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salary.
responded, "I don't need
people going around here
worrying now about my
money and everything.
When t loose money, I
make moncy...All my life
I have been saving."
On U.S. Senator Jesse
Helms, the lawyer
preacher commented
"Senator Helms was
created in the image of
God. All men got created
the same way... Thank
Ood for Senator Helms
because he makes me do
my duty."
Answering the two
questions in his sermon's
title, McKissick continued -with
what might be called
a thesis of his life's work.
"Pay Caesar's taxes,"
said McKissick, "because
by paying Caesar's taxes,
you help God do his work.
God is ever power
ful.. .We must use that
system here and through
that system can we better
worship God, because that
system is the thing that
God has here that we must
change in order to carry
out his work."
Modern day Caesars,
McKissick claimed, could
be opponents to the ma
jority black Durham City
School Board. "Did they
ever talk about the board
when it was all-white,
McKissick questioned.
Continued from front
McKissick That's Caesar again.'
On hand to hear the ser
mon were City School
Board members John Len
non and Thomas Bass.
They were among about
150 others, mostly black,
except Jot the
predominantly white news
media representatives, in
the audience. Among the
audience were Natural
Resources and Communi
ty Development Secretary
Howard Lee, Durham
Life Broadcasting ex
ecutive Asa T.
Spaulding.Jr. and
members of McKissick's
family.
Throughout the speech,
the emotionl audience
responded with 'amens',
'alright, go ahead and
preach' and 'tell it like it
is.
Testimonials of
McKissick's character and
his envolvement in
fighting against racism,
and for Christanity were
presented by several of his
friends, and family
establishing that
McKissick began
preaching long before his
trial sermon.
"Floyd has been
preaching a long time,"
remarked W.P. Edwards,
a deacon at Union Baptist
Church. "We loved him
when he was in
school(NCCU Law
School), we loved him
when he taught Sunday
School ... and we trust
him as a preacher."
John Edwards, ' a
former Soul City
employee, who is current
ly head of the N.C. Office
of Economic Opportuni
ty, recalled when
McKissick First came to
Durham. They shared
many experiences in Civil
rights battles. McKissick,
he said, traveled North
Carolina and began
preaching in the 1960's at
great personal sacrifice.
Imprisoned Wilmington
10 defendant-Rev. Ben
Chavis, after saying
McKissick was "a man of
God", commented "it is
not what Floyd says, but
what God says though
him."
McKISSICK NOT TO
HOLD REGULAR
MINISTERIAL DUTIES
Questioned after the
sermon, McKissick said he
would not perform regular
ministerial duties such as
visiting the sick, and
counseling people with
spiritual problems.
His ministry will include
occasional sermons
delivered in churches that
invite to preach.
McKISSICK'S CALL BY
GOD
Following McKissick's
announcement that he in
tended to seek the
ministry, there were the
usual whispers question
ing his sincerity.-
As a youngster deciding
on a life career, As a
youngster deciding on a
life career, McKissick told
of his grandfather's urg
ing him to become a
minister. His grandfather
told him, "as a minister,
there is the ability to
render a greater range of
service to your people
than as a lawyer." f
McKissick didn't
choose the ministry, but,
according to Dr. Grady
Davis, McKissick's
minister, he had been
disturbed about not
becoming a minister in re
cent years.
The incident which in
fluenced McKissick's ac
ceptance of the ministry,
said Davis, was an
automobile accident last
spring. McKissick was
trapped for 43 minutes in
the wreckage of his auto
on 1-85. His head was bad
ly injured in the wreck.
When Dr. Davis visited
McKissick in the hospital,
he said McKissick related
that while he was being
freed from the wreckage,
"I was talking with God.
I was conscious, and I was
aware that they were
working on trying to get
me out of there. But I was
talking with God. God
told me to preach for
him."
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TOPEKA (NNPA)
The 100th anniversary of
the exodus of some 40,000
blacks' from the South to
the "free" state of Kansas
was celebrated here last
week.
The1 Kansas State
Historical Society joined
with ft statewide commit
tee of blacks, led by jour
nalists Clarence Garrett;
and Clarence. Scroggins
and model agency head
Wanda McDaniels, In
planning and conducting
he observance of the 1879
exodus.
Features of the week
long observance include a
parade, speeches, a
pageant, and exhibits In
the municipal auditorium,
depicting the trials and
triumphs of the ex
odusters. One. of the major
leaders of the exodus
movement was Benjamin
"Pap" Singleton, a
former slave of Tennessee.
As the klan, nlghtriders,
and plantation owners of
the old Confederacy
began to re-enslave blacks
as sharecroppers and to
deny them their civil rights
and voting rights,
Singleton and the other
leaders assisted thousands
of blacks in finding their
way to Kansas where
dozens of communities
like Nicodemus and Bax
ter Springs were establish
ed. It is reported that in
1880, when General
William Tecumseh Sher
man accompanied Presi
dent Hayes to Kansas, he s
visited with a number of s
exodusters, always look
ing for those who had
come from Mississipi,
because he had "heard so
smuch about their exodus.
One black from Yazoo
City, Mississippi, told him
about the hard time and
violence in that state,
when he described to Sher
man that whites drove
blacks from the polling
1 booths, the general advis
ed that he and others
should have armed
themselves and insisted on
voting.
The exoduster is said to
have told General
Shrman, "You may know
a lot about the army, Suh,
but you sho don't know
nothing about black folks
voting in Mississippi."
Blacks were not the only
immigrants who made
their way to Kansas during
this period. Many Euro
peans, especially , Men
nonites from Russia, also
found their way there. An
the immigration didn't
just happen, historians
point out. The state, like
others of the region,
advertised extensively for
immigrants, offering
cheap land, low taxes, and
military exemption on
religious grounds.
The state's population
increased from 364,000 to
996,000 between 1870 and
1880, the black population
rose from 17,108 to 43,107
during that decade.
EVER-READY CLUB HOLDS MONTHLY
:. ' ' MEETING
The monthly meeting of the Ever-Ready Club. was
held at the home of Mrs, Reowa Barbee. The meenng
was brought to order by the president.JMrsv Esther
Moore. The theme for the meeting was Try It You u
Like It". After the business meeting, a lovely repast was
served ' r 1 ' w '
Those attending were: Mmes. Annie Chavis, Lizzie
Chavis, Bessie Jones, Clara Taylor, Dorothy Holloway,
Felecia Revels, Mary Paterson and Leir Lee. The new
meeting will be held the first Sunday evening in
wmhpr at the home of Mrs. Dorothy Holloway.
VSvBaaw i, t
ty years and older have learned a lot and the.Reured -sninr
Volunteer Proeram needs that knowledge and
those skills. Volunteers are heeded to escort out-patients
from one department to another in a clinic, and to drive
elderly persons to medical appointments. A group or
senior club willing to host parties at a hospital for pa-.
UCIU3 uu me iii in uuw v .trr v r r j -z ,
mana. tveryining ior me panics wm v ,
1 If you are willing to help, please call Ms. Mary In-,'
gram or Ms. Helen Pressley at 596-9311, Durham
Technical Institute. Transportation can be arranged or
'mileage reimbursed. ' ; -
SCIENCE Ok LIVES
Other
The health hazard asso
ciated with the use of the
pill and our changing atti
tudes about man's role in
sharing responsibility have
led many women to
consider switching to the
barrier methods of birth
control.
Many married couples are
finding that recent innova
tions in the design and ma
terials of the new condoms,
Options
like Excita, Fiesta and
Fetherlite, may both en
hance the quality of-marital
relations and help contribute
to shared responsibility.
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Fifth Annual Durham Branch
6P
Honoring
Attorney conrati , peare0rt
Wednesday, September 26, 1979
7:00 P.M.
Durham Civic Center
I Keynote speaker: Jack creenberg
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