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April, 1980 - New National BLACK MONITOR
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From left lo right: Rundoll Robinson, Executive Director of Transafrica al plenary session al NCNW’s 39th National Convention;
Dorolhv Height. President of NCNW; Linda Johnson Robb, Chairperson of the President’s Advisory Committee for Women;
Sandra Parrish, former vice president of NCN W; A Ima A Bro wn. Director of Women's Opportunity Program. NCNW; Janice C.
Hissner. NCNW Vice President and Supreme Basileus of Zeta Phi Bela sorority; Thelma Dailey, National President of Trade
Union Women of African Heritage.
Miss Faye B. Bryant, National President;
The Chums, Inc., Ms. Elnora Lane, Presi
dent.
“There are no finer role models or
enablers anywhere in America today.”
Cooperative Thrust
The cooperative thrust of the Council is
exemplified perhaps most notably in what is
known as the National Collaboration for
Children and Youth. This is an arrange
ment wherein black women leaders, affil
iated under the umbrella of the National
Council of Negro Women, have called
upon their memberships to join hands to
turn around the alarming statistics of youth
in crisis situations —and to preserve and en
hance the enormous human potential of
young people.
The Collaboration was developed as a
clear response to the alarmingly high in
cidence of youth unemployment, teen preg
nancy and parenthood. There is no other
mechanism in the country by which more
farsighted and far-reaching skills and
resources are used by local black women’s
groups to relate to the pressing problems of
black youth than through the participation
in the National Council of Negro Women.
The heads of national black women’s or
ganizations under the NCNW umbrella
have issued a call to members of their
organizations to become direct members of
NCNW. “Every-member-a-member” is the
theme of this intensive drive.
“We seek to facilitate the bringing of the
best possible resources which our cooper
ative efforts can afford, to meet all of our
local groups’ concerns,” Miss Height em
phasizes.
“The collaborative efforts of black
women throughout the country to insure
the survival and quality growth of the black
family reflect renewed determination to live
the legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune. Black
women know that it takes action to trans
late the expression of unity into the reality
of power.”
Network of Leaders
The program outreach of the National
Council of Negro Women embraces the
work of each organizational affiliate, along
with special efforts which are coordinated
by NCNW in association with its affiliate
organizations.
“In order to understand us fully, one
would need to know all of our affiliate or
ganizations and their fine and illustrious
leadership which has represented a major
historical impact in this country’s life,”
Miss Height states. She adds: “there is no
group in America as diverse, as colorful, as
committed, as creative, as self-sacrificing
and as strategic as the National Council of
Negro Women’s total organizational fami
ly. We are a coalition of 26 national organ
izations and 167 local sections located in 31
states, and thousands of concerned in
dividuals.
“Local and national NCNW leaders
represent women of different ages, dif
ferent economic and social backgrounds.
We work to eliminate artificialities which
would tend to separate us, as Mrs. Bethune
so strongly urged that we must do.
“No record of the work of the Council is
realistic unless it makes appropriate note of
the widest range of educational, cultural,
civic, religious, economic, political and
social concerns which our affiliate groups
embrace.”
A Bright Tomorrow
This kind of vision and this kind of
building for power and service are the
hallmarks of the National Council of Negro
Women. All Americans, black and white,
may face a brighter tomorrow because of
the pioneering spirit and the constant prom
ise exemplified by NCNW’s work.
A new alliance is being developed be
tween the National Council of Negro
Women, its affiliate groups and the BMI
Cooperative of newspapers. The purpose of
the alliance is to utilize the fullest resources
of the nation’s black media to strengthen
and enhance the work of NCNW and each
of its present and future affiliates. It will
encourage the growth of NCNW and each
of its local affiliates and project the image
of black women’s cooperative efforts.
Both men and women—and young
adults—may become members of NCNW.
By joining NCNW, we lend our voices to a
major effort for the strengthening and em
powerment of black America. Won’t you
join NCNW today?
ADD-A-VOICE
! Say YES and help reinforce NCNW’s ;
• efforts to improve the quality of life for the J
; black woman, her family and community. !
• Membership Structure ;
; Check type of Membership
• Annual $ 8.00 ;
; Junior 2.00 ;
; Rural 3.00 !
I Direct Annual Membership through
I an affiliated organization.... 5.00 ;
■ Contributing 25.00 ;
; Life Membership (payable in
$75 installments) 300.00 ■
! Associate (Men) 10.00 ;
; Associate Life
Membership (Men) 300.00 ■
! Contribution ;
• Date Amount $ !
Please Print or Type
J Name ■
• Address
Z City State. Zip ■
J Organization Affiliation (if any) Z
■ Local NCNW Section (if any) ;
Z Local NCNW Section (if any) Z
Z Please make check payable to the NA- ;
t TIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOM- I
• EN, Inc., Suite 900, 1819 H Street, N.W., i
• Washington, D.C. 20006.
I All contributions are tax deductible. I
Cover Story
Questions for Reflection
1) Why should all black women and all
national black women’s groups be affiliated
with NCNW?
2) Why are the themes of “vision” and
“power” so essential or vital to black
Americans? Do we always look ahead as we
should? Do we really get at the issue of
power in most of what we do? In each case,
why?
3) What do you feel were the unique em
phases or priorities of Mary McLeod
Bethune? How can black women adopt and
profit from her teachings today?
4) How do you feel about Dorothy
Height’s continued emphasis upon the need
for a framework for collective action? Why
is it so very important for black women to
build and serve together?
5) What immediate things can you do to
publicize and extend the work of the Na
tional Council of Negro Women in your
community, through your church or other
organizations? How soon do you plan to
join the Council yourself? What sugges
tions might you send to the Council to help
strengthen and extend its work?
MONITOR
Microscope
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There is a religious saying which stat
“Hidden in every difficult situation ther
a treasure of goodness.” Other versions
this same essential truth might inclu
“There is never an ill wind which does i
blow someone some good.” Indeed, w
the increasing harnessing of the wind:
along with the ocean’s waves, the heat
the sun (and even the retention of the h
of our bodies!)—for increased energy,
winds may bring to all of us considera
g00d... in the form of heat-produc
energy!
There is, indeed, a world-wide ”ene.
crisis. ” Many of the conservation measu
might be expected to be played down, es
daily in an election year, where less spei
ing on fuel-related items (such as cars, e
airplane travel) could produce at leas
temporary economic slump. What m
count for all who would be honest w
themselves is the realization that we
borrowing from a postponed “day of u
mate reckoning”—and perhaps even mi
ing out on exciting present comforts a
savings, too —when we let political expe
ency or deadening force of habit keep cle
ly devastating “energy crisis” realities fr<
our sight. ■