The Lawton Oklahoma Eagle (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 30, 1987 Page: 1 of 4
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BLACK LEADERS FROM around the country recently gathered at the
Howard University School of Law campus for the annual meeting of the Na-
tional Black Leadership Roundtable. Pictured are Delegate Walter Faun-
troy, D.-D.C.; Julian Bond, former Georgia state senator; Francesta
Farmer, president of Operations Crossroads Africa, Inc.; Eleanor Holmes
Proposed cutbacks of financial
assistance will compel Langston
students to lake out more loans that
will force them into considerable
debt
Nancy Luce, director of financial
aid, said the cost to students will in-
crese. Since the Guaranteed Student
Loan Program will now be based on
need, students will possibly owe
three or four lenders when they
graduate.
Mrs. Luce said, There has
always been a threat that financial
triumph. My concept of happiness is
to be fulfilled in a spirtual sense.”
Sherry Bronfman-The wife of the
House of Seagram president, she is a
member of the National Urban
League Board of Directors and tells,
MBM, “Every person has power
Some people just don’t realize it.
Each individual has to come to grips
with his or her personal power and
become "the most powerful black
woman on the production side of the
entertainment industry." Commen-
ting on the issue of power, she tells
MBM, "If power means getting
things done, if power is moving peo-
ple, inspiring them, making them
want to do it: if power is getting up
in the morning and feeling good
about yourself, than 1 have power I
really believe that life is a practice
sport, and the more you deal with it
the better you get at it. The impor-
tant thing is to remain issue orineted
and not get sidetracked. In the end,
all that really matters is what gets
done."
Among the other dynamic women
interviewed in this very special
issue of MBM are: Susan L. Taylor-
TV host, corporate vice-president,
and editor-in -chief of "Essence"
Magazine, she may be the single
most powerful and positive force in
influencing the lives of black women
today. Corretta Scott King-Over the
years she has become a national
treasure, adored and respected by
people around the world. “I’m
fulfilled in what I do. I’ve had
tragedy, but I’ve had a lot of joy and
utilize it in a positive way. If you
don’t, you run the risk of misusing
that gift.” Bettiann Gardner-Co-
founder and vice-chairman of
Chicago based Soft Sheen Products,
Inc., she attributes her success as a
businesswoman and mother to her
ability to keep things in perspective.
On whether women have as much
See WOMEN Page 2
“Black women today, like no other
time in our history, are relentlessly
on the advance - into the seats of
corporate and political power," says
MBM’s editor and publisher George
C. Pryce. “We have devoted the en-
tire May issue of MBM to honor the
achievements and celebrate the pro-
gress of black women everywhere,"
Pryce continues, "by speaking with
some of today’s most dynamic and
progressive women, whose contribu-
tions are taking us forward and
making a difference to people from
all walks of life.”
Suzanne de Passe, president of
Motown Productions, graces the
cov-t of the May issue (available at
newsstands and retail stores on
April 3). Ms. de Passe shares the
secrets of her success and the
highlights of her rich history with
Motown - tne second largest black
owned company in America - in an
exclusive, in-depth interview with
MBM contributor Audrey Edwards.
Happily married to actor Paul
LeMat for nine years, Ms. de Passe
is one of those rare individuals who
has successfully balanced her per-
sonal and professional lives and has
Students to assume
more college costs
aid would be decreased That threat
is slightly more serious now.
Students' parents will have to con-
tribute more to their children's
education and middle income
families will face greater difficulty
trying to get financial aid for their
children "
A study by Kent Galstead of
Research Associates of Washington.
D.C showed that students and their
family contribute less than one-third
of the cost of education at public in-
See LANGSTON Page 3
Norton, professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Carl Holman,
president of the National Urban Coalition; William Lucy, secretary-
treasurer of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees i; and Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro
Women.
The Power of Black Womanhood honored
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It is a measure of the success
eventually bom of those difficult
times that Stewart, now 74, finds his
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with future Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall in the battle to
desegregate the University of
Oklahoma; he would help to pave
the way for the first black
firefighters in Oklahoma City; and
he would provide cool-headed
leadership at a time when a series of
the nation’s earliest civil-rights sit-
ins focused national attention on
Oklahoma City.
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Jimmy Stewart
services are in demand by a host of
civic organizations and government
agencies, in addition to his work on
behalf of ONG. The former Marine
and self-described "agitator” calls
the changes he has seen over the
years gratifying, while acknowledg-
ing that there is progress yet to be
made.
“I guess the Bible says it best
when it says, ‘Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you,’”
Stewart concludes. “That’s about all
I’ve asked for and all I have
demanded throughout the years.”
another singular honor last fall-
induction into the Oklahoma Hall of
Fame. “I’ve always had a
philosophy that a person ought to
earn their keep,” Stewart reflected,
“and you earn that keep by giving
back to the community or to the
state or to the nation...some of the
ability that you have. You do that
through civic work, you do that
through contributions. And lots of
times your work is more valuable
than money.”
Stewart’s own work with ONG
began in 1937, the year he was per-
suaded by the late Thomas H. Sterl-
ing, Oklahoma City Manager, to
leave his job as captain of Banquet
Service at the old Biltmore Hotel
and sign on with Oklahoma Natural
as a Janitor in the downtown
Oklahoma City office. Eventually,
he would serve as Manager of the
Company's Eastside office in
Oklahoma City, Assistant to the Vice
President, and since his retirement
in 1977, as a consultant to the
Company.
At the same time, Stewart assum-
ed leadership in the NAACP at both
the local and national levels and
found himself at the forefront of the
civil rights movement. Among the
first blacks to be admitted to the
Marine Corps during World War II,
Stewart would play a role in getting
Postal Service jobs opened to return-
ing black veterans; he would work
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Jimmy Stewart
A life’s work rewarded
Jimmy Stewart will have to find
space on his office wall for yet
another award.
It won’t be easy.
The walls in his fourth-floor office
in Oklahoma Natural’s downtown
Oklahoma City building are already
crowded with plaques, certificates,
photographs-all a testament to the
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company
consultant’s remarkable career.
The latest recognition to come his
way is from the American Associa-
tion of Blacks in Energy (AABE), an
organization Stewart helped to
create back in the 1970s. AABE has
instituted an annual James E.
Stewart award for meritorious ser-
vice in the energy field-and has
named Stewart the first recipient of
the honor.
“I appreciate the fact that the
fellows are still thinking about me,”
Stewart said, recalling the group’s
work in expanding opportunities for
blacks in the energy industry. That
work took on even more importance
with the emergence of OPEC:
“When they went to OPEC, they
found that better than 50 percent of
the people they were dealing with
were black people. So, it caused a re-
thinking among the industry here in
the United States as to the utilization
of black people.”
Stewart’s years of service to his
Company, his community, and the
cause of civil rights brought him
VOLUME • NUMBER 11
THE LAWTON OKLAHOMA EAGLE
USPS 892-401
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1987
ONE SECTION
FOUR PAGES
National
News Briefs
Vote seen as test for Mayor Bradley
LOS ANGELES- Thirteen candidates, including the widow of
Medgar Evers, the slain civil rights leader, will compete for a City
Council seat in an election that some political analysts say may have a
bearing on Mayor Tom Bradley’s political future.
Myrlie Evers, the widow of the Mississippi civil rights leader who
was assassinated in 1963, is regarded as an underdog in the nonpar-
tisan election.
Black labor employee named area director
DALLAS, TX- Charles R. Beckwith, who is black, has been ap-
pointed the New Orlean Area Director for the Wage-Hour Division of
the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administra-
tion (ESA). •
As area director, he is responsible for the enforcement of a number
of federal laws in 45 of Louisiana's 64 parishes. Among the laws ad-
ministered by the Wage-Hour Division is the Fair Labor Standards
Act, which sets the federal minimum wage at $3.35 an hour and
generally requires overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in any
workweek. It also protects against child labor abuse and requires
employers to keep adequate time and payroll records.
Court upholds racial quotas
WASHINGTON, DC- In another victory for supporters of affir-
mative action, the Supreme Court upheld a plan requiring that blacks
get half of all the promotions among Alabama's state troopers, at least
for the time being. In a 5-to4 decision, the court concluded that such a
strict measure was needed to remedy “pervasive, systematic and
obstinate" racial discrimination in that state’s Department of Public
Safety.
Indigent refugees denied benefits
OAKLAND, CA- A class action lawsuit against the California
Department of Social Services claims that the agency is improperly
denying indigent refugees crucial cash benefits. The suit, filed in
Alameda County Superior Court, alleges that the state is denying
refugees a protection that it offers non-t efugee welfare recipeints. One
of the attorneys who filed the suit, said the protection is known as
“conciliation.” It entiltles welfare recipients accused of not par-
ticipating in a required job skills program a 36-day grace period.
Forsyth tackles race agenda
MIAMI, FI>- A biracial committee studying Forsyth County’s racial
problems announced the issues it would discuss and the panel’s chair-
man said it could take up to a year to conclude work on the items. The
panel’s first chore, he said, will be the “repatriation of land allegedly
unlawfully taken” in 1912 when blacks were forced from the county
following the death of an Anglo teen-ager who claimed she had been
raped by three black youths, one of whom was lynched and the two
others hanged after a trial. The committee was formed in the wake of
two civil-rights marches in the virtually all-Anglo county north of
Atlanta. The second march drew 25,000 demonstrators.
Black unemployment edges down to 13.9
WASHINGTON, DC- The unemployment rate for black workers
edged down in March from 14.3 to 13.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. The jobless rates
for black adult men and youth were down slightly over the month. The
rate for black adult men, which was 12.0 percent in February, was 11.5
percent in March. Similarly, the rate for black youth edged down from
38.9 to 37.6 percent.
Unemployment for black adult women continued to move upward
over the month. Their jobless rate was 13.0 percent in March; it was
12.9 and 12.8 percent in February and March, respectively.
The overall unemployment rate was 6.5 percent and the civilian rate
was 6.6 percent; these rates had been 6.6 and 6.7 percent, respectively,
for 3 consecutive months.
Renewed call for Revlon boycott
WASHINGTON- A boycott called by black people against Revlon
Inc. products revived up a little over the weekend in front of a Rainer
Valley store, in Washington State. Pickets in front of a Pay *N Save
store, holding signs reading “Racist Revlon” and “Control Your
Head,” told passerbyers that Revlon executives are promoting the
demise of small black-owned companies that manufacture hair and
cosmetic products for blacks. The protest was staged by the Seattle
Anti-Revlon Action Committee, and similar protests were held in 50
other cities across the United States. .
The uprising against Revlon began last October, after Irving Bott-
ner, the president of Revlon’s professional products division, was
quoted in a national publication as saying “White companies" would
end up owning black-owned hair-care businesses in a couple of years.
Student aid policies hurt blacks
WASHINGTON, DC- Federal student aid policies are hurting low-
income black students disproportionately and may be responsible for
a recent drop in black student enrollment, two higher education
groups charged in a study released. The report said that students at
private, historically black colleges ahve become increasingly depen-
dent on federal loans, often assuming debts larger than their families’
annual income. If trends continue, the report said, "we will be a
significantly less educated society in the year 2000.
Minister, other protestors held
MIAMI, FL- Six blacks picketing as part of a selective-buying cam-
paign were held briefly at the Jefferson Davis County Jail, Miss., but
released after an agreement that would keep such activity off private
property, city officials said. The Rev. Willie Hathrone Jr., director of
the Jefferson Davis County Improvement Association, said he and
other members of his group were hauled to the county jail after being
presented with a document by a store owner that accused them of
trespassing on his property.
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