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Today's put-off objectives reduce tomoHARRY F. BANKSNews foHome Delivery 5EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA TS MINORITY VOICE SINCE 1981ian 2 6 (959ve .The fine dilemmas of Black leaders"By EARL OFARIHUTCHINSON__ (NNPA)Nearly a half-century ago,white, Southern-orn writerRobert Penn Warren asked, oWho speaks for the Negro? ?The question was, and willalways be, silly and presumptu-438. No one asks who speaks forites, Latinos or Asians. Noone tndividual or organization |can speak for an entire group.The notion of a common leader-ship for Blacks feeds more than |an ageless myth. It exposes |major dilemmas confrontingBlack leaders.. This presents the first majordilemma fay Black leaders:~ The latent class division hasburst. into gasping fissuresbetween two Black Americas.One is poor, desperate andangry, while the other is pros-perous, comfortable and com-placent. Facing this crisis, manymainstream Black leaders havebackpedaled. The NAACP,Urban League and SCLC have replaced the nickels and dimesit received in support fromBlacks for decades with corpo-rate and foundation dollars. Andthey have tailored their pro-grams to accelerate opportuni-ties for business persons andupward mobile professionals.The chase continues for SBA |loans, scholarships and grantsto pricey universities, corporatemanagerial positions and sub- |urban homes. Unfortunately,the Black poor are nowhere tobe found in that chase.This presents the secondmajor dilemma for Black lead-ers: How to win political conces-sions from Democratic Party(or, if possible, the RepublicanParty) and for what and forwhom should they win them?The sad truth is that Blackshave narrowed their politicaloptions down to essentially one:the Democratic Party. Theresult is many Black leadershave cradled even more cozilyinto the Democratic Party andpared their demands down tomore party appointments andpolitical offices. Some havebecome even more mainstreamand less responsive to the need-iest and. most dispossessed inBlack communities. These indi-viduals get less rather than_ more political representation.' relentlessly batteredUNIVERSITYThis leads to the third majordilemma for many Black lead-ers: the challenge from Blackconservatives. About one-thirdof Blacks publicly call them-selves conservative, and many °more privately agree with some,most or all of what conserva-tives have to say. They alsoknow that the old-line civilrights leadership has beenandbruised during the T80s and T90sby conservative politicians andfor failing to mobilize the Blackpoor around the crisis problemsof quality education, health-care, declining public services,police abuse, crime and drugdestruction. These leaders havefelt the criticism and wrath ofmany Blacks, who are mortallya "The Steering Committe...of York Memorial AME Zion Church |.ather here to welcome all their friends at the 13th AnnualConference which convened at York. (L-R) Les Cox, YvonneGeorge, Bishop George Battle, Barbara Fenner, and D.D.Garrett.GLORY, LAUD & HONOR...Praise to whom praise isdue...The Annual Honorarium Banquet -- Saptist Church -- recog-te to church leaders and commu-nity leaders for their continued outsanding dedicatedthe Mt. Calvnizes and pays triFree Will BLsoredservice. (Staff Photo: Jim Rouse)?,?ssdisillusioned. with two-partypolitics and convinced that theyhave not, and cannot, deliverthe goods. .This presents the fourthmajor dilemma for Black lead-ers: the anointing of the chosenleader. Many leaders haveknowingly played along, forpersonal ego strokes and mater-ial gain, with the media game ofperpetuating the fraud of the omonolithic Black community. ?The media shoves a ochosenBlack spokesperson ? into thespotlight and pretends thatissues not sanctioned by the ochosen one ? are not issues. It isthen free to ignore any and alllocal leaders, actions, agendasand causes it does not like.When Blacks reduce leadershipto star and celebrity gazing,they pay a dear price.Now, the fifth major dilem-ma for Black leaders: youngBlacks.Many young Blacks are con-Fhe Minor iytalonaVouIssue Date: January 1999; amongAINN VINITVOE0S L505311i: ee 2temptuous of the hypocrisy andcorruption of many Black politi-/ Clans and organizations. Theysee some of them wrapped inscandals and seemingly end-lessly grasping for sex, cash andother creature comforts: Someyoung Blacks react by drifting "into social withdrawal. Othersbecome true menaces to gocietyand prey on their own commu-nities. Many mainstream Blackleaders have no answerstheir plight. :The economic, social, politi-cal and generation schismsmany African-Americans are broad.Mainstream Black leaders, ogangsta ? rappers, hip-hopicons and Black conservativesare in an intense hunt to findworkable programs and strate-gies to dea! with the cripplinginternal crisis of Blacks, youngand old, rich and poor. Whoevercan find them, still will not orcannot answer the question, oWho speaks for the Negro? ?Earl Ofari Hutchinson ie theauthor of oThe Crisis in Blackand Black. ? ,100 years of age shown above Mr. wooten who celebrated his 100year birthday last week shown with brother , daughter and otherrelations and Mr. John Fraizzell who fought fires for Black folks " _ " Right Step Academy Faculty and members pause to share a pleasantmoment with our roving camera. Got a few spare moments you canshare with a young brother or sister...Give Mr. William Pearce a call.Volunteer and mentors are always welcome. (Photo Jim Rouse)reenville City Council woman , shown at fourm with Black pro-ducer of public television Black Forum issues discuss diverse com-munities in Eastern North Carolina photos by Jim RouseHill's FirstsesRev, James Tripand his familyWala wendorhd Vee all and extend a cordial welcome tocome and shin with the Holly Hill Free will Baptist Church.(Photo Jim RouFeatRemembering [shown The late Mr. GarrettIA teen " " " "along with Seargent Chapman with Community Christian ChurchPastor James Corbet Hats off to our fathers for opening the doorsLCelebration of .Martin Luther King,}tS WItdGbidsdSponsored byThe Cty of GreenvilleThe Southern Christian Leadenhipp Conference (SLOThe Greenville - Pt County Chamber of CommercThe Greenville Human Relations CoundThe Blau nsters AllianceEast Carolina Liniversitys ALN CommitteeEast Carolina Unniverstys Thesoians of DiverstyPeople Act Putting Community hac in TheaterSunday, January 17, 19996:00 p.m.Memorial Service at the YorkMemorial AMZ Zion Church, 201Tyson Street. Rev. joseph Georgewill be the keynote speaker.Monday. January 18, 19997:30-9:30 a.m.Community UiBreakfastwill be held at Rose High SchoolAuditorium.10:00 a.m.Dedication Ceremony held atthe Thomas Foreman Park on theconer of 5th Street and MemorialDrive.12:00-1:00 p.m.Interdenominational Serviceheld at Cornerstone Baptist Church,1095 Allen Rd.1:00-2:00 p.m. YouthProgram held at AMEZion Church, 201 Tyson Street.2:00-3:00 p.m. o| Have Seen the Mountaintop, ? aplay about Martin Luther Kiyerformed byWtAct at Hendrixheater, Mendenhall, East CarolinaUniversity.4:00 p.m.Poorman's Feast held at YorkMemorial AME Zion Church, 201Tyson Street.6:00 p.m,CandlelightBelk Residence Hall, East CarolinaUniversity,7:00 p.m.Vigil begininning atEvening Celebration. An eveningof music, awards, and speakers willbe held at Mendenhall, EastCarolina University, " "m

Richard L. Trumka, sea Scott King.eretary-treasurer of the AFL-Chonor. It is celebrated in over 100countries around the world.The theme for this years event is:Remember! Celebrate! Act! A DayOn, Not A Day Off!It reiterates the importance ofremembering Dr. King's work andlegacy, celebrating his birthday as anational holiday and acting on histeachings and principles of nonvio-lence and human rights. It alsoserves aS a reminder that theholiday is a day on which commu-nity service initiatives should takeplace, not just a day off from workor school.- Some of the events scheduled totake place on his birthday will be aspecial screening of, Our Friend,Martin, scheduled to be shown inthe eveing January 15th at 7:30travel back in time and meetMartin Luther King, Jr. at variouspoints in his life. The first and onlyanimated movie of its kind, OurFriend, Martin combines the color-ful animation with actual footage ofDr. King's life, and features anall-star cast of vocal talent includ-ing Ed Asner, Angela Bassett,Lucas Black, Theodore Borders,Levar Burton, Jessica Garcia,Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg,Samuel L. Jackson, James EarlJones, Ashley Judd, Richard Kind,Dexter Scott King, Yolanda King,Zachary Leigh, Robert Rich'ard,Susan Sarandon, John Travolta,Jaleel White and Oprah Winfrey.If The Our Friend, MartinPremiere is by invitation only. ForInformationMoreContact: |Enter to Worship--Depart to Serve---Holding on tight to hisBible, Brother Cleveland Graham (L) is seen here with his paster,Superintendent Austin Parker (R), as they enter Wells ChapelChruch of God in Christ. (Photo: Jim Rouse)Service Looe on Jan 18th.This service has been theof the official King HoliObservance. It is then whenof the nation and the world areDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The keynote speaker was thelikewise illustrious Desmond MpiloTutu, ae Emeritus ofTown, South Africa and1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Tutu is currently the Robert W.Woodruff Visiting Professor ofTheology at Emory UniversityUnlike some of the scheduledevents, should you be in Atlanta atthat time, the CommemorativeService will be open to the public.However seating is limited. but theservice will be broadcasted byAtlanta's channel 5 WAGA-TV.The King Center was originallyArtist anil divil-yights activistsA. po T. é te" Cotrell Shait marAA andP pat, Georgy. PacificGomporation. wtb a) | ;nd the National Edncation ABsoci-Young! !R3Vivyie ng, Jr.Ce rer Baptist Chuehat zer urcin Atlanta.There is also a Commemorativeencouraged to honor the work ofFounder, Coretta Scott King.Richard LubrantFREEDOM HALLCOMPLEXDesigned as a living memorial toDr. King Ts life and vision, TheKing nter's Freedom HallSr oar draws aah art fouron e a year from all overhe wal Visitors ae come to thei ter omage to Dr.King, view nique exhibits of hispersonal memorabilia, conduct re-search in The King Library andArchives and Cipate in diverseprograms. Visitors include heads ofstate, public figures, school chil-dren, religious groups and interna-tional tourists from all walks of life.VISITING THE KINGCENTERThe King Center is the hub of aunique, 23-acre National HistoricSite and Preservation District indowntown Atlanta. TheHistoric Site encom: s the com-fortable Victorian dwelling whereKing |where Dr. King now rests, and themany homes and shops of "SweetAuburn," one of America Ts oldestand most vital black cultural andbusiness districts.SPECIAL SITES* Dr. King Ts Crypt * The EternalFlame * The Gift Shop * Dr.King Ts Birth Home * EbenezerBaptist Church * FreedomWalkway * Freedom Plaza * TheReflecting Pool *"A RESPONSIBILITY TO HISTORY"teachings. The. King Library andArchives houses and preservesmore than two million documents,including Dr. King Ts personal pa-pers and material related to theAmerican Civil Rights Movement.The King Papers Project is a14-volume scholarly collection ofDr. King Ts speeches, sermons andwritings. Three volumes have al-ready published.On the Martin Luther King, Jr.holiday.....Fly your flag.race, color, creed,} status. T Compliance(252) 329-4009NOTICE OFNONDISCRIMINATION |The T Greenville Housing Authoritycomplies with all federal and statehousing laws. 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PREFACBMCS(SW) Edward F.DeAngelis of the Naval Air ForcesAtlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, partici-pated in the Topical ResearchIntern Program (TRIP) at theDefense Equal OpportunityManagement Institute from August25-September 23, 1987. SeniorChief DeAngelis worked diligentlyto gather materials on Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr.'s, life and work,identifying several major eventsand themes. Ms. Leslie Wilson,former DEOMI Research DivisionChief, wrote this report based onthe materials he collected. DEOMIreer |Pureport.MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.INTRODUCTIONI have a dream that one day thisnation will rise up, live out the truemeaning of its creed, "We holdthese truths to be self-evident, thatall men are created equal." Twentyyears after Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr., uttered these words, Public Law98-144 was enacted, designatingthe third Monday in January as aFederal holiday commemoratingDr. King's birthday. GeorgeWashington is the only otherAmerican whose birthday has beenRRO REA IS x5 eensSAPP PREPEPODFOOEE PELE Ea Federal holiday.Since the first King holiday onJanuary 20, 1986, the observancehas been an occasion for people toremember Dr. King's life anddedicate themselves anew to imple-menting his dreams.KING'S EARLY LIFEMartin Luther King, Jr, wasborn on January 15, 1929, inAtlanta, Georgia.At a very young age, he wasfascinated by watching his father,Martin Luther King, Sr., Pastor ofEbenezer Baptist Church inAtlanta, and other ministers controlaudiences with skillfully chosenSo |e ieEDUCATION T.In September 1944, when he wasonly 15 years old, King enteredMorehouse College in Atlanta,Georgia. At first; he was undecidedas to his course of study. However,his experiences at Morehouseshaped his direction for life.According to Stephen B. Oates,in his book Let theSound "The Life of Martin LutherKing, Jr., King fell under the spellof Dr. Benjamin Mays, the collegepresident...Mays challengedtraditional view of Negro educationas oaccommodation under protest"and championed it instead asliberation through knowledge.Education, he told his students,allowed the Negro to be intellectu-ally free; it was an instrument ofsocial and personal renewal.Unlike most other Negro educators,Mays was active in the NAACPand spoke out against racial oppres-sion. He lashed the white church inparticular as America's "most con-servative and hypocritical institu-tion."King was enormously impressed.He saw in Mays what he wanted "areal minister to be"--a rational manwhose sermons were both spiritu-ally and intellectually stimulating,a moral man who was sociallyinvolved. Thanks largely to Mays,King realized that the ministrycould be a respectable force forideas, even for social protest. Andso at seventeen King elected tobecome a Baptist minister, like hisfather and maternal grandfatherbefore him.followingyears old,Morehouse College with ain sociology. He then studied for aB.A. degree. in divinity at CrozerSeminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.This was his first experience in anorthern, integrated school.While at Crozer, King attended alecture by Dr. Mordecai W.Johnson, who was the presi ofHoward University in Washington,DC. Dr. Johnson oexplained howGandhi had forged Soul Force--thepower of love or truth--into amighty vehicle for social change."He " that the moral power ofGandhian nonviolence could im-prove race relations in America,too."King was mesmerized byGandhi's concepts, and began read-ing profusely about his life andphilosophy. = |Nonviolent resistance, Gandhitaught, meant noncooperation withevil, an idea he got from Thoreau,whose essay on civil disobedience"left a deep impression on me."..Gandhi, for his part, tookThoreau's theory and gave it practi-cal application in the form ofstrikes, boycotts, and protestmarches, all conducted nonvio-lently and all predicated on love forthe oppressor and a belief in divinejustice. Gandhi's goal was not todefeat the British in India, but toredeem them through love, so as toavoid a legacy of bitterness.In fact, in 1929, Gandhi told agroup of American Blacks: Let notthe 12 million Negroes be ashamedof the fact that they are thegrandchildren of slaves. There isno dishonour in being slaves.There is dishonour in being slaveowners. But let us not think ofhonour or dishonour in connectionwith the past. Let us realize thatpgeeHtibei:Fas a Ph.D. student in philosophy atBoston University. Proteeste L.Harold DeWolf said of oall thedoctorate students I have had atBoston University--some fifty inall-I would rate Martin LutherKing among the top five."Despite the heavy demands of hisdoctoral program, King found timefor two other activities--enrollingYH OODH HBOSON % . aNi Salutes the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, J iie | y of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.} izr a = = "very October, the University Health . from Buddy Check to promote early diagnosisNrormcerencele OSystems of Pastern Carolina Ts Leo W. Jenkins of breast cancer, to Made in the Shade, a supportCaneer Center im Greenville holds a Survivor's group for patients with melanoma.celebration. And every year, the numberof people attending seems to get larger.Frankly, we're not surprised. 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: | harmony of interests and under-| concerned osegregation in transpor- its name to the Southerr onow move from protest to recon- February 1957, the organization t effort entitledciliation. : : elected Dr T King as President and| oCrusade for Citizenship. ? At theOn _Decer 21, 1956, | ch its name to the Southern time only one and a quarter millionMontgomery Lines resumed ip Conference | Its| Blacks were _ regi in thefull service on all of its routes. At| goal, as stated by Bayard South. The drive sought to register5:45 am, [Ralph] Abernathy, | was to refuse oto Jim Crow | five million new minority voters.'D.]_Nixon, Mrs. Parks, and| in specific areas....which] chal- The first civil rights legislationGlenn] cae, eters & the entire social, political since reconstruction was passed ining home on Jackson. Ten economic order that has kept} 1957, est a Civil Rightsses a oe oe Oe | To domemmrae is, oe ag| hank Deparonent 10 fle, Invent: a m ) nstrate thi . Ki parti AwSuitscorner, varia Lather King, Jr., promoeed a oPilgrimage 0| when voting ri ertat recould not or would was the first pa: to the door. Washington" _ if ident| LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSASnot be the same after He paid his selected a seat| Eisenhower refused to publicly} In 1957, violence erupted Goring1955]... It was the day that Mrs. toward the front of the bus. Glenn | denounce segreg: on. King spots an attempt to integrate Little Rock T:ac arks, a Negro seamstress was Smiley, the white Texan, sat down | of how the be an| Central High School under FederalKosa od for refusing to obey the bus next to him. As news photoraphers appeal 10 the nation, and the court order. Governor Orval Faubusdriver's order to move from the seat snapped. pictures, the bus pulled to pass a civil rights bill} called out the Arkansas Nationalin which she was sitting to let a you away from the | curb. lack| that would give the Justice} Guard to keep Blacks from attend.white passenger sit down. Mrs | Montgomery, after 382 days of| De nt the power to file law] ing the school. __ Presiden!Parks was returning home from i mass effort, had achieved its goal. | suits against discriminatory regis-| Eisenhower, ofaced with the moswork and after being tired from And that is where the strong| due to the boycott A White taxi driver remarked about | tration and voting practices any-| serious challenge to Federal author-standing all day, she sat in the first | Tesistance comes. We've got to keep | company was worried. King, oDon't let anyone fool you. | where in the South. ity since the Civil War," was bligedavailable seat, Which happened to | 0 ? keepin T on, in order to gain| The response of the White commu- That young colored preacher has} On May 17, 1957, a-smaller group | {0 nationalize the Arkansasbe reserved for white riders. Since freedom. It is not done voluntarily. | nity turned violent. There were ot more brains in his little finger | than aisicipated convened at the| National Guard and dispatch aMrs, Parks refused to move, she | It is done through the pressure that | threatening telenhme calls and the City Commissioners and| Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King thousand regular army paratrooper:was arrested , comes.about from people who are | harassment of Blacks. Dr. King's | all the politicians in this town put| spoke, and was catapulted into the | to Little Rock. With white parentsMrs. Parks was later tried in oppressed. home was bombed. He was | together. national spotlight. shouting and waving ConfederateMontgomery City Court, charged The MIA was encouraged by Dr. arrested and jailed for allegedly THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN | Give us the ballot and we will no flags, U.S. soldiers " escortedwith and found guilty of violating a King's words. It agreed that driving 30 miles per hour in a LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE | longer plead--we will write the Elizabeth Eckford and eight otherstate law mandating segregation. | instead of staging just a one-day | 25-mile-per-hour zone. (SCLC) proper laws on the books, Give us| Negro students into the school andShe was fined $10. Her attorney | bus boycott, the boycott would On November 13, 1956, the United | The Supreme Court decision in the the ballot and we will fill the through the corridors to theiried the conviction. last until: States Supreme Court affirmed the | Montgomery bus case was hardly | legislature with men of good-| classes. Thanks to southern whiteincident with Mrs. Parks T trial | (1) Courteous treatment by the bus decision of a seg) US. District | the end of the battle. There was| will...Give us the ballot and we wil intransigence, Eisenhower becamewas a one day boycott of the buses | operators was guaranteed. Court which declared Alabama's | much violence in the aftermath of | transform the salient misdeeds of} the first President "_ sincemany members of Montgomery's 2) Passengers were seated on a state and local laws requiring the legal integration of the buses. the bloodthirs mobs into the Reconstruction to send . federalby me community tst-come, first-served basis--| Segregation on buses unconstitu- | As a so on January 10-11,| calculated good deeds of orderly troops to enforce Negro rights inAs a result of this, an organization | Negroes seated from the back of the | "onal. 1957, 60 Black leaders from 16| citizens. . Dixie, a move that enraged theack of the | "King instructed his followers: | Southern states met at the Ebenezer] President, Eisenhower did | not white South and polarized thewas established, the "Montgomery | bus toward the front while whitesImprovement Association," (MIA) seated from the front toward theto orchestrate a complete and | back.ongoing response to Montgomery's | (3) That Negro bus operators besegregation. employed on predominantly NegroBaptist Church in Atlanta andfounded the Southern Conferenceon Transportation and Non-violentIntegration. Its original agendachange his behavior following thePilgrimage. He still would notmeet with Black leaders.In August 1957, the organizationto go back to the buses withhumility and meekness. I would betruly disappointed if any of you goback to the buses bragging we, theKing's Life StoryContinues on Page 5Dr. King was chosen president, andannounced: We have no alternativebut to protest. For many years wehave shown an amazing patience.We have sometimes given ourwhite brothers the feeling that weliked the way we were beingtreated. But we came here tonightto be saved from that patience thatroutes.Lerone Bennett, Jr. in WhatManner of Man: A Biography ofMartin Luther King, Jr, 1929-1968, observed: The one-day Warcott stretched out to 382 days. The382 days changed the spirit ofMartin Luther ng, Jr., and King,thus transformed, helped to changeNegroes, won a victory over thewhite people...Our experience and growth duringthis past year of nonviolent protesthas been T such that we cannot besatisfied with a court "victory" overour white brothers.We must respond to the decisionwith an understanding of those whohave oppressed us and with anscale, to the French Revolution, of |to protest for rights...This is aEASTERN DIGESTIVEBOARD CERTIFIED INGASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY AND INTERNAL MEDICINESPECIALIZING IN GALL BALLDER DISEASE, WEIGHT LOSS,STOMACH ACHES,HIATAL HERNIA, TROUBLE SWALLOWING,makes us patient with anything less | the face and the heart of the Negro,than freedom and justice. of the white man, and of America. | appreciation of the new adjust-King drew heavily on Gandhi's | Viewed thus, as a sensitizing social ments that the court order poses for " "philosophies. and Ejeet One of | symbol, the Montgomery bus : - ee Wie et a suc meth EQUAL HOUSINGC t glories o erican | cott was a myth-event com e,fences is that we have the right | in a different era and on Memaller | together of white people and col-ored people on the basis of a realOPPORTUNITY'* SUPPORTMtSt ; iThe MinorityVoice Inc.pais[OAL IPREOPA AD WADIA TIMER VINA ? 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The King StoryContinues frowhite South and polarized the North Carolina A & T College sat |;region. down at the a sues ©Following these acti i - Woolworth'sposed the crrsvon, "What | and refused 10 leave when they KXmmerican politician had done the were denied service. Only white most to promote in ion the last roar ge gi shea got pennefive years? ? According to King, it| Word of their act spread amongwas r :Faubus, who had instigated the | more than two dozen occupiedcrisis at Little Rock. His irrespon-sible actions brought the issue tothe forefront of the conscience ofthe nation as nothing else had, andallowed people to see the futility ofattempting to close the publicschooTHE SIT-INSOn February 1, 1960, four youngblack men who were students atwhen they also were refusedprotesters.until,lunch counter, doing schoolworkserv-ice. 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Under CORE's oauspices, interracial " groupsboarded two buses in Washington,D.C., and set out on_a circuitousjourney toward New Orleans, test-ing terminal facilities as theywent."Initially, King did not pafticipatein the Freedom Rides, Since ft wasCORE sponsored, he felt COREshould receive the recognition.However, SCLC bought the ticketsfor the Freedom Riders and wasprepared to assist if necessary. Andnecessary it was.In Alabama. the Freedom Rides turned into a nightmare. OnMother's Day, May 14, an armedmob surrounded the first bus justoutside of Anniston and set thevehicle afire. The passengers nar-rowly escaped before the busexploded in a shower of flames. ascene that newsmen captured inphotographs that were widely pub-icized. The second bus managed toescape the Anniston mob and racedon to Birmingham.But as the Freedom Ridersstepped off the bus there. a gang ofKlansmen, promised fifteen min-utes of immunity by the localpolice. beat them mercilessly withead pipes, baseball _ bats. andbicycle chains.In Montgomery, Alabama, mobsassaulted the Freedom Riders.Attorney General Robert Kennedysent 400 U.S. Marshals to calm thesituation. Dr. King went toMontgomery and spoke.The ultimate responsibility forthe hideous action in Alabama laststep of theWe hearpg cannotmayregulated.- to make akeep himTheSheontcongies "The Gordeclared a state of martial law andcalled in the National Guard.The governor then called |Attorney ; edy to in-form him of his troop dispositions.The governor said pose. how-ever, that Major General HenryGraham, the guard commander,could not ntee the safety ofMartin Luther King, Jr. oHave theeneral call me," Robert F.ennedy snapped back. "I wanthim to say it to me. I want to heara general of the U.S. Army =) hecan't protect Martin LutherJr" Faced with an angry, deter-mined attorney general, _ theAlabama governor retreated, admit-ting that it was he, not the general,who did not believe King could beprotected.Not only King but also thetattered nonviolent army of whichhe was the symbolic leader wasprotected. .The Freedom Riders moved on toJackson, Mississippi, the followingday, under heavy guard _ TheInterstate Commerce Commissionissued a ban on segregation intransportation, buses, and relatedfacilities.BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMAAccording to King, in 1963Birmingham was othe most thor-oughly segregated city in thecountry, T an AmericanJohannesburg that was ruled by fearand plagued by hate."SCLC's plan for Birmingham,expressed in the oBirminghamManifesto, ? involved strong boycottby Blacks of White stores aroundthe Easter shopping season. SCLChoped that such economic depriva-tion would force Birmingham toadopt SCLC's goals of desegrega-tion of the store facilities. adoptionof fair hiring practices by thosestores: dismissal of all charges from|__"AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER". , +A Company Committed To Quality, Excellence, and Customer\ Draperless |Your Complete Home Interior Design Center Wallpaper |Blinds Remnants. |"aete| | 2808 East Tenth Street, Greenville 75 2-7000ng, ._A court order placed an injunc- + thetion against any type of protest Hungarian freedom fighters did inactivity imaginable. King defied | Hungary was oillegal ?the order and was arrested and| The next p of theplaced in jail, Birmingham stage turned to theIt was from his jail cell in | children. High school students,Birmingham that Dr. King wrote a along with their younger brothersvery famous letter, in which he | and siste , took to the streets inmidrensed the criticism of his oe Police arrested more thanactivities. 900 children in a day, carting themI am here, along with several | in school buses to jail. "One policemembers of my staff, because we captain was deeply troubled by thatwere invited here. I am here | sight. Evans he told anotherbecause I have basic organizational | officer, ten or fifteen years fromties here. Beyond this, | am in| THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEBirmingham because injustice is | Perhaps the ultimate recognition ofhere... We have not made a single | Dr. King's crusade to secure equalgain in civil rights without deter- | rights for all came on December 10,mined legal and non-violent pres- | 1964, when, at age 35, he was thesure. History is the long and tragicstory of the fact that privilegedgroups seldom give up their unjuststure; but as Rei old Niebuhrhas reminded us, groups are moreimmoral than individuals.We know through painful experi-ence that freedom is never volun-tarily given by the oppressor; itmust demanded by the op-pressed...For years now I have heard theword oWait. ? It rings in the ear ofevery Negro with a piercing famili-arity. s "Wait" has alwaysmeant "Never." It has been atranquilizing thalidomide, relievingthe emotional stress for a momentonly to give birth to an ill formedinfant of frustration. We mustcome to see with the distinguishedeee est person ever to receive theobel Peace Prize.Some months earlier, right after hehad been nominated, Dr. King tolda friend that Time's "Man of theYear" award was nothing special,that he had two hundred plaques athome, and what's one more?, Buta Nobel Peace a7 was different.s was not simply a personalaward, but the most significantinternational endorsement bleof the civil rights struggle. Thiswas not a prize being given to oneindividual...but the oforemost ofearthly honors" being accorded themovement he had come to symbol-ize.Accordingly, all of the prize moneywas distributed among several ma-jor civil rights organizations.jurist of yesterday that "justice too SELMA, ALABAMAong delayed is justice denied." We | The Southern Christian Leadershiphundred and forty years for our .SHEL! and God-givenng ts... ° rThe answer is found in the fact King Ts Life Storythat there are two types of laws: Continues on Page 6- Commission. 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; 1962 and Au1964, 795 Blacks tried t0re 93 (11.7paces) were allowed to register.ng the same ae (76.7percent) of the 1,232 Whites who " to register were registered.ma officials used any means,both legal and illegal, to preventBlack voter registration.Lenwood G. Davis in I Have ADream...The Life and Times ofMartin Luther King, Jr., describedsome of the tactics used.Some Negroes stood in line, ap-proximately six hours a day, wait-ing to enter the courthouse toregister. Only 95 persons ot induring the two weeks period sinceonly one applicant was admitted ata time. Each had to answer lonseries of confusing biographicaquestions. Next they had to providewritten answers to a twen' pagetest on the Constitution, federal,state and local governments. Toprove literacy, each applicant hadto write a passage from theConstitution read to him by theregistrar. The registrar was the solejudge of whether the applicant'swriting was passable, and whetherhe had given the correct answers.These complicated registration pro-cedures were so unjust that evensome college professors could not"pass" the literacy test.It appears as though Selma officialsrecognized the truth in Dr. King'smessage of what would happenwhen Blacks were able to vote inAlabama. Dr. King said: when weget the right to vote, we will sendfo the State House not men whowill stand in the doorway ofuniversities to keep Negroes out butmen who will u old the cause of "weawy: eneeue OuiCongress men who will sign not amanifesto for segregation but amanifesto for justice.. The demonstrations in Selma sentere ee ee ee ee ee me eemi .Dr. King to jail once again. Thistime he wrote a letter to the NewYork Times, pointing out theironies of his situation. When theKing of Norway participated inawarding the Nobel Peace Prize tome, he surely did not think that inless than sixty days I would be injail. He, and almost all the worldopinion will be shocked becausethey are little aware of the unfin-ished business in the South...THIS IS SELMA, ALABAMA, (sic)THERE ARE MORE NEGROES INJAIL WITH ME THAN THEREARE ON THE VOTING ROLLS.While in fail Dr. King receivedword of U.S. District Ju ge DanielH. Thomas' order that Alabama hadto cease using its voter registrationform, stop rejecting applicantsbecause of minor errors on theirforms, and process 100 applicants |each day the registrars met.However. the situation turned moreviolent. and once again, the ironywas driven home. ABC Networkinterrupted Judgment atNuremberg, a movie about Naziatrocities, to broadcast film ofAlabama State Troopers' bloodyassault on peaceful Black marchers."Bloody Sunday," as it came to becalled, prompted PresidentJohnson's comments.What happened in Selma was anAmerican tragedy The blows thatwere received, the blood that wasshed, the life of the good man thatwas lost, must strengthen thedetermination of each of us to bringfull and equal and exact justice toall of our people...It is wrong to do violence toceful citizens in the street oftheir town. It is wrong to denyAmericans the right to vote. It iswrong to deny any person fullequality because of the color of hisskin.THE VOTING RIGHTS ACTThe actions of Selma and othersouthern cities to disenfranchiseBlacks prompted the Johnson ad-ministration, on March 17, 1965, to4Mississippi, 28 counties in NorthCarolina, South Carolina, andVirginia.Major provisions of the law in-cluded banning the use of literacytests; giving the Attorney Generalauthority to supervise voter regis-tration in areas where a literacy testwas in use as of November 1, 1964,or "where fewer than 50 percent ofthe voting age residents wereregistered to vote on that date oractually voted in the 1964Presidential election;" providing forcriminal penalties for those whointerfered with voting rights, andauthorizing the Attorney General toprohibit the use of poll taxes as aprerequisite to voting.During the first five months of thelaw, close to 240,000 Blacks wereadded to the voter rolls in theSouth.MEMPHIS, TENNESSEEIn early 1968, Memphis.Tennessee's sanitation workers,most of whom were Black, organ- most of the 1,300 BI sanitationA bigTequested recognithe city, along with a contractproviding for higher vegebetter working conditions. cityand on Feb 12, 1968,workers went on strike.march was scheduled, andthen rescheduled (due to theweather) for March 28, 1968. Dr.King went to Memphis to lead themarch. However, some militantgroups turned the march violent,prompting Dr. King to announceover a bullhorn to the crowd, "I willnever lead a violent march so,please. call it off."Afterwards, King was very dis-traught that someone was killedduring a march in which he wasinvolved. He promised to return toMemphis in early April to lead anonviolent march.Dr. King returned to Memphis onApril 3. 1968. The followinnight, on the balcony outside oroom 306 at the Lorraine Motel,Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr, wasassassinated at the age of 39 byJames Earl Ray, Jr.The proponent of nonviolence losthis life by violence.EPILOGUEIn a sermon he delivered onFebruary 4, 1968, Dr. King told thecongregation at Ebenezer BaptistChurch: If any of you are aroundmapoog to deliver the , tell| him not to talk too long... Te =when I have to meet my day, I don'twant a long funeral. And if you get |not to mention that I have a NPeace Prize. That isn't important.Tell them not to mention that Ihave three or four hundred otherawards. That's not important. Tellthem not to mention where I wentto school. I'd like somebody tomention that day, that. MartinLuther King, Jr., tried to. give hislife serving others. I'd like forsomebody to say that day, thatMartin Luther King, Jr, tried tolove somebody. I want you to saythat day that 1 tried to be right onthe war question. I want you to beable to say that day. that I did try tofeed the hungry. And I want you tobe able to say that day that I did tryin my life to clothe those who werenaked. | want you to say on thatday, that I did try in my life to visitthose who were in prison. I. wantyou to say that I tried to love andserve humanity: Indeed. this is ourchallenge. too, as we commemoratethe birth of a man who dedicatedhis life to gaining civil rights forall.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Ansbro. John L. Martin LutherKing. Jr: The Making of a Mind.Marvknoll. NY: Orbis Books.1983.2. Bennett. Lerone. Jr. WhatManner of Man. Chicago:Johnson Publishing Company, Inc..1968.3.Chase. Helen M. and William D.Chase's Annual Events. Chicago:Contemporary Books. Inc.. 1987.arom a sereUnless we keepliving the dream,they'll live a nightmare.Each and every one of us must do our part. And McDonald Ts®joins the community in dedicating ourselves to keepingDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ts dream alive. As we celebrate hisbirthday, we recognize the fact that the man who leaves theworld a better place. . . never leaves.Ed. Martin Luther4.Clayto !; | Warrior.E ood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, Inc., 1968.5.Congressional erly. Con-es and the Nation, 1945-1964.lume 1, Washington, DC: Con-gressional Quarterly, Inc., 1965.6.Congressional erly. Con-gree and the. Nation, 1965-1968.lume 2. Washington, DC: Con-gressional Quarterly, Inc., 1969.7. Davis, Lenwood G. I Have a |Dream:The Life and Times of |Martin Luther King, Jr. Westport.CT: Negro Universities Press.1969, | !8. Garrow, David J. 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PiThere are many of us in the Black community to whomye t tive ? is 5 withWinther is jatices ca the Seporsse Count with» de-mal record of appoi Black law cer, o i's governorsitsor others dismantling owelfare as we know it, ? or if its legis-les whe fave ot elt armas beth " ilesaive ect ?we ectky ie el Gee eader oc nie of conservatism, ?rather than because the guilty subscribe to any sort of oracistBut now, despite their best efforts to distance themselves, twoTrent Lott (R-Miss.), and Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) "have beenfirmly and unmistakably linked to a racist organization whichargues that whites are genetically superior to Blacks T has tiesto the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi parties in Burope, and which "named the late Lester Maddox, an arch-segregationist andformer Governor of Georgia, its oPatriot of the Century. TWithin one week of his first claiming ono firsthand knowl-edge ? of the controversial Council of Conservative Citizens(C of CC), the media watchdog group Fairness and Accura-cy In Reporting (FAIR) revealed copies of the organization's onewsletter, picturing and reporting that in 1992, the power-ful Senate Majority Leader told the Ts members "whoare staunch proponents of preserving © white race fromimmigration, imtermarriage andthe odark forces ? are over-whelming America "that othe people in this room stand forthe right principles and the right philosophy. ?Rep. Barr, who was charged with using rhetoric laced with obigotry ? and oracism ? by Harvard Law School ProfessorAlan Dershowitz during the House Judiciary Committee Tsimpeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton inDecember, is also linked to the group. He addressed the Cof CC Ts national conference last June, and was pictured inthe group Ts newsletter "Citizens Informer "addressing thegroup's board and posing with its leaders.For his part, Sen. Lott renounced the organization and saidarticles were made public oWe hes shaobacly 00 | olwere : itely no involve-ment with them either now or in the future. ? _- But yet another report emerged this time in The Washing-- ton Post revealing a 1997 picture from the Citizens Informerfeaturing a smiling Trent Lot, omeeting in his Washingtonoffice with C of CC National officers.The Council of Conservative Citizens intends oto serve asa voice and as an active advocate for the no-longer silentMUHAMMADAT LARGEBy AskiA MUHAMMADconservative majority, ? says Gordon Lee Baum, its CEO.Of the label owhite supremacist, ? Mr. Baum says ~Wereject that title. We do nothing that could be construed as,nor do we advocate the oppression, or exploitation of otherraces or ethnic groups. We are unabashedly a group that pri-marily speaks out for white, European civilization, faith andform of government. But that doesn Tt necessarily relate to .being anti T anyone, and it certainly doesn Tt say that whites are, or that we are even segregationists. ?itics of the group such as the Southern Poverty Law Cen-ter, point to comments in the group Ts publications and on itswebsite that ogenocide via the bedroom is just as long lastingas genocide via the gas chamber, ? that owhether it Ts Clinton |blowing some Jazz on his sax or starting & race conference that |bashes whites, or in having black Vernon Jordan as one of |his closest friends or in having black Betty Currie as his sec-rep ohetenp. b i nee Oeeral black who doesn Tt like whites very much ...One won- | |ders if Mr. Clinton isn Tt America Ts first black pres-. are actually a result of his inner black cul-ture. Call him an Oreo turned inside out. ? :The critics suggest that such sentiments are those of an oout-and-out racist ? and owhite i ithe group a modern version ofica " better known as the White Citizens Council, theso-called owhite-collar Ku Klux Klan. ?Mr. Baum insists that such articles merely represent anany offi-is one of a lib- |= Cine Comel of Attmatter is, the white qon the face of the earth. And the way it is going with theirlow birth-rate, and with the fact that even in Europe-10 per- |. Sa .coat of agian is Bow 500. ee ee Th dv ce dfuture, it Ts conceivable that the white race will become extinct. rouen aNow is there something really horrendous about saying what , ugh ersity witsthe S ianey (DG who Ue Rep, Bap trimphedresents tate of Georgia in Congress, condemas the i .oui fet gle calles Rep Ba an Se rimphed, proving Black. oNow this is very clear. 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