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Jazz great
Charles Mingus
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Vol. 8, No. 38
Andy Young
King inspired world change
(From Atlanta Constitution)
The life and work of Martin
Luther King Jr. brought about
a “rearrangement of the social
order” in America that is being
felt throughout the world,
United Nations Ambassador
Andrew Young told an
audience here recently.
As a result of King’s work,
wheels have been set in motion
that can lead to a new
agreement on arms limitations,
Young told the overflow crowd
at Ebenezer Baptist Church
attending an ecumenical service
marking the 50th birthday of
the slain civil rights leader.
“Now as we approach our
relations with the Soviet
Union, we have people
prepared to ‘study war no
more,’” Young said, repeating
words of an old Negro
spiritual. The civil rights
movement led by King, who
was assassinated in Memphis on
April 4, 1968, has resulted in
the election of politicians in
America who are willing and
able to negotiate and approve
SALT, he said.
“Martin Luther King’s
movement of change has
impacted on the nation and the
world,” Young told his
audience, which included
international dignitaries.
King’s life has inspired the
efforts to “fight apartheid, to
build a new international
economic order, to bring about
peace in the Middle East and to
wipe out poverty,” Young said.
Young called on his listeners
to “let the world know that his
dreams are going to be
fulfilled.” He said that the
“spiritual vitality” needed to
fulfill the dream still “comes
from the man born 50 years
a ß°”
Young recalled King s travels
to Ghana and India in 1960,
from which he returned with a
“sense of the tremendous
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hands at Ebenezer Baptist Church with (from left)
Martin Luther King Sr., U.N. Ambassador Andy Young,
Mrs. Coretta King, Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
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PAINE CO I,LEGE PRESIDENT Dr. Julius S. Scott
Jr. was among the participants paying tribute to Dr.
Martin Luther King last week at Ebenezer Baptist
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international yearning to be
free.” And rather than attack
those in power who
oppressed, Young said, King
“talked to ordinary people
with this simple revolutionary
message: ‘We are all sons and
daughters of God.’”
King merged his religious
background and the
non-violent philosophy of
Gandhi into a “vibrant force
that made possible not only
the liberation of his people,
but also the liberation of the
entire nation and the world,”
Young said.
In addition to Young,
several others paid tribute to
King for his impact on the
Black Atlanta
city councilman
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areas of international affairs,
organized labor, education, the
arts and corporate America.
King’s life and work serve as
“a powerful source of
inspiration to the oppressed
peoples on a continent where
the blacks of this country have
their roots and origin,” said
Ola Ullseten, prime minister of
Sweden. King’s work will
“hopefull make us all one day
fully understand the message
of peace, love and
brotherhood,” he said.
John Ryor, president of the
National Education
Association, said his
organization views King as a
teacher. In support of King’s
president-emeritus of Morehouse College and
businessman Jesse Hill.
Carter received Martin Luther King Jr. Peace prize at
service honoring the civil rights leader’s 50th birthday.
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Luther King Center for Social Change. Mrs. Coretta
King is at right. Photos by Mike Carr
life and work, the NEA is
initiating a nationwide
fund-raising effort for the
Martin Luther King Jr. Center
for Social Change, Ryor said.
In addition, Ryor said his
organization will contin,ue to
appropriate funds for the
center’s summer institute on
nonviolence. He also said the
NEA would continue to lobby
for Jan. 15 as a national
holiday.
Earlier, Coretta Scott King,
widow of the Nobel Peace
Prize winner, led a group of
international dignitaries to a
wreath-laying ceremony at
King’s gravesite next to
Ebenezer on Auburn Avenue.
Black leaders
unite behind
King holiday
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January 27,1979
Atlanta
councilman
indicted
(From Atlanta Constitution)
Atlanta City Councilman
Arthur Langford was indicted
Thursday on charges of
extortion, obstruction of
justice and of perjury before a
federal grand jury investigating
allegations of corruption at last
year’s Southeastern Fair.
The three-count indictment
- the first against an elected
Atlanta official in eight years -
also charged Langford with
trying to get another unnamed
government witness to lie to
the grand jury about payments
to fair employes.
Langford, 29, was arrested
Thursday afternoon, at the
offices of the United Youth
Adult Conference, a private,
nonprofit social-service agency
which he heads. He was
arraigned before U.S.
Magistrate Owen Forrester.
The councilman, who said he
had not had a chance to review
the charges against him,
entered a plea of innocent.
Forrester, who said he
“personally knows” Langford,
released him on a 57,500
personal recognizance bond.
The magistrate, noting that one
of the charges against Langford
was obstruction of justice,
warned the councilman that “if
you have any doubts about the
propriety of your actions in
investigating the case, it would
be. better if you let your
lawyers question witnesses.
You may find y ourself in the
situation where you have no
bond at all.”
Langford, who has served on
the council since 1974, was
immediately suspended from
his office by Council President
Carl Ware, as required by the
city charger.
His indictment is the first
against an Atlanta City
Councilman since Joel Stokes
was charged with
embezzlement and
misapplication of public funds
in 1971. Stokes was convicted
and served two years of a
three-year prison sentence.
The indictment against
Langford, issued shortly before
Less than 75% Advertising
Thousands mourn
singer Donny Hathaway
(From St. Louis American)
New York police say that
Donny Hathaway, 33, who
worked his way out of the
ghetto of the Carr Square
Housing Project to top billing
in the entertainment circles all
over the country, committed
suicide by leaping from the
15th floor of a New York
hotel. His grandfather, Robert
Crumwell, who along with his
wife, reared the singer, told
this reporter, “He visited me a
couple of weeks ago just before
he returned to New York and
he talked alright, he looked
alright, and didn’t act like he
wad despondent to me.” When
asked by this reporter if he
thought that there was a
possibility that Hathaway was
having marital difficulties or
troubles of any kind that
would make him take his own
life, Mr. Crumwell said, “He
never showed any signs of it
and he never mentioned
anything like that.” He said, “1
don’t know what happened.”
The New York coroner, with
a report made by police
officers there, said that
Hathaway jumped to his death
last Saturday, near midnight,
from the 15th floor of the
swank Essex House where he
had registered. The singer left
no suicide note, the door was
locked from the inside and
there were no signs of violence
in the room, police said.
Hathaway was in New York
to join singer Roberta Flack in
a recording session. He checked
into the Central Park South
hotel a week before the
tragedy. Hathaway and Miss
Flack successfully recorded
several albums that were
best-sellers.
In 1973, Hathaway received
a Grammy award for the
million-seller single recording
made jointly with Miss Flack
the year before which was
entitled “Where Is The Love?”
He was excited over the
publicity he received in getting
the award.
3 p.m., stems from a
four-month investigation into
last September’s financially
disastrous Southeastern Fair,
held at the Lakewood
Fairgrounds.
Langford was charged with
using his position as a
councilman and as chairman of
the City Council’s Public
Safety Committee to extort
money from fair promoter Don
Pavel, after Langford and Pavel
reached an “understanding”
that Langford would obtain a
waiver of the city’s $350-a-day
licensing fee for die fair.
The two men also agreed
that Langford would make sure
the fair would not have any
problems obtaining fire and
sanitation services from the
city and that Langford would
try to get Deputy Police
Director Eldrin Bell, who
headed security at the fair, to
ask for a smaller security fee,
the indictment says.
Pavel has said that he paid
Bell SIB,OOO to provide
security at the fair. However, a
taped conservation between
Pavel’s midway manager, Harry
“Buster” Westbrook, and Gene
Sorrows, a carnival game
operator, indicated that the
security tab may have actually
been $39,000.
The indictment also charges
that Langford lied to the grand
jury last year when he denied
receiving money from the fair
for himself or the UYAC.
The UY AC was hired to get
30 to 40 young people to clean
up and collect garbage at the
fair, but the contract was
iviure niacKs
returning South
than leaving
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A year after getting the
Grammy, he had two gold
albums, “Robert Flack and
Donny Hathaway,” and
“Donny Hathaway Live.”
Mr. . CrumweU said that
Hathaway didn’t grow up
singing the kind of songs that
made him famous. “He sang
gospel songs in churches and he
got his first training from my
wife, who reared him since he
was a small child.” Mr.
canceled, Langford and Pavel
have said.
Langford is quoted in the
indictment as saying the UY AC
“would have received some
funds if we had received
$14,000 from the Southeastern
Fair,” but that UYAC did not
actually get any money.
According to the
indictment, the following
conversation took place
between Langford and federal
investigators before the grand
jury:
Charles Mingus
Jazz artist dies
Charles Mingus
Donnv Hathaway
Crumwell said that when he
married Mrs. Crumwell. Donny
was seven years of age “and he
was really singing then.”
Donny lived with the
CrumweU’s until he became
grown and married.
Hathaway had an extended
visit in St. Louis with his
See “HATHAWAY”
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Investigator: “You’ve
received no compensation or
money in any form directly or
indirectly related to the
Southeastern Fair?”
Langford: “Not at all.”
Investigator: “Has anyone
on your behalf?”
Langford: “No, not at all.”
Investigator: “You have no
agreements for such?”
See “INDICTED”
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Charles Mingus, 56, one of
the first jazz musicians to use
the bass as a solo instrument
and a major modern jazz
composer, died Friday in
Cuernavaca, Mexico. He had
been suffering since 1977 from
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
a disorder of the nervous
system sometimes called Lou
Gehrig’s disease. Mingus
attended the White House Jazz
Festival in July in a wheel chair
and was embraced by President
Jimmy Carter in one of the
day’s most affecting moments.
Mingus’ childhood friend
and colleague, saxophonist
Buddy Collette, said Monday
that Mingus’ body was
cremated Saturday and that a
memorial service was being
planned in Los Angeles.
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