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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24,1991 • PAGE 2
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Moore, Bob Fitch, and Matt Herron, among
others -- are not so familiar. Still, their work
Alex Haley, author of "Roots”
Haley said he writes all night - mostly while at sea -- a throwback to
the days when he was a United States Coast Guardsman. He is leaving
Houston, Texas, in November on a cargo ship and will wntc for seven
weeks.
"I’m going to write my head off," Haley said.
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Haley decries debate of black history
Noted author Alex Haley khmmmm
said in Tahlequah recently he                   ‘
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The Pulitzer Pnze-w inning
authorof'RooLs: The Sagaof
an American Family" spoke
to students at Northeastern
State University where he is a
guest of the university's
“The sin is isolating black
history as something
from Egypt, of Africa, or
wherever. The truth .
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played by black people, by
Native Americans, or by
Orientals. The history of
America is a mixed history.
This is a nation of immigrants - -
across the board a 'we the
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a better awareness, knowl-
edge of, and respect for each
other’s contributions."
Haley said his newest book is about his grandmother, his father's
mother, and is called “Queen.” The story, about the daughter of a mulatto
slave and a white slave owner, has been sold to CBS Television Network
for a six-howtniniscries. Casting for the senes is under way, he sank
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Duke predicts Louisiana win
NEW ORLEANS — Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke
finished second in a three-way race for the governorship and predicts he
will beat former governor Edwin Edwards by 10 percent in the Nov. 16
run-off, . e ho               fii» ii j v r r 'm , •
In spite of President Bush pulling his support I irmly behind incumbent
Gov. Buddy Roemer, that is where he finished -nljehind and dead last in
the three-man heat.
"The Republican Party needs people like me." said state Rep. Duke. "It
bridges the gap among working people. If we can do that, we can win the
South... but the Republican Party has become complacent."
C.J. actually 15-year-old girl
DALLAS — C.J., the female who riveted Dallas and much of the
country with her radio talk about infecting men with the AIDS virus for
revenge turned out to be a 15-year-old girl, Dallas police said Monday.
The girl, who was not identified or charged, said she wanted to raise
awareness about the disease after a family fnend died of it recently.
"First, 1 was going to write a letter saying how AIDS was dangerous,"
she told KXAS-TV. "I figured that everyone had tried it that way and I
wanted to try it another way where everyone would listen."
Deputy Chief Ray Hawkins said handwriting analyses confirmed that a
letter in the September Ebony magazine was written by the girl. There is
no indication that she has the disease, Hawkins said.
Six or seven other "CJ.s" called Dallas radio and television stations and
police have identified one of the copycats as a 29-year-old Dallas woman
who did it as a joke.
Child molester sought
KANSAS CITY, MO - A rapist who attacked three black girls, two
6-year-olds and one 7-year-old, is being sought. The man wears a
distinctive box hairstyle with letters carved in the back. He allegedly
snatched the children off public streets, and drove each to a secluded area,
where he raped them. He then returned the girls.
A squad of 11 detectives in the Sex Crimes unit continues to work
around the clock to investigate leads about the attacker. Reward amount
for information leading to the arrest and filing of charges against the rapist
is $2,000.
Thu safflower, popular today for its oil and meal, was once grown chiefly
for the red dye made from its blossoms.
Blacks face loan rejection 2-1
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Blacks are more than twice as likely as
whites to be rejected for mortgage loans, according to a federal study.
Last year, lenders denied 33.9 percent of conventional mortgage
applications from blacks while only 14.4 percent from whites. Hispanics
were rejected 21.4 percent of the lime.
The report was compiled from 6.4 million loan applications filed by
9,300 lenders.
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Research lacking on women of color
in math, science, engineering
Women of color arc the most underrepresented group in mathematics, science
and engineering, and arc doubly disadvantaged by obstacles created by racc-plus-
sex bias, stereotyping and discrimination.
This is the conclusion drawn by two Educational Testing Service (ETS)
researchers in their study, “Women of Color in Mathematics, Science and
Engineering.” Their work was commissioned and published by the Center for
Women Policy Studies, a Washington, D.C.-bascd organization.
Senior research scientist Bcatriz Chu Clcwcll and research scicnust Bernice
Anderson arc members of the Education Policy Research Division at ETS.
Their study also decries the lack of research on women and girls of color in
math, science and engineering. Too often, the needs of such students are
overlooked or related to marginal status, says the CWPS.
“Knowledge about barriers to their success in math and science is essential if
we arc to develop effective intervention strategies to increase the presence of
these underrepresented women of color in math, science and engineering fields
at every level,” according to the publication.
"This is work that needed to be done. Gender and race arc two factors that have
to be taken into consideration together,” says Clewcll. It took the authors a year
to complete the book.
Clcwell and Anderson drew on 30 years of research to examine the fac tors that
give rise to this underrepresentation. They focused on the middle school years,
which they called crucial since this is when the students are in the greatest danger
of being lost from the scientific pool.
They conclude that, with respect to mathematics and science, girls of color
have positiveattitudes, although less so than boys; participate in few extracurricu-
lar activities in these fields; are less likely than white and male students to be
enrolled in advanced coursework and are not encouraged to pursue occupations
in mathematics and science.
ETS is the world's largest private educational measurement institution and a
leader in educational research. The nonprofit organization develops and ad-
ministers achievement, occupational and admission tests, such as SAT for the
college board.for clients in education, government and business. Headquartered
in Princeton. NJ., ETS has eight national field service offices and administers 7
million exams in the United States as well as tests in 170 countries.
umph in the mid-60s, and its unfortunate frag-
menung in the latter half of the decade.
The exhibition is not filled, however, with
scenes of hatred or violence. Most images tes-
Whilc many of the movement photographs   tify to the indomitable spirit and the cautious
meaning of its creed. The overall impact of the
show supports the final message which King
contributed immeasurably to the movement’s   left with his listeners in Memphis: “We, as a
success.
As Flip Schulke recalls, once King became
argued that the ruling could lead to quotas.
Thomas look a constitutional oath of office Friday but will have to
wait until Nov. 1 to take his final judicial oath before he becomes a
full-fledged associate justice on The Supreme Court. The second oath was
delayed because Chief Justice Williams Renquist s wife Natalie died laic Morris Companies Inc. (r). Upper photo shows the advertising poster for the
last week.                                                                series, a reproduction of Norman Rockwell's famous painting depicting one of
four black school children who integrated public schools in New Orleans, La., in
1960 escorted by U.S. marshals.
1968.                                       image of King announcing,"! have a dream," active photographers-Flip Schulke. Charles   that America could nse up and live out the true
The exhibition has been created and pro- with his hand raised toward the American
duced by the Texas Humanities Resource flag.
The powerful and famous arc featured
- Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson - but also
textswereprovidedbyProf.ThavoliaGlymph, the humble and nameless-an elderly woman
specialist in black history at the University of going to the polls in Alabama for the very first   convinced of the impact that an action shot
Texas at Arlington. The presentation of the time. Throughout are images of King preach-   could have, he cautioned photographers to stay
exhibit is made possible with support from the ing, marching, and exhorting America to live
which goes on display Nov. 1 at Suburban
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a 5-3 vote. The Supreme Court ruled in
an unsigned opinion that a California judge cannot be sued for allegedly
ordering police to use excessive force to bnng a lawyer into his court.
With Justice Thurgood Marshall retired and Clarence Thomas in the
wings, the court has only eight justices to decide issue before them.
In other rulings the court rejected an appeal from Missouri officials who
wanted to reduce the amount of money the state must pay to lawyers
successfully suing to desegregate public schools in Kansas City.
Justices also kept intact a ruling which would promote more blacks and RadaiAmericalbottom,center!,proudlydsplaystheAfnerican Bar Association’s
Hispanics in the Bridgeport, Conn., police department. While officers (ABA) Silver Gavel Award, presented for the Philip Morris-sponsored, eight-
part radioseries, "Equal Rights Under Law: Desegregation in America.” Radio
America received the award at the ABA’s Annual Convention in Atlanta. With
him are Murray H. Bring, senior vice president and general counsel, Philip
Morris Companies Inc. (I) and Marc Firestone, assistant general counsel, Philip
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types thet are found in the general population. The tribes of Central and
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“Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights
Movement" captures the determination and
Consisting of 65 black-and-white action   fying — images to tell the story of the black   skill and perceptiveness of individual photog- passion of the movement, iu moments of tri-
photographs, facsimiles of landmark docu-   struggle for justice and equality. Il includes   raphers, it illustrates the Ghandian philoso-
•  unforgettable photographs of the fire hoses  phy of nonviolent resistance and the deeply
ings of Dr. King, and bnef narrative texts, the  and police dogs in Birmingham. Ala., Bob  rehgiousfervoroftheCivilRightsMovcment
exhibit covers the Civil Rights Movement  Fitch’s haunting view of the nighttime rally   m the early 60s.
fromKing’semergenceasarcgionalleaderin where the cry of “Black Power!” was raised
™ 1955, to his death, as an international figure in for the first ume, and Flip Schulke’s famous are quickly recognized, the names of the most good will of people who believed, with King,
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Martin Luther King Jr.,and the Civil Rights Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanitiesand up to its creed.                               their impulse tohelppeople under attack. It was
Movement of the 1950s and ’60s are the the National Endowment for the Humanities, The exhibit conveys not only the major more important, said King, to show such inci-
subjects of the new photographic exhibition and the Tulsa Library Trust.                  events of the Civil RighLs Movement but also dents to the whole world.
Organized in 20 panels, the exhibit uses the historical context, extending back to the
profoundly evocative - and sometimes horn- Declarauon of Independence. Thanks to the
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