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June 1897-National BLACK MONITOR
AOIP's Executive Committee
Mr. Mel Bradiey; Mr. Tony Brown; Ms. Dorothy Chimney,
Top Ladies of Distinction; Ms Mildred Taylor Cosbey,
limperial Court Daughters ofisis; Milton Davis, Esq., Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity; Ms. Julia Davis, Eta Phi Betaßoror
ity; Mr. Ossie Davis; Mr. Thomas Dortch Jr., Council of
National Alumni Associations; Ms. Beatrice Douglas, Na
tional Women Of Achievement; Mr. Leonard Dunston,
National Association of Black Social Workers; Dr. Eva L.
Evans, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; Ms. Myriie Evers-
Williams, NAACP; Rev. Walter Fauntroy, National Black
Leadership Roundtable; Hon. Johniny Ford, National Ad
ministrative Co-Chair; Ms. Jylla Moore Foster, Zeta Phi
Beta Sorority; Mr. John Goss, IBPO Elks of the World; Dr.
Earl Gray, President, Community Motivators, Inc.; Ms.
Corine J. Green, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and AOIP
Adminisirative Co-Chair; Mabel Haden, Esq., National
Association of Black Women Attorneys; Robert Harris,
Esq., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity; Dr. Dorothy Height,
National Council of Negro Women; Dr. Ada Jackson,
Special Coordinator; Dr. Byron Lewis, Rev. Joseph
Lowery, SCLC; Rev. Henry Lyons, National Baptist Con
vention, USA; Ms. Julianne Malveaux, National Associa
tion of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs; Dr.
Dorsey Milier, Omega Psi Phi Fratemity; Dr. Ophelia
DeVore Mitchell, Special Coordinator; Ms. Marcella
Morrison, lota Phi Lambda Sorority; Mr. Richard Nero,
Nationa! Coalition of Title | Chapter | Parents; Dr. Moses
Notman, Special Coordinator; Ms. Della Oliver, National
Sorority of Phi Deita Kappe; Or. Joyce Peoples, Special
Coordinator; Dr. William Pollard, NAACP; Hon. William
Pratt, AEAONM Shrine; James Purdy, Esq., Special Co
ordinator; Dr. Alfred Roberts, National Alliance of Black
School Educators (NABSE) Dr. Bertha Roddey, Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority; Ms. Jean C.W. Smith, Daughter
Eiks; Dr. Leon Sullivan, AOIP's Co-Founding Enabler; Dr.
Ozeil Sutton, Chairman, Community Motivators, Inc.; Dr.
Lynette Taylor, US Dept of Education Task Force; Mr.
Solomon Wallace; Mr. Roy Williams; Dr. Donald Wilson,
IBPO Elks of the Worid; Mr. Carter Womack, National Pan-
Hellenic Counct and Phi Beta Sigma Fratemity; Ms.
Woods, Conference of Grand Masters, Prince Hall Ma
sons.
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of AOIP,* a focus of Community Motivators, Inc. in extending the
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EpiTtoriaL NOTES
Since May of 1996, the National BLACK
MONITOR has featured articies on activi
ties and personalities in a year-long event
of positiveimage and self-esteem erthance
ment for African Americans. Our editors
celebrate 50 years of this inspiration and
motivation from a role model par excel
lence. Ophelia DeVore is a pioneer in the
modeling industry, newspaper publisher
and renowned business woman who is
featured in the travelling exhibit--based on
the book--/ Dream A World.
The editors are honored to feature
Ophelia DeVore, not just because of the
above-mentioned achievements, but also,
and more importantly from our point of
view, is that she--along with Jeanne Ja
son, the executive editor--founded the
National BLACK MONITOR more than
22 years ago. And, because of her role in
guiding youth and young aduits in build
ing self-esteem in order to compete and
be successful in all aspects of life, she
helped focus this publication on present
ing African American role models in busi
ness and industry, in education, in na
tional organizations and in the political
arena. g :
And, in 1980, when the group of newspa
per publishers headed by Dr. Calvin W,
Rolark (Publisher/Founder of The Wash
ington Informer newspaper and Founder/
President of the United Black Fund of
* The letters AOIP originally stood for Assault On Program--a networking and coordinating framework for assautting the root causes of iitieracy
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Please support the United Black Fund
America), informed both Ms. DeVore and
Ms. Jason that the alarming statistic of 44
percent of Black youth at age 18 and older
were classified as “functionaily illiterate,"
the two waged an editorial campaign in
this publication and in the newspapers
that eventually led to the development of
the Assault On lliteracy Program (AOIP).
The ongoing efforts of this literacy en
hancement and community-building coa
lition of over 90 national Black-led organi
zations--whose Founding Enablers were
Dr. Rolark, Dr. Dorothy Height and the
Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan—-have been cov
ered monthly in this publication for over
17 years. And, during this period, Ms.
DeVore and Ms. Jason and the other
AOIP leaders helped develop the AOIP
Goals for The Year 2000 and Beyond. Ms.
DeVore is an AOIP National Board Mem
ber and serves as an AOIP Special Coor
dinator in the communications area.
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their neighborhoods setting the examples
for these youths, and thereby helping to
create an atmosphere of secure and aes
thetically valuable communities.
s of this goal
mittee has primary oversight
Ccategory. The national organizations and
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AOIP Cooperating Newspapers — 2
EoßomiNGeS... .. ... .2
MONITOR Motoring — — — 4
MONITOR Cover Story:
"Ophelia DeVore: 50 Years of
Inspiration and Motivation' . . 6
Published cooperatively by AOIP publish
ers. Ms. Jeanne Jason is the executive
editor and Dr. Betty Mansfield isthe manag
ing editor and Rev. Dr. Walter E. Fauntroy is
a contributing editorof the National BLACK
MONITOR. National office for the National
BLACK MONITOR is at 231 West 29th
Street, Suite 1205, New York, NY 10001.
Telephone (212) 967-4000, FAX (212) 971-
4682,
Cover Design: Ariel Michael Design
Studio
New York, New York
We are not respoasible for uneoticited meterials.
their leaders who have maj resgondbl
lyonMAOOPswmg?gmm 00 are:
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority led by Dr. Barbara
Carpenter; the National Association of
Black Social Workers led by Mr. Leonard
Dunston,; the National Association of Black
Sociologists led by Dr. Robert Newby; the
National Association of Black Women At
torneys led by Mabel D. Haden, Esq.; the
National Associationfor the Southermn Poor
led by Mr. Donald Anderson; the National
Caucus and Center on Black Aged led by
Mr. Samuel Simmons; the Opportunities
Industrialization Centers (OIC), founded
by Dr. Sullivan, and led by Mr. Art Taylor;
andthe Women's Missionary Society/AME
Church led by Dr. Dorothy Peck.
*MONITOR Motoring" again highlights
information from the United Auto Workers
(UAW), which we think is very enlightening
and should be extremely helpful when you
are considering buying a new car, [Does
shopping where you cannot work make
sense even in this day and age?)
This is in line with AOIP's conscious
ness-raising effort to get our peopie 0
purchase cars and other high-ticket tems
from those corporations which provide
jobs and other economic opportunities to
the communities of Black America. So, if
you are in the market for a new car(s),
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