Tracing Roots
Can Be Hard
For Blacks Here
Genealogy for most black
Americans is much like a jigsaw puz
zle with many unidentifiable pieces
scattered from the West African
coast to the islands and shores of the
American continent. Even many of
the pieces that are germane to this
continent and presumed reachable
are buried in slave documents in
vague and incoherent descriptions. It
is doubtful whether other black
Americans will match the ac
complishments of Alex Haley who
traced his family tree back to the
African continent. Records maintain
ed by slaveowners are generally
undecipherable and only one with the
training, sacrifice and tenacity of a
Haley could expect to find and match
so many missing pieces.
As a result, tracing one’s heritage
beyond a few generations Is farfetch
ed for most black Americans. This
makes it extremely important for
blacks to record and preserve those
experiences and customs that are
available which give them an identi
ty. They must be sensitive to the bits
and pieces of genealogy passed on by
parents, grandparents, and great- ,
grandparents through legacies, I
stories, and fables in the oral tradi
tion, entries in Bibles, family por
traits, and artifacts. It is a common
practice in many families for
heritage to be p« jsed down to the next
generation in these fashions.
There is now a project afoot that
will enable blacks to organize and
record their family histories in a
publication for others to see while
preserving the memories for family
members.
The Black Family Heritage Book
Committee which is affiliated with
the North Carolina Afro-American
Genealogical Society is in the process
of publishing a volume which will
contain some 1.000 stories of black
North Carolinians. Stories are cur
rently being solicited from around the
state and from persons in other states
with roots in North Carolina. Stories
or histories can be no longer than
three typed pages, double-spaced.
Contributors are restricted to two
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stories each. There is no cost to sub
mit and have a story published in the
book, but contributors who would like
pictures to accompany the stories
must pay $20 per picture. The
deadline for receipt of stories and pic
tures is Feb. 17, 1989. Contributors
are under no obligation to buy the
publication, which will sell for $45.
For more details on the project, in
terested persons are asked to write
Black Family Heritage Book Com
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mittee. P.O. Box 26334, Raleigh 27611,
or call Linda Simmons-Henry at
828-4451, Ext. 237.
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Julian Bond Takes Aim
At Election Campaigns
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.
(AP)—Civil rights activist Julian
Bond says the white presidential can
didates failed to address the concerns
of black Americans and other
minorities during the 1968 presiden
tial campaign.
Bond took special aim at
Democrats who were concerned
about how to handle the success of
former presidential candidate Jesse
Jackson.
“The real question is not what the
Democrats are going to do with Jesse
Jackson,” Bond said last Friday at
Minnesota’s fifth annual Human
r
Rights Day celebration. "The real
question is why couldn’t the so-called
Seven Dwarfs compete with Jesse
Jackson.”
The "Seven Dwarfs” is the
nickname political pundits used to
describe the seven Democratic
presidential candidates early in the
campaign. The group included the
eventual nominee, Massachusetts
Gov. Michael Dukakis, whom Bond
criticised for running from his liberal
background until the final days of the
campaign.
“Politically, I think [Jackson]
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needs his party to listen to and act on
his concerns—Jobs, homelessness
and poverty,” he said after his
speech.
Bond contrasted Dukakis with
former Vice President Walter Mon
dale, who beat Jackson in seeral key
black voting areas during the 1964
Democratic campaign. Mondale was
successful because he had a good
record on civil rights and was known
to the community, he said.
Bond urged human rights activists
to scrutinize Presidentelect George
Bush’s cabinet and judicial appoint
ments, emphasizing that “George
Bush’s choices for the Supreme
Court—and he may have as many as
four of them—will say much about his
record on civil rights.”
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