The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984 Page: 2 of 16
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National news briefs^
Philadelphia's new mayor sworn in
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Coleman marks 10th anniversary
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MBDC offers many services for everyday use
Death sentence bias reported
S. R. Pierce to receive
Miami policeman’s trial delayed
Sharecropper honored
NAACP to commemorate historic founding
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PERRY, FLA.: Ex-sharecropper Mary Jane Colson, 112 years
old, was honored Wednesday in Perry Florida, as her town
marked the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation,
signed January 1, 1883.
Colson was bom nine years after President Lincoln signed
the proclamation that declared slaves free.
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DETROIT: Mayor Coleman Young, 65, marked a decade in
office Monday.
At an age when most people think of retirement, Young says
he hopes to remain Motor City big wheel IP. mare years. The
city’s first black chief executive and longest-serving mayor in
Detroit history, Young says he likes the excitement. “There is
never a dull moment” says the former autoworker, labor
organizer and cab driver.
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Department of Commerce, to
provide technical and management
assistance to minority en-
trepreneurs throughout the Tulsa
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every dav.
If you have a company you
want to sell - contact the office
SCOTT AND JEFFRIES HONORED BY WEST COAST
PUBLISHERS - Stanley S. Scott, right, vice president, public
affairs, Philip Morris U.S.A., who received the West Coast
Black Publishers Association's “President's Award" was the
principal speaker at the monthly meeting of the Association
held at the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. The WCBPA's
“President’s Award" is presented to that individual or cor-
poration which, in the eyes of the Association, best exemplifies
support to the regional Association.
At the meeting, William H. Lee, left, publisher, THE OB-
SERVER NEWSPAPERS and president oi the West (oast
Black Publishers Association also presented lx-Roy W. Jeffries,
marketing consultant-public relations and publisher of FACTS
ABOUT BLACKS, with the “Superior Performance Award.” The
award was presented for “continuing support of the black press
through consistent expertise in creative writing and black
consumerism.
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extremely difficult to raise the
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Awards breakfast in Atlanta this
coming January 13.
She said the award honors those
who have made outstanding con-
tributions to "enhancement of
social justice and social respon-
sibility in the tradition and spirit of
Martin Luther King, Jr.,” and to
improving the work relationship
among government, labor and
management.
In a telegram to the Secretary,
Mrs. King worte, “I congratulate
you on this achievement and
recognition, for I understand the
challenges which you have faced as
HUD Secretary in providing for the
development of our community and
the housing needs of our people."
Secretary Pierce said he was
"delighted to have been chosen for
this award named after the late
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.
King worked tirelessly for equal
justice for all citizens, and his
efforts remain an inspiration to
millions of Americans."
The Secretary will speak at the
Social Responsibility Seminar which
will follow the awards breakfast, to
be held in the Grand Ballroom of
the Atlanta Hilton hotel.
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PHILADELPHIA: W. Wilson Goode was sworn in Tuesday as
the city’s 128th mayor and first black holder of the office. ..
Goode’s, Wilson Goode, Jr., held the bible as his father took I
the oath of office. With wife, Velma, and daughter, Natsha,
looking on, Goode said he was beginning “a journey once
thought impossible, a dream which could never come true. But
in America, dreams can come true. He was elected in a city
where white voters outnumber blacks by more than 3 to 2.
He promised only one new program in his messsge, the
formation of a Philadelphia Volunteer Corps “composed of
people from all walks of life.” In promising a focus on
voluntarism, Mr. Goode said, “Together, with this volunteer
force, we win clean up our city, fight crime, attract new talent
to government, expand recreation programs, combat our
literacy problem and wipe out graffiti.” _______
While giving no specifics, Good pledges to lead “a government
which is efficient, open, and fair”; to "May close to the
people”; to “help develop stronger neighborhoods” and to be
“a tireless advocate for Philadelphia.”
STANDFORD, CA.: According to Standford University
research, murders of white people are more likely to be
punished by death than killers whose victims are black,
showing a “clear pattern of discrimination” in homocide cases.
The reasearch, presented at a Stanford Law School faculty
seminar and announced this week, shows that a victim’s race
is more important than the murder’s race in influencing who is
sentenced to death.
“The data show a clear pattern of discrimination agaist
suspects of either race whose victims are white,” according to
Samuel Gross, a resarcher at the university.
FBI data on more than 17,000 homicide cases in eight state
were analyzed. The cases involved suspects who were over 14
when the crimes were committed.
Gross said the findings suggest that the death penalty, as
now imposed in the United States, does not meet the U.S.
Supreme Court's 1972 requirement that the punishment not be
imposed arbitrarily.
Street. This event will be spon-
sored by the Metropolitan Council
of NAACP branches in recognition
of several persons. Mrs. Hazel N.
Dukes, NAACP State Conference
president, explained that these
honorees are outstanding persons
who “have toiled to improve the
quality of life for all Americans."
It was on February 12, 1909,
that a group of black and white
American issued “The Lincoln
Day Call," convening a con-
ference of public-spirited citizens
out of which came the founding
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People. The catalyst for “The
Call" were the race riots that
broke out in Springfield, Ill., on
August 14, 1908.
It took 4,200 militaimen nearly
two days to end the riot. By
then, two persons had been
lynched, six had been killed and
more than 50 wounded. More than
2,000 blacks fled the city while
hundreds took refuge in malitia
camps. Springfield, after all, was
the city where Abraham Lincoln
had lived and was buried.
The conflict that such a spectre
posed for human justice and
respect for the lives of citizens
was too much for Oswald
Garrison Villard, grandson of
William Lloyd Garrison, the
NEW YORK - On Monday,
January 9, the NAACP will
return to Cooper Union, the site
of its first organizational meeting
in 1909, to celebrate 75 years of
leadership in the long-struggle for
freedom in America.
The occasion for the return to
Cooper Square, 7 East 7th Street
in lower Manhattan, will be the
Association's annual meeting,
when national board members,
branch leaders and staff from
around the country will gather to
hear a report on the state of the
NAACP by Executive Director
Benjamin L. Hooks. The annual
meeting will be held from 9 to 11
a.m.
Other activities taking place
during the weekend of January 6
through 8 will be a series of
business and commitee meetings
at the Vista International Hotel, 3
World Trade Center in Manhat-
tan.
Mr. Hooks will hold a news
conference on Monday, January 9
at the hotel. Ixication and time
will be announced before that
day.
Following the annual meeting at
Cooper Union on Monday, the
National Board of Directors will
hold its regular meeting at the
Vista International Hotel,
beginning at 11 a.m. That
Monday, the board will also elect
officers of the Association for
1984
The high point of the earlier
weekend activities in New York
City will be a special awards
dinner honoring Roy Wilkins, the
Association's late executive
director, on Sunday. January 8 at
6 pm. at the Sheraton Center
Hotel, Seventh Avenue at 53rd
The following
organizers formally
their new organization
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
They incorporated the NAACP tn
New York in June 1911.
much
Villard,
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abolitionist. Villard expressed his
outrage m the "New York
Evening Post," of which he was
president.
The Tulsa Area United Way
campaign has exceeded their goal,
by approximately $5500, with
pledges and contributions totaling
$7,055,499, according to Robert J.
l^Fortune, campaign chairman.
“Obviously, 1 am delighted to
report our success with this
campaign," laFortune said. "The
money is desperately needed to
provide vital human care services
in the Tulsa Area and thanks to
the generous support of our com-
munity, the services will be
available when they are needed.
This community has always been
responsive to the needs of our
residents and willing to help others
who are in need of assistance. We
are truly a community that cares.”
“Nine of our divisions have ex-
ceeded their targets including Oil;
Building and Construction;
Housing and Urban Development
Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
expressed delight at his selection to
receive the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Special Award from the
organization headed by the late
civil rights leader’s widow, Coretta
Scott King.
Mrs. King has notified Secretary
Pierce that he had been chosen to
receive the award from the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-
violence Social Change, Inc. at the
group’s annual Labor-Management-
Govemment Social Responsibility
Arthritis appears to
be a woman hater
Arthritis causes pain to more
women than any other disease,
reports the Arthritis Foundation. Of
the 36 million Americans with
arthritis, about 65 percent, or 24
million are women.
For more information about ar-
thritis in women, contact the
Eastern Oklahoma Chapter of the
Arthritis Foundation. Write 2816 E.
51st St., No. 120, Tulsa, OK 74105,
or call 1+743-4526.
and they do not all relate to the
construction industry. The Surface
Transportation Act-U.S. Depart-
ment of Transportation requires
that all states use 10 of their
federal assistance funds for
minority business. All contracting
opportunities are not confined to
actual construction services. They
extend into many construction
related areas including suppliers,
accountant, lawyer and other
professional services.
The center also maintains a full
listing of procurement op-
portunities in the transit industry
which include, but are not limited
to, the purchase of janitorial
supplies; general legal services;
Martin L. King A ward United Way exceeds goal
O The Tulsa Area United Way Insurance; Education; Combin
Meanwhile, William English
Walling, another white liberal,
expressed his outrage over (he
prevailing lawlessness in an
article, “The Race War in the
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The Call, signed by 60
prominent blacks and whites,
tocused on the problems of
disfranchsiement, the Jim Crow
system and brutality against
b'-'i-ks. The North was held
equally responsible with the South
for what was perceived to be an .
“assault upon democracy." To
help remedy the racial division .
within the nation, the signers
issued their call for a “national
conference for the discussion of
present evils, the voicing of ?
protests, and the renewal of the
struggle for civil and political
liberty."
This National Negro Conference,
as this initial meeting was called,
was held at the Charity
Organization Hall in New York on
Monday and Tuesday, May 31
and June 1, 1909. The evening _
mass meetings were held at
Cooper Union. Du Bois, who was
to serve as the sage of the black
liberation movement for more
than a generation, observed then
that the “Negro problem” was
separated from other
humanitarian movements. But the 7
New York conference represented
an "awakening" about this
mistaken thinking.
This conference created a
Committee of Forth on Per-
manent Organization, ordered the
incorporation of a national
committee for the Advancement ;;
of the Negro Race, and passed
resolutions demanding equal civil
and education rights for blacks. ..
It also demanded the right to .
work for blacks and protected
against violence, murder and
intimidation.
and make an appointment. The
Tulsa MBDC - for free - will list
your company and notify you of
any interested persons. We can
then assist the buyer in putting
together a package, if it is
feasible, to purchase your
business.
If you are interested in buying
an existing business, contact the
office and let us help you
determined the feasibility of the
purchase and prepare a loan
package for you.
The Tulsa MBDC receives
procurement opportunities daily
CIVIL RIGHTS DEBATE -
Beajtata L Hooks, right,
Executive Director of the
NAACP, dasbea with Clareace
PwMHro, eeater, Designate
Chajnaaa at the U.S. Civil
Rlghta Commissloa, over the
civil righto policies of
Pwstotat Reagaa, during n
televised “Face Off” on the
WNBC-TV program,
“Positively Black,” ia New
York City. The program’s
host, Gas Henlngbwg, is at
left. Hooks was highly critical
W the Admtaistratioa’s civil
rights record while Pendleton
generally defended the
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MIAMI: The manslaughter trial of former policeman Luis
Alvarez, charged with a shooting that sparked race riots*in •j’* ‘t*'
Miami, was delayed a week at his lawyer's request. 4 T’
Alvarez, 36, was scheduled to begin his trial Wednesday,
more than one year after he shot a black county worker.
Independent," a sympathetic
periodical. Walling, a wealthy
white southerner, blamed the
local press for inflaming the
public against blacks before the
Springfield outbreak. He showed
how one newspaper had linked
crime with race, while it also
suggested that the South knew
how to deal with such situations.
The prevailing weapon of in-
timidation was lynching.
Among the readers of Walling’s
article was Mary White Ovington,
a white Unitarian social worker
who was also a socialist and
descendant of an abolitionist. She
had been studying the social
problems of blacks and had at-
tended the 1905 meeting that Dr.
W. E. B. Du Bois had convened
with other black scholars in
Niagara Falls to discuss the race
problem.
From preliminary discussions
held in early 1909, Miss White,
Walling, Dr. Henry Moscowitz, a
social worker among New York
immigrants, Villard and Charles
Edward Russell, another sym-
pathetic member of the Liberal
Club in New York, decided to
issue “The Lincoln Day Call."
Joining this core group of whites
in this decision were the Rev.
Alexander Walters, a bishop in
the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church, and the Rev.
Williams Henry Brooks, minister
of St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal
Church in New York.
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In the economic recession that our
community and the rest of the
nation is epperiem
difficult
necessary dollars and I am
tremely appreciative of the hun-
dreds of campaign volunteers who
worked diligently to help assure a
successful campaign. The firms,
employee groups and individuals
who participated in our drive
performed exceptionally well and
reported substantial increases.”
Ixical firms who made sup-
plemental spontaneous contributions
to the United Way drive were
Telex; Reading 4 Bates; MAPCO;
the Henry and Jack Zarrow in-
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tune added.
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