the bottom up and decide that whoever is in the White House, they cannot ignore my house or your house. We want, jobs. We need jobs. We deserve jobs. And until every American has a job or an income, we should not allow this country to rest." sure., we , won some Jrz lit tnn ' "vu lunvu nuj w new SCLC-PUSH coali- most distinguished in dividuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, including Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Senator Edward M. Ken nedy, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris, Governor James Thomp son of Illinois, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Secretary of the Treasury W, Michael Blumenthal. The Conference will also feature a special pro gram on "Energy and Its Meaning to Urban America" on Sunday afternoon, July 22, as well as a number of workshops following the twice daily plenary sessions. More than 12.000 per Continued on page 7 won the war." Rev. Lowery continued "It is time for the action forces to go back to the streets again. One January 15 of this year, Mr. Carter received a peace prize, but few noted that SCLC wasn't inside the church, but 750 of us were on the outside in the cold mar ching and chanting "Jobs Jimmy, Jobs Jimmy." During a press con- ference which followed the. PUSH meeting. Reverend Jesse Jackson, National President of Operation PUSH, and Rev. Lowery agreed to form a coalition because they had jointly come to the conclusion that the ac tion forces had become dormant during the 70's Black Press Weighing Convention Proposals Y ore Jobs mi WmW3 QiWriilf P oof TULSA, Okla. (NNPA) Ways of finding jobs and assuring energy for blacks "and the poor, as suggested by speakers dur ing the 39th Annual Con vention here recently of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, are being studied by of ficers and members of the organization, dent John H. ' "7 l , f II . , n nin Xmmmniw JACKSON AT SCLC CONFERENCE says Presi-Sengstacke. Among the speakers were: Former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California; AT&T Board Chairman Charles L. Brown; NAAC? .Ex ecutive Director Benjamin L. Hooks; National Ur ban League Vernort Jor .dan; Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, Ms. Alexis M. Herman; -. National Alliance Of Businessmen President, Lloyd N. Hand; AFL-CIO -Civil Rights Director, William Pollard; ITT Corporate Vice President, Robert B. Kean; Cities f Services Chairman Robert Sellers; and Williams Exploration President 1 Jesse L. George, Jr. The suggestions and recommendations ranged from Brown's emphasis on affirmative action. and the heed , for business, ? government, labor, and black leaders to come together and pool their ' resources in battling unemployment to Reagan's opposition to the minimum wage. Regarding the energy crisis, Hooks said there are only two things about energy or more fuel he cares about: "that we get it, and that we price it so poor:folks can use it." Jordan warned that in creasing the energy costs could put fuel and heating oil out of reach for low income families. He sug gested increased support for, mass, transit, and a switch from fuel oil to coal. Hooks called for a fuel stamp program similar to food stamps. "It's bad enough to starve to death," he said "without starving and freezings at the same time:" ITT Vice President Kean emphasized improv ed methods -of transmit-' ting information about jobs and energy to black ' readers through the Black Press. And he suggested the . development of a research project to deter mine how best to ac complish the job. Further, Kean said that his firm is willing to share the costs of the study up to $10,000. We must do whatever is necessary to pull advertisers, the Black Press, and the public together, he urged. JOIN THE tIAACP tion hid decided to turn to the streets, Rev. Jackson said, "Right now the poor and unemployed are poor, unemployed and invisible. We must engage in the drama of mass direct ac t i o n m arches, demonstrations and even civil disobedience, if necessary so as to ex pose the job crisis and make the socially comfor table, uncomfortable. On ly if we act in massive numbers can we force those in power to respond to our needs. The boards of SCLC and PUSH have decided to meet within the next three weeks to determue . their action strategies, tac- tics and timetables. Rev. Jackson indicated that he and Rev. Lowery had had some discussion about the possibility of marching 5,000 people in twenty cities on August 28 of this year, the sixteenth anniversary- of the famous "1963 V March on Washington", though a conclusion had not yet been reached on an exact date. Rev. Jacjcson had sug gested a week earlier, in a speech entitled "A Call To Action", that there should be .'local marches on August 28 of this year; marches in key primary , states prior to the 1980 primary elections in, that state; and a massive march , on Washington on August 28, 1980, just prior to the . general presidential elec tion in November of 1980.' Demonstrators Burn Hans' Confedcrato Flag CHINA GROVE - A militant group of close to about 100 black and white demonstrators held an angry march and rally on Sunday, July 8 to protest the showing of the film "Birth, of a Nation" by Ku Klux Klan.' Climax of the; demonstration came when demonstrators seiz ed three klan owned con federate flags in front of the klansmen's eyes. "Birth of a Nation" is a racist V film glorifiesdistorts which the klan's inception after the civil war. There were no injuries reported . despite guns toted by klansmen and black demonstrators. Members of Worker's Viewpoint Organization (WVO), a evolutionary communist group, along with local townspeople rallied at the West Side Community Center, in the black community and marched through the streets to where klansmen assembled. "Black and white must unite; Death to the klan" .echoed through the streets as more and more town residents joined the march. As the black demonstrators arrived to where the film was shown, their weapons, firearms, sticks, pipes, and bottles were displayed. Inside the community center, and on the front porch, klansmen flaunted automatic weapons, which did little to stem the grow ing militancy of the demonstrators. A leaflet distributed at the demonstration linked' the klan to the beating of union organizers, and blacks. The leaflet charg ed that the klan were ' blood-soaked-tiny circle of agents for a capitalist class". I While the militancy Of ; blacks was nothing1 hew in China Grove, the . anti capitalist sloganeering was non-existent in this region . of the state when the klan Continued on page 18)
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