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? Nation’s 107 Black Colleges
\ Ask Alumni For $8 Million
Graduates of the nation’* 107 black
colleges end universities ere being
asked to contribute over 18 million
this September to increase financial
support for black higher education
through a creative hind railing pro
ject initiated by the Council of
National Alumni Associations.
“The more than 800,000 graduates
of historically black colleges are
being urged to send a minimum of
810 to their respective alma ma
tsrs on September 90 to show that
they are willing to pay financially to
keep their schools open end to pre
serve this part, of our valuable
history,” sakl Hilliard L. Lackey,
CNAA vice president and national
coordinator of the fund raising pro
ject named “Payback ’86.’'
"Just Imagine the number of de
linquent accounts that can be paid
and the number of scholarships that
can come from 88 million," said
Lackey, who aleo serves as director
of alumni affairs at Jackson State
University in Jackson, Miss.
“What better way to there to honor
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me runa raiser is being held in
conjunction with National Historic
Black College Day, which has been
celebrated annually in Washington,
D.C., since I960 to focus attention on
the need to preserve Mack institu
tions of higher learning.
These black colleges have grad
uated more than 80 percent of the
black graduates even though black
colleges have only 43 percent of the
black college enrollment, Lackey
added.
“That doesn’t mean that black
institutions are superior to historic
ally white colleges and universi
ties,” Lackey continued. "That
simply means that Mack institutions
have developed a special ability to
graduate dsadvantaged students
without a sacrifice to their aca
demic achievement
“Studies have indicated that the
grades of black college graduates in
advanced degree programs at white
Institutions match those of black
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students who were graduated from
the traditional white institutions.”
Black colleges, in addition to
graduating the majority of all black
graduates, have virtually trained all
of the black leadership in this
country, Lackey said
Eighty-five percent of the coun
try’s black lawyer# were graduated
from black colleges, 86 percent of all
black physicians, 75 percent of all
blacks with earned doctorates, 75
percent of all black officers In the
American armed services, 50 per
cent of all black executives, and 80
percent of the black judges.
Despite the tremendous success
recores of black institutions, those
schools are still being hampered by
n severe lack of funds, inflation,
mergers and school closings, he
acknowledged.
Contributions for the fund raising
project should be made payable to
the respective institution, ear
marked Payback ’85, and mailed to
the school’s Office of Alumni Af
fairs. Non-alumni gifts afe accept
able and may be mailed to the
historically black institution of the
donor's choice.
CNAA will have a national tele
phone hook-up on September 30 to
keep tabs on funds reported to each
campus, and will announce the
individual totals and grand total at
the Annual Black College Day Rally
In Washington, D.C.
Par more information, please con
tact Lackey at the JSU Office of
Alumni Affairs, P. O. Box 17746,
Jackson, Miss. 99217 or telephone
601-968-2281.
NAACP Will Honor Clark S. Brown
The North Carolina State Con
ference of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) will honor Clark S.
Brown at its annual Freedom Fund
Dinner August 10 at the Winston
Salem Convention Center.
Brown will receive the Kelly M
Alexander Sr. Humanitarian Award
at the 6 p.m. affair.
The speaker will be George State
Senator Julian Bond.
Tickets are |90 per person and
may be purchased from local
branches across the state
Brown was born in Roanoke, Va.,
and attended the public schools
there. He also studied at the City
College of New York and Renouard
College of Embalming in New York
City. He is a licensed funeral di
rector and embalmer in three states,
a licensed real estate broker, owner
and operator of Clark S. Brown and
Sons Funeral Home in Winston
Salem since 1930.
For 15 years Brown was Most
Worshipful Grand Master of Prince
Hall Masons of North Carolina; for
14 years, Grand Associate Patron of
the Order of Eastern Star; or
ganized Prince Hall Day in North
Carolina for Masons. Proceeds from
Prince Hall Day are divided be
tween the N.C. Chapter of the
NAACP, the national organization of
the NAACP, and the NAACP Le
gal Defense and Educational Fund
Brown has served on the boards of
the Chamber of Commerce, the
Northwestern Bank, the American
Red Cross, the Retail Merchants
Association, the Patterson Avenue
and Metropolitan YMCA, The Sal
vation Army, the Winston-Salem
Housing Authority, the Civil De
fense and Preparedness Commis
sion, and 23 years on the City
Recreation Commission.
He has served as a member of the
Board of Governors of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and as a
trustee of NiC Central University,
Winston-Salem State University and
Shaw University.
He is a member of First Baptist
Church, where he has served on the
Trustee Board for 40 years, and as
chairman for over 15 years.
Charlotte Area Ministers Talk About
ultiplieity Of Church Denominations
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