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Former Paine College President Dr. E. Clayton Calhoun speaking at
Haygood-Holsey consecration Friday.
Haygood-Holsey consecrated
“We’re consecrating a
dream, not just bricks and
mortar,” said J.W. Welch, who
co-chaired phase two of the
“Build it Back” champaign.
Welch was one of the many
persons participating in the
consecration services for the
new academic building at Paine
College, Haygood-Holsey Hall.
1 The building was rebuilt at a
cost of 2 million dollars
replacing Haygood Hall which
was destroyed in a fire in 1968.
Black Press Institute
to aid Black papers
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Dr.
Carlton B. Goodlett, president
of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association, and
civil rights attorney Julius L.
Chambers, president of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
headline a list of newsmakers
and newspaper experts
participating in the First
Annual Conference of the
Southeastern Black Press
Institute, Oct. 29-30 in the
Research Triangle Park, N.C.
The Institute is a new
research and development
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DISPITE HIS LACK of sight, hospital officials say John Perry can sweep a floor
as clean as any other man.
Augusta, GA 3090
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Mrs. Clara West, president of
the Paine College Alumni
Association, said the alumni
rejoice in this “milestone for
progress.” She said that 86 per
cent of Black students in white
institutions are “flunked out,
kicked out or dropped out.”
Those who come here, she said,
“will not be victim s of change
but agents of change.”
The building was rebuilt as a
result of a joint effort by local
center designed to address the
needs of Black newspapers in
the five states of Maryland.
Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia and the
District of Columbia. It was
created in recognition of the
150th anniversary of the Black
Press.
“We hope to strengthen
Black communities in the
Southeast through cooperative
interaction with Black
newspapers,” said Bemadine
Moses, co-director of the
project.
Cooperation with Black
P.O. Box 953
Black and white communities.
Former Paine President Dr.
E. Clayton Calhoun said of
Paine’s unique founding by
Black and white southerners:
’’Long, long ago, Blacks and
whites stood together to say
‘this was the way in which the
Kingdom emerged in the
earth.’
“This is the truth with
which we proceed into
tomorrow,” he said.
newspaper editors and
publishers in the development
of staff is a major concern of
the Institute. She said the
conference will strongly reflect
this concern.
Thirteen different
workshops geared to the
problems faced by the Black
newspaper and its community
are scheduled at the
conference, she said.
Workshop topics include
advertising and circulation
See “BLACK PRESS”
Page 5
October 20, 1977
10 Years After Riot Coinmission Report
Racial Strife Worsens Among Big City Cops
By Mark Shwartz
Pacific News Service
Less than one-fourth of the
Black police officers in
Washington, D.C. - whose
police force is nearly 42 per
cent Black - feel they have a
good or excellent relationship
with white officers. Less than
one-third trust their white
supervisors, and over 80 per
cent believe they are
discriminated against in job
assignments and promotions,
according to a Howard
University survey completed
last year.
Ten years after the U.S. Riot
Sommission’s famous report on
ghetto uprisings pinpointed
racial antagonism among
primarily white police and
minority communities as a
major and explosive source of
disorder and urged police to
recruit and promote more
non-white members, racial
strife continues to plague the
police departments of many of
the nation’s big cities.
And the very solution
proposed - more minority
recruitment - has worsened the
problem.
“I think we have made a lot
of progress in trying to recruit
minorities,” says Dr. Richard
Staufenberger of the privately
funded Police Foundation in
Washington, pointing to the
fact that the percentage of
non-white officers in U 5. cities
has more than doubled ir. th*
past decade. “But racial
tensions in police departments
are probably higher now
because white officers percieve
this minority recruitment as
reverse discrimination.
“The issue has changed,” Dr.
Staufenberger notes. “In 1968,
minorities were demanding
jobs in police departments, but
now they are aiming for
political control of the police
and city government.”
Since 1970, court battles
over the issue of police
discrimination in hiring and
promoting minorities and
women have intensified racial
An automobile accident in
1959 cost a couple of John
Perry’s friends their lives. That
same accident took away
John’s sight, but the
37-year-old concession stand
manager says today his
blindness does not prevent him
from living normally.
Probably one of the most
noticeable features about John
today is that he has regained
confidence in himself, his work
and people. Two of the reasons
John is prospering today are
the South Carolina
Commission for the Blind
(SCCB) and the Veterans
Administration Hospital here.
After the accident John held
various jobs while receiving
training at the SCCB, but
things really took a turn for
the better when John got
on-the-job training at the
Veterans Hospital. He worked
for six weeks in the supply
room at the VA taking phone
orders for supplies. Since
January, 1976 John has been
working as a concession stand
operator at the Wagner
Manufacturing Company.
Many stories can be written
about John Perry and his
struggle to overcome the
physical and psychological
problems of blindness. He has
been robbed four times but has
not become discouraged.
John’s story is one of an
individual who needed help,
accepted advice and support
from friends and matched
them with his own initative to
make this ending a happy
one. John is a resident of
Graniteville. S.C., a member of
the Valley Fair Baptist Church
and has two daughters.
splits in numerous
departments.
A legal battle has been
on going in San Francisco since
1973, when the predominantly
non-white Officers for Justice
(OF J) sued the police
department. Although
minorities comprise about half
of that city’s population,(OFJ)
lawyers contend only 12 per
cent of the 1,700 SFPD
officers are non-white. Os the
75 permanent lieutenants and
captains, none are minority.
The case-set for trial this
November—has had a
devastating effect on police
morale.
While minority police
22-year -old sets
own house on fire
A 22 year-old Augusta man
was arrested Friday and
charged with arson after he
admitted setting fire to his
home, police reported.
Cruising officers reported
seeing smoke coming from the
rear of 1913 Turknett Spring
Blacks receive nearly
2 million in back pay
The Department of Justice
today obtained a record back
pay award of 51,818,191 to 46
Black persons found to be
victims of job discrimination
by an Oklahoma City trucking
company.
Atty. Gen. Griffin B. Bell
said the compensation was
ordered in a final judgment
entered in U.S. District Court
in Oklahoma City, Okla.,
against Lee Way Motor Freight,
Inc.
The back pay award is the
largest amount ordered by a
court following trial of an
employment discrimination
suit. One person will receive
China has important
lesson for Blacks
First in Series
By Sherman Briscoe
NNPA Executive Director
TAIPEI, China (NNPA) - If
you think that all the Chinese
know how to do is launder
shirts and make chop suey,
then you have a lot of learning
to do as we certainly had as our
Chinese pilots landed our China
Airlines’ Boeing 747-SP here
recently as softly as if the
wheels were made of
egg-foo-yung.
But our main learning
experience in the Republic of
China (Taiwan) wouldn’t be so
much about the people’s
phenoininal agricultural and
industrial production, that has
made this small island the
fastest developing nation on
earth, as it would be about the
way they think as a result of
Confucius’ teaching that has
come down through 25
centuries.
The focus of Confucius’
teaching, we learned while
preparing to attend at dawn the
celebration of his 2,527th
birthday the second morning
after our arrival, was placed on
five virtures. Common courtesy
heads the list, followed by
magnanimity, good faith,
diligence, and kindness which
lead to orderliness.
In short. Confucius taught:
“Love men.” This spelled-out
continue to press the courts for
relief against alleged
discrimination, urban experts
and minority community
leaders alike are alarmed by the
larger problem of
police-community relations in
the ghetto it reflects.
“In many areas of the
country, distrust, suspicion and
fear of the police are still facts
of life in minority
neighborhoods,” says Gilbert
Pompa, acting director of the
US. Justice Department’s
community relations service.
Earlier this year, the Police
Foundation released a survey
of six US- cities showing that
Blacks comprised 78 per cent
Road as Judy Tilton and her
son sat on the front porch.
After informing Ms. Tilton
and calling the Fire
Department, police reported
entering the house, finding fire
in the living room, rear
$138,150, the largest
individual award in such a case.
The other awards range from
$3,354 to $104,795. More
than half of the awards exceed
$30,000.
A special master appointed
by the court found the 46
persons to be victims of
racially discriminatory
employment practices at the
company dating back to 1965.
Payments are based on the
loss of earnings between what a
person would have received in
the job at Lee Way and wages
earned in other employment.
Back pay was assessed from
preachment certainly seems to
be a more meaningful force in
the lives of the Chiness than
Christ’s teaching of
brotherhood is in ours.
All 16 of us -- publishers and
other black newspaper officials
and our wives - had no notion
when we arrived in Taiwan that
we would come face to face
with so powerful a human
relations message that could
possibly have wide application
in all America, and especially
Black America with its
Saturday night’s specials and
switchblades.
When our jumbojet put
down here, we had been flying
for 13 hours from San
Francisco to this beautiful
country, losing a full day en
route, but never losing the sun
as we raced westward.
It had been a 6,440-miles
nonstop trip replete with
continuous servings of
delightful beverages and the
world’x best cuisine by pretty
Chinese stewardesses, of movies
and music, of whist and
pinochle, and of creative and
thoughtful conversation among
ourselves.
But none of the bright
colloquy and speculation or the
ample servings of food and
See “CHINA’S LESSON”
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Less Than 75% Advertising
of those killed by police.
Homicide has now passed
accidents and single diseases to
become the leading cause for
young non-white males in U 5.
cities, according to a study
reported in the September
“New England Journal of
Medicine. Killings by
police -mostly recorded as
“justifiable” homicides-ac
counted for 13 per cent of
these deaths, the study
showed.
A recent study by the
Afro-American Patrolemen’s
League showed that Blacks in
Chicago are more than six
times as likely to be killed by
bedroom and kitchen.
Michael Tilton was in the
kitchen, officers reported,
throwing water on the walls.
Upon further investigation,
police said, they found the
strong smell of kerosene on the
the date of discrimination to
September 12, 1977, including
6 percent interest compounded
annually. In addition, interest
at the rate of 10 percent will
be assessed from today until
awards are paid.
The final judgment also
requires the company to make
job offers retroactive seniority
to most of those awarded back
pay. More than half of the job
offers are for over-the-road
driver, the highest-paying
category.
The court further prohibited
Lee Way from requiring Black
applicants for its management
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Charlayne Hunter
gets new post
CHAR LA YN E HUNTER GAULT...
metropolitan reporter for the New York
Times, has joined the Mac Neil/Lehrer report,
public television’s week nightly news analysis
program, as its third correspondent. She will
handle special assignments for the program
and replace Executive Editor Robert Mac Neil
or Associate Editor Jim Lehrer as an
anchorperson for the program from time to
time.
police as are whites.
Some critics see the still
mostly white police force as
one cause of disproportionate
violence toward Black suspects.
“There is a general
disrespect on the part of white
officers toward the Black
community,” charged Henry
Dotson, president of the
NAACP, Los Angeles branch.
“They’re not out to enforce
the law-they’re out to crack
some heads.”
The L.A. Police Department
is less than six per cent Black
and less than nine per cent
See “RIOT”
Page 6
support beams of the wall and
an almost empty bottle of a
kerosene smelling liquid.
After questioning Michael
Tilton was placed under arrest
when he admitted setting fire
to his home.
training program to possess a
college degree.
The judgment resolves an
employment discrimination
suit filed by the Justice
Department against Lee Way
on June 22, 1972. After a
month-long trial in 1973, the
court found the company had
engaged in systemwide
discrimination against Blacks at
each of its terminals in 10
states.
A special master was
appointed to determine claims
of individual victims of
discrimination. His report was
filed earlier this year.
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