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"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned about the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation and not a fact." LYNDON B. JOHNSON, January 6, 1963
ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 4432 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Directory f o r 1968-1969 Jewel
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Eastern Region Massachusetts — Bro. James Howard Rhode Island — Bro. Ralph Allen Connecticut — Bro. W. Decker Clark New York, Northern New Jersey — Bro. Albert Holland Pennsylvania, Delaware, Southern N. J . — - B r o . Frank Devine Maryland-Washington — Bro. Thomas Hunt Virginia — Bro. Talmage Tabb
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M i d w e s t e r n Region Northern Indiana — Bro. William J . Bolden 3157 West 19th Avenue, Gary, Indiana Northwest Ohio — Bro. Robert Stubbleford 1340 West Woodruff, Toledo, Ohio Northeastern Ohio — Bro. Curtis Washington 889 Hartford, Akron, Ohio Central Ohio — Bro. Oliver Sumlin 2427 Hoover Avenue, Dayton, Ohio West Missouri-Kansas — Bro. Jimmie L. Buford 2645 Lorkridge Avenue, Kansas Ciity, Mo. Eastern Missouri — Bro. Clifton Bailey 3338A Aubert Avenue, St. Louis 15, Mo. Northern Michigan — Bro. W. Wilberforce Plummer... 654 Wealthy Street, N. E., Grand Rapids, Mich. West Michigan — Bro. William Boards, Jr 680 W. Van Buren Street, Battle Creek, M i c h . Southern Michigan — Bro. Robert J . Chillison, II 16155 Normandy, Detroit, Michigan Southwest Ohio — Bro. Holloway Sells 699 N. Crescent Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio Iowa — Bro. Everett A. Mays 701 Hull Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50316 Southern Illinois — Bro. Harold Thomas 1731 Gaty Avenue, East St. Louis, Illinois Northern Illinois — Bro. J . Herbert King 4728 Drexel Blvd., Chicago, Illinois 60615 Kentucky — Bro. Waverly B. Johnson 1306 Cecil Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky Wisconsin — Bro. Hoyt Harper 5344 N. 64th, Milwaukee, Wis. Central Missouri — Bro. Nathaniel R. Goldston, III Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo. 65101 West Virginia — Bro. J . A. Shelton Post Office Box, 314 Welch, West Va. Southern Indiana — Bro. Theodore Randall 3810 Rockwood Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana Nebraska — Bro. Thomas A. Phillips 3116 North 16th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68110 Regional Secretary — Bro. Cramon Myers 404 West 44th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana Regional Counsel — Bro. James R. Willians 978 Dover, Akron, Ohio 44320 Southwestern Region Southwest District — Bro. Floyd Plymouth Oklahoma — Bro. Vernon L. Foshee Louisiana — Bro. Elliot J . Keyes Arkansas — Bro. T. E. Patterson Texas — Bro. Reby Cary Southern District — Bro. Payton Cook
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Alabama — Bro. Kirkwood Balton Florida — Bro. Oral A. Allen Georgia — Bro. Henry Collier, M.D Mississippi—-Bro. T. J . Ranee North Carolina — Bro. A. J . H. Clement, South Carolina — Bro. W. J . Davis Tennessee — Bro. Charles Tarpley
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. Volume 56
Number 4
December 1968
J. HERBERT KING Editor-in-Chief 4728 DREXEL BOULEVARD CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS
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CONTENTS The General President Speaks
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Message — Past General President Newsom
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Profile — Brother Rufus P. Perry
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Move To Johnson C. Smith University
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Alphas — Johnson C. Smith University
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Alpha Men On The Move
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College Presidents — Alphas
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Alphas Moving On
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Chapter Activities
14
Black Students Confrontation
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Black Ghetto — Open Society
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Alphas Workshop
26
Wedding Bells
27
The Mail Bag
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Frat Fun
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Job Opportunities
30
Africa
33
Black History
36
Educational Opportunity Program
38
Memoriam — Omega Chapter
39
The Ghediplan
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COVER: (Left) — President Newsom, Administration Building and Miss Tommye Martin (Miss Johnson C. Smith University. (Right) — Carter Hall, dormitory for men and the north entrance to the campus.
ASK NOT WHAT ALPHA CAN DO FOR YOU...
THE GENERAL PRESIDENT 4 SPEAKS... ' General President Ernest N. Morial
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Greetings Brothers: Our 1969 National Convention theme, "Black Power: A Creative Force In America's velopment," is a challenge. I strongly urge your sincere participation in the local regional programs to effectuate our theme. The following list of scholarships should be of interest to whose youngsters are graduating in June or undergraduates who are encountering financial GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP LIST DO NOT LET FINANCIAL NEED PREVENT YOU FROM APPLYING TO COLLEGE. Almost every college and university has loans and grants. College catalogues give detailed information on scholarships and financial aid available to you. Although complete scholarship aid may not be available, most colleges provide job opportunities and low interest loans for needy students. FEDERAL BENEFITS JUNIOR GI BILL. Children of veterans who died or were permanently disabled in or as a result of service in the armed forces may receive benefits of $10 per month to continue education beyond high school for 36 months. For further information contact the Veteran's Administration or the Education and Scholarship Chairman of the American Legion Post of the American Legion Auxiliary unit in your community. SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. If you receive benefits on either of your parents social security accounts, you are still eligible for those benefits if you are a full-time student under 22. Check with your nearest social security office. NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM. Students who have been actively involved in the civil rights movement are eligible. Apply: CORE SEDF, 150 Nassau Street, Room 1312, New York, N.Y. 10038. ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION. Any student with an average above 90 is eligible. Apply: Chairman, Elks National Foundation, 40 Court Street, Boston, Mass. THE HERBERT LEHMAN EDUCATION FUND. Negroes at recently desegregated colleges in the Deep South are
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Zrfr^ SALUTES JOHNSON C. S M I T H UNIVERSITY ADIEU: How does one say "goodbye" to 50,000 men of Alpha throughout the world who has the distinction of shepherding over for a period of almost five years, and who, by constitutional provision, must relinquish the reins of authority? Well, I find myself in this situation and come December 31, 1968, will focus my eyes toward a new administration. Before doing so, however, I am using this media to express personal thanks and appreciation to all of the past and present General Officers, Chairmen of various Committees and to the thousands of brothers throughout the Country for the many kindness extended me during my tenure of office.
and... President Newsom
On January 1, 1969, Brother Ernest N. Morial takes the helm as General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated pursuant to the mandate handed down at the 62nd Anniversary Convention, recently adjourned in Detroit, Michigan as expressed by a majority of the brothers throughout the Country. Brother Morial is, among other things, able, experienced and dedicated; and, the essential point, he is the man Alpha Phi Alpha has chosen as their General President. We all wish him well and pledge our support to the utmost. I am taking this opportunity to say to all Alphadom: "Whatever else be lost among the years, let us keep CHRISTMAS— its meaning never ends. Whatever doubts assail us, or what fearS)—let us hold close this day remembering BROTHERS."
Joyce Bowen and Sandra Carpenter (L to R) Campus Queens — Members of Miss JCSU Court.
Beauty
YOUR INVITATION . . . 63rd ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION HOUSTON, TEXAS — (63rd ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION:) Plans have been finalized for the 63rd Anniversary Convention to be held in Houston, Texas — August 2-8, 1969. The General President-Elect, Brother Ernest N. Morial met with the General Convention Committee, Brother Kermit J. Hall, Chairman, and submitted a revised draft of the Convention Program to the Steering Committee of the Houston Convention Committee. They met with the hotel officials (THE SHAMROCKHILTON HOTEL), cleared and received assurances on its position relating to the operation of private clubs located in the hotel, in order to avoid any embarrassments during the convention period. The Convention theme will be BLACK POWER: A CREATIVE FORCE IN AMERICA'S COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT.
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Brother Rufus P. Perry Passes the Gavel to Brother Lionel H. Newsom
Brother Rufus P. Perry
Dr. Rufus P. Perry, an Alpha man who doubled enrollment, added $7 million in new buildings, and rooted out the hedge that once separated Johnson C. Smith University from the rest of Charlotte, plans to return to his first love — medicinal chemistry, passes the gavel to another Alpha man, Dr. Lionel Newsom. Dr. Lionel Newsom takes office Jan. 1, 1969. Board Chairman James Egert Allen disclosed that the trustees had elected Dr. Perry the university's first James B. Duke Distinguished Research Professor. The 65-year-old Perry commented that for some time he'd wanted to make a few scholarly contributions before he started spending his time fishing and playing golf. "I've also wanted to get back into closer touch with the students," he added. Perry hinted in April, 1967, that he wanted to return to 4
research and teaching once JCSU's new science center was completed. He told the board of trustees of his decision on July 20, 1968, and so informed faculty members at the annual faculty retreat. A tall, soft spoken man, Dr. Perry has been president of the 101-year-old institution since July 1, 1957. During that time, student enrollment more than doubled to 1,490. The number of faculty members increased from 55 to 120. And faculty salaries now rank fifth among N. C.'s 43 colleges and universities. Equally important, Johnson C. Smith began to train more than just "teachers and preachers." "Eight years ago, only a few school principals came on campus looking for job applicants. Last year, we had 300-400 recruiters, many from business and industry," he added. And as new emphasis was put on job placement in nontraditional fields, available scholarship funds jumped from $50,000 in 1957 to $800,000 in 1968. During the same period, Johnson C. Smith came to play a more active role in the Charlotte community. Students were instrumental in desegregating Charlotte's restaurants, theaters, hotels and motels in the early 1960's. And they've since become active in voter registration and in school tutorial programs in Greenville and Double Oaks. This year, JCSU has added new programs of business administration and black history. "We've always taught black history," the tall, baldish educator commented. "But it's mostly been about Black America. Now we're going into the politics, history and culture of Black Africa." Dr. Perry was born in Brunswick, Ga. He earned his B.A. degree at Johnson C. Smith, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in chemistry from the University of Iowa. Before returning to Smith in 1957, he served as chemistry professor, vice president and administration dean at Lanston University, Langston, Okla. Dr. Perry is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Chemical Society, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is listed in American Men of Science, Who's Who in the South and Southwest. Dr. Perry has had work published in the field of medicinal chemsitry and his special interests are drugs to combat cancer, malaria and tuberculosis.
General President Newsom Moves to Presidency of Johnson G. Smith University
Dr. Lionel H. Newsom, former president of Barber-Scotia College in Concord, N. C. and presently associate director of the Institute for Higher Educational Opportunity in the South a component of the Southern regional Education Board of Atlanta, has been elected President of Johnson C. Smith University by the University's Board of Trustees. Dr. Newsom will succeed Dr. Rufus P. Perry who retires as of Dec. 31, 1968, after serving the 102 year Charlotte institution for years. In making the announcement, Dr. James E. Allen of New York, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, cited Dr. Newsom's long and distinguished record as an Educator and Administrator. "Dr. Newsom brings a rich and varied background to his new position. He is an able administrator, sound scholar and a human leader. "Beginning our second century," Dr. Allen continued, "this type of leadership is needed to continue the amazing record of achievement made by retiring president, Dr. Perry." Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Dr. Newsom was reared in St. Louis, Mo. Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., granted him a B. A. degree; his M. A. was earned at the University of Michigan, and Washington University awarded him the Ph. D. in Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. Newsom has served as an instructor of History and Sociology at Lincoln University, Head of the Department of Sociology and Pre-Social Work at Southern University, Baton Rouge, La., and from 1960 to 1964 was Professor of Sociology and Director of the Woodrow Wilson General Honors Program at Atlanta's Morehouse College. During 1955-56, Dr. Newsom served the St. Louis Housing Authority as Supervisor of Community Services. Barber-Scotia College called him to the presidency in 1964. Since he has been associated with SREB. Among Dr. Newsom's professional and community affiliations are the American Sociological Fraternity. Chairman, Georgia Council on Human Relations and the Association of Social Science Teachers. Prior to becoming the eighth president of Johnson C. Smith, Dr. Newsom served as the International President of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity from 1964 to 1968. Dr. Newsom is married to the former Jane M. Emerson of Springfield, 111., and is the father of a 20 year old daughter. Jackie, a senior at Lincoln University.
Brother Newsom leaves the Southern Regional Education
Board.
Commenting on his selection, Dr. Newsom stated, "I do not start from scratch. It is very easy to see the fruits of Dr. Perry's labor." "I think Smith is one of the great small colleges in the country. I see all the possibilities of Smith fulfilling the dream of its founding fathers." 5
ALPHA ON CAMPUS...
CHAMP . . . James
Johnson C. Smith University
Ewers —
defeated
CIAA
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Tennis
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year.
Ewers,
a
Junior, has won over 35 consecutive matches
ALPHAS . . .
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ALPHA OMICRON CHAPTER
COACH . . . William
P. McCullough
Head Basketball
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Smith U. sin '62 overall record for 6 years 8-48.
DEAN . . . Dr. Edwin Thompkins — Dean o fthe JCSU Theological Seminary and active
member
Phi Alpha
Alpha OMICRON Chapter of AOA assemble following nation
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of Miss Bessie Meeks as Miss Alpha
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Fraternity.
A L P H A MEN O N THE M O V E . . . Brother Kenneth L. Jones
James Sweeney Earns Berth
Elected Staunton's
On Dayton Tax Advisory
Vice Mayor
Group
Distinct Honor . . .
Brother W. R. Herring
Brother Kenneth L. Jones
Brother Kenneth L. Jones, the first Negro elected to City Council, was elected to succeed William H. Campbell as vice mayor. Brother Jones, who ran overwhelmingly ahead of the other six candidates for three seats on council in June, is a Staunton native and the owner of Jones Funeral Home. In municipal affairs he has served on the Staunton Interracial Commission, is a director of KDH, and treasurer and director of Effie Ann Johnson Day Nursery Inc. Brother Jones also has been a director of the United Negro College Fund, a member of the Mental Health Board and Stonewall Jackson Area Boy Scout Council and a member of the Community Chest budget committee, the NAACP and the Staunton Democratic committee.
Brother James Sweeney (L) discusses appointment with City Commissioner Brother James McGee.
James L. Sweeney, chief of the Operating Funds Budget Branch for the Office of the Comptroller, has been appointed to a three-year term on the 15-member Dayton/Montgomery County Tax Advisory Committee. The group provides advice concerning the financial needs of the community, especially regarding the submission of tax levies and special bond issues to a vote of electors. The committee also recommends the time of submission, amount of the bond to be issued and any additional tax rates to be levied. Sweeney joined DESC's predecessor, Dayton Air Force Depot, in 1959 and previously worked five years with the Railroad Retirement Board in Cleveland. A two-year Army veteran, he has received two sustained superior and four outstanding performance ratings and a pair of quality salary increases since joining the Center. A native of Rocky River, Ohio, Sweeney is a 1949 graduate of Cleveland's John Adams High School and received his bachelor's degree in business adminstration from Western Reserve University during 1959. He is president of the local Alpha Phi Alpha chapter.
Wray Raphael Herring, Chairman of the Music Department and band director at Huntington High School, recently was guest conductor of the United States Continental Army Band at Fort Monroe. This is a singular honor in that the Conarc Band has the reputation for being the most renowned band in the country. Herring is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, served three and one half years in the Navy Band. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from A. and T. State University, has done graduate studies at Catholic University of America, Western Reserve University, University of Delaware, Hampton Institute and Morehead State University. At Huntington he directs the Viking marching band, the symphonic band and the sensational Stage band. He has served on the Virginia State Department of Education Committee on — "Revising the Music Curriculum for Secondary Schools," The State Planning Committee for the State Music Teachers Conference, and has served on several State Evaluation Committees. Presently he is a member of the following organizations: The National Band Association. The Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association. The Virginia Music Educators Association. The Newport News Education Association. The Musicians Protective Union, A.F.M. The Music Educators National Conference. 7
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Dr. James A. Colston (•^rotedtant of the UJear
Brother and Mrs. John H. Johnson
Brother John H. Johnson—Xi Lambda Chapter—Chicago, has been elected to the board of directors of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., the national litter prevention organization. The announcement was made by Reuben L. Perin, chairman of KAB's board of directors, following a board meeting here in connection with the group's 15th annual meeting. Brother Johnson's firm publishes Ebony, Tan, Jet and Negro Digest magazines. He also is a member of the President's National Advisory Commission on Selective Service, a vice president of the National Urban League and chairman of the board of Supreme Life Insurance Company of America. Keep America Beautiful is a national non-profit, public service organization for the prevention of litter. It was formed in 1953 and conducts a continuous program of public education to stimulate individual responsibility and pride in clean, safe and attractive surroundings. Fashion Institute Appointment for Wife Mrs. Eunice Johnson, wife of Brother John H. Johnson, the publisher of Johnson Publications, was named to the board of directors of the Educational Foundation for the Fashion Institute of Technology. Mrs. Jhonson is a vice president and fashion director of Ebony Magazine and is secretary-treasurer of Johnson Publishing Co. She holds a bachelors degree from Talladega College, a master's degree in social work from Loyola University, Chicago, and has completed courses in journalism, interior and fashion design. The couple has two children, a son, John Harold, 12, and a daughter, Linda Eunice, 10. 8
Brother James L. Colston
The Bronx Division of the Protestant Council of the City of New York honor Dr. James A. Colston, as "Protestant of the Year" at a testimonial dinner on Thursdays, November 21st, at the Concourse Plaza Hotel. Dr. Colston will be the sixth layman to be given this honor. He is President of the Bronx Community College, and formerly served as President of Knoxville College for eleven years, and of Bethune-Cookman College and Georgia State College. Dr. Colston is Chairman of the Committee on Educational Service of the United Negro College Fund; vice president of the National Council of United Presbyterian Men; a member of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross and the United Negro College Fund. He holds membership in Phi Delta Kappa; Sigma Delta Psi National Honor Athletic Fraternity; Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society; the American Teacher's Association; the American Association for Higher Education; Rotary Club of the Bronx; American Academy of Political and Social Science; and the American Cancer Society. He is a member of Riverdale Presbyterian Church.
Citizenship Acclaimed
Brother H. M. Price Founder of Delinquency Prevention Organization
Brother H. M. Price
Edward F. Kennell, deputy director of Albany's Department of Urban Redevelopment, second from left, receives a citizenship award from the State Bar Association for "exemplary service in strenthening the effectiveness of the American system." Left to right are: John S. Bartlett Jr., chairman of the county Law Day committee; Mr. Kennell; Albert Hessberg 2d, county bar president, and John R. Titus, member of the State Bar executive committee.
Brother Kennell, the recipient of the following awards is a member of Beta Pi Lambda Chapter: 1. In 1955, the U. S. Navy cited Brother Kennell for "Outstanding Service" in its officer recruitment program. 2. In 1958, the state of New York cited Brother Kennell for dedicated and effective public service in assisting the New York state commission against discrimination with its goals. 3. In 1959 he received an annual award from the N . Y. State Beauty Culturist Assn. for outstanding work in the fields of housing, industrial relations and vocational guidance for minority groups. 4. In 1960 the mayor of Nashville, Tenn. made Brother Kennell an honorary lifetime citizen for his significant work in improving inter-racial understanding among the races. A graduate of the Boston Latin School, attended the following Universities: Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. and The American University Graduate School, Washington, D. C.
He received his A.B. Degree with honors from Fisk University. He is a very active member in the Harvard University Alumni Assn. of Northeastern, N. Y. (was a member of the Famous Class of 1940) at Harvard, with the late President of the U. S., lohn F. Kennedy, his graduate work in public administration was done at the American University Graduate School in Public Administration in Washington, D. C. He is married to the former Phyllis Grady of Schenectady, N. Y. He and Mrs. Kennell have two children, Jaquelin Marie Kennell and James Grady Kennell. Brother Kennell was the former Ex. Director of the Albany Inter-racial Council for 16 years. (1945-1961). He was appointed in 1961 to his present position as Deputy Director of the Dept. of Urban Redevelopment. The Liberty Bell Award was established by the Bar Associations throughout the country to recognize on Law Day that individual of one's community who best exemplifies service to the community within the farmework of our system of law and order.
Chartered by the State of Florida, July 12, 1966, on the Tenth Anniversery of his Life Membership in Alpha, was the Human Resources Clearinghouse, Inc. of Tallahassee, Florida. The objectives of this Social Service Agency are to find worthy models and "father surrogates" for 8 to 13 year old boys and to find and/or create jobs for teen-age boys and girls. A loaned sixroom house serves as a Neighborhood Center and Headquarters. Support to date has come entirely from contributions from interested citizens, many of them "brothers in Alpha," but not nearly enough. Entering its second year of operation, staffed by volunteers from the community, the agency serves as a point of reference for the youth and boys of an area known as "Frenchtown" in Leon County, a typical Ghetto community with its hemmed in "homes" and encapsulated residents. "For noticeable improvements in the area, during its first year, several youth groups received citations from the Mayor of Tallahassee, John H. Rudd, on August 15, 1967." Brother Price, who serves as its Executive Director, is a former Juvenile Specialist from the New Orleans Police Department, and a Master Counselor in youth opportunity center work. He earned the master's degree at Southern University and a certificate in counseling the disadvantaged at the University of Florida. The brothers of Gamma Mu Lambda (FAMU), and Men in Frontiers International give great assistance, avers Brother Price. 9
ON THE MOVE . . . Alpha Men Dominate College Presidencies
Brother Elmer C. Collins
Negro advancement and employment have been the life work of Bro. Elmer C. Collins, 55. One of his hardest tasks was to get a job when he came to Cleveland in 1946. He applied to the Cleveland Board of Education. "THEY LAUGHED and said they were sorry but they could not use me," he said. Collins had a bachelor's degree and was prepared to teach physical education or social studies. He had experience as an Air Force physical training instructor and as dean of men and a football line coach at Kentucky State University. Bro. Collins also directed a universityconnected, program in Kentucky to help Negro dropouts. He did substitute teaching for two years and obtained a master's degree in physical education from Western Reserve University. STILL, HE could not get a full-time teaching job, he said. Michael J. Eck, former principal of Thomas A. Edison Occupational School, helped him get a contract in 1948, at which time Collins was working toward his doctorate. He is still an employe of the Cleveland Board of Education, but is on leave to direct the AIM-JOBS orientation center, 2223 Superior Avenue N.E. The project has been sponsored by the Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (OEO) with funds largely from the U. S. Department of Labor. The finance and public welfare committees of city council have approved plans for the city's new Department of Human Relations and Economic Development to take over direction of AIM-JOBS. Bro. Collins has a staff of 48 persons who go to the "pool halls, dens and dives to get people down here." 10
Alpha brothers still seem to dominate the Presidencies of our colleges and universities throughout the Country. Recent inaugurations have been conducted since the last report made by the Executive Secretary Laurence T. Young, are: Brother Norman Francis, Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Brother Andrew P. Torrence, Tennessee A & T University, Nashville, Tenn. Brother Granville S a w y e r , Texas Souththern University, Houston, Texas. Brother Thomas Jarrett, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. Post General President, Brother Lionel
H. Newson took over the helm at Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, North Carolina on January 1, 1969. It has been called to our attention that in the listing of College Presidents who are members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, in the General Convention report of the Executive Secretary, the name of Brother CHESTER ARTHUR KIRKENDOLL, President of LANE COLLEGE, JACKSON, TENNESSEE was omitted. A correction has been made which will appear in the official minutes of the 62nd Anniversary Convention, now on the press.
Once recruited, the unemployed are tested to determine whether they are ready to take jobs and the types of job for which they would be suited. Those who are not ready are helped to become so. Since June 5, 1967, 3,500 have gone through the program and most have been placed in jobs or have found jobs for themselves. They get funds for clothes to wear to interviews and loans to tide them over until they receive their first checks. Job interviews are arranged and enrolees are given assistance until they are well oriented. "WE DONT look down on them, but rather treat them like human beings that some one cares about," Collins said. "We care about their lives and want to help them in every way we can." Bro. Collins' wife is a teacher in the Cleveland school system. They have three children and live at 4162 Eastwood Lane in Warrensville Heights.
Brother Donegan Admitted To Bar in New York Brother Charles E. Donegan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Donegan of Chicago, was admitted to the New York Bar. Brother Donegan, an assistant counsel for the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. and the national officer for the Rights of the Indigent, Inc., New York, N. Y. is also a member of the Washington, D. C. Bar Association, American Bar Association, Harlem Lawyers' Association. Donegan earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Roosevelt University in 1954; a master's degree in social and industrial relations from Loyola University in 1959; and an LLB degree from Howard University's Law School in 1967 where he was a member of the Howard Law Journal. His wife, the former Patty L. Harris, daughter of Mrs. Marilyn Freeman of Chicago, is an elementary school teacher in the New York Public School System. They live in Riverdale, N.Y.
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Brother Leon Thompkins, Ph.D., Joins Eli Lilly and Company as a Senior Pharmaceutical Chemist.
Brother Leon Thompkins, Ph.D.
Brother Otha N. Brown
Despite a decisive victory for Richard Nixon and the Republican Party in the city, State Representative Otha N. Brown, Jr. (Dem-Norwalk) successfully retained his seat in the Connecticut State Legislature. He was the only Democrat in Norwalk elected to office in the election. Rep. Brown is a third term member of the city council and is presently serving as its Majority Leader. When the Council reorganizes later this month, he is expected to become the President of the Council who is also Deputy Mayor of the city. Rep. Brown is the only Negro serving in an elective office in Norwalk and is the only member of his race ever elected to the Legislature from Fairfield County. He joins two Black representatives and a State Senator from Hartford and a representative from New Haven, all who have substantial majorities of Black voters in their districts. A graduate of Central State College with cum laude honors in 1952, Brown entered the Armed Forces as a psychological warfare officer and served for three years. He received his M. A. from the University of Connecticut; a sixth year professional diploma in education administration administration from the University of Bridgeport; and certification in guidance and counseling from New York University. He has done additional graduate work at Ohio State University, Springfield College and Fairfield University.
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Brother Thompkins was graduated from Martha Schofield High School, Aiken, South Carolina, in 1954. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Morehouse College in 1961 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of California (San Francisco) in 1968. He served in the United States Air Force from June, 1954, to December, 1957. Brother Thompkins is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association; Rho Chi, pharmacy honor society; and The Society of the Sigma Xi, scientific honor society. He and his family live at 6344 Brookline Drive, Indianapolis.
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Bro. H. Gray Gillem, President of Theta Rho Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Bro. Silas J. Jackson, Director of Education Activities, present a check for three scholarships to Dr. Richard J. Ernst of Northern Virginia Community College. Selections of stu-. dents for the financial aid was made by the Chapter's Education and Scholarship Committee.
James Frazier Gets High Office The selection of Brother James Frazier as Special Assistant to the Chairman of Equal Employment Opportunity was announced by Chairman John W. Macy, Jr., of the Civil Service Commission. The appointment became effective November 10. Brother Frazier will serve as the Chairman's principal advisor in assuring that minority-group members have equal opportunity for employment, utilization, training and advancement in the Federal service. He will represent the Commission in relations with representatives of minority groups, educational institutions, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other Federal departments and agencies. A veteran of Army service in World War II, Brother Frazier has broad experience in management and employment matters, both in government and the private sector. From 1958 to 1960 he was business manager of Wiley College in Marshall, Tex. From 1960 to 1963, he was industrial relations director of the Urban League in Portland, Oregon. He then entered Federal service as a budget management officer with the State Department and served in the U.S. Embassy in Gabon until 1965. He returned to the Urban League in 1966 as director of international programs with offices in Washington, D. C. He remained in that post until 1967 when he joined the staff of the Agency of International Development as an international relations officer. Brother Frazier received a bachelor's degree in business administration from West Virginia College and a master's degree in economics from Duquesne University. He is married to the former Thelma A. Kellum of Pittsburgh. They live with their son, James IN, 9, and daughter, Leslie G., 7, at 7909 Den Meade Ave., Oxon Hill, Md. 11
MOVING ON!
JUDGESHIP . . .
BROTHER OLIVER W. SUMLIN APPOINTED TO DAYTON CITY PLAN BOARD
Brother Kenneth E. Wilson
Judge Kenneth E. Wilson elected to the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on November 5, 1968. Former State Representative and County Commissioner of Cook County, Illinois. Member of Xi Lambda Chapter, Chicago, 111.
WELCOME ABOARD — DESC's Oliver Sumlin gets an official greeting from Weprin (c), City Plan Board Committee head, and board chairman Robert Flynn.
Sumlin, a budget analyst in DESC's Office of the Comptroller, resides at 2724 Hoover Avenue, Dayton. The seven members of the committee are involved in focusing attention on Dayton's future development, particularly the physical environment. This includes such items as park locations, housing improvements, urban renewal, downtown development, and highways. Appointments are based on community-wide interest and concern and the candidate's demonstration of civic leadership. A native Daytonian, Sumlin, 45, began Federal employment in 1942 with DESC's predecessor, the Dayton Signal Corps Supply Agency. The following year, he went on active duty with the Army Quartermaster Corps and served in the South Pacific area. Discharged in 1946, he went on to Central State University where he received his bachelor's 12
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in business adminstration during 1949. He has also studied under the Ohio State Graduate Extension Program at WrightPatterson Air Force Base. Sumlin returned to Federal employment in 1950 as an accountant at WrightPatterson and transferred to DESC in 1962. The 1941 Dunbar High School graduate is regional director of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., treasurer for the Dayton Panhellenic Council, a member of the membership auditing committee for the Fifth Street YMCA and served as a steward at Wayman AME Church. He is also a member of Ancient Square Lodge # 2 0 PHA, and Miami Consistory # 2 6 AASR. The DESC employee lives with his father, Wright R. Sumlin, at the Hoover Avenue address.
Brother William H. Brown III
Brother William H. Brown III, former General Counsel appointed to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
MOVING ON!
BLACK AND GOLD . . .
ROOSEVELT JONES STUDIES COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM
Black and Gold Banquet of Theta Rho Lambda Chapter, Arlington, Va. Shown above, Brothers Malvin R. Goode, ABC Correspondent to U.U., the banquet speaker, Thomas Syphax, Alpha Man of the Year and Henry Gray Gillem, Sr., President of the Chapter. Brother Roosevelt Jones
Despite the advent of automation in defense logistics, there's still plenty of manual effort involved in computerizing systems and, furthermore, keeping them operating properly. Computers as yet haven't reached the stage where they can plot their own course. So until this new wrinkle in automation arrives—if it ever does—the job is astutely being handled by such systems experts as DESC's Roosevelt Jones. Roosevelt is a system design specialist in the Office of Planning and Management and primarily responsible for the item management coding and supply support management data programs. Since these systems are already operational, his hasic asignment is to splice Defense Supply Agency requirements into the programs and iron out any local problems which occur. While this might appear hectic, the effort is certainly rewarding. "To assess a program, develop it and then watch it advance," he indicated, "is worth all the time and tribulations." Roosevelt has been knee-deep in supply systems work since he joined the base in 1957 from a two-year term at Wright-Patterson AFB. He initially worked as a supply cataloger and later as a systems analyst in Technical Operations, transferring to Planning and Management in 1966. Born March 15, 1936, at Hazelhursh, Miss., and a 1951 graduate of Washington High School in Memphis, Tenn., Roosevelt earned his bachelor's degree from Central State in 1955 via a 3.2 average. At CSU, he was president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, procecuting attorney for the Student Court, student asistant in the school's Personnel
• Office, and—quite significantly—was named the top military graduate in his ROTC class. Roosevelt was commissioned into the Army and served six months of active duty in 1956. He currently holds the rank of captain in the Reserve and has a mobilization assignment with DSA. With the exception of 1965 when he toured at DSA headquarters, he has completed his annual two-week military obligation at the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus each year since 1963. Between tours, he keeps his logistical talents polished by completing extension courses through Army Logistics Management Center at Ft. Lee, Va. Married and the father of a four-year old son, the DESC worker is advancing on another academic plateau. He's working toward a master's in public administration at the University of Dayton and presently enjoys a 3.5 average. Obviously between his DESC job, Reserve assignments and scholastic pursuits, Roosevelt keeps rather busy. He, however, does manage an occasional game of chess and tennis and is also secretary of the Day-Cinn Investment Club. Having spent 10 years amid procedures, reports and manuals, Roosevelt is first to admit that logistics is a rather demanding business. In addition to in-depth planning and design, each program requires a little professional providence —otherwjse the system becomes outdated overnight. Deployment of such forsight by experts such as Roosevelt Jones no doubt is one of the chief reasons why DESC's myriad of logistical systems enjoy such longevity and operational efficiency. 13
Chapter Activities DELTA DELTA LAMBDA CHAPTER
ZETA LAMBDA CHAPTER Selecting for their theme "Year of Alpha" the brothers of Zeta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. are striving to make this the most productive year in the history of its Chapter. The major activities of the year include (1) Fall Benefit Dance, (2) Founders Day Program (3) Black Power Forum and (4) Educational Banquet. In addition, the Chapter plans to greatly expand its Alpha outreach program and is determined to acquire a fraternity house by March, 1969. With the brilliant leadership of Bruce McLeod and enthusiasm among the members unequalled in recent years, the brothers are certain to make this the "Year of Alpha" in Zeta Lambda country. Henry L. Taylor, Jr. Editor to The Sphinx
Seated from left to right—Brothers: St. Elmo Greaux, Chaplin; O. C. Bobby Daniels, Dean of Pledgees. Warren Hawkins, Asst. Dean of Pledgees; Leander Kirksey, Dr. R. L. Smith, Pres.; Dr. Gartrell Gaines; John D. Lawrence, Atty. E. Rodgers, Vice President. Standing from left to right—Alphonzo Sutton, Parliamentarian; William Greer, Charles Russell, Recording Sec; Leon Lendsey, Paul Williams, Cecil Fredericks, William Darden, Matthew Russell, K. D. Jackson, Luther Jordan, B. Carleton Bryant, Samuel Thomas, Kenneth Powell, Cyril Armstrong, Lorey Wooten, Clifford Bridges, John Atkins, Nathan Balfour, James Roberts, Gerald C. Burke, Sphinx Reporter; Clyde Alderman. Brothers not shown: Clifton Dyson, Treasurer; Lennie Coleman.
ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA CHAPTER, in Manhattan. Dr. Willis N . Cummings, Dr. J. Edward Lowry, Noble Sissle, Maceo A. Thomas, Sr., and Van S. Whitted was honored by the chapter for 50 years of dedicated fraternity service at the 50 year annual dance. It's theme this year was "The Golden Era of Alpha" and the dance was held at the Park Sheraton.
Gamma Chi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. of San Francisco, California recently held its regular monthly meeting in the Tsura-Kame Room of Nikko Sukiyaki Restaurant. Hosts: Brothers Myron H. Johnson (wearing Japanese Happy Coat and standing between the pretty Japanese waitresses in picture No. 1) and Dr. awrence R. Neblett. Japanese Cuisine and Beverages were served throughout the evening.
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GAMMA LAMBDA CHAPTER A Model Youth Program-Self Help Style The Fraternity House of Gamma Lambda Chapter in Detroit is located in the heart of the core city on the fringes of one of Detroit's largest public housing projects. A few years ago, the education committee of this chapter under the Chairmanship of Brother William Ruben started concentrating on the many challenges within stones throw of 293 Eliot, the address of the house. The results of this effort is a Youth Leadership Training Program. This project is the result of much hard work and dedication by those brothers who accepted the primary responsibility of steering this worthwhile task. An outline of this program is presented for those chapters who may want to participate in a program to develop the potential which remains dormant and untapped in our vast urban ghettoes. RESOURCES In most urban communities there are countless stories of successful Alpha men. We have brothers who hold positions of responsibility at all levels of private industry, local, state and federal government. Many of the Alpha men hold executive and leadership positions with various civic, social and professional organizations. It is assumed that Alpha Phi Alpha, by virtue of its existence in a community, must assume a natural role of leadership among men and serve as models for our Negro youth. The program at Gamma Lambda is based on the premise that every Alpha man, regardless of his occupation may lend his talents in helping youth. In effect, the greatest resource at one's disposal is the dedication of the men in the chapter. NEED There is a definite need to encourage, promote and develop the leadership potential among young blacks in poverty areas. This is especially true of youth between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, who have been denied the opportunities because of depraved social and economic status.
Many of these young people become victims of unemployment and crime. In a large measure, society has not recognized that they are endowed with talents and abilities. They have not been exposed to the leadership images which would normally lead them in the direction of success as productive citizens. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The philosophy underlining the program underway at Gamma Lambda is self determination. Youth is successfully help himself and others. We must recognize that most young people are endowed with some degree of leadership ability. The capacity to lead in a particular situation is present in most of us. This is demonstrated most clearly in those group situations where leadership ability has the greatest opportunity to emerge. Each individual youth may play a role if his innate abilities are developed. This means extending his horizons while sharing his knowledge and skills with others who are in need of assistance. Under proper guidance these factors may be nurtured and developed into mature and responsive leadership. Sharing with others is the key to success in such an endeavor. This is in essence the basic ingredient of the program. Having an interest in others is the second important requirement and organization is the third. Training and discipline are important factors in developing this approach. Under the leadership of Brother Ruben a Youth leadership program was accepted by Gamma Lambda. SELECTION Boys and girls were selected who exhibited an interest and expressed a desire to be part of the program. Junior high school and Senior high schools may be contacted for referral of students who have demonstrated some leadership potential. Civic and neighborhood organizations may also serve a source for referrals. Special efforts should be made to enlist referrals from adult grass root leaders who are personally familiar with young potential leaders of the area.
ORIENTATION The first group in Gamma Lambda's program consisted of ten (10) youths. Each of these youths was expected to share his experience with at least five (5) other youths. Most of the youth enrolled in the program, willingly accepted this challenge and as a result the affects of the program is being experienced by 20 to 30 youth in this community. After selection, group counseling was conducted with the youth in order to identify existing talents and ambition, and as an aid in motivation and setting goals. Information from these sessions may be used in selecting activities and projects that will lend themselves to building leadership. As a part of the orientation, the youth involved should be exposed to a series of informal talks with people who may serve as "success" symbols. These young people should have an opportunity to see and hear about the personal success of these people. In Gamma Lambda's program members of the committee, which includes an assistant principal, physician, special education teacher, community worker and counselor conducted these sessions. The committee has received cooperation from the parents of the youth involved and consider this participation an important aspect of the program. In many cases, the parents may show reluctance but when convinced that they are an integral part of this process of leadership development may take a different view. In any event it is important that they do not have a dim view of the program. It is also suggested that each enrollee be assigned to a Fraternity Brother, who will keep close contact with the young person and help him make the best possible adjustment in the program. All enrollees should be given an opportunity to meet the members of the fraternity and become aware of the purpose and intent of the organization. In this manner mutual interest of the brothers and youth may be developed along parallel lines. 15
SELF-HELP cont'd Due to the nature of Gamma Lambda's education committee previous contact had been made by key people on the committee to uncover young potential leaders. In this respect selection did not pose a major problem. Youth selected were between the age 14 to 18. Opportunities for trips to various business organizations, exhibits, community and cultural affairs should be provided by those brothers who are involved in these areas. Eventual participation in community organizations and affairs as youth leaders will be encouraged. Opportunities for vocational guidance should be provided. A careers orientation activity or workshop should be planned as an event and executed on a particular day. ACTION The youth leadership corps can and should be an activist group. During the past year most of the youth aided younger boys in the Brewster-Douglass Community (Gamma Lambda Project) organize baseball teams and other constructive play activities. All of the youth leaders in the project were gainfully employed, during the past summer on jobs secured through the efforts of the committee. We consider this one of the major accomplishments of the program. Most of the after work hours of these youths was spent in community and leadership building efforts. One of the youth with the program is now enrolled at Ferris Institute located in Big Rapids Michigan. Financial assistance was arranged for this youth through the efforts of the program. Under normal circumstances it is felt that this young man would not have been inspired to seek higher education. A young lady who is enrolled hi the program has been successfully employed as a full time secretary with the Y.M.C.A. since graduation from high school in June. Although this may not appear to be a major feat it represented a breakthrough in employment status in her immediate family. 16
Clean up campaigns were conducted throughout the Brewster-Douglass Community during the summer. The youth enrolled in the leadership cadet program organized youth teams and directed them in these efforts. Members of Gamma Lambda donated funds for the purpose of outfitting and fielding a basketball team in the community. In this project the chapter worked with the Detroit Pistons, Y.M.C.A. and St. Peter Claver Community House. Under the guidance the chapter, youth leaders gave a community Christmas party for the neighborhood children at the Fraternity house. All of the planning for this event was conducted by the youth leaders. Brothers helped by donating toys and funds. Youth leaders served as hosts and hostesses at the affair. One of the members of the Education Committee persuaded his son, a college sophomore, to engage his combo to furnish music for the occasion. Everyone had a swinging time. Youth leaders are organizing younger boys into service corps. One of the purposes of his corp consists of lending a helping hand to the elderly. Many elderly people on limited income and welfare live in the community and such a service is vitally needed. In spite of the initial suspicion of senior citizens it is hoped that the zeal of the younger youth will not be arrested. People in the community involved are beginning to seek out the leadership training corps. This is our best indication of acceptance and hopefully success in this undertaking. Bro. Jesse F. Goodwin, Ph.D.
About the Author Brother Jesse F. Goodwin is Core Laboratory Director of the General Clinical Research Center of Children's Hospital and Wayne State University School of Medicine and Assistant professor of Biochemistry at W.S.U. School of Medicine. Goodwin is secretary of Gamma Lambda Chapter and chairman of the publicity sub-committee of the local 62nd. Anniversary Convention Committee. He is active in civic and community affairs in Detroit.
Midwestern Regional Convention—St. Louis
The 1968 Midwestern Regional Convention will be held at the SheratonJefferson Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, April 11-12, 1969. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will also hold its Regional Convention at the same hotel on the same date. Please start making plans to attend. Chapters will receive additional information later including hotel reservation cards, for distribution to their members. The Host Chapter is Delta Epsilon Lambda of East St. Louis, Illinois. Any inquiries concerning the Convention may be addressed to: Brother A. Wendell Wheadon 2600 St. Louis Avenue East St. Louis, Illinois 62205 General President, Ernest N. Morial, has requested that the Regional Convention adopt the 1969 National Convention theme; "Black Power: A Creative Force in America's Complete Development." During our Regional Convention we will have an Undergraduate Symposium on the theme. Any undergraduate chapter wishing to participate in the Symposium is requested to contact me immediately, enclosing the name and address of the proposed participant. All undergraduate chapters planning to participate in the Song-Fest at the Regional Convention should write me as soon as possible. Gus T. Ridgel, Midwestern Vice-President
Delta Alpha Lambda's Outstanding Project In Cleveland Thursday, Oct. 3, 1968 "Dear Mr. Collins and Mr. Richardson,
ALPHAS AID VICTIMS — The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Fund made possible these gifts to Mrs. Virgie Green and Mrs. Beatrice demons, left. Both families were victims of recent arson fires in Glenville. Shown to the rear is William Richardson, left, and J. Harold Brown, Alpha men. The salesman is Alex Szabo.
On July 23, 1968, the evening of "The Glenville Area Disturbance," Cleveland witnessed shocking and irresponsible actions on the part of a few misguided individuals. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, because of these circumstantial events, felt the need to project and aid the hapless individuals who were innocently victimized during this crisis. In an effort to show the public that violence on Cleveland's East side does not represent the thinking of the average Negro, nor does it meet the approval of the average Negro, Delta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha undertook a very worthy Project in raising funds to assist the families who were burned out and suffered many hardships as a result of these violent acts. Delta Alpha Lambda realized one thing, that the image of the Negro was at stake here in Cleveland. There were 35 families affected by this crisis. In an attempt to aid the many who suffered, the members of Delta Alpha Lambda have pledged $1,000 to start the fund, and to date, over $1,200 from the Alpha men has been realized. To date, over $4,000 has been collected. All of the 35 families have been interviewed and screened; and to the most critical families, which numbered 17, Alpha has aided by purchasing items of necessity such as clothes, food, washing machines, refrigerators, school supplies, etc. It was discovered that if it had not been for the Alpha's Project, many of the innocent victims would not have received any aid. During the violence, three Cleveland Policemen were killed. As an expression of our disapproval, each family of the deceased Policeman was given $200.00. The Committee will continue to help until all of the funds are used. Special credit should be given to the members of the Aid Fund Committee, Charles Nunn, Chairman; J. Harold Brown, Vice-Chairman; William Richardson, Chairman of the Screening Committee; Wayman Smith; Melvin Crouther; Steve Howard;; I. C. Childs. along with the President of the Chapter, Elmer C. Collins. We wish to thank the Brothers in attendance at the Detroit Convention for their contribution of $170.00. Below is a copy of a letter from one of the recipients.
I want to Thank you and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for the help you have given us since the Fire on July 23rd on Superior Ave. that burned up all we had, everything we had worked for all our lives was burned that night, all our Furniture, all our Clothing, and all my husbands Tools—even our Job was burned, for we had been the Custodians of the entire Block that was burned, for 12 years. The fire left us homeless and jobless, and disheartened, with nothing and no Place to live. You Wonderful People has helped us to keep Faith and Confidence in the human race. And thru your efforts to help us, we have been given a desire to struggle one because we know someone Cares. Thank you from the depths of our hearts for the Beautiful New Automatic Washing Machine that was given to us by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Only God knows how happy it made us. We feel that the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is one of the greatest Organizations in the U.S.A. to help poor innocent people that have been left helpless in a situation like we were. Thank you again for all the help you have given us, and the interest you have shown. God Bless the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and its wonderful People, especially Mr. Collins and Mr. Richardson." Sincerely, Mr. and Mr. Cassady 1335 E. 142nd St. E. Cleveland, Ohio 44112 Phone 681-1171 Because of the tremendous amount of publicity given through the News Media, Radio and Television, Alpha received a great boost in the Cleveland area. ECC/cmm Following is a list of individuals who have received help from the Alpha Phi Alpha Aid Fund: Ethel Emory Lucille Green Mr. Hymon Mrs. Clemmons *Sam Mayfield
Beatrice Mr. and Mr. and Mr. and Mr. and
Flagg Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mrs.
Mack Bailey Young Cassidy Sam Wallace
*Sam Mayfield was a "Hero," he was injured in saving an elderly couple whose home was burning; the others were all burned out. We also helped Mrs. Barbara Chapman whose husband died saving a Policeman. The families of the three Policemen who were killed, Anthony Sherbiski, Kenneth Gibbons, and Chester Szukalski were helped also. Elmer C. Collins, President Delta Alpha Lambda Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Cleveland, Ohio 17
EDITORIAL
POET'S CORNER
College Unrest . . . College demonstrations appear to be here to stay. Apparently we have not seen the end of colleges being closed because of student unrest. Students muH find a way to "get to" college officials without resorting to violence and turmoil as took place recently at San Francisco State College, Oshkosh State University and Blueficld State College, where an athletic building was bombed causing $80,000 in damages. Destroying college property and forcing them to close their doors is not the answer, not the goal. It should not be impossible for officials and instructors interested in providing students a good education and young people striving for this learning, to work out disagreements intelligently. Where grievances cannot be settled, there should be an arbitration board setup to handle college and university disputes when students are pitted against officials and faculties. The federal government should set up such an arbitration board and make it available to all bodies of higher education.
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(Dedicated to Alpha Epsilon Lambda Chapter - Jackson Miss.) By Anselm Joseph Finch A-PHI-A in a most eloquent way Has taught humanity what to say; By precept and example, she has led us on And will teach and direct until victory is won. Our pioneering fraternity has fought for truth Ever facing the line in behalf of youth; It transcends all in Education's fight By stressing human dignity with all its might. We hold that scholarship should be our guide With Education ever at our side; Education has been our bright light And will for aye add promise to our sight.
For certain, violence cannot be tolerated. Just as certain, resistance to change by officials for the sake of maintaining outdated rules, regulations and teachings is not praiseworthy. Students should not have to protest to have such things as history books that indicate more than white Americans played a role in developing the country. Students shouldn't have to point out that some regulations have out-worn their usefulness. Officials should realize by now that the voice of the trustee is not the only one demanding to be heard. This is not an all-or-nothing world. The sooner this soaks in on both sides on our college campuses the sooner we will be able to get more peacefully about the business of educating young people to face tomorrow's challenges.
Fight on A-PHI-A until we get home Knowing for sure we are not alone; Education is a bulwark of much strength It's a mighty fortress in depth and length. Education lends enlightenment to those that are bleak That's why Alpha serves both the strong and the weak; Upon no chance to lift up, will we ever frown Since our service reaches the man farthest down. Education directs us the way we tread, That's why A-PHI-A is NEVER afraid! We are therefore prepared for humanity's call Knowing we shall always be servants of all. The banner of Education we hold sacred and dear It's our guide for progress both far and near; For Education, we boldly march and cheer!! 'Tis the greatest protection against chaos and fear.
JOBS FOR NEXT SUMMER Last year 113,000 students qualified for temporary summer positions in the federal government who are interested should read civil service announcement form 414, now on display in post offices, high school and college placement offices, and civil service headquarters. Students who pass the test and receive appointments will be paid from $75 to $99 a week. Those who become postal employees will be paid $2.81 per hour. 18
This is the spirit Alpha men possess, Their interest in Education they manifest; Our wisdom and knowledge we share with the rest With a steadfast conviction that Education is best. Thank God for the foundation upon which we stand In the light of Education we join hand in hand; Our feet on solid ground instead of sinking sand While our eyes gaze high into a nobler land.
THE BLACK STUDENT CONFRONTATION Brother Ralph Metcalf Sr. of Chicago received this
Brother B. T. Scruggs II and
letter from his son Ralph — a student at Columbia
Miss Johnnie L. Haslerig
University — his son's thoughts are shared with you.
Exchanges Wedding Vows
Dear Dad: A revolution has begun among Black people in America. It is now a revolution of philosophies, concepts, and goals. It will ultimately be a revolution of the political, social, and economic conditions of Black students at colleges and universities across the country. They expressed their discontentment and desire for change this Spring by various types of demonstrations against some of the policies of their schools. The Black student vanguard of today is not an isolated occurance. Rather, it is the product of the struggles and victories of our ancestors. Booker T. Washington advocated trade schools for Black people. He felt that we should concern ourselves with the acquisition of economic power. In this respect he was right. He and the people of his generation fought for this goal and won. His descendents reaped the fruits of their parents' struggle. They did not rest on their parents' laurels, however. Instead they began attacking the system on other fronts. They were trained in trades but still were not adequately equipped to gain freedom. Their struggle was for broader educational opportunities for their children. The Black student of today, attending the best schools this country has to offer, is learning about revolution. He is drawing paralells between Black America and the newly independent nations in Africa, Asia, and throughout the world. He is drawing paralells between America and Nazi Germany. He disagrees with the established order in America because it excludes his people from positions of power. And because America understands only power, the Black student is studying ways of obtaining power. The power of public opinion was used by students with some degree of success in disrupting the functioning of the University. Brothers at Northwestern University attacked the educational system of that institution. Some of their demands were: 1. That ten percent of all future incoming freshman classes be made up of Blacks; 2. A Black Counselor to deal with the problems of Black students; 3. Space for a Black Union for Blacks to socialize; 4. Black courses taught by Black teachers; and 5. Housing for Blacks only. The last demand is the most controversial. Do Black students want segregation? No. Black Students at predominantly white schools need a sense of community to preserve Black culture. If white culture accepted Black culture as valid, then there would be no need for us to seperate ourselves from white society. With the establishment of an all Black dormitory, Black students now have the same opportunity that white fraternity members have always had: the opportunity to live with one's peers. The rebellion of Columbia University Black students had little to do with the university's educational system. This is because Columbia has little to do with education, Columbia receives over half of its money from the United States Government. Its students are merely a front for governmental research which has developed such products as Mace and napalm. The main concern of Columbia's Black students is a gymnasium which Columbia wants to build in a public park in Harlem. Eighty five percent of the gym was to be for the 20,000 students, faculty, and employees of Columbia, while fifteen percent would have been for 26,000 children in West Harlem. The Black children would have to enter through a back door. The Black students of Columbia attacked the American system, of which Columbia is but a tool. More important than the concessions gained from the demonstrations at Northwestern and Columbia is the precedent that has been set. Black students have found out that the Government controls education for its own purposes. By confronting educational institutions directly, we are confronting the United States indirectly. We have thus taken another step toward direct confrontation, or revolution. YOUR SON RALPH
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Miss Johnnie Lynn Haslerig and Booker Talifarro Scruggs II, exchanged wedding vows, recently in the First United Methodist Church here. The Rev. Messrs. Robert J. Tolbert and Arthur Walker officiated, Ray Walker, organist, and Miss Carolyn Scruggs, cousin of the bridegroom, vocalist, presented nuptial music. THE BRIDE is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Harrison Haslerig of this city. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Booker Talifarro Scruggs of Chattanooga, Tenn. MRS. MARCIA N. DAVIS of Chicago, 111., was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Mesdames Ernestine Arnett, Judith Wyatt, both of this city, Miss June Harris, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Henrietta Taylor of Chattanooga and Melissa Williamson, the bride's godchild, flower girl. A reception was held in the Knoxville College Ball Room, with music by Jimmie Webb's orchestra. Assisting were Mesdames Dorothy D. Antley, Mary Barrow, Velma Fields, Alfra Fisher, Dorothy Jones, Roberta Oglesby, Dorothea Parker, Christine B. Smith, Alma Walker, Misses Judy Hardin and Geraldine Brinkley. THE BRIDE is a graduate of Knoxville College and student at George Peabody Peabody, Peabody College and the University of Tennessee. She is a teacher at the Chattanooga pre-school center. Bro. Scruggs, a graduate of Clark College, holds the masters degree from Atlanta University and has studied at the University of Pittsburgh. He is coordinator of research and reporting with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Community Action Program. The couple reside in Chattanooga, at 4046 Dogwood Lane. 19
Alpha Honor Roll ALPHA HONOR ROLL Delta Kappa Chapter Anderson, Charles Senior, Sociology, Greenwood, Miss. Special Scholarship Award. 3.20. Barnes, Ervin Sophomore, Mathematics, C o l l i n s , Miss. Honor's Scholar, Awarded stipend to study at HARVARD this summer. 3.30. Calloway, Curtis Junior, Agriculture, Marks, Miss. State President of the Baptist Student Movement. 3.07. Cole, Robert Sophomore, Agriculture, Louisville, Miss. President's Scholar. 3.84. Dalton, Louis Junior, Social Science, Bouge Chitto, Miss. Dean's list. 3.50. Donald, James Senior, Music (Instrumental), Hattiesburg, Miss. President of Delta Kappa (1967-68), Dean's List. 3.29. Donald, Thomas Chemistry, Junior, Hattiesburg, Miss. President's Scholar. 3.20. Falconer, Charles Sophomore, Social Science. Dean's Scholar, Social Science Club, Dean of Pledgees-Elect. 3.43. Fleming, Philip Junior, Business Administration, Natchez, Miss., President's Scholar, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, A Kappa Mu Honor Society. 3.40. Hardin, Johnny Junior, Business Administration, Natchez, Miss., President of Newman Club, Phi Beta Lambda, Dean's list. 3.67. King, Billy Sophomore, Mathematics, Greenwood, Miss. Chess Master at Alcorn, President's Scholar. 3.00. McGee, Jesse Senior, Biology, Clarksdale, Miss., Honor Student, Academic average: 3.25. Norwood, Percy Senior, Chemistry, Walter Valley, Miss. President's S c h o l a r , Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, President of Delta Kappa. (1966-67), Fellowship to Tuskegee Institute. 3.25.
Chapter Activities Peyton, L. C. Sophomore, Biology, Bay Springs, Miss. Official Representative of Delta Kappa at Southern Regional Convention, April, 1968. President's Scholar. Sanders, Leon Sophomore, Business Administration, Vicksburg, Miss. Phi Beta Lambda, Alcorn College Choir, Honor Roll. 3.00. Singleton, Ira Senior, Business Administration, Florence, Miss., Phi Beta Lambda, Dean's List, Treasurer of Delta Kappa (196768), Former member Alcorn College Choir. 3.31. Story, William Junior, Agriculture, Cleveland, Miss. Future Farmers of America, Dean List. 3.38. Thompson, Julius Junior, Sociology, Natchez, Miss. President's Scholar, President of Alpha Kappa Mu, President-Elect, Delta Kappa. 3.50. Two brothers graduated with honors in May. Brother Percy Norwood with "Magna Cum Laude and Brother Jesse McGee "With Distinction." We have eleven brothers leaving the chapter this year out of a total of 31 brothers. Seven this May, two this summer and two are not returning in the fall. Five brothers of the chapter are members of "Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities." Two brothers are members of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society. Brother Julius Thompson served as President of this organization this school term. Brother Louis Dalton ran for Student Council President—and came in second. Brother Phillip Fleming, Jr. attended a National meeting in Massachusetts on American Foreign Policy. Brother Jesse McGee attended a National Biology Convention at the University of Georgia. Brother Julius Thompson attended the National Convention of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland. Brother Percy Norwood received a Fellowship to study Chemistry at Tuskegee Institute this fall.
Gamma "The New Brothers" The "GO" chapter Gamma Omicron welcomes into the chapter and fraternity five new brothers. They are Ralph Smith, a chemistry major from Gasden, Alabama; Elliott Bellamy, a Biology major from Sanford, Florida; Edgar Brown, a Biology major from Selma, Alabama; Lorenzo Render from Chattanooga, Tennessee and James Blanton, a business major from Knoxville. We the brothers of Gamma Omicron chapter are very happy to have received what we consider to be the best of what the Knoxville College had to offer. The pledge line for the 1968 year started out with seven young men trying to make Alpha Phi Alpha, but on five got to cross "those burning sands." This only reminds one of the great quotation "Many are called, but few are chosen." But those few are the ones who will go out into the world and let the light of Alpha shine over the darkness of backwardness, unrightteousness, and hatred. So we say unto the new brothers, Be as other great Alpha men and let your light so shine. It was told to the new brothers that the work of Alpha Phi Alpha has just started for them. While on line, things were relatively easy, but now that you are a brother,, there will be times of no sleep, time of confusion and times that you will want to quit; but you must go on because after you have completed your task in the name of Alpha Phi Alpha, your reward will be given to you. Your reward is knowing that you have done something in the name of this great fraternity that you feel will help society in some way. So again we say to the new brothers, go on and help other brothers hold the name of Alpha high. The only way we can do this is to have the love of Alpha within. By working together as brothers this love will come out. I can only say that once you have this love there is nothing you wouldn't do for Alpha. Submitted by Bro. Alphonso Peeples Gamma Omicron Chapter Knoxville College
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If You Give A Damn.. .You'll Read This!" The Black Ghetto and The Open Society Brother Whitney M. Young, Jr.
1968 has been a year of blood and bitterness — a year when hope was gravely wounded on a Memphis hotel balcony — where a man died; and again in a Los Angeles hotel passageway — where another man died. Hope was wounded in the ghettoes across the country — on college campuses — in the Congress —• and, sad to say, there will be other wounds as deep as these before the year has lived out its measured life. Men — maybe children — may be dying violently right now on the asphalt of some obscure street, victims of a senseless fight between despair and those in charge of maintaining an order that meant to be just. Our list of martyrs grows. Dr. Martin Luther King's death has left scars that will be long in healing. God knows, we are used to providing martyrs to racism. Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Viola Liuzzo — the roll can go on and on. And through it all we have remained confident that we would •— someday — someday — overcome. But "someday" has not yet arrived, and Dr. King's dream of equality is still beyond the reach of most black Americans. However, throughout this troubled year, there have been some encouraging signs — and new reasons to hope. A black man — Thurgood Marshall — has been appointed to the highest court of this land. Black men have been elected by the votes of black and white citizens as mayors of two important cities — and a third has been appointed by the President as the first Mayor of our federal capital. More black people have reached positions of prominence in our federal, state and municipal governments — in the diplomatic service and the economically all-important world of business and industry. More black students are enrolled in our colleges and universities, preparing themselves to be among tomorrow's leaders, in their communities in this land.
A crucial bill on housing has been passed by Congress, even if reluctantly, adding to the number of civil rights bills enacted during the last five years that amount to more social legislation than was enacted in all the previous history of this country. But the ledger is far from balanced. These gains are far out-weighed by the failure of our country to meet its serious challenges. And the greatest of these is racism! Racism is something black people have known for centuries, but the fact of its existence came as a new and painful revelation for many white Americans when the Kerner Commission pinpointed it. For here was a predominantly m o d e r a t e , conservative, group of men charged by the President to look into the causes of civil disorders. They were prepared to make the standard condemnation of rioting. Until they went into the slums of America— talked with the jobless men, the hungry children, and the overburdened mothers. And they went back to Washington and wrote a report which stands as the most searing indictment of American racism to date. But the Kerner Commission did more than that. Their report was a blue-print for getting America out of the serious mess it is in. They issued sweeping recommendations for ending discrimination, and for improving communications between the races. They spelled out ways to end the powerlessness of the ghetto — and to change the educational system. They told the nation how to create jobs — and how to provide a system of guaranteed income to end poverty. In short — they said essentially what the Urban League has been saying for the past five years with its call for a Domestic Marshall Plan. The Kerner Commission told it like it is. And the great majority of the American people did not like it. And so that historic report has become another casualty of this tragic year. Little has been done to implement it — and it seems destined to gather on the
shelves, just as other reports on similar subjects in the past have done. But it has had an impact nonetheless. It confronted the white people with a charge of "guilty" and served them a stern warning based on irrefutable data and arguments. Many deny the charge, because they interpret racism to mean overt brutality and violent hatred — and fail to see the dangers to social order which it represents through the economic injustice and rebellious anger it fosters. Today, few Americans are outspoken racists. Most white people feel remorse and regret when faced with the plight of the victimized. But among them, the vast majority lack the emotional security or the moral courage to correct traditional attitudes and behaviour. Among them are those who — out of weakness, ignorance and fear of change — cannot face reality and shut themselves up in an old world of makebelieve that they try desperately to preserve. From among such people comes the backlash vote. It is revealing how consistently racist attitudes and the condoning of such attitudes is found among the less educated, the unsophisticated, lower-class whites, predominantly in the small towns of the more rural states and in the white suburbs — where recently acquired middle-class income is not matched by anything more than lowerclass standards of aspirations and education. The real elite of the white community, represented by its creative men and women in the arts and sciences, in big business and in government, are becoming supports of social justice and allies in the black man's struggle for freedom. The Poor People's Campaign went to Washington, Thousands of impoverished people of all races went to present their demands — for food and for dignity. With the help of the Urban League, they were joined in a mass rally — Solidarity Day — by 100,000 people who assembled to support their claims for justice. (Continued on page 22) 21
BLACK GHETTO —OPEN SOCIETY (Continued from page 21) And racism is behind the code phrases being used by politicians in this election year — phrases like "crime in the streets", "law and order", "neighborhood schools", and "a man's home is his castle." All of these phrases seem so harmless •— tired old cliches. But they have taken on new shades of meaning, and are now veiled appeals to the latest backlash votes. Black voters know what these phrases really mean. They can quickly detect the real intent of the speaker who says he's all for "neighborhood schools", and then winks and murmurs: "You know what I mean." We do know what he means — keep black children out of white schools. A phrase such as "crime in the streets" is twisted to mean crimes committed by Negroes, and even legal civil rights demonstrations or civil disobedience campaigns. But for all the concern about "crime in the streets", we never hear concern about the black people who are daily cheated by merchants and landlords, or of the degradations caused by the dope with which white syndicate bosses flood the ghettos. Law and order are what we all want —but the backlasher reads this to mean keeping black people "in their place." It is impossible for a democratic society to have law and order without justice. Hitler had law and order — and South Africa has it today. But America will never have order while remaining a democracy until it grants justice-andequality to its poor and its minorities. Frederick Douglas said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its mighty waters." When progress and justice come, so too, will order. When freedom comes, the thunder and lightning of agitation will end. * * * In this election year, the political leaders of this country are going to have to treat race relations as the same kind of non-partisan issue that foreign policy once was. They used to say that politics 22
stopped at the water's edge; that there was an area of agreement in which the parties were united. Well, it's about time for race to be taken out of the political arena; and call — here and now — on all major candidates for public office to publicly join together in a pledge to ban all appeals to the backlash vote. I call upon the major parties to publicly back the findings of the Kerner Commission report and promise to implement massive programs to end poverty and racism in our nation. And I further call upon both parties to pledge themselves to strict enforcement of federal civil rights laws. It has been fourteen years since the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation is illegal — but today there are more black children in segregated schools than ever before. The Supreme Court ruled that housing discrimination has been illegal for nearly 100 years — but I see no rush by realtors to comply with the law — nor do I see this Congress rushing into action to back up the Court's ruling with the money and staff necessary to enforce it. The late John F. Kennedy said "Responsibility is not discharged by the announcement of virtuous ends". It is not enough for politicians to make promises to black voters that they do not have the will or the courage to keep. Black Americans have never before possessed a more sophisticated understanding of what politics is all about. We have a profound understanding of how the institutions of our society have created the black ghettos, and how they persist in keeping it a closed backwater, outside the mainstream of American life. But black people will no longer tolerate this exclusion. Black people want to enjoy the freedom of choice and all the options now reserved for whites. They want the freedom of choosing to live among black people to the exclusion of whites, exactly as the whites have done for so long in excluding blacks. But the Urban League — in the face of all that has happened this year — retains its faith in the promise of America and the inherent basic decency of people. The Urban League believes in the goals of complete equality. It works for the ideal of an Open Society — a society
in which each human being can flourish and develop to the maximum of his Godgiven potential; a society in which cultural and ethnic differences are not blotted out and stifled into monotonous conformity, but respected and cherished for the enrichment of all; a society that is pluralistic; a society that is vibrant with creativity and the marvel of discovery. To this end, the magnificent Open Society we could be today and we strive to be tomorrow, the Urban League has worked tirelessly for over fifty-eight years — and harder than ever this last year. Our efforts have been channelled into two major areas: First — with institutions, government, business and labor, in an effort to make them more relevant to the conditions of the black people, and more responsive to their needs; Second — in the black community itself, bringing services and know-how to those who need them. This past year has been one of proud accomplishments for the Urban League movement. Our 90 affiliates have served more than 600,000 individuals in the past twelve months. They were poor people — people who came to our offices seeking jobs, homes, educational counseling, child care and health services, solutions ot family problems — and the like. We placed more than 50,000 black men and women in jobs — and right this minute, 15,000 black workers hold on-the-job training positions which they got through the Urban League. And more than five times that number got jobs through the tireless, unpublicized efforts the Urban League has been making with government officials and corporate executives to create jobs for the jobless. We've met and consulted with the people who control the jobs in American industry, and we have in this manner opened the doors to countless jobs that had been closed to black workers. Nearly 2,000 veterans contacted us monthly for help in getting back to school, or finding jobs or housing — or otherwise readjusting to civilian life— and this through our new Veterans Affairs Program. (Continued on page 23)
BLACK GHETTO —OPEN SOCIETY (Continued from page 22) Our housing program — OPERATION EQUALITY — found hundreds of homes and apartments in integrated neighborhoods for black ghetto-dwellers seeking decent housing in an Open Society; and we have been a major influence on the policies and programs leading to massive rehabilitation and expansion of the supply of low-cost housing. The Urban League tapped the leadership resources of the active young black students of America's colleges, putting them to work in local Urban Leagues this summer. These young people are now out in the streets of the ghettoes, helping to organize consumer education programs and cooperatives in the black communities. And the Urban League has been working just as hard to serve other minority groups. Spanish-speaking citizens, Indians, — and others whose needs America has neglected know that the Urban League's services are available to them. This has been so more than ever in the past year — and it will continue to be so. Local Urban Leagues intensified their community service activities over the past year — helping black people to own businesses in the ghetto, to develop leadership, to organize block and community associations, and to educate our young people. The Street Academy Program of the New York Urban League succeeded so well in turning high school drop-outs into college students that the city's Board of Education has come to them to ask that they show the Board how to achieve the same results in some selected schools. The Street Academy Program has already placed 107 young men and women in colleges across the country, and this year's graduating class of 62 will all enter colleges this fall. That's a 100 percent record — better than any elite school I have ever heard of. * * * This has been a year of accomplishment. We have held up our end of the necessary division of labor within the civil rights movement. Others have provided the demonstrations and other pressures and tactics that have awakened public awareness and aroused public opinion — which are necessary prerequisites to change — while we have worked to bring desperately needed
services to the black community. We have put paychecks in men's pockets and milk in babies' bottles — which have made the change tangible to those in need of it. We intend to do still more — and better — in the coming twelve months. We must consolidate and expand our existing programs. We have traditionally been the bridge between the white and the black society. Our efforts have been to open the white-organized and whiteoriented institutions to blacks, and to direct and to facilitate the flow of services from those institutions — because there were no others — towards the fenced-in, beleaguered, isolated black community that has recently been called "the black ghetto", because of the combined characteristics of economic deprivation and isolation. This type of effort must be pursued and expanded by putting to good use and work the growing numbers of concerned white people. The black community needs jobs and houses and openings in good schools too much for us not to continue to make them available to as many people as we can possibly reach. *
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For far too long white Americans have permitted themselves the luxury of noninvolvement and conscienceless gentility. I am reminded of the Feiffer cartoon which shows a very worried looking young white man saying over and over again, "We're a sick society; We're a sick society." Finally, a girl comes up to him and says "Instead of talking about it, why don't you do something to change it?" At that, he straightens up and says, "We're not all that bad, we're not all that bad". But we are all that bad! Building white concern, involvement and action must be a twin effort of building "ghetto power"; for the problems of the black ghetto are created by the racism and the indifference of the white society. The Kerner Commission's report accurately stated: What white Americans have never fully understood — but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it; white institutions maintain it; and white society condones it,"
White America must rid itself of its number one mental health problem — racism. And to facilitate this, we will develop programs which will recruit some of the many millions of concerned whites to help to convert their brothers to our vision of the Open Society. It is abundantly clear, but ignored by most whites — that the future of our cities, and also the future of this nation are inextricably interwoven in the future of black citizens. The lack of response of white America to this problem might well signal America's decline and fall. They should realize, for example, how damaging it is to this country in the eyes of the world. The fate of the black American citizen is the first and foremost indictment raised in criticism of this country — even if rather unjustly by white European countries that were never themselves put through the test of coping with an ethnically mixed population. Or those — like England and Russia — who performed rather poorly when even small numbers of black immigrants or African students set up to live on their soil. Moreover, the fate of the black man in America has been the basic reason for the world's mistrust of our intentions in Southeast Asia. How could this country be sincerely interested in preserving the freedom of a remote people — so went the reasoning -— when its own black citizens are denied meaningful freedom in the U.S.? How could the preservation of democracy in Southeast Asia be the reason for the United States' involvement there — it was asked — when America, despite its large population of African descent, totally ignores the ignoble system of apartheid and the official racist policies that exist and are daily consolidated in all southern Afirca? For that matter, how do we, here in the United States, understand a shizopherenic foreign policy that weighs more lightly the freedom of black Africans than the freedom of the white Europeans or the Asians? Isn't that another form of racism — (this one not listed in the Kerner report) — pervading even our foreign policies? The League, with its limited direct service capacities, can at best be a stopgap in the face of the vast and deep needs of the ghetto communities. (Continued on page 24) 23
BLACK GHETTO —OPEN SOCIETY... (Continued from page 23) A new awakening has been taking place in the black ghettoes over the last years, that represents a better realization of how unjust, how unnecessary, and how cruel its plight is — in contrast to the dazzling prosperity and opportunity that exist in the country outside of it. This new awareness and the added anger it built, produced those outbursts of rage we witnessed in the riots. But today there is also a more constructive awakening that is taking place in the black ghettoes. And that is the one on which the League is going to invest a massive new effort that we have called our new thrust to build "Ghetto Power". It is based on the realization by the ghetto communities that they have to marshall their own capabilities, their political strength represented by potentially large voting blocks, their economic strength as consumers and produces, and their human resources, which are vast and largely untapped. It is this realization that has crystallized around the slogan of "Black Power". "Black Power" may be only a slogan, and it might be replaced by "Ghetto Power" — or "Soul Power" — and it might be given 100 different interpretations. But the words have caught the imagination, and they have come to convey, above all, pride and community solidarity — and this is a positive, constructive concept. The Urban League intends to translate the symbols into substance and rhetoric into relevance. Community organization has always been a part of our program. Giving a voice to the voiceless, power to the powerless and pride and self-respect to the down-trodden are the ends toward which the Urban League is going to apply a dramatically increased effort. Through community organization, the Urban League will help the ghetto free itself. The ghetto wants and must develop its human, economic and political resources through self-help, independent management and control of the institutions which affect the life conditions and the self-concept of black people. It is racial and community pride, and experience in competent management that will free the black community from its traditional and quasi-total dependency on the institutions of the white society. Secondly, solidarity with pride, competence and independence are necessary 24
for effective participation and competition in the larger society on the basis of equality. So the Urban League pledges its allout support to the creation and the support of black groups which can speak for a united community, and who will be able to bring about a "dialogue of equals" with the representatives of the power structure outside the black community. We pledge our help in giving a voice and a structure to the just demands of the ghetto. For some Urban Leagues, this will mean doing a bigger and better job. For others, this is a mandate to retool, revitalize and get with it. Where community organizations already exist, the Urban League will offer technical services that will make them more effective. We will build the economic institutions of the ghetto through the development of black-owned businesses, cooperatives, consumer unions and blackowned franchises. As we intend to devise the means by which white involvement replaces guilt and fear, we intend to devise the means whereby black involvement replaces bitterness and despair. The emerging black middle-class will be called upon to aid their brothers in the slums, for here is a vast untapped strength within the black community. The resources, expertise and know-how of these brothers who have made it have to be applied to solving the problems of the ghetto.
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I have outlined what the Urban League means by its call for building ghetto power — and by its call for white concern. This conference and its workshops will discuss specific tactics and program proposals. Now I want to say what we most emphatically do not mean. We are NOT calling for separatism. Developing the institutions of the black community, and bringing power and self-sufficiency to the ghetto does not imply a turning away from the larger society. Neither can it possibly be interpreted as a withdrawal behind the ghetto's walls. What the Urban League proposes to do is no more nor less than what every other ethnic group has done in the past. We seek the means by which
to enter an Open Society — not to remain in the Closed Society. Better and more control by the black citizens of their social, political and economic institutions will not of itself end their economic problems. Only massive federal and private programs can do that. We intend to redouble our efforts to get a fair share of jobs for black workers. White America has the resources and the power. Black America wants its fair share of both. The Urban League's commitment is to twin thrusts in both communities — to bring justice and fairness to the American scene. We do not intend to do the racists' job for them by accepting segregation. And the Urban League, in assisting in the creation of black institutions and organizations, intends only to help the people of the ghetto to speak for themselves and to decide for themselves what their major concerns are. We must be their partners in this striuggle. And we specifically reject violence. Too many people believe we can shout, sing or shoot our way into power. Let me assure you now that the real enemy of the black man in America is not remotely concerned about our lung power or our fire power. In fact, he welcomes it as a justification for further suppression and indiscriminate use of his superior fire power. Net results: mainly black people killed, black communities damaged or destroyed. We've had enough of that. Anyone who thinks that a Molotov cocktail is a match for a tank is a fool. And let me stress again that we are NOT abandoning our successful programs which so many people have come to depend upon. We are adding to the total services the Urban League provides —not substricting from them. * * * Our vision of an Open Society is one which can be shared by all decent people, of whatever color. It is a vision of an America in which children don't go hungry because their skin happens to be black — an America in which men don't go jobless because their skin happens to be black — an America in which mothers don't go homeless because their skin happens to be black. It is a vision of an America which provides its people with choices- and with the means to exercise them. It is a vision of an America which (Continued on page 25)
BLACK GHETTO —OPEN SOCIETY... (Continued from page 24) glories in diversity and respects the unique contributions and traditions of all of its people. The Open Society will come about when all decent people, both blacks and whites, are galvanized to change the present society. For decency is not related to color. It is related to behavior. We've been told so often that white is beautiful, but we know from long experience that white can be ugly. White is ugly when it means keeping black children out of all-white schools. White can be ugly when it means throwing bricks at open-housing demonstrators, or when it means cutting off food stamps from hungry black people in the South. And white can be very ugly when it persistently denies to black men and women the equality this nation professes to cherish so dearly. And we have been told for many centuries now that black is ugly. But we know that black is beautiful. Black is beautiful when it is those 75 percent of Negro families that have stable marriages —• that half of all Negro families that have managed to pull themselves into the middle-class; or that 90 percent of all Negro families who are self-supporting, or even that larger proportion who manage to keep out of trouble, often despite the most gross kinds of discrimination and provocation. Also, how beautiful must these people be who belong to those two-thirds of all Negro families with less than $2,000 annual income in 1966, who could manage to hold themselves together and meet the American test of family stability? Black is beautiful when it is black kids at their books studying to win scholarships and pass exams. Black is beautiful when it is black men starting businesses and running for union office and helping to organize their community. And black is very beautiful when it produces and even out-produces everyone else. It is up to black people to make black beautiful — by voting, working, studying and creating model communities across this country. Beauty knows no race. White can be nice — and black can be beautiful when whites and blacks work constructively to build an Open Society, free of racism, free of poverty, free of want.
When the Urban League builds into the ghettoes of America the community and economic institutions needed to bring about change, it helps prepare the way for the realizations of a truly Open Society. For real integration can only take place among equals, and our efforts will be directed at building a community which can exercise quality — a community that has pride in itself and its heritage. Pride and tall beautiful ments of
comes from standing straight — and knowing that black is through the positive achieveblack people.
Pride is bringing home a decent paycheck and being able to house and clothe your family. Pride is when little three and fouryear-old kids don't try to wash the color from their hands because they've been brainwashed to believe that white's all right — but black keeps them back. Pride is being what American society has always tried to keep blacks from becoming . . . Pride is being a Man. As Brooke Benton's song goes
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I'm a Man and I just want to like like one. Why must I fight for what I've won? I'm so weary and it is more than I can stand. I'm a Man and I want to hold my head up high, I'm flesh and blood and I've got pride. Can't they see it? Won't they ever understand? I'm a Man. How do I hide the tears in my eyes When I go to tell my son. The things he's heard? they're no more than lies. He's as good as anyone. I'm a Man. And soon the day is goin' When I'll be free to Then I'll stand tall and what I am. I'm a Man . . . I'm I'm a Man.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Brother King, I received the October issue of the Sphinx and enjoyed it very much. Brother McLaurin's article on "The Ghediplan" is to me a very sound and constructive analysis of the situation of the Negro in the American business world. I am looking forward to the next issue of the Sphinx for the continuation of his article and hoping all Alpha Phi Alpha chapters, graduate and undergraduate, will actively support the indicated sound status of the Negro business man. There was an error in the address of my issue and I will ask you to have the correction made so none of my mail may go astray. The correct address is 120 EAST MINER STREET, West Chester, Pa. 19380. For the postal clerks and carriers, West Miner Street, although only a few blocsk from my house, is quite a different area with different carriers. If you should get this way try to give me time to acquaint you with Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge where I am trying to develop a library of information on Negroes who have been and now are contributors to our American Way of Life. Fraternally yours, (Alpha Chapter 1908-12) loseph R. Fugett
to come, live like one, be seen for a Man . . .
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The following two poems are by brother Julius Thompson. Five of brother Thompson's poems have been published by the National Poetry Press, the Alcorn Herald, and Negro Digest. REMODELING - RENAVATION - GENERAL OFFICE: As mandated by the 61st Anniversary Convention in Los Angeles (1967) the remodelling - alteration of the General Office in Chicago was started Sptember 23, 1968 as PHASE 1. PHASE 2 was the acquisition of the property adjoining the present General Office Building, which has been accomplished for the sum of $17,500.00. The remodelling - alteration plan is considered PHASE 1 with respect to the project, and will be completed before consideration of the demolition of the newly acquired property to be utilized for "off street parking" purposes. The Executive Secretary and staff offices have been temporarily re-located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the present structure, and works out fairly well, as a temporary measure. The two local chapters — THETA and XI AMBDA are taking the inconvenience they suffer in stride, and have posted throughout the building signs: "EXCUSE OUR DUST—BUT REMODEL WE MUST". The completion of Phase 1 is expected by the end of January, 1969.
TO BROTHER MARTIN LUTHER KING The Dusk
of
Dawn
A prince of peace has fallen, A light we shall see no more! Love, friendship and kindness, The dusk of dawn to meet! And What will the evening bring— Only tears and sad memories? Death! A lonely cry does sing And we mourn our oppressed
TRANSITION: On Saturday, December 21, 1968, the General President met with the General President-Elect, Brother Morial, at the General Office and turn over to him all necessary documents, duties, responsibilities and such other perquisites of office, with best wishes for a productive administration. At the fiscal officers of the Fraternity, presented to the newly elected General President a complete picture of the organization with respect to the oprations from a fiscal standpoint. The meeting was followed Sunday, December 22, 1968 from 3-6 P.M., by an informal gathering of represnetatives from local GREEKDOM who inspected the progress of the renovation and remodelling of the General Office.
Lot, our cross in life! All is still, not a sound is heard— And then a voice rings out, A heart once known returns!
LEGACY: Brother Lewis Lloyd Burrell of Buffalo, New York entered OMEGA CHAPTER on July 14, 1966. He was initiated at Beta Chapter (Howard University) March 18, 1922 and became Life Member Number 24 of Alpha Phi Alpha November 15, 1946. Correspondence from a law firm in Buffalo, New York, where Brother Burrellr practiced for many years, dated November 14, 1968 reads in part:
Martin Luther King: New cross of the race! Little children call his name, Old folks say, Amen! Martin Luther King: New born Christ of light?! Sent to save blackmen? Sent to save his own? Martin Luther King: "I did but hear a little boy sing: Where are you coming from, Church or jail?!" Martin Luther King: New cross of the race! Little children call his name, Old folks say, Amen!
"We are the attorneys for the Estate of L. Lloyd Burrell, formerly of 148 Hendricks Boulevard, Town of Amherst, New York, who died July 14, 1966. In his Last Will and Testament, Dr. Burrell bequeathed the sum of $1,000.00 to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. We are now prepared to pay the bequest. . ." Here again is an indication of the love and affection held by men of Alpha for the Fraternity. PLAUDITS: All hail to the new principal of SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL, St. Louis, Missouri — our beloved and dedicated Brother John D. Buckner, who brings to the Summer family, of which he is an alumnus, many changes and many up-dated ideas. He states that it is a marvelous opportunity for him to give additional services to the young community that he has been serving for 25 years. 1969 GRAND TAX: The General so adequately made remittances of As of this early date, over 5,000 are indeed grateful. KEEP THEM
Office is grateful to the many chapters who have Grand Tax. We will reach our 10,000 mark yet! Grand Taxes have been remitted, for which we COMING. LAURENCE T. YOUNG Executive Secretary Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated
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A prince of peace has fallen, A light we shall see no more! Love, friendship and kindness, The dusk of dawn to meet!
—Julius E. Thompson Slave labor built these chamber walls, Where long the moth of time has kept His watch, where slave spirits Have danced their songs in wonderment! And here we stand today, where Yesterday's dust and dawn were tears! O hearts of my own! O sorrow! Look what man has made of man! —Julius Thompson
l/Ueddina 9 (J5ells Cabell and Woodard
Miss Virginia Ann Pendelton Wall-Major Nuptials in New York
Wed Brother Phillip L. Redrick
Miss Jacqueline Esther Majors, daughter of Mrs. Vivian Majors, became the bride of William Louis Wall of Tarrytown in double ring ceremonies at St. Philip's Episcopal Church. Rev. C. Edward Harrison performed the service. The bride was given in marriage by her grandfather, Alvin Henley. Mrs. Althea King of Miami was matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Barbara Majors, sister of the bride; Miss Bernadette Gartrelle, D. C ; Mrs. Roslyn Harper, Oakland, Calif.; Miss Suzette Garland, and Miss Yvonne Morris.
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An engagement dinner was given at the Greenlawn home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Woodard on Sunday, Oct. 27, announcing the engagement of their daughter, Carlitta June, to Paul Lawrence Cabell Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lawrence Cabell Sr., of Normandy. Miss Woodard attended Eastern Michigan university and is presently a teacher at Sugar 'n Spice nursery and kindergarten. She will complete her work at the University of Michigan. Mr. Cabell was graduated from Western Michigan university and the University of Michigan, and is continuing his work toward a doctorate at the U of M, while teaching in the Detroit public school system. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity . A summer wedding is planned.
William Phillips, D. C , was best man. Ushers were John Wall, Hyattsville, Md.; Christopher Turnbull, Bossie Brown, Ossining; Carson McDaniel, Ossining, Norman Bright, Yonkers. Little Miss Kim Edwards and Little Miss Lisa Henley were flower girls. Mrs. Wall is a graduate of Howard Univesrity. She was elected to "Who's Who Among American Colleges" and "Who's Who Among Howard Women." She is a member of the Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and the National Council of Negro Women. She was presented in 1962 at the International Debutante Cotillion sponsored by the National Council. She is a caseworker with the New York City Bureau of Child Welfare. Bro. Wall is a graduate of Howard University. He is an assistant branch manager of Banker's Trust and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The couple will live in the Crestwood Section of Yonkers.
N E X T ISSUE . . . . SALUTE TO BLACK HISTORY . . . . A CHALLENGE TO CIVIL DISORDER . . . . RISE O F T H E W E S T - B I R T H O F R A C I S M . . . . Plus . . . . A L P H A S ON T H E M O V E and other interesting news.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The wedding of Miss Virginia Ann Pendleton, daughter of Mrs. Corine Pendleton of Bessemer, and the late Mr. Sam Pendleton, Sr. to Phillip L. Redrick, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Redrick, Sr. of Birmingham is announced by the brideelect's mother. Miss Pendleton is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. Lewins Sr., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Eli Pendleton, Sr., all of Selma. She is a graduate of Alabama A. and M. College where she was elected to Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Grandparents of the bride-groom elect are the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Redrick of Demopolis and the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Robinson of Birmingham. Mr. Redrick is also a graduate of Alabama A. and M. College where he was also elected to Who's Who and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Both are employed at Redstone Arsenal where Miss Pendleton is a mathematician in the Research and Development Directorate and Mr. Redrick is a procurement analyst in the Directorate of Procurement and Production. The wedding was on Dec. 22, at the First Baptist Church, Ninth Street, Bessemer. The Rev. T. D. King is pastor.
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(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) A fool there was and he said a prayer Even as you and I To a rag, a bone and a hank of hair We call her the woman who didn't care But the fool — he called her his lady fair Even as you and I A fool there was and he gave a gift Even as you and I To a girl his friends thought rather swift He bought it with taste and care and thrift But when she saw it, the lady sniffed Even as you not I *
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A fool there was and he bought a book Even as you and I He was looking ahead for a long time look The public had made it a book stand thrill For the name of the book was Fanny Hill. Even as you and I. * * * A fool there was and he thought a thought Even as you and I That black was beautiful, in fact His every room he daubed jet black No more could he see his wife, kids or cat Even as you and I *
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A fool there was and she bought some pills Even as you and I She used them with rhythm and clinical skill She is not convinced of their value yet For she just bought a cute little bassinet Even as you, not I A fool there was and he sought a name Even as you and I He found out not all of us think the same Some "Negro," some "colored" "Afro American" black But he preferred to be just called "black." Even as you and I (Continued on page 31)
ALPHA MEN IN AFRICA On recent visits to Monrovia, Liberia, Brothers Justice Thurgood Marshall and Edward Brooke (R.-Mass.) were greeted by and in turn greeted brothers of E t Epsilon Lambda Chapter. Men of outstanding reputations, they were welcomed as celebrities by the citizens of Monrovia and of the Country generally, who turned out in large numbers to applaud them wherever they appeared. Brother Marshall traveled in the Vice Presidential delegation of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey (who received Nu Chapter's Alpha Medallion in 1949, long before he was recognized as a Presidential hopeful), and Brother Brooke came on a fact-finding mission as a member of a Senate Committee. Both men addressed the prestigious YMCA International Relations Forum, chaired by Hon. T. Ernest Eastman, who is Under Secretary of State in Liberia. The long time Executive Secretary of the Liberia YMCA is Brother David Howell, who has been a leading Alpha light in Liberia for nearly twenty years. Following his forceful presentation before the Forum, Brother Brooke joined brothers of Eta Epsilon Lambda in a rousing rendition of the Alpha Hymn, while the American Ambassador and other distinguished guests waited to wish him away to other high level official functions. Among Alpha-men greeting both Brothers Marshall and Brooke were: Brothers Pryde Davis, President; Dr. Robert Clarke, Vice President; Leonard DeShield, Bishop Dillard Brown, David N. Howell, Dr. Eric James, Alexander Brewer, Pohlman Bracewell, Dr. Horace Dawson, Dr. McKinley DeShield, Ed Bouey, Ted Houser, Aaron B. Milton, Jeffries Adorkor, Samuel S. P. Cooper and John Woods. 29
THE NAVY OFFICE OF CIVILIAN MANPOWER MANAGEMENT OFFER JOBS WASHINGTON — The Navy Office of Civilian Manpower Management has released its latest list of high-level job openings for graduates GS-12 and above with salaries ranging from $11,500 to $23,000. As the list shows many of the jobs are overseas; hence, pay is increased by increments of 5 to 25 per cent of base salaries for those jobs. Except for the jobs marked (X) or (Y), the applicant should send the SF 171 to the location shown for the job. (X) Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific), 50 Fulton St., San Francisco, Calif., 94102. (Y) Navy Overseas Employment Office (Atlantic), Building 210, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. 20390. # ) Transportation will not be provided at government expense for selectees, dependents, or household effects. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT POSITIONS 1 Superintendent, Ocean Technology Division, 10 USC 1581, $26,264 p.a. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20390 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 1813-NF); 30 Jan. 69. SOCIAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOCHOLOGY A N D WELFARE 1 Research Psychologist, GS-180-13, $14,889 p.a. plus 25% Differential. Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Saigon, Vietnam (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific) (X); 31 Jan. 69, (Extended). PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION 2 Supervisory Personnel Management Specialist, GS-20112, $12,174 p.a. plus 2 5 % Differential. U.S. Naval Support Activity, DaNang, Republic of Vielnam (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Spacific) (X); 3 Feb. 69. 1 Personnel Officer, GS-201-13, $14,409 p.a. Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. 28542; 31 Jan. 69. 1 Position Classification Specialist, GS-221-12, $12,174 p.a. Morocco-U.S. Naval Training Command, Kenitra, Morocco (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Atlantic) (Y); 24 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory Personnel Staffing Specialist, GS-212-12, $12,174 p.a. plus 2 5 % Differential. U.S. Naval Support Activity, DaNang, Republic of Vietnam (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific) (X); 3 Feb. 69. 1 Personnel Officer, GS-201-13, $14,409 p.a. Naval Weapons Station, Seal Beach, Calif. 90740; 20 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory Personnel Staffing Specialist, GS-212-12, $12,174 p.a. Naval Supply Center, Charleston, S.C. 29411; 24 Jan. 69. 1 Comouter Specialist, GS-334-12, $12,174 p.a. (May be filled at GS-9 or 11 level). Fleet Material Support Office, Oakland Branch (Send 171 to: Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California 94625 Attn.: Code 21); 31 Jan. 69. 1 Administrative Officer, GS-341-13, $14,409 p.a. (Excepted service). Naval Intelligence Command, Washington, D.C. (Send 171 to: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Room 4D434, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350); 17 Jan. 69. 1 Management Analyst, GS-343-12, $12,174 p.a. Com-
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mander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, London, England (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office Atlantic) (Y); 17 Jan. 69. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 1 Entomologist, GS-414-13 or 12, $14,409 or $12,174 p.a. Southeast Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 2144 Melbourne St., P.O. Box 10068, Charleston, S.C. 29411; 20 Jan. 69. MERICAL HOSPITAL, DENTAL, PUBLIC HEALTH 1 Medical Officer (Anesthesiologist), GS-602-15, $21,098 p.a. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. 94625; 31 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory Audiologist or Speech Pathologist, GS-665-13 or 12, $14,889 or $13,392 p.a. Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. 94625; 17 Jan. 69. ENGINEERING 1 Supervisory General Engineer (Quality and Reliability Assurance), GS-801-14, $16,946 p.a. San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, Calif. 94135 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 171);; 27 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory General Engineer, GS-801-13, $14,409 p.a. Naval Oceanographic Office, Washington, D.C. 20390 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 1810); 17 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory Civil Engineer, GS-810-14, $16,946 p.a. Southeast Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 2144 Melbourne Street, P.O. Box 10068, Charleston, S.C. 29411 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 017); 17 Jan. 69. 1 Supervisory Electronics Engineer (General), GS-855-15 or 14, $19,780 or $16,946 p.a. Naval Ship Engineering Center, Great Lakes Division, Great Lakes, Illinois 60088 (Send 171 to: CIRO, Code 1341, Building 3400); 24 Jan. 69, 51(68). 1 General Engineer (Mechanical-Electronic), GS-801-13 or 12, $14,409 or $12,580 p.a. Naval Ordnance Systems Command, Wasrington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 Attn.: ORD-91D1, Room 1045, Munitions Bldg.); 23 Jan. 69. 1 General Engineer, GS-801-12, $12,580 p.a. Naval Station, Long Beach, Calif. 90802 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 102); 31 Jan. 69. 1 Electrical Engineer (General), GS-850-12, $12,580 p.a. Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va. 22134; 31 Jan. 69. BUSINESS A N D INDUSTRY 1 Procurement Analyst, GS-1102-12, $12,174 p.a. Naval Ordance Systems Command, Washington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 Attn.: ORD-91D1, Room 1045, Munitions Bldg.); 31 Jan. 69. PHYSICAL SCIENCE 1 Physical Science Administrator, GS-1301-1-14, $16, 946 p.a. Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 to: Manpower Management Division, Room 0431, Main Navy Building); 17 Jan. 69. 1 Physical Science Administrator, GS-1301-1-14 or 13, $16,946 p.a. or $14,409 p.a. Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 to: Manpower Management Division, Room 0431, Main Navy Building); 17 Jan. 69. (Continued on page 31)
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(Continued from page 31) 1 Supervisory Physicist (General), GS-1310-15, $19,780 p.a. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. 20390 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 1811-81-82/68); 17 Jan. 69. 1 Hydrologist, GS-1315-13 or 12, $14,409 or $12,580 p.a. plus 25% Differential. Officer in Charge of Construction, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Contracts, Saigon, Republic of Vietnam (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific) (X); 31 Jan. 69. 1 Metallurgist, GS-1321-13, $14,409 p.a. Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 to: Manpower Management Division, Room 0431, Main Navy Building); 19 Jan. 69. 1 Oceangrapher, GS-1360-12, $12,580 p.a. Naval Oceanagraphic Office, Washington, D.C. 20390 (Send 171 Attn.: Code 1810); 24 Jan. 69. MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS 1 Operations Research Analyst, GS-1515-14 or 13, $16,946 or $14,409 p.a. Office of Naval Research, Washington, D.C. 20360 (Send 171 to: Manpower Management Division, Room 0431, Main Navy Building); 17 Jan. 69.
A fool there was and she wore a dress Even as you, not I She left out most everything that made it look best She was quite in style with her "Mini-Delight" She wears Mink in the daytime but Fox at night Even as you, not I * * * A fool there was and he was proud of his hair Even as you and I It used to be processed and "fried" every night But a movement got started and it's going quite well. The best looking hairdo's are au natural. Even as you and I A fool there was and he made a speech Even as you and I Its logic was well within our reach No franker speech have we ever heard For we learned new three and four letter words. Even as you and I *
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A fool there was and he joined a frat Even as you and I He joined the frat just to frat and chat It wasn't our frat for so much it lacks For all he got was yakkity yak. Even as you, not I * * »
POSITIONS FOR WHICH ALTERNATE DISCIPLINES ARE ACCEPTABLE 1 Supervisory — Engineer: General, GS-801; Civil, GS-810; Sanitary, GS-819; Mechanical, GS-830; ;;Electronic, GS-855; Industrial, GS-896; or Landscape Architect, GS-807; Architect, GS-808; or Urban Planner, GS-020; GS-14, $16,946 p.a. plus 15% Cost of Living Allowance. Pacific Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific) (X); 24 Jan. 69.
Two Wise Men — A frat there was and it changed its chief Even as you and I "Doc" Newsom, grown handsome on pork and beans Gave way to "Judge" Morial from New Orleans Full of Shrimp gumbo and Creole pralines A "fair" exchange? Well, so it seems Even to you and "I".
GENERAL WAGE BOARD — SUPERVISORY 1 Superintendent 1 (Power Plant), $13,124.80 p.a. plus 10% Differential. U.S. Navy Public Works Center, Subic Bay, Philippines (Send 171 to: Navy Overseas Employment Office (Pacific) (X); 24 Jan. 69, 52(68). DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE VACANCIES 1 Technical Director, DCA System Engineering Facility, GS-855-17, $26,264 p.a. Defense Communications Agency, Washington, D.C. 20305 (Send 171 to: F. K. Moore, Civilian Personnel Division, 8th and South Courthouse Road, Arlington, Va. 22204); 9 Feb. 69. 2 Associate Technical Director, System Engineering Department, GS-855-16; Associate Technical Director, Systems Programming Department, GS-1520-16, $22,835 p.a. Defense Communications Agency, Washington, D.C. 20305 (Send 171 to: F. K. Moore, Civilian Personnel Division, 8th and South Courthouse Road, Arlington, Va. 2204); 9 Feb. 69. 1 Computer Systems Analyst GS-334-14, $16,946 p.a. Defense Supply Agency .Cameron Station, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 (Send 171 Attn.: DSASC-ZE); 14 Jan. 69, 52(68).
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Baltimore Seeks Social W o r k Director BALTIMORE — The Civil Service Commission of Baltimore has announced an open competitive examination to fill the post of director of social services. The position pays $25,000 per year. Closing date for applications is Feb. 14. The director is under the administrative direction and control of the State Department of Social Services with the advice of the Baltimore City Social Services Commission. Position holder is responsible for the organization and administration of all functions and activities of the City Department of Social Services; and does related work as required. The director administers departmental planning and management activities in accordance with legal provisions and established policies, methods, procedures, rules and regulations; develop the programs of the department with public officials and federal, state, and city agencies; plans, organizes, and directs the operations of the department, formulating and enforcing over-all departmental policies and procedures with the assistance of subordinate supervisors. Also directs the preparation of, and reviews, the annual budget estimates and justifies proposed expenditures at budget hearings; participates in periodic evaluations of staff performance and acts to effect betterments, as needed, to maintain high standards of social service. Other examples of the director's duties are: confers with representatives of the State Department of Social Services on policies and specific problems; maintains effective relationships with public information media and provides leadership in developing community understanding in social service programs; develops and maintains close coordination of activities with private and other social service agencies; and recommends federal, state, and local legislative changes in social service programs. 32
Training and Experience: Master's Degree in Social Work from a colleg or university approved by the Council on Social Work Education. Ten years of progressively responsible executive or administrative experience in a recognized social service or community organization agency involving planning and execution of large-scale programs, and sharing responsibility for budgeting and control of sizeable expenditures. Knowledge and Skills: Extensive knowledge of the problems, policies, methods, and practices of public social service administration; thorough knowledge of the provisions of federal and state laws pertaining to public social service programs; thorough knowledge of current social, economic, and health problems; thorough knowledge of the structure of public and private social service agencies and institutions; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with community organizations, public officials, and staff personnel; ability to speak effectively in public and to present ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; administrative ability. THE EXAMINATION is being conducted on a nation-wide, original entrance basis and will consist of an analysis of training and experience plus an oral interview and such other tests or review as are considered appropriate by the Commission. The Commission reserves the right to call and consider only the more qualified candidates, as determined by its review and judgment of the applications submitted. Qualified candidates will be advised of the date, time, and place of the oral interview. Travel expenses to participate in the oral interview will be paid to those invited to1 Baltimore. Appliactions and additional information may be obtained by writing to Thomas J. Murphy, personnel director, 10 South Street, Baltimore, Md. 21202.
CORRECT ADDRESSES NEEDED Claude W. Mickle, Berlin, Md. Fred Wilkins, Denver, Colo. Dean Mohr, St. Petersburg, Fla. Earl Allen, Miami, Fla. Alfred A. Weeks, Marquette, Wis. Randall Palmer, III, Langston Uni. John B. McCoy, Marthaville, La. James Hill, Stafford, Va . Jack Belizone, Rabdolph, Maine Raymond Marshall, Peoria, 111. George Hoey, Ann Arbor, Mich. Donald A. Rice, Ann Arbor, Mich. Terry M. Banks, Ann Arbor, Mich. Chas. R. Edwards, Ann Arbor, Mich. Stanley Broadnax, Ann Arbor, Mich. Warren Sipp, Ann Arbor, Mich. Henry O. Braddock, Ann Arbor, Mich. Ronald Johnson, Ann Arbor, Mich. Leo Boneparte, Ann Arbor, Mich. Luther Bekl, St. Louis, Mo. Allen A. Hancock, Gary, Jnd. Charles Robertson, Denver, Colo.
Albany St. Enrollment Up ALBANY, Ga. — Albany State college's fall enrollment figures soared to an all-time high with 1,635 students enrolled this year. According to statistical figures released by the college's Office of Admissions and Records, there are 588 male enrollees and 1,047 female students. This represents more than 100 students above the fall, 1967, enrollment.
African Studies Conference ATLANTA — Atlanta University held a Conference on African and AfricanAmerican Studies in the undergraduate college on Dec. 5-7. The basic purpose of the conference was to provide orientation and fundamental information to persons engaged in planning and developing courses in the area of African and African-American studies at the college level.
Africa, Mother Of Us All The first 250 years of African impact on North America were years of struggle to restore freedom and to retain an African identity. A noted anthropologist-writer tells how Africans expect Negroes to use some of their highly publicized power and influence to mold American policy on Africa. by St. Clair Drake The anthropologists tell us that it was out of A f r i c a East Africa, not Southeast Asia as we once believed—that men first came to people this earth, that the continent of Africa is Mother of us all—black, brown, yellow, red, and white. But, Africa is Mother Africa to 22,000,000 Americans in a very special sense—Mother, whether they recognize her as such or not, whether they have maternal feelings toward her or not—for, by law and custom in this country, anyone known to have any African ancestors is considered a "person of African descent.' Identification with Africa is forced upon those called "Negro" whether they like it or not. In the words of the old spiritual, "There's no hiding place down here" — even for those who are running to the rocks trying to find one. A few Negroes reject the African identification completely and vehemently. A few Negroes adopt the African identification joyously and enthusiastically. Most American Negroes just take it for granted and are ambivalent about it— sometimes feeling ashamed over what they feel are embarrassments from being identified with a people who have been looked down upon and ridiculed for over 400 years; sometimes feeling very proud about people like Lumumba and Kenyatta; and usually being very interested and curious about African music and dancing, and always having a feeling that these are our "kinsfolks," "our people"—even "our brothers." Some Negroes have come to realize that so long as people of African descent anywhere are mocked, villified, subjugated, oppressed, and their culture and physical traits derogated, no Negroes, no people of African descent anywhere, are fully free, that we are all in the same boat. We should all fight together against segregation and discrimination. This is the one enduring basis of Pan-African solidarity. There are unfinished tasks which we have to complete together. In this sense, Mother Africa demands the loyalty of all her children where ever they may be. There is a very long tradition of identification with, and cooperation with, African "kinsmen" on the part of people of African descent in the New World generally and North America in particular. It is that tradition which this fact sheet tries to document. The first 250 years of African impact on North America were years of struggle to restore freedom and retain an African identity. If we study the slave revolts before 1800, we find that they were usually led by Africans and included such things as two attempts to burn down New York City, one to set fire to Boston, the blowing up of slave ships like the Dolphin, and the capture of others on the high seas like the Amistad. So-called "salt water Negroes," fresh from Africa, kept things pretty well stirred up and unsettled. It is obvious that those who had been here longer identified with them. White men may have referred to the workers on plantations and in their homes as "slaves", but they proudly
referred to themselves as "Africans." One small measure of proof of this is a simple list of the names of major organizations and when they were founded. Here are some: First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1788. African Baptist Church of Lexington, Kentucky, 1790. Abyssinia Baptist Church, New York City, 1800. Free African Meeting House, Boston, 1805. First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1807. African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1816. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1821. First African Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, 1841. As Richard Allen, founder of the Free African Society of Philadelphia and the African Methodist Episcopal Church, wrote in 1786: "I soon saw a large field open in seeking and instructing my African brethren." By 1812, some of the leaders among the Free Negroes had become frightened by the activities of the" Colonization Societies," which trying to encourage Negroes to settle in Africa. They feared forcible deportation and a weakening of the anti-slavery struggle if Negroes identified too closely with Africa as their "home." They began to drop the designation "African" and to refer to themselves as "Colored" and to organize "Colored Men's Associations." But among rank and file Negroes, as the late dates of some of the organizations above show, Negroes were still calling themselves "African." They could not call themselves "American" because they were either slaves or unwanted freemen. Il was not until 1865 that peoples of African descent were given citizenship in this country. Prior to that, many claimed citizenship in "Mother Africa" and some emigrated to Sierra Leone and Liberia—"going home," often with the goal, as they phrased it, of "redeeming Africa," and citing what they called the Providential Design that brought them here as slaves and exposed them to ideas which they could take back home." An emigrationist stand has always existed in the movement for equal rights, a Black Zionist thrust, asking: "How can we sing the Lord's songs in a strange land?" Most Negroes, however, stayed and made up new songs, blending old and new — in jazz, blues, spirituals, and the rolling oratory of countless leaders demanding "Freedom." Neither the masses nor their leaders have ever forgotten. They took the natural and normal way during the second half of the 19th century to express their interest by sending missionaries just as white people were doing. So the Negro Baptists found themselves interested in Nyasaland and Liberia, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Aggrey's Church) in the Gold Coast, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in southern Africa. The pennies to support the churches and schools were tossed in every Sunday by black hands all over the USA. Only African historians can assess the value of this impact; suffice it here to say that there are some things of which the Negro churches can well be proud: (Continued on page 34)
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AFRICA MOTHER OF US ALL (Continued from page 33) A Negro Presbyterian missionary, Shephard, was in the vanguard of those exposing the atrocities in the Congo and spent time in a Belgian jail for his courageous act. The Negro Baptists backed John Chilembwe to the hilt, for he was educated among them; and they supported the Baptist Industrial Mission in the Shire hills of Nyasaland until Chilembwe was hanged for the rising of 1915. The South African government, up to the beginning of World War II, was suspicious of the AME Church and at times considered banning it. Wilberforce, Lincoln, Livingstone, Hampton, and Tuskegee offered an opportunity for Africans to secure an education decades before it became public policy to "be nice to Africans." Aggrey, Zik, Nkrumah, spent some time at these schools. So it was that, through the only institution they controlled and which had "leverage," the Negro Church, the Afro-Americans maintained links with "the Motherland." Sometimss the tone of the relationship was patronizing, but it was always sincere, and it never had the imperialistic connotations of other missionary movements. It always took an "Africa for the Africans" stance, quoting eschatological scriptures, "Princes Shall Come out of Egypt and Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands Unto God," and reminding the children in Sunday school and the older members that there was a time when black men's chariots rumbled down the Nile, even to the mouth of the Persian Gulf, and that such a time would come again. One of the most important contributions which Negro Americans made to the joint Afro-American struggle was the launching of "The Negro History Movement." During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African intellectuals were so busy trying to fight off white settlers and present alienation of their lands that with few exceptions (notably Blyden and Casely Hayford in West Africa) they had little time for research. In the U.S. however, people like W. E. B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Leo Hansberry, Lorenzo Turner (and even Booker T. Washington before them) began to write about the African past, bringing before the public in books and articles the long-suppressed facts about Ghana, Mali and Songhay, Benin, Bakuba, Baluba, Monomotapa "Look," they said, "long before the slave trade, Negroes had a past." There were the pioneers who, in an effort to bolster the esteem of Negro Americans, laid the foundations for the scholarly study of African history. It is no accident that Nkrumah invited Dubois to spend his declining years in Ghana or that Zik named the African studies program at Nsukka for Leo Hansberry. What they did is commonplace now. "Digging for roots" is not the first priority today, but other forms of action. When he opened the all African Peoples Conference in 1958, Kvvame Nkrumah singled out two New World Negroes for special mention: W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey. The former called four Pan-African Congresses and the latter tried to implement a dream of triangular trade between Africa, the West Indies, and North America in ships owned by the Black Star Line, the ingathering of a few exiles who would help prepared Africans for the great revolt someday under the banner of the red, black, and green. Garvey's African Orthodox Church helped to prepare the seedbed for Mau Mau in Kenya; was a factor 34
in the growth of Kimbanguism in the Congo, and stimulated all independent church movements between the two World Wars. The story of DuBois's impact needs no retelling. The point is that these movements were organized and financed on American soil, just as the Irish Republican Army was, and Irgun and the Stern Gang were, and various Polish and Russian "redemptionist movements." They were in a great American tradition of active assistance to the revolutionaries in the Mother Country. Their importance was never as great as those of the movements which assisted Ireland and Israel; but the struggle—except for Algeria and Kenya—was never that kind of struggle. If it becomes that in southern Africa, we must remember that forces unleashed by DuBois and Garvey are still dormant and latent within the great ghettoes of the USA. Garvey's slogan was "One God, One Aim, One Destiny," and he demanded "black consciousness" and "debrainwashing" long before Mr. Muhammed, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael raised these issues anew. About 30 years after Garvey went into Atlanta Prison and the UNIA became an impotent little Black Nationalist sect, a fleet of ships began to ply the ocean under the name 'Black Star Line." A picture of Garvey hung in the office of its headquarters in West Africa. This was possible because one colony had broken out of the imperialist vise and became independent—Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. As he phrased it, he was "vindicating" Garvey by establishing a Black Star Line. Later he "vindicated" W. E. B. DuBois by putting him in charge of the Encyclopedia Africana. Zik attempted to "vindicate" Dr. Leo Hansberry by naming the African Studies Program at the University of Nigeria after him. 1957 through 1960 was a period when Negro Americans were treading on familiar ground, dealing with African leaders whom they knew. Now Nkrumah is in exile in Guinea. Azikiwe is in enforced retirement. The generals run Ghana and Nigeria and are not swayed by Pan-African sentiment and know little and care less about American Negroes and their fate. Many Negroes are bewildered. Negroes knew little of French Africa (except for people like Rayford Logan and Mercer Cook), but were pleasantly surprised at the warmth manifested by Sekou Toure and the outgoing friendliness of Senghor. But still, the ways of the French Africans seem a little strange—and this includes the Congolese. The younger men of the Eastern, Central, and Southern African scene fall into two groups: those who now hold power, such as Kaunda, Nyerere, Mboya, Mobutu, et al, and those who are fighting against white settle domination and colonialism, such as Mondlane, Roberto, Sobukwe, Mandela, Nkomo, Sithole, and hundreds of others whose names we have never heard. It is our duty to listen very carefully to what both groups have to say as the battle for southern Africa approaches its climax. The question we should be asking is: "What are the expectations of our brothers during this period?" If we are very honest with ourselves we shall have to admit that we played virtually no role in the liberation and Consolidation of the now independent African states—except to serve as a very proud cheering section. We were too busy looking toward our own integration to play any important part in African liberation, and there was no pressing (Continued on page 35)
Brother Benson Donates Alabama State College Lounge
AFRICA MOTHER OF US ALL (Continued from page 34) need for it. Dick Wright wrote a book about Ghana back in the 1950s and called it Black Power. It was "black power" that brought independence to Africa. Whether "black power" will solve the Negro American's problems is for Negro Americans to decide. But, this we can say: Whatever "black power" we have ought to be placed at the disposal of the Africans who are now marshalling their forces for a final assault on the bastions of racism and exploitation in Africa—Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, Rhodesia, the Republic of South Africa. All Africans and peoples of African descent are united in pursuit of this goal—including the generals. 1. Africans expect American Negroes to respect their right to determine their own strategy and tactics in Southern Africa. It is just as presumptious for American Negroes to insist that only "non-violence" should be used in the African revolution as it would be for Africans to say that only violence should be used in Mississippi. The Irish in New York didn't try to tell the Irish in Ireland how to run the Irish Republication Army nor did the Joint Zionist Appeal in the U. S. try to tell Israelis what Hagannah, Irgun, etc., should do. Their role was to send aid, not to be remote control quarterbacks. 2. Africans expect American Negroes to understand, even if they don't approve, and to protect the image of "The African Revolution."
Brother and Mrs. William H. Benson
A Chicago Alpha, a 1915 graduate of Alabama State College, was present during Homecoming activities last week to see a lounge dedicated in memory of his mother. Benson Lounge, in McGehee Hall, the newest addition to the ASC physical plant, will be gift of Brother William H. Benson in memory of his mother, the late Mrs. Edmonia Thompson Benson, an 1891 graduate of ASC. The furnishings and equipment in the lounge, which will be used as a conference area, were purchased with a $4,500 gift from Brother Benson. Brother Benson told ASC President, Dr. Levi Watkins, that the lounge was a very small token in appreciation for the love that he and his wife, Bessie, a 1914 ASC graduate, have for Alabama State. Brother Benson is also a graduate of Northwestern University School of Dentistry. He serves as treasurer of the ASC National Alumni Association and is vice president of the Alabama State College Foundation, established to provide private support for the college. The Bensons were married after graduation from Alabama State 54 years ago. He is the son of the late Henry Benson and Edmonia Thompson Benson of Montgomery. His two sisters, Mrs. Addie Benson Wills and Mrs. Henrietta Benson Jennings, are both graduates of ASC.
All wars, all revolutions, are nasty, brutal, and revolting —in many of their aspects. Violence in Africa will be just like violence everywhere else has been. It is our duty to point this out, to insist that Africans are no more, no less "savage" than any other freedom Fighters and should not be expected to be. One can explain this even if one doesn't approve of the violence. We cannot repudiate the Algerians, the Kenyans, nor those who will shed blood in the future. 3. Africans expect Negroes to use some of their highly publicized Political Power and influence to mold American Policy on Africa. Up to this point, the ANLCA and all other organizations have "flunked" when the showdown came. For instance, when Stanleyville and aftermath occurred they were impotent. The problem, now, is how to mobilize and pinpoint this power—for economic sanctions, for pressure on Britain and the U. N. to act, etc. Africans don't want resolutions and statements of solidarity anymore. 4. Africans expect our mass organizations to throw picket lines on the street and docks if and when they need them. Can we mobilize our power to use demonstrations coordinated with action in Africa? 5. Africans expect Negroes in America to see that unless apartheid is defeated in Southern Africa, they leave Mississippi and Alabama's allies still alive and kicking. Can this point sink in—beyond the leadership circle? A professor at Chicago's Roosevelt University, Dr. Drake is one of America's foremost authorities on African affairs. This article was first presented at the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa in Washington, D.C., 35
ALL ABOUT BLACKS There has been much talk of Negro history. However, many people have confused Negro history with Negro biography. The following list is offered as suggested books on blacks. Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Before the Mayflower. Johnson Publishing Company: Chicago, 1962. Franklin, John Hope. The Free Negro in North Carolina— 1790-1860. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill. 1943. Franklin, John Hope. From Slavery to Freedom. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1965. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction After the Civil War. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1962. Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York 1963. Logan, Rayford W. The Betrayal of the Negro. Collier Books: New York, 1965. Nordholt, J. W. Schulte. The People That Walk in Darkness .Ballantine Books: New York, 1960. Quarles, Benamin. The Negro in the Making of America. Collier Books, Macmillan Co.: New York, 1964. Redding, J. Saunders. The Lonesome Road. Doubleday and Company, Inc.: Garden City, New York, 1958. Woodson, Carter G. and Charles H. Wesley. The Negro in Our History. The Associated Publishers, Inc.: Washington, D. C , 1962. CHRONOLOGY JEAN BAPTISTE POINTE D U SABLE 1745(?) 1764-5 1767-9 1769
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Exact date uncertain. Born in St. Marc, Haiti. Sails to North America—landing in Louisiana. Fur trading on the Mississippi River with trading post near St. Louis, Mo. Travels to Canada by water route crossing portion of land between Illinois River and Lake Michigan. Portage called by Indians Eschikagou. Buys farm and settles with Indian wife near Lake Peoria. Builds trading hut on Eschikagou. Moves family and Indian village to Eschikagou (Chicago). Birth of daughter, Suzanne. Arrested by British and taken prisoner to Fort Mackinac. October 27th: Married by priest in Cahokia, Illinois, to Indian wife, the mother of his two children. Daughter, Suzanne, married to Jean Baptiste Pelletier, at Chicago. October 7th: Granddaughter, Eulalia Pelletier baptized by Father Lusson at St. Louis, Mo. Sells property to Jean LaLime. Returns to Peoria farm. After death of wife leaves Peoria property to son and Potawatomi kin. Buys property in St. Charles, Mo. Deeds house and lot to granddaughter when she marries Michel De Roi. August 29th: Dies and is buried in St. Charles, Mo.
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St .Charles, Missouri — Brother J. Herbert King, Editor In Chief of the Sphinx, visits the grave site of Jean Baptiste Point DeSaible. Shown in the above photograph are students Shirley Thompson and Ronald Daniels of the Chicago DuSable High School, Brother King and Dr. Fritz Etienne, one of the last surviving relatives of the founder of Chicago.
DeSaible, an educated blackman and humanitarian from HAITI, was the FOUNDER and FIRST PERMANENT SETTLER OF CHICAGO. This unique man who was trained in France and cultured in the ways of the French noblemen, collected silks, paintings, fine crafted French furniture and other objects of art. These collections, which also included mirrors, were the furnishings in his home which not a few historians choose to refer to as the DeSaible cabin. In addition, he was a diplomat, a businessman, a trapper and a farmer, all of which pursuits served him well in developing the finest trading post between St. Louis and Detroit. A century before DeSaible came to these parts, white explorers and missionaries travelled through the portage between Lake Michigan and the Illinois River. It is known that some camped over the winters here but none lingered for long in this low marshy spot known then as Eschikagou, the land of the stinking weeds. It had to have been about 1770 when DeSaible, a son of enterprising Haitian trader, wisely chose the sight for his trading post and home on the north bank of the Chicago River near where the Wrigley Building now stands. He had the foresight to build his village on the spot which was to become one of the world's greatest trading centers. The year 1770 has been chosen as the probable year of his settling in Chicago because Col. Arent Schuyler DePeyster, a British Commandant, recorded in his diary on 7/4/1779: "JEAN BAPTISTE DeSAIBLE IS A HANDSOME NEGRO, WELL EDUCATED AND SETTLED IN ESCHIKAGOU — HE HAS A TRADING POST, WHARVES, BARNS,
A MILL SMOKEHOUSE, CULTIVATED FIELDS AND GRAZING CATTLE. . ." Such an establishment in this wilderness had to have taken years to develop even with the aid of his Potawami Indian friends since they had only crude implements with which to work. Also, most of the land must have had to be cleared and drained before planting. DeSaible married a Potawami Indian maiden and they had two children, Susan, named for his mother, and a son bearing his name. He was a devout Roman Catholic and travelled with his family over 300 miles to Kaskaskia, Illinois to have a priest solemnize their marriage and baptize his children. Only a person of culture at that time would have undertaken such an arduous trek for mere religious ceremonies in a land where commonlaw marriage was the practice while civil and religious rites were the rare exceptions. Usually years went by before a member of the clergy would come by a farm house or into a small village such as Eschikagou. DeSaible knew the worth of the invaluable church records in a civilized society. He knew the value of LAW A N D ORDER in a settlement. The first court held in Chicago was heard in his home. The sale of his holdings to his friend Jean LaLime is recorded as the first sale of property in the County of Cook. This deed became the 16-millionth document field in the Cook County Recorder's Office. This historic sale took place in Detroit, Mich., the seat of the territory which included Chicago, in 1800. Kinzie, whom the Chicago Historical Society chooses to honor as the father of Chicago, murdered LaLime and took over this valuable property and business which DeSaible had built. No record of violence mars the path of DeSaible's illustrious life from New Orleans to Canada. Even though he was the father of the magnificent Chicago, perhaps, his greatest legacy left to this turbulent middlewest were his acts as the HUMANITARIAN. He retired a wealthy man and moved to St. Charles, Missouri, where black slaves were bought and sold. He appeared regularly at the slave auction block, bought slaves, set them free and went immediately to the county court to legalize their freedom. Mrs. Edna M. Olson, the grand lady from St. Charles, Mo., who documented this precious part of DeSaible's life, tells how he patiently purchased each family member, beginning with the black mother. Thanks to this great humanitarian many black families knew freedom at least 50 years before the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION was signed. If Mrs. Olson whose forebears were slave owners has sufficient emotional security and historical honesty to relate the facts of his greatness in spite of his blackness, surely Chicago which has no record of slave trading could rise above its childish, petty history of obscuring an dsmearing the image of Chicago's real father and greatest of all its early pioneers, JEAN BAPTIST POINT DeSAIBLE. Lillian Neal O'Neil Chairman of Research Chicago Jean Baptiste Point DeSaible League 37
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Bros. C. P. Johnson The purpose of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) is to enroll in the University of California at Berkeley able people from minority group and low-income backgrounds, finance their education when need exists, and make available academic support to help insure their success as University students. ELIGIBILITY Students from American Indian, Mexican-American, Negro, and low-income backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The EOP seeks these students in the community and in schools, and advocates their admission. Students with a "B" or better average in a high school college preparatory program who are eligible for admission to the University are encouraged to apply as well as those students with promise who may not have met admission requirements but can offer evidence supporting their ability to achieve at the University. This is possible under the State law which allows 2% of the freshman class to enter with admission deficiencies. (Evidence supporting such applications would be letters from teachers and couselors and a statement from the applicant regarding his academic goals.) In some cases where entering the University at this time would not seem appropriate, the Faculty Committee on Admissions may recommend to the student a program of study in a junior college or elsewhere, hoping that he may qualify for acceptance as soon as possible. The program operates on the freshman, transfer, and graduate levels. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE Once admitted to the University under the Educational Opportunity Program, students are given financial assistance based on need. Money should no longer play a deciding role as to who comes to the University. Funds will be made available to cover room and board, registration fee, books, and personal expenses when a student or his family is unable to meet these costs. Money is granted strictly on the basis of need and is not dependent on academic achievemen. (The exception to this is University scholarships; students with a "B" average or above should investigate this possibility.) 38
long as the student is enrolled, and it is made up of special grants, government grants, National Defense Education Act loans, and summer or part-time jobs. Individual financial advising is provided each student. ACADEMIC ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE ON CAMPUS Once on campus, students in the EOP are not designated in any way, and compete academically on an equal basis with their classmates. To help insure academic success, extensive tutoring and advising are available. Tutoring is on both a oneto-one and group basis in many subjects offered at the University. Association on campus with the EOP and the decision to avail oneself of the tutorial services are voluntary. Students are encouraged rather than required to live on campus, and housing arrangements are worked out with the assistance of the EOP. Achievement by students under the EOP has been strong — in many cases where the student had felt he might not be able to succeed and had not planned to go to a four-year University. APPLYING We suggest that you talk with your counselor about your plans — he may be able to help you with your application. To be considered for admission under the EOP, the following steps should be completed: 1. Request application forms, mentioning that you are applying under the Educational Opportunity Program, by letter, phone, or in person, from: Admissions Office 127 Sproul Hall University of California Berkeley, California 94720 Telephone: 845-6000, Ext. 3871 2. When filling out the application form, indicate on it that you are applying under the Educational Opportunity Program. Completed applications must be returned to the Admissions Office as soon as possible. All regular University application requirements must be met. This would include the requesting of transcripts from your high school and from any college where you have been enrolled.
3. Inform the Educational Opportunity Program Office that you have submitted your application to the University by sending a letter or phoning, stating your name, address, phone number, high school, and the quarter for which you are applying, to: Mr. Bill Somerville Chancellor's Office 288 Dwindle Hall University of California Berkeley, California, 94720 Telephone: 845-6000, Ext. 1523 4. If your grades in academic courses are below a "B" average, or if you have not taken a complete college preparatory program, you should submit additional information about yourself. This would be a letter, to be enclosed with your admission application, stating your academic goals, your reasons for desiring to attend the University, and any other information you feel would support your admission. Also, you should request two to five of your teachers in academic subjects or counselors to send directly to the Admissions Office letters supporting your academic potential and abilities. The names of those from whom you have requested letters should be listed at the conclusion of your statement about yourself. Forms are not provided for these letters and the sender should mail them directly to the Admissions Office. (Teachers and counselors have been very willing to support applications in this way.) 5. Assistance is available to all students with financial need admitted under the Educational Opportunity Program. Details are worked out after admission is granted. 6. If you have a "B" or better average, you qualify for scholarship consideration and should request application forms as soon as possible from: Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards 2332 Channing Way Berkeley, California FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MR. SOMERVILLE
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We regretfully announce the transfer to OMEGA CHAPTER of the following Brothers: James M. Allison William A. Edwards H. Leslie Giles Roger F. Gordon Abner B. Owens James M. Pierce Jerry J. Luck G. Hubert Lockhart
Brother R. J. Young, M.D.
800 ATTEND FINAL RITES IN BALTIMORE FOR BROTHER RALPH J. YOUNG, M.D. Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro and former Mayor Theodore McKeldin were among the 800 persons from all walks of life who attended the funeral services for Dr. Ralph Jonathan Young, 3232 Carlisle Ave. Dr. Young died on Friday, November 15, at his home. He was 75. Funeral services were at Knox Presbyterian Church with burial in Arbutus Memorial Cemetery. In the eulogy, the Rev. H. Octavius Graham, pastor, praised the beloved East Baltimore physician as a dependable, reliable family doctor whose success did not take him from the "just plain people." "He was a good man," the minister said. "No one has any divided opinion. All echo in one loud voice, "he was a good man." L. Clements Nixon, first director of the Chick Webb Center, told of the physician's tireless efforts to establish and maintain the Chick Webb Center for the children of East Baltimore. "In his infinite wisdom he recognized long ago the dangers of deprivation, frustration and delinquency. "Believing in the dignity of every human being, he convinced others that the center for wholesome recreation was well deserved.
Milus Graham Dies Milus J. Graham II, an attorney, combat veteran of World War II and a former officer of several fraternal organizations, died December 4 at Suburban Community Hospital. He was 50. Bro. Graham, who lived with his wife Esther at 783 E. 88th St., had law offices at 1928 E. 105th St. The native Clevelander was a life member of St. John AME Church, where funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday. Friends may call at the Boyd Funeral Home, 2165 E. 89th St. Mr. Graham was a second lieutenant in World War II and attained the rank of major in the Army Reserves. He had served as an officer of the Amvets, Legion and the Elks. His membership included the AACP, John Harlan Law Club, Kiwanis, and the YMCA. He was a graduate of Morehouse College, Atlanta, and completed his education at Cleveland Marshall Law School. Surviving besides his wife are a son, George, and two brothers, Richard and Harold. "He provided more than money for the center. He gave the light of his soul, the goodness of his spirit and the bigness of his heart. "He inspired the Webb Recreation Center family. "He was rewarded by the many Webb children who carry on the noble project he founded. The Center is a perpetual memorial to the noble physician." Standing guard as the mahogany casket was borne from the church were members of organizations to which Dr. Young belonged: Monumental Medical Society, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Chi Delta Mu Fraternity and the young men and staff of Chick Webb Center.
Brother A. (Chink) A. Dalton, M.D.
Brother Arkley Arthur Dalton, 68, of 330 W. Elm, died Tuesday, Nov. 26. Born June 29, 1900, in Belpre, he was the son of Jasper and Margaret L. Stevens Dalton. He married Lotteria May Dalton and she survives. He lived in Lima, Ohio. He was graduated from Belpre High School and received a bachelor of science degree from Ohio University. After teaching science and mathematics at State Normal School, Elizabeth City, N.C., for two years, he studied at the University of Cincinnati for a year. He received the degree of doctor of medicine from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn., in 1933. He practiced medicine in Tennessee and Cincinnati before coming to Lima in 936. Dr. Dalton was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, National Medical Association, American Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Assoication, Lima and Allen County Academy of Medicine, American Academy of General Practice, Meharry University Alumni Association, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He also was a member of Samuel W. Clark Lodge 67, Free and Accepted Masons, and as a 32nd degree Mason was affiliated with the Miami Consistery 47, Dayton. He served on the steering committee for the Salvation Army's South Lima Youth and Community Center and was active in Bradfield Center and Allen County Tuberculosis Association projects. In addition to his wife, survivors include two brothers, William Leonard and Oran Luther Dalton, both of Belpre, and several nieces and nephews. 39
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THE GHEDIPLAN- * This, then, is the philosophic background for the Ghetto Economic Development and Industrialization Plan, or GHEDIPLON—a plan, in whose development I have been engaged for the last two years, to provide for New York City an economic undergirding for the ghettos as an extension of the war on poverty. This union was brought about by the efforts of Cyril D. Tyson, Commissioner of Manpower of the Career Development Agency in the city's Human Resources Administration, which is charged with administering its huge antpoverty program. The GHEDIPLAN was purposefully designed to be applicable to other areas, other governmental agencies and to private groups, such as the Urban Coalition, church groups, labor unions, etc. The plan seeks to establish the machinery with which to restructure the ghetto economy as we would restructure an underdeveloped nation. It would diversify the ghetto, create new businesses and industries, and interlock the whole into a mosaic with itself and with the presently "foreign" outer white community. It is not a plan to attack one sector timidly. It seeks to look at the overall ghetto picture and to utilize available municipal resources to create a whole new economy in the ghetto—an economy strong enough to participate in, compete with and become an integral part of the national economy, contributing its own part to the gross national product instead of being a "colonial" underdeveloped appendage. The GHEDIPLAN provides a complete set of community-based institutional arrangements energized by the use of governmental resources. A key point is that it relies not on large governmental grants but on a creative redirection of governmental purchasing power and bank deposits. Here are the essential objectives and methods, as designed for New York City: 40
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The city would establish "guaranteed markets" for ghetto businesses and contractors by setting aside for the ghettos roughly 10 per cent of its $500 million in annual expenditures for purchases and small contracts. This would pump an additional $50 million in purchases of goods and services into the ghettos, and would trigger an additional $50 million from the private sector and federal and state governments, for a total guaranteed market of $100 million. As presently structured, however, minority small-business communities cannot supply this demand because they do not have the right type or the right size businesses. To create new businesses or expand existing ones requires ample capital and technical know-how and management training. These requirements would be supplied by the creative use of existing city resources. "Guaranteed financing" would be achieved by using the city's aggregate $20 million to $100 million day-to-day demand deposits to encourage banks to lend money to, or invest in, ghetto businesses and industries. Each deposit would be linked to a specific commitment by the bank to lend or invest an agreed-upon amount. An Office of Minority Economic Development (OMED), set up within New York's Human Resources Administration, would be the city agency that organizes and catalyzes the entire GHEDIPLAN. It would represent the city in administering, implementing and operating the plan and would generate guaranteed financing and guaranteed markets with city resources. In each ghetto area there would be a Small Business Development Center, under OMED's supervision, to recruit, organize and spawn two ghetto "conduit corporations" — Local Development Corporations and Small Business Investment Companies. These conduit corporations will be the instruments through which the communities will use the guaranteed markets and guaranteed financing to create new and expanded businesses and restructure the ghetto economies.
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The private, community - controlled Local Development Corporation in each community will convert the funds lent by the banks in which the city keeps its demand deposits into "brick-andmortar" capital, gaining leverage of up to 9 to 1 by securing matching federal funds from the Small Business Administration. Eventually, the development corporation would be the economic planning center of the community, providing management and technical training and establishing businesses. The Small Business Investment Companies will convert funds resulting from city bank deposits into equity or venture capital. By securing matching federal funds through the SBA, it will gain leverage of up to 3 to 1. The ultimate goal in the GHEDIPLAN is to turn all machinery over to private local enterprise and dissolve the Office of Minority Economic Development. Ownership of the New enterprises will be local, both through widespread stock participation and through private entrepreneurship. By generating up to $200 million for ghetto economic development — $100 million in new "guaranteed markets" and $100 million in new "guaranteed financing" — the GHEDIPLAN sets the groundwork for removing the basic cause of poverty, namely the lack of a productive ghetto economy. It would provide the machinery by which the ghettos themselves may increase their own productivity by overhauling, diversifying and restructuring their entire economies. And it would aid the ghettos in retaining this new productivity — profits as well as wages — through local ownership and control, much as the economies of dependent and underdeveloped nations are aided.
One of the few black economic consultants practicing in the United States, Dr. McLaurin has recently started a firm devoted exclusively to ghetto problems — Ghettonomics, Inc. Copies of the GHEDIPLAN, discussed in his article, may be obtained from Ghettonomics, Inc., 317 West 125th Street, New York, N.Y. 10027.
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