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‘We Believe In The Heritage Os Black Institutions”
HOUSTON-- “The
Administration’s budget for
Black * colleges and
universities is not simply
being maintained but in
creased during the the
coming year,” Vice
“Republicans? Democrats? Neither Os The Above?”
Do Blacks Need A New Political Strategy?
Black have for decades
been, and still remain,
traditional Democrats in
spite of years of unfulfilled
promises by unresponsive
presidential candidates. The
Republican Party, con
sidered to be racist because
of its conservative platform,
has left a voting Black
America at a political dead
end.
On this edition of
Tony Brown’s Journal,
Host and Executive
Producer Tony Brown
examines the political
posture of the Black voter
and discusses with his
guests, possible solutions to
this dilemma.
“It has become in
creasingly clear that Blacks
must reassess the nature of
CORE Future Nears Court Hearing
NEW YORK • The
future of the Congress of
Racial Equality, once one of
the nation’s top civil rights
organization, may be in
fluenced in court here.
During the 20th an
niversary period of one of
CORE’S major civil rights
triumphs, the 1961
Freedom Rides, New York
is taking CORE to court to
determine if thousands of
dollars have been misused.
CORE’S disputed
leader is Roy Innis, who
was elected national
director in 1968 during the
convention in St. Louis.
CORE founder James
Farmer, , j( who was at the
helm of the then-respected
organization during the
Freedom Rides, /left CORE
to take over a new group in
Washington.
The late George Wiley
anil then Floyd McKissick
led CORE for a time before
Innis, former chairman of
the Harlem chapter,
assumed the leadership.
In recent years the
standing of the group has
plummeted. There have
been unanswered questions
about the civil rights role it
was playing as well as what
was happening to money
raised through what some
considered less than proper
means.
For a time there has
been a leadership feud with
Waverly V. Yates, a former
northeastern regional
director, insisting he was
elected last November at a
convention held in
Columbia, S.C.
That convention, the
first in some time, was
called by the four regional
chairs and hosted by the
Rev. W.T. Lewis, chairman
of the southern region.
In South Carolina a
federal court threw out an
Innis suit that grew out of
suspensions aimed at
preventing the Charleston
chapter from attending the
convention. A similar court
action is pending in
Kentucky because Innis
objected to the Lexington
chapter's participating in
Racist Denies
Shooting Blacks
FORT WAYNE, IND.—
Racist and accused killer
Joseph Paul Franklin says
he's the victim of an
“-amazing chain of coin
cidences.”
Franklin, in a
telephone interview with
the Fort Wayne News-
Sentinel, denied respon
sibility for a series of
deadely sniper attacks on
Blacks. He also said he is
innocent of the shooting or
Urban League Executive
Vernon Jordan, wounded by
a sniper in Fort Wayne a
year ago.
"It's just an amazing
chain erf coincidences,”
Franklin said from a jail in
Salt Lake City, where he
iswivicted on federal
President George Bush
disclosed as he delivered
the recent spring com
mencement address at
Texas Southern University’s
graduation exercises.
their participation in the
political process, both in
terms of a two-party system
and a potential Black in
depdendent movement,’’
says Tony Brown.
Featured on the
program is Dr. Ronald
Walters, a professor of
political science at Howard
University and an advocate
of an independent Black
political party.
“The power is
gravitating toward the
personal organization of the
candidates," explains
Walters. "Now in that
situation it seems to me we
have a tremendous
obligation to make up our
minds whether or not we
the convention.
While the leadership
fight is being waged, Innis
finds himself facing another
round in the court over
CORE’s finances.
Nathan Riley of the
Attorney General’s Office in
Manhattan says the State of
New York has decided to
determine what has hap
pened to monies collected
by CORE during Innis’
leadership.
CORE reportedly owes
New York City $460,003 in
back rent.
The state is seeking to
determine if Innis, Mary
Dennison and Wendell
Garnett, both of CORE,
have misappropriated
organization funds.
Since 1977 CORE
reportedly has not filed the
annual report required of
non-profit organizations in
New York.
An audit of the CORE
bixiks and records for 1976
led the Attorney General’s
Office to conclude that
$301,382.21 in CORE funds
were diverted and
misappropriated fir per
sonal use by Innis, Den
nison and others.
Another $152,840.86
reportedly went fir highly
questionable purposes.
The upcoming court
hearing may reveal what
happened to a S7O,(XX)
"slush" fund the Attorney
General's Office repirted
uncovering.
On August 12, 1975.
CORE opened a sax ings
account No. 105974208 at
the 34th St. Branch of
Central Savings Bank. The
authirized signatures on
the account were Roy Innis
as president of CORE,
Mary Dennison as vice
president. and Pearl
Osbourne as secretary.
lip until March 22.
197 b, there were no with
drawals from the account.
Then, on that date, tellers
checks payable to CORI
were issed totaling
$‘3,894.08. On April 6.
197(>. the balance of the
account S9(X). 19 was with-
civil rights charges for the
slayings of two Black
joggers.
"Fm a racist and that's
why I'm being charged with
this. The FBI wants to keep
a clean record," he said in
the interview published
V 5 ednesday.
Franklin, born James
Clayton Vaughn on April
13. 1950. at Mobile. Ala.,
is awaiting trial f«r murder
in the Sall Lake Cits
slayings. He also is siispi>i
in the slayings of Blacks in
Indianapolis and Oklahoma
City and in the May 29
wounding of J ord an in Fort
Wayne. “1 never heard of
Vernon Jordan until 1 heard
about the shooting,"
Franklin said.
Budget For Black Colleges To Increase, Bush Says
Awarded an honorary
doctor of humane letter
degree that was conferred
by TSU President Leonard
H.O. Spearman, the Vice
President payed tribute to
the critical role played by
follow the party downhill,
or construct a new sense of
our own politics.'’
Joint Center For
Political Studies Director
Eddie Williams. whose
organization monitors and
analyzes the Black par
ticipation in voting elec
tions. predicts a shift in
policy of Black
organizations in general: "1
think there's going to be
some rethinking of Black
organizations generally.
Some rethinking of Black
leadership. political and
civic. And I think this is
good. Our issues have
changed substantially, but
we’ve never made a
substantial change in the
drawn in cash on a slip
signed by Mary Dennison.
The Attorney General’s
Office traced the checks to
a new bank account entitled
Bronx CORE in the
Chemical Bank branch at
170th St. and Jerome
Avenue on the Bronx.
Banks records show
that account was opened
on Sept. 4. 1974 by Morton
Van Allen as director and
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this country's Black
colleges and universities in
American higher education.
He also lashed out against
mindless violence,
lawlessness and terrorism
and spoke of the worth of
means bv which we were
going to trv to accomplish
our objectives. "
Powers in the Reagan
administration, reading the
need lor this shift in Black
leadership, fostered a new
coalition ol Blacks leaders
with new solutions to old
problems. An example is
Arthur Teele. the newly
elected Administrator of the
( rban Mass Iransportation
Administration.
' Il there
are Blacks or whites or
browns who want to be a
part of this system, that
don't want to work and
earn their place in this
society. 1 suspect that they
will be very uncomfortable
and suspect that they will
the sole signatory.
The Attorney General’s
report, signed by Aaron
Rubin, an associate ac
countant. states in part:
"The examination disclosed
that of the $73,894.08 that
had been transferred from
the aforementioned
unrecorded Central Savings
Bank account to the Bronx
CORE account at Chemical
Bank, over $44,000 was
human dignity.
Bush said. "We
believe in the heritage of
our country’s Black in
stitutions of higher lear
ning. And we are also
perhaps call President
Reagan a racist. " says Mr.
leele in talking about the
Administration's policy.
W e e m b a r r a s s c d
ourselves in D> - o by
supporting a man who
’rd used to reward us anil
followed the losers into the
losers' circle in the NbU
presidential svv eepslakes.
concludes Tony Brown. It
does not have to be that
way in I MM.
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the longest running national
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Company. It can be seen in
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12:30 p.m.
disbursed by means of
checks in large amounts
drawn to cash, endorsed by
the sole signatory. Morton
Van Allen, and in most
instances immediately
cashed.
"In addition, SIO,(XX)
in checks could not be
located by the bank and
could conceivably have
covered other checks
payable to cash.”
committed to the principle
that graduates o'
historically Black in
stitutions. along with Blacl
Americans at all social am
economic levels, must b<
protected in their con
stitutional right to equa
opportunity to every phast
ol American life.''
Continuing. Vice
President Bush declared.
"They are institutions that
represent a heritage as
unique and important tc
American Blacks as Notre
Dame and Duquesne are to
American Catholics, and
Baylor and Wake Forest are
to Amecrican Baptists.
"Each represents an
integral part of the diverse
tapestry of American higher
education. That has been
true in the past. It will
remain true in the future.
"And for those in this
audience who may have
questions regarding the
position of our new ad
ministration in Washington
at this point, let me say
that we are absolutely
committed to the principal
that America's Black
Colleges and universities
represent a unique nationa
resource that should be
maintained and
strengthened in the year;
ahead."
The Commitment
....Subsequently, the vice
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president told his audience
that the administration's
commitment "is clearly
indicated by the fact that in
a difficult economic periixl
when government spending
is being reduced in order to
stem the tide of inflation,
the administration's budget
lor Black colleges and
universities is not simplv
being maintained but being
increased during the
coming vear."
According to \ ice
President Bush's com
mencement address. "Die
Reacan administration will
not tolerate violence,
coercion or illegal
discrimination against any
one of our citizens We are
pledged and determined to
combat racial and religious
intolerance and bigotry in
every form.
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