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AOIPs February 1996 National BLACK MONITOR Hall of Fame Awards
Banquet Weekend was held in Tuskegee, Alabama.
The following individuals, organizations, and businesses purchased tables;
helped to lead the seminars preceding the banquet; made presentations at the
banquet; helped to see that the many details associated with that weekend
were handled; or provided other valuable assistance. We are extremely grateful
to:;
-Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
-American Federation of Teachers
-American Health and Beauty Aids
Institute (AHBAI)
-A.E.A.O.N.M. (Shriners)
-Attorney Melvin Bazemore, Manager,
Community Relations, GM
-Ms. Coki Bennett (student/dancer
Atlanta Metropolitan College)
-The Honorable Dr. Barbara B. Boyd
(Alabama State Legislature)
-Chrysler Corporation*
-Rev. Jimmie Daniels (President, Op
eration PUSH)
-Daughterofl.B.P.O. Elks ofthe World
-Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
-Rev. Al Dixon (Montgomery Tuske
gee Times)
-Ford Motor Company*
-Mayor Johnny Ford and staff
-Ms. Brenda Garrett
-General Motors Corporation*
-Mr. John Goss
-Dr. Earl Gray
-Ms. Corine J. Green
-Ms. Johnnie Harrison
-Dr. Dorothy Height
-Ms. Tara Hope (student/dancer
Atlanta Metropolitan College)
-1.8.P.0. Elks of the World
-International Foundation for Educa
tion and Self Help (IFESH)
-lota Phi Lambda Sorority
-Ms. AnJeanne James (student/dan
cer Atlanta Metropolitan College)
-Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
-Atty. Micheal Katz
-Kellogg Executive Conference
Center, (Tuskegee University)
-Ms. Nellie B. LaGarde (Manager,
World of Work Program, Chrysler)
-Ms. Dorothy Leavell (President, Na
*AOIP also salutes the collective goodwill of the Ford Motor Company, the
Chrysler Corporation and the General Motors Corporation for their role in
enabling Dr. Dorothy Height to close, earlier this year, onthe new Pennsylvania
Avenue headquarters of the National Centers for African American Women in
Washington, D.C. With their intervention, specifically loan guarantees on the
mortgage, the National Council of Negro Women has a new home and is
positioned for a stronger future. Thank You.
Are you helping to complete the unfinished work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by joining in support of the activities/programs of your fellow organizations?
Are vou! a dues-paying memkber of one or more of these community-iiplit crganizations?
tional Newspaper Publishers Assn.)
-Commissioner Frank Lee (Macon
County)
-Ms. Helen Love (Community Rela
tions Director, Ford Motor Co.)
-Mr. C. David Moody Jr. (C.D. Moody
Construction Co.)
-National Association of Colored
Womens Clubs
-National Conference of Black
Mayors
-National Pan-Hellenic Council
-National Scrority of Phi Delta Kappa
-National Women of Achievement
-Ms. Tanya Neal (student/dancer
Atlanta Metropolitan College)
-Dr. Moses C. Norman
-Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
-Ms. Luisa Osbourne
-Rev. E. Randel T. Osburn (National
Administrator of SCLC)
-Dr. Benjamin Payton (President,
Tuskegee University)
-Dr. Joyce Pulley Peoples (Events Co-
Chair)
-Dr. William Pollard
-Ms. Betty Sanders
-Sears Roebuck & Co.
-Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
-Dr. Annie Lee Smith (Events Co-
Chair)
-Dr. James Tarver
-Top Ladies of Distinction
-Travel Consultants International
-Tuskegee University ROTC
-United Black Fund of America
-Ms. Ernestine Washington
-Mr. Roy Williams (Manager, Urban
and Community Affairs, Chrysler)
-Ms. Daisy Wood
-Ms. Joanna Wright
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Leaders of this 150,000 member fraternity--
following a controversial move by Louisiana
Governor Michael Foster to end state affirma
tive action--announced that the organization
will address "the racially-divisive policies of the
governor" during its national meeting in New
Orleans this summer. Atty. Milton Davis, the
General President said the fraternity would use
the opportunity to address the affirmative ac
tion issue rather than pull its national meeting
out of New Orleans, adding that "affirmative
action was established to ensure participation
in economic opportunities for all citizens". Infor
mation Contact: 410-554-0040.
National Association of Colored Women's
Clubs
The nation's oldest Black Women's Organiza
tion in the United States is the outgrowth of the
First National Conference of Colored Women
held in America July 29, 30, 31 1885. The
Association has lifted families on the lower
rungs of life's ladder to that of higher rungs of
educational, civic social and spiritual attain
ment, thus making its motto, "Lifting As We
UNITED BLACK FUND, INC.
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THE
DR. CALVIN W. ROLARK, SR.
MEMORIAL LUNCHEON
12:00 NOON
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1996
AT THE
SHERATON WASHINGTON HOTEL
FOR INFORMATION ON THE
DR. CALVIN W. ROLARK, SR.
“CIRCLE OF FRIENDS”
TABLES AND TICKETS
CONTACT: UNITED BLACK FUND, INC. 1-800-323-7677
WILHELMINA J. ROLARK, ESQ., PRESIDENT/CEO
To Complete The Unfinished Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
AOIP is a networkis roa“ for ovrninfiom mm in an overall community-buildi amouh to addressing the root
cause of all :P ifils among B and similar ted minorities. AOIP’s ;'”fl” w’oc , via this lnlomvn:glmloflal
coalition, is to in lmmodumy 10 transform the lurm communities within Black America, through pride -instif n""lomm
.mm,'inln such Shining Oases of Hope that all therein not only will be motivated to want 1o learn and become productive parts
of our own Mwondugd communities, but also there will a greatly lessened desire, or “felt need,” to abandon support for
Black-led organizations that opened economics and other doors, H‘xbowm businesses and professional entities, Black
churches, etc. by inordinately integrating and/or invading the communities and social and other Institutions developed by (and
for) other ethnic groups.
AOIP has nd.mftht- mission of compblm “unfinished work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” The information listed below
about your organization should (as best po: ) be focused on what your group is doing to help complete that “unfinished work.”
National BLACK MONITOR--May 1996
Climb" a living reality. Their efforts include
awarding academic scholarships, establishing
community centers, day nurseries, homes for
the elderly and housing projects. National Con
vention July 27-August 2 at the J.W. Marriott
Hotel, Washington, D.C. Information Contact:
(202) 726-2044
National Black MBA Association
In keeping with the goal to assist the entry of
interested minorities into the business environ
ment, this organization announces its 1996
National MBA and Ph.D. Scholarship Programs.
Approximately twenty $3,000 scholarships will
be awarded atthe MBA level and one SIO,OOO,
one $5,000 will be awarded atthe Ph.D. level to
minority students enrolled in a full-time gradu
ate business or management program in the
Fall of 1996 or the Winter of 1997. Information
Contact: 312-236-2622 or 20.
National Council for Black Studies
Inthe field of Black/African Studies, much has
been accomplished duringthese two decades,
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