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Ali Calls Jesse Jackson'Crook’,
Raps Martin Luther King
Muhammad Ali last week Muhammad has got. himself. America must help the
called civil rights leader Jesse Everything he do is Elijah slave to go for himself.”
Jackson a “crook” and said Muhammad’s program with “Muhammad says that the
Martin Luther King’s goal was another title on it. only way we can get together is
to walk down the street one “And Martin Luther King, to let the slave live to himself,
day with a white girl. his goal was to walk down the govern himself, marry himself,
Ali, who will challenge street one day with a white rule himself, build for himself,
George Foreman for the heavy girl. We don’t call that educate himself on some land
weight championship, made progress.” of his own. A total separation
the comments during a A muslim minister, Ab said of the races is what he believes
televised interview with David that in order for Blacks and is the solution to our problem.
Frost in which he said that whites to live together in EHjah Muhammad, AH
Elijah Muhammad was the only peace, Blacks must become charged, is the man that white
person getting Black people independent of whites. people and government don’t
togehter. “If you’ve got something of talk about. “They fear him,
Asked if he respected the your own, Ali said, then you don’t give him no press, and
work of Jackson, Dr. King and can respect one another. You don’t want nobody to hear
other Black leaders, Ali said, can’t respect a man who always him. Once you hear him, and
“Jesse Jackson is a crook. He comes to your house begging, you’re Black, you’re never the
steals everything Elijah receiving, don’t do nothing for same.”
Black FCC Commissioner
Keynotes Business League Banquet
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JUDGE BENJAMIN L. HOOKS
The CSRA Business League
will hold its fourth annual
Awards Banquet Nov. 8 at
7:30 p.m. at the Richmond
Hotel.
The guest speaker for this
year is the Honorable Judge
Benjamin L. Hooks of the
Second Annual
Sickle Cell Convention
The National Association for
Sickle Cell Disease, Inc.
(NASCD) will hold its 2nd
annual convention at the
Atlanta International Hotel,
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25-28.
Dr. Charles F. Whitten,
national president, will preside
over the session and the
workshops which will be
geared toward identifying
problem areas, exchanging
ideas for the implementation
of local community education,
testing and counseling
programs, and planning for a
national awareness program.
The NASCD is a coalition of
community groups throughout
the nation, and was organized
to provide leadership and
coordination of activities
among groups involved in
sickle cell programs. Delegates
Federal Communication
Commission, in Washington,
D.C.
Judge Hooks was nominated
by President Richard Nixon to
succeed retiring Commissioner
Robert Bartley and was
to the convention include key
personnel involved in the
administration and
implementation of local
programs.
One of the highlights of the
convention will be the Annual
Awards Lucheon where
recognition is given to
individuals, companies and
organizations who have made
significant contributions to the
national program. The keynote
luncheon speaker will be John
R. Lewis, executive director of
the Voter Education Project,
Atlanta. Lewis has long been
identified with the civil rights
movement, having served with
the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., in the 1963 March on
Washington and the 1965
March from Selma to
Montgomery.
P.O. Box 953
confirmed by the Senate on
May 30. His term runs through
June 30, 1979.
Born in Memphis, he
practiced law in that city for
15 years from 1949 until 1965.
He served as assistant public
defender in Memphis from
1961 until 1964. In 1965, the
governor of Tennessee
appointed him Judge of an
elective office. He was elected
to an eight year term as Shelby
County Criminal Court Judge
in 1966, resigning in December
1968 to resume the practice of
law.
Commissioner Hooks has
had combined careers as lawyer
and minister since 1956, when
he was ordained to preach by
the Baptist Church, and
became pastor of the Middle
Baptist Church in Memphis. In
1964, he became pastor of the
Greater New Mt. Moriah
Baptist Church in Detroit,
Mich.
While working in law and
the ministry, Commissioner
Hooks also pursued an active
business career. He served as
co-founder and Vice-president
of the Mutual Federal Savings
& Loan Association in
Memphis, for 15 years, from
1955 until 1969. He was a
member of the board of
directors of the Savings & Loan
Association and of the
Tri-State Bank in Memphis,
until 1972.
Commissioner Hooks has
Policeman Dismissed
Following Complaint
A traffic patrol private in
the Augusta Police Department
was dismissed Tuesday by the
Civil Service Commission
(CSC) following a complaint
about his actions wile off duty.
Also, the commission
promoted W.T. Gamer to
lieutenant in the Augusta Fire
Department.
There were two complaints
filed against Pvt. Robert
Alexander. In the first one the
commission backed
Alexander’s action.
Isaac W. Carter of Beech
Island, S.C., complained to the
CSC that Alexander used
profanity while making out a
traffic ticket. Alexander said
the man refused to stop for his
blue light.
Augusta, Georgia
Ali called for a separate state
for Blacks in this country or
elsewhere. “Four hundred
years and we can’t get along.
You’ve got this big country
that we built. Why not rope off
an area where we can go and
rule ourselves. If not here,
there are places in Asia and
Africa we could go, set up our
own place, and have something
of our own. Nobody can be
free without ownership of
land.”
The Germans, Vietnamese,
Koreans, all of America's
former enemies, are more
respected than Blacks.
Since we have doctors and
lawyers, mechanics and
also been the producer and
host of his own television
program, “Conversation in
Black and White,” co-producer
of the television program,
“Forty Percent Speaks” and a
panelist on the television
program, “What Is Your
Faith,” on Memphis stations.
He attended Lemoyne
College, Memphis, Howard
University, Washington, D.C.,
leaving to enter the army in
August 1943. He was
discharged with the rank of
Staff Sargent in 1946.
Commissioner Hooks received
a J.D. Degree from the
University College of Law,
Chicago, 111. in 1948.
He is a life member of the
NAACP, he has been a member
of the board of directors of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, The Tennessee
Council on Human Relations,
Memphis, Shelby County
Human Relations Committee,
and other community affairs
organizations. He is a member
of the American Bar
Association, the Tennessee Bar
Association, National Bar
Association, the Judicial Council
of the N.A.B.
He and his wife, Frances, have
one daughter.
For tickets and more
information on the Annual
Banquet, stop by the League
office at 1208 Gwinnett Street
or call 722-0994.
Following their decision to
back Alexander up, the
commission heard a complaint
from Leo Jackson of Augusta
about an incident that
occurred on Sept. 28.
Jackson said he was going
home along Wrightsboro Road
about 4:30 p.m. when the car
in front of him stopped and he
swerved around it.
He continued driving and
the car came up behind him
with the lights on and horn
blowing, he said. As the car
pulled even with him, he said,
“I looked over and saw a guy
with a gun in his hand.”
The man was Pvt. Alexander
who told Jackson to pull over
because he had hit his car, he
said.
PAINE COLLEGE
Pistol Waving Cop Dismissed
carpenters we should be doing
for ourselves, Ali continued.
“You don’t need us no more
for slavery. Now we are out of
work. We’re on welfare,
welfare checks have stopped
coming. We’re steadily begging.
The jails are full of Black
people. We’ve got problems
with schools, busing, dope,
crime the jails are full of Black
people.”
Referring to his fight with
Foreman, Ali predicted:
“If you think the world was
surprised when Nixon resigned,
wait ‘til I beat Foreman’s
behind.”
PULITZER PRIZE JURIST
Black Publisher
Dies Os Heart
Attack
Frank L. Stanley, Sr.,
long-time civil rights activist,
owner and publisher of THE
LOUISVILLE DEFENDER
newspaper, died early Saturday
morning at Jewish Hospital,
Louisville, Kentucky, where
he was taken after suffering a
heart attack while conducting
the “Black Exposition” at
Louisville’s Convention Center.
His newspaper has sponsored
this home-show orientated
program for 37 years.
Stanley, 68, was a leader in
the civil rights movement in
Kentucky, achieving national
prominence, distinguishing
himself as an educator and
journalist. He had been
associated with THE
DEFENDER for more than 40
years, joining the staff several
years after its founding.
Stanley was a co-founder of
the NNPA and a five-time
president of that association
which represents
black-oriented newspapers
across the country.
In 1969 and 1972, Stanley
was named to the Pulitzer Prize
jury which selects winners for
journalistic achievements in its
name.
His career as a newspaper
man and his dedication to the
civil rights movement led to his
drafting legislation leading to
integration of state universities
Alexander said he was with
his wife and children when the
car came over into his lane and
struck his car. He said he tried
to stop the car and finally
managed to get the man to pull
over after he caught up with
him.
Jackson claimed Alexander,
had a pistol in his hand and hit
him with his forearm and used
“pretty rough language” while
talking to him.
Alexander said he did have
the gun in his hand. “1 never
touched him,” he said, “I
didn't point it at him. I was
wrong for getting out with my
gun, I was upset.”
A witness was asked to fetch
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MR. & MRS. MUHAMMAD ALI
by the Kentucky General
Assembly in 1950.
A decade later he wrote the
bill that created the Kentucky
Commission on Human Rights,
and was an original member of
that body, which serves as a
watchdog agency for equal
rights.
THE COURIER-JOURNAL,
a Louisville daily, noting the
25th anniversary of the
DEFENDER in 1950, said
editorially:
"... Much of the credit for
the even and amiable pace
Kentucky has maintained in its
working out of race relations
problems must be given the
DEFENDER.”
Stanley was the force behind
the DEFENDER’S part in the
drive for equal rights for
Blacks.
In 1946. Stanley noted
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For the celebration of his 80th birthday, Mr. Horace G. Dawson Sr., had all his
offsprings with him at the “home place” in Augusta, Ga. Shown (L-R are Mrs.
Mary Collier, a government worker in Newark, N.J.; Mr. Dawson; Mrs. Josephine
Taylor, a public school librarian in Augusta; Dr. Leonard E. Dawson, director of the
Moton College Service Bureau, Washington, D.G; Dr. Horace G. Dawson Jr., deputy
assistant director, United States Information Agency; and Professor Leslie H.
Dawson of Southern University, Baton Rouge, La.
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Louisville’s reputation for
racial enlightenment but
warned that “both races should
use tact and good sense.
Neither should condemn the
other for the thoughtless,
irresponsible acts of a small
few who, more than anything
else, need education.”
Stanley is survived by his
wife, the former Vivian Clark;
two sons, Frank, Jr., editor of
THE DEFENDER, and
Kenneth, assistant publisher of
THE DEFENDER.
The family requests that
expressions of sympathy take
the form of donations to the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association Scholarship Fund,
in care of THE LOUISVILLE
DEFENDER Newspaper, 1720
Dixie Highway, Louisville, Ky.
40210.
Wanted: Black
Kemak
Chemist
The News-Review has
learned that a local company is
looking for a Black female
with a good background in
Chemistry. Starting salary
would be between SBSO and
59.50 a month; could be more
or less depending on the
qualifications.
The person should be a
“professional”, would be
in a well equipped laboratory
and would be analytical and
quality control in nature.
Interested persons should
call Edward Mclntyre at
722-5517.
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