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Washington, D.C. - The
Congressional Black Caucus
today called for a thorough
congressional investigation of
the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s illegal domestic
intelligence-gathering activities
against lawful private
organizations and individuals.
Caucus members urged the
Constitutional Rights
Subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee to widen
its investigation of
COINTELPRO programs
within the FBI. The 17 Black
members of the House of
Representatives also urged that
permanent Select Committees
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Atlanta, Georgia - A
dramatic annual increase of
356 Black elected officials,
bring the total number of
southern offices held by Blacks
to 1,944, still leaves Blacks
with only 1.5 percent of the
total number of offices in the
11 southern states, according
to the latest findings of the
Voter Education Project
(VEP).
“In the overwhelming
majority of political
subdivisions in the South, there
are no Blacks elected officials
at all,” observed John Lewis,
executive director of the
nonpartisan Voter Education
Project “We are pleased by the
increase, which is 27 times the
number of Blacks who held
office in 1965 but when you
consider that Blacks constitute
20.4 percent of tire population
of the 11 southern states, there
is obviously a serious problem
of under-representation.”
“For the aspirations of
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who have a strong desire to
participate in the government
of this country, time may be
running out,” warned Lewis.
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House Blacks Call For Permanent Select Intelligence Committee
on Intelligence should be set
up to continue the
investigation.
Congresswoman Yvonne B.
Burke (D-Calif.), chairperson
of the Caucus said that “every
American should consider what
the FBl’s actions mean in
terms of oiganizations to
which he or she belongs. These
were law-abiding citizens who
were attacked and intimidated
by the FBI,” she said,
“including members of the
nation’s highest legislative
body.”
The Senate Intelligence
Committee has released reports
detailing FBI/COINTELPRO
“The gains which are being
made today are changing the
climate of both regional and
national politics and have
changed some of the
conditions which Black people
must face daily, but in terms of
the untapped resources of full
political participation, we
haven’t seen the real gains
which are needed.”
Stanley Alexander, VEP
research director, pointed out
that the number of Black
elected officials has increased
substantially each year since
the Voting Rights Act was
passed in 1965, when only 72
Blacks held public office. By
1970, the number stood at
565, with the following annual
increases since that time: 1971
- 711; 1972 - 873; 1973 -
1,144; 1974 - 1,307; and 1975
- 1,588.
The 1,944 elective offices
now held by Blacks in the
South are distributed as
follows: Alabama, 193;
Arkansas, 212; Florida, 79;
Georgia 221; Louisiana, 278;
Mississippi, 237; North
Carolina, 210; South Carolina,
153; Tennessee, 118; Texas,
activity against individuals
ranging from members of
Congress to college professors
to leaders of civil rights
organizations, including
extensive efforts to destroy the
late Dr- Martin Luther King Jr.
and the Black Panther Party.
The report showed the FBI
to have engaged in extensive
surveillance, bugging,
wiretapping and provocative
activities to sow distrust and
hate within and between lawful
organizations white as well as
Black.
The Senate Intelligence
report detailed efforts by the
FBI to smear and remove from
155; and Virginia, 88. This
count includes 23 Black
officials who have been
appointed to elective office to
fill unexpired terms on state
school boards, judgeships, and
city and county governing
bodies.
The public offices now held
by southern Blacks include:
U.S. House of Representatives,
3; state senators, 3; state
representatives, 88; county
officials, 294; mayors, 68;
other municipal officials, 827;
law enforcement officials, 204;
and education officials, 445.
“This is a key moment in
the history of the Black
struggle for the right to vote,”
commented John Lewis. “Ten
years from now, the Voting
Rights Act may have expired,
the Black movement may be
only a memory, and the full
time work of the VEP may no
longer exist. What we are able
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the national scene such
individuals as the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., and
such organizations as the Black
Panther Party. In its report on
actions against the Panthers,
the Committee said that “This
report does demonstrate... that
the chief investigative branch
of the Federal Government,
which was charged by law with
investigating crimes and
preventing criminal conduct,
itself engaged in lawless tactics
and responded to deep-seated
social problems by fomenting
violence and unrest.”
Congressman Andrew Young
(D-Ga.). a close associate of Dr.
to accomplish in voter
registration and citizenship
education will determine the
kinds of conditions which we
and the children of the South
will have to face in the future.”
“Unlike the example of
Reconstruction, where Black
gains were swept aside and
little progress was achieved in
political representation for
over one-half a century,” said
Lewis, “it is my hope that
history will record this period
as one having farsighted leaders
who saw the value of
protracted struggle to build a
better world.”
Membership Drive
The CSRA Business League’s
fifth annual membership drive
is now underway.
Business membership fees
are $35.00; individual
membership fees are $20.00.
Interested persons may mail
membership fees or
contributions to P.O. Box
1283 Augusta, Ga. or call Ms.
G. Shannon at 722-0994 for
more information.
King, said that “Martin Luther
King was the only individual to
stand up to J. Edgar Hoover
despite the FBl’s continued
attempts to destroy his
effectiveness and reputation.
Despite the harassment which
began in 1962, Dr. King in 1963
marched in Birmingham, led
the 1963 march on Washington,
pressed through the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the
1965 Voting Rights Act,
opposed the War in Vietnam
and marched for open housing
in Chicago and in Cicero, Ill.”
Congressman Walter
Fauntroy (D-D.C.), another
Full Employment
Bill Support In
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in a letter to Coretta Scott
King, the American Jewish
Congress this week pledged full
support of tire Humphrey
-Hawkins Full Employment
Bill
The letter to Mrs. King, who
heads the FuU Employment
Action Council, enclosed
copies of an American Jewish
Congress statement address to
Senators WiUiam Proxmire and
Harrison Williams voicing the
organization’s endorsement of
the full-employment bill and
utging the Senators to “move
expeditiously toward
approval.”
Joseph B. Robinson, general
counsel of the American
Jewish Congress, said in his
letter to Mrs. King:
“The American Jewish
Congress believes that putting
an end to the intolerable level
of unemployment must be
atop priority for the nation in
1976. We look forward to
working with you in the
months ahead.”
The H umphrey-Hawkins
legislation whould declare as a
matter of federal policy “that
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close associate of Dr. King,
stated that “We have learned
from the Watergate experience
that the first evidence of
official wrongdoing may cover
a larger and more pervasive
pattern of illegal actions. We
must determine what the
nation’s governmental
institutions have done against
its people, we must see that
those actions are not
continuing, and we must act to
prevent the recurrence of such
activity in the future. Only a
thorough congressional
investigation can assure us of
that fact.”
all adult Americans able and
willing to work have the right
to equal opportunities for
useful paid employment at fair
rates of compensation.” The
bill would also establish and
mandate a procedure for
developing the measures
necessary to carry out that
policy.
At its recent biennial
convention, the American
Jewish Congress adopted a
resolution on full employment
which said in part:
“The current level of
unemployment in this country,
varying around the figure of 8
per cent, is intolerable and
unacceptable. On its face, it
means that one out of every 12
employable persons is without
a job.
In fact, however, the
situation is even worse. The
official unemployment figure
disregards the large number of
persons who have given up
looking for work and counts as
employed millions of persons
who have only part-time
employment.
Furthermore, the
unemployment rate is much
higher in many urban areas and
among young people,
minorities, women and other
disadvantaged groups.”
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Personnel Interviewer
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