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Mrs. Patrica Harris ,j
Fails To Award Contracts Tcrolack Builders
What happened to that
beautiful lady President Carter
appointed to head HUD? Was
she the one that told Senator
Proxmire that she was “one of
us”? The articulate lawmaker
accused Mrs. Pat Harris of
habitually eating too high on
the caviar to relate with ghetto
housing and the type of people
that resides there. The burning
question arises, because her
department just Awarded SIOO
million in contracts to 12
Black Press To Celebrate 150th Anniversary
By Enshrining First 5 In New Hall Os Fame
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WASHINGTON, (NNPA) - The Black Press will celebrate its
150th anniversary here on March 18 by enshrining the first five of
its outstanding pioneer journalists in its new Gallery of
Distinguished Newspaper Publishers at Howard University’s
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Alex Haley, author of
“Roots,” also will be honored.
Dr. James E. Cheek, president of Howard University and Dr.
Carlton B. Goodlett, editor-publisher of the San Francisco Sun
Reported/Metro Reporter and president of the National
Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), made the
announcement this week as plans were being completed for the
installations in the gallery and the dedication of the Black Press
Archives also at Howard during the NNPA Mid-Winter Workshop,
March 16-19 here at International Inn.
Those who are to be enshrined are: Frederick Douglass,
abolitionist editor and orator who founded the North Star in
Rochester, N.Y.. in 1847; Rev. Samuel E. Cornish and John B.
Russwurm, co-founders of (New York) Freedom’s Journal, the
first Black newspaper, in 1827 - 150 years ago.
Philip A. Bell, general agent of Freedom’s Journal, who
founded the (New York) Colored American in 1837. and who
published the San Francisco Elevator from 1865 until 1888; and
Dr. Martin R. Delany, founder of the Pittsburgh Mystery in 1842
and later co-editor of the North Star with Douglass.
Another highlight of the enshrinement will be the placement in
the gallery Black Press Sesquicentennial Memorial Plaques to Rev.
Elijah P. Lovejoy, martyred editor of the anti-slavery Alton, 111.,
Observer in 1837; and William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the
Liberator, leading anti-slavery newspaper of America, and the
moving force in the Anti-Slavery Societies.
In addition, Black Press Sesquicentennial Awards will go to:
Haley for his “Roots,” an enormous contribution to better
interracial understanding; John H. Johnson, editor-publisher of
Ebony and Jet, as the most outstanding Black publisher in
history.
John H. Sengatacke, editor-publisher of the Chicago Daily
Defender and other Sengstacke newspapers, for founding NNPA;
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housing developers to
rehabilitate houses for
minority areas in and around
New York City. But not one
Black or Puerto Rican
developer was chosen, although
several applied. Calling the
exclusion of minorities blatant
racial discrimination, eight
Black and Puerto Rican
developers sent a telegram to
Congressman Charles Rangel,
urging him to lodge a formal
protest.
The Blacks and Puerto
Ricans said in their telegram
that the selection of the 12
white-owned or controlled
developers was in direct
violation of Section 3 of the
Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968, as
they would rehabilitate
“$100,000,000 worth of
housing in the disadvantaged
areas of New York with totally
inadequate minority
developers’ representation.
Under a rehabilitation
demonstration program
Ms. Lucile Bluford, editor of the Kansas City Call, for her suit to
enter the University of Missouri's School of Journalism in 1939
which led to the establishment of Lincoln’s Journalism School.
R.J. Reynolds Industries for its 550.000 NNPA journalism
scholarship program; and to Dr. Cheek and William O. Walker,
editor-publisher, Cleveland Call & Post and chairman of NNPA’s
Archives and Gallery Committee, for their roles in the
establishment of the joint Howard University-NNPA Black Press
Archives and Gallery of Distinguished Newspaper Publishers.
The first of a two-part enshrinement will take place at 3 p.m.
on March 18 in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on Howard’s
campus where the five honorees will be unveiled and the archives
dedicated. Dr. Jay Saunders Redding, English professor-emeritus
of Cornell University and author of “No Day of Triumph" and
other widely read books, will be the dedication speaker.
This will be followed in the evening by enshrinement
ceremonies during the 150th anniversary banquet in the ballroom
of the National Press Club. All the special awards will be made
there.
Both Dr. Cheek and Dr. Goodlett have expressed high praise
for Dr. Michael R. Winston, director of the Moorland-Sningarm
Research Center for the development of the Black Press Archives
and Gallery in such an ettective manner. The archives are
expected to become the No. 1 repository of Black newspapers,
press photos, editorial background reference material and
memorabilia, as well as biographical data on Black journalists.
During the observance. Dr. Winston will be cited by NNPA. In
turn, the archives will cite the first journalists to donate their
papers to it. These are: P.L. Prattis, retired executive editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier; Ms. Ethel L. Payne and Dr. Metz T.P.
Lochard, associated editors of the Chicago Daily Defender;
George B. Murphy Jr. of the Afro-American newspapers; and Mrs.
Alice Dunnigan, author and former Washington Bureau chief of
the Associated Negro Press.
In addition to the Sesquicentennial celebration, the Workshop
will conduct a number of symposiums on newspaper circulation
building, editorial content improvement, special problems of
Black publishers, and advertising salesmanship and service.
Augusta, Georgia
initiated by former HUD
Secretary Carla Hills, New
York City was selected to
receive sl6 million rent
subsidy for eligible families.
Altogether, some 2,500
housing units are to be
rehabilitated for low and
moderate income families in
Harlem, the South Bronx,
Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Brownville and South Jamaica.
Section 3 of the Act requires:
“That opportunities for
training and employment
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Revenue
Sharing
Funds
The KKK. vowed to
petition the Richmond County
Board of Commissions at the
March 1 Sth meeting for
S6,Sooof federal revenue
sharing funds for the white
Augusta Festival.
The exalted Cyclops of the
Augusta Chapter of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
saidhe thinks the chances by
his group being funded for its
Festival is very poor. The
purpose is to show, what the
public tax money has been
spent for in the past. He
pointed up the fact that
$12,000 was given to the
Augusta Black Festival. C.K.
Gough, the spokesman said
that the Klan is being
recognized in Augusta.
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arising in connection with the
planning, construction,
rehabilitation, and operations
of housing under the programs
be given to lower income
persons residing in the area of
the housing; “That, to the
greatest extent feasible,
contracts for work pursuant to
the housing programs shall,
where appropriate, be awarded
to business concerns located in
or owned in substantial part by
persons residing in the area of
the housing.”
Os the companies selected.
South Bronx Community
Housing is the only one to
involve minorities, but even
this one participation is not
substantial. HUD Regional
Administrator S. William
Green, when asked about the
racial bias, had this to say:
“Three of the developers
selected for HUD’s
demonstration rehabilitation
program include minority
interest,” whatever that term
means. These are the South
East Bronx Community
Organization, these are only
Paine’s Lyceum Series Presents
Tenor Robert Brewster In Concert
ROBERT BREWSTER
Black History Month Festival At The Wallace Branch
Guest Column
By L.A. Larcheveaux
If by some chance you
missed it, the Black History
Month Festival was celebrated
at the Wallace Branch Library
with special programs each
Thursday during that month. It
is encouraging to know that
the daytime programs
permitted our younger
students to enjoy a greater
understanding of Black history
through many films dealing
with a variety of personalities
and issues in Black History.
Several high and junior high
school instructors took
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small property resources listed
with the South East Bronx
Community Organization, the
John Mee Inc. and Harlem
Urban Development
Corporation.
In a further confusing
statement, Mr. Green said:
“These developers represent 25
per cent of the total 12 thus
far selected.” But the glaring
fact remains that the 12
HUD-slected developers are the
principals and any minority
developers working with them
are subordinates. The latter
were not selected by HUD.
Here are some of the
advantages of the 12
developers selected by HUD,
they will obtain FHA insured
mortgages under Section 221
of the Act, to cover 90 per
cent of the cost, repayable over
40 years. Also these developers
can sell the 10 per cent to
people with surplus cash who
can write it off as tax shelters
in five years. The burning
question is where was tire
beautiful lady, Pat Harris when
this lucrative award was made?
And what did she have to say?
advantage of this opportunity
to give their classes the needed
exposure.
Throughout the month there
was an exhibition of arts and
crafts depicting works skillfully
hewn out by members of this
community. Deserving of
special mention were the
artistic wrought iron creations
by Mr. Joseph Jones who is a
welder in North Augusta.
Highlighting the Black
History Month Festival were
the Thursday evening programs
led by Dr. Julius Scott,
President of Paine College and
Dr. Robert Cannon, Professor
of Black History at Augusta
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Dr. Robert Brewster, tenor,
will appear in concert on
March 4 at 8 p.m. at Paine
College. He will perform his
concert in memory of Dr. L.H.
Pitts, the first Black president
of Paine College. Dr. Pitts died
on February 25, 1974.
Dr. Robert Brewster,
acclaimed throughout America,
Europe, and Asia, as opera,
oratorio and lieder singer.
Dr. Brewster received a
Bachelor of Music degree in
Piano, Wheaton College,
Wheaton, Illinois; the Master of
Music degree in Voice, Indiana
University, Bloomington,
Indiana; and the Doctor of
Philosophy degree in Voice and
Musicology, Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri.
A Fulbright Fellowship
enabled him to further his
academic and vocal career at
the Staatliche Hochschule fur
Musik, Stuttgart, Germany,
where he was awarded the
Performance Diploma for
lieder interpretation. He has
also been the recipient of the
Seely Mudd Fellowship and the
College. Following the film
presentations each night was a
lively discussion among
members of the audience and
the moderators. Os course
none of the problems were
resolved, but throughout much
of the somewhat heated
exchanges important points
were brought out concerning
race relations in America.
The accomplishments of
historical greats such as
Frederick Douglas, W.E.B.
Dußois and B.T. Washington
were compared to later civil
rights activists Malcolm X and
M.L. King Jr. The audience
seemed to have been especially
aroused and enthused by films
on the lives of Frederick
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Dr. Brewster’s professional
activities include teaching at
the high school level, serving as
head of several college
departments of Music, as well
as teaching theory, voice, and
giving special lectures in
musicology.
Concert and operatic
appearance have taken the
young singer to Haita, India,
Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
Belgium, France and the
United States.
He has studied with some of
the finest-teachers and coaches
in America and Europe.
Among them are: Lillian
Powers-Wadsworth, Leslie
Chabay, Paul A. Pisk, Frank St.
Leger. Hans Busch and
Charlotte Wolf-Aldenhoff.
The 8 p.m. concert is
sponsored by the Paine College
Lyceum Series and will be held
in the Gilbert-Lambuth
Memorial Chapel.
Tickets will be available at
the door.
Douglas and the living legend
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays whose
lives were geared to rebellion
against the injustices of racism.
By far the liveliest discussions
were drawn around the
question of school integration,
the riots of the 60’s and the
prospects of Black Business.
Here again the discussion
leaders, Drs. Cannon and Scott,
ably set the pace by providing
the proper historical and
sociological perspectives.
Mrs. Cummings and the
library staff should be
congratulated for their wise
selection of these two experts
and also for one of the most
exciting series presented at the
Wallace Branch Library.