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January 31, 1985/The Maroon Tiger/Page 13
Second Graders Billy Janco, Mark Richardson, and
Myreon McKinney and Karen Garrett, left to right, stand behind other key par-
volved in getting 32nd Avenue Elementary School, in Tuscaloosa. Alabama,
r Dr. King (left to right, I)r. W.N. Dansbv. vice chairman, Tuscaloosa City Board
•n, liOuise J. Crawford, principal, and Wilma Winston, school counselor, Martin
g Elementary School).
half inch squares of fabric, and designed
by an eighth grade student at the King
school in Patterson, New Jersey; and
the King Indoor Memorial Garden
created by students in the King school in
Baltimore, Maryland.
Some of the most visible school activities
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tiirthday
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ifie four foot
nade up of
Frederick Dray ton, left to right, carry their school banner
down Miami. Florida's Martin Luther King Boulevard as
part of the parade commemorating the 45 anniversary of the
birth of Dr. King.
designed to honor King were those pur
suing the renaming of schools following
King’s death in 1968.
Examples abound: Two elementary
students from 32nd Avenue Elementary
School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
appeared before the city school board to
request that their school be called Martin
Luther King, Jr., Elementary School.
Public School Number Eleven in Jersey
City, New Jersey became the Martin
Luther King, Jr., School in 1969. Eastern
High School in Detroit, Michigan was
renamed the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Senior High School in 1968, the first time
any school was re-dedicated in 125 years
in that city. Furthermore, Dr. King’s birth
day was entered into the school board
calendar for appropriate recognition by
teachers and students, fully fifteen years
before it became a national holiday.
Taylor Calls King “Hero By Faith”
By Robert Bolton
Hundreds of admirers joined
the King family to pay tribute to
the late Dr. Martin King, Jr., a
drum major for peace and
justice, at Ebenezer Baptist
Church on Auburn Avenue.
The tribute was an ecumenical
service which honored King
with both scripture, song, and
dance to commemorate the 56th
birthday of the civil rights leader.
The Rev. Gardner Taylor,
pastor fo the Concord Baptist
Church in Brooklyn, New York,
was the guest speaker who
described King “as the only
authentic spiritual genuis
America has ever produced.”
Taylor went on to categorize
Martin L. King, Jr. as a “hero by
faith." This is because “by faith
he came to confront a nation that
was not sure of itself and believ
ed that the nation’s divisions of
race, hostility, and hate could be
wiped out in order to generate a
new birth of liberty and
freedom,” according to Rev.
Taylor.
Mayor Andrew Young who
was also there at the ecumenical
service said the King “united us
ethnically" by breaking down
the walls that seperated people
by race and class.
The service also featured songs
sung by the ecumenical choir
which was composed of students
of Morehouse and Spelman
College Glee Clubs, the Atlanta
University Community Chorus,
the Ebenezer Church Choirs,
and the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra Chorus.
Also, the spirits of the con
gregation were moved as Liz
Spraggins, an Atlanta area singer,
gave her rendition of the “Battle
Hymn oftheRepublic/’Notonly
this, but Yolanda King and
Barbara Sullivan gave a narration
and interpretation of Martin
Luther King, Jr.’s most famous
speech, “I Have A Dream.”
The 15th annual ecumenical
service united Christian
followers of the “dream” that
King fought and died for. This
union of the saints is a definite
guarantee that one day, some
day, “We Shall Overcome.”
There will be a
Meeting of the staff of
The Maroon Tiger
March 2,1985, at 12:00
noon. New Staff are
invited.
South Africa . . .
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the UN, the International Court
of Justice, and all decent people
everywhere, and continue to
provide a market for the black
market uranium in support of
the criminal nation? A partial list
includes Great Britain, West
Germany, and France. All of said
nations are close allies of
America, yet this country's
leaders bring no pressure to bear
upon them. Why? Because the
United States is just as deeply
involved as are they. The U.S.
based transnational corporations
involved in this updated version
of the triangular trade include
the Arthur C. McKee Co., In
terspace Inc., Newmont, Allis-
Chalmers, General Electric, Un
ion Carbide (What a slimy group
that U.C.), Raython, Foxboro
Corporation, Gulf Oil Corpora
tion, Westinghouse, and the
United States Steel Corporation.
It is the author’s supposition
that the South African criminal
occupation of Namibia will per
sist as long as such is profitable.
I believe that the character of
the leadership in South Africa is
clear enough to all, and quite
clearly, it is nothing to be very
proud of. We saw in my last essay
how they are able to sanction
lying and cheating along with
hypocrisy. Herein we see that
they also condone common
theft. With such activity being
not only well within the law, but
practiced by the highest echelon
of the Pretorian government,
one can only wonder with whim
sical amazement about their
pigment based claims of moral
and intellectual superiority.
4<, The Devil’s . . .
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strange indeed if that’s what
really happened, or if they did so
without some sort of backup....
Understand that all which is to
follow, aside from the
documented facts, is merely
conjecture and I have nothing
which even approximates proof
for the forthcoming creative
arrangement of incidents. But,
has it ever been considered
that there does exist a backup for
the doomed chemical cache and
that it was tested in India on
December 3rd? Think about it
for a minute. Where else could
such a large scale testing take
place with a minimum of
backlash? That is, the lions, even
though they are my brothers and
sisters in the Third World
struggle, are not exactly the most
politically powerful nation in the
world. They are certainly not of
such ilk to challenge the U.S. in
any military fashion. And where
else, given their relative political
strength, could one find such
population density to test? But
then again I must return to my
senses. The U.S. would nevertest
any sort of chemical weapon on
real live human beings without
their knowledge, right? Wrong.
In 1950, the United States
government did test dangerous
chemical substances on, get this,
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