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Settlement In ’77 Concert Dispute
DETROIT-- Rev. Jim
Holley’s three year lawsuit
against Natalie Cole has
ended in an out of court
settlement which he says
has vindicated himself and
his church. Little Rock
Baptist.
In an agreement
reached with Ms. Cole's
attorneys, the church was
awarded an “undisclosed”
amount of money as
restitution for financial
losses it suffered when the
singer allegedly broke her
contract with it by failing to
perform in concert at the
University of Detroit on
May 5, 1977.
“We’re really happy
about the fact that the
court has vindicated us,”
Won’t Cross PATCO Line
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The refusal of Rosa
Parks, the “Mother of the
Civil Rights Movement” to
cross the PATCO picket
lines in order to catch an
airplane, brought
disappointment last week to
hundreds of admirers in
Tuscon, Ariz. who had
gathered for a three-day
observance held there in
editor of The Crisis, the
NAACP official publication.
Wilkins was named
executive secretary in 1955.
Later, the title was
changed to executive
director.
In March 1938, after a
federal anti-lynching bill
was defeated by a 47-day
Southern filibuster, Wilkins
managed to find a silver
lining. He asserted that the
federal government’s
system had been “laid
bare” and the lynchers
“put on the spot” as
unsupportive of democracy
and freedom.
"We lose, but we
win,” Wilkins declared.
Eventually, Wilkins
and those who struggled
with him really did win as
state after state, influenced
by the NAACP campaign,
enacted anti-lynching laws.
Through the years,
Wilkins traveled widely for
the NAACP and wrote
numerous articles and
speeches. He also served as
chairman Os the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights,
a national coalition of
rights, labor and religious
groups.
His efforts are credited
with helping to tear down
bastions of segregation in
housing, the armed forces,
voting booths and jobs.
For example, in 1943,
when eight Black
Philadelphia transit workers
were promoted and
disgruntled whites went on
strike, Wilkins went to the
city. The strike ended after
six days, and the Blacks
kept their promotions.
While he was better
known as the man behind
negotiations, Wilkins also
could be found on the front
lines, marching on
Washington in 1963 and on
Selma in 1965.
Like other
demonstrators, he was
occasionally arrested. T he
first time was in 1932,
■when Wilkins and the
NAACP picketed
Constitution Hall in
Washington because
organizers of a conference
there refused to include
lynching in their discussion
of crime problems.
Wilkins, a frugal man
of immaculate dress and
conservative grooming, was
- like other legendary rights
leaders -a valued adviser
to presidents. He helped
Harry S. Truman end
segregation in the Armed
Forces. And, well known to
White House switchboard
operators and secretaries,
he could pick up his
telephone and talk with
John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson’s heart
was on the right side of the
civil right side of civil
rights struggle. Once
Wilkins called the Texan
the best president in
history “from the
standpoint of poor white
Americans and erf non-white
minorities.”
Johnson, in a gesture
of mutual admiration,
awarded Wilkins the
nation's highest civilian
award, the Freedom Medal,
as one of hi* final official
Rev. Holly said adding,
“We wish Ms. Cole well.”
The concert had been
designed to raise funds to
help quell the increase in
gang violence which was
taking place in the city at
that time. The church had
reached a “truce” with
gang leaders and had
planned to sponsor gang
members on a trip to
Washington.
According to Rev.
Holley, under the terms of
the contract he had with
Ms. Cole, partial payment
was made at the time the
contract was signed and the
remaining balance was to
be paid prior to her pe
rformance the night of the
her honor.
This marks the second
time that a celebration
sponsored by the State
Conference of NAACP
branches was marred by
the inability of Mrs. Parks
to attend.
Early this year,
Febrauary, a tribute was
cancelled because of Mrs.
Continued From Page 1 Roy Wilkins
acts.
Richard M. Nixon was
another matter.
Referring to the Nixon
administration’s
announcement that it
intended to allow some
schools to slip past a
deadline on desegregation,
Wilkins said, “It’s almost
enough to make you vomit.
Three years late,
Wilkins still was lambasting
Nixon on education. This
time, it was Nixon’s anti
busing stand that prompted
Wilkins to say that the
president was “with the
enemies of little Black
children.”
While Nixon was
poking thorns in Wilkin’s
right side, some Black
activisits were driving nails
into his left. Many in the
rights movement claimed
Wilkins was too moderate,
too slow and too
accommodating with whites.
But it was to Wilkins
that whites often turned
for explantations erf Black
rage that led to urban riots
during the 19605. He
appeared on NBC-TV s
Meet The Press in July
1967, soon after the
Newark, N.J., disturbances,
and was asked by an
interviewer how the riots
could have been prevented.
Wilkin’s answer: “Jobs
and better housing and
better schools and better
treatment” by police.
On that same program
he rejected “Black power”
because “the essence of it
is separatism,” which he
disdained until the end.
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Detroit Pastor Wins Natalie Cole Suit
concert.
However, Rev. Holley
said, Ms. Cole’s stage
manager demanded full
payment two hours before
she was scheduled to
perform and before he had
seen her. He said when he
refused to make payment
before he saw Ms. Cole,
the stage manager pulled
the generator, cutting
power to the stage
equipment and canceling
the performance. This also
prevented the performance
of Walter Jackson, who had
also been contracted to
appear.
The lawsuit, which was
settled in U.S. District
Court by Judge Avery
Parks’ illness. She had
committed herself to attend
the September observation
if her health permitted.
When the date for the
celebration was reset for
the past weekend, Mrs.
Parks notified the
committee, headed by Mrs.
The expression “Black
power” generally meant
political, social and
economic strength gained
through unity of Blacks.
But often it also was
defined as a violent path
toward change, embraced
by Blacks who wanted to
separate themselves from
whites. Speaking to, the
latter definition, Wilkins
called it “Black Jim Crow.”
However, at the same
time that Wilkins scored
those Black activists he
called “the wild ones,” he
understood well why they
raged.
At the NAACP
convention in Minneapolis
in July 1971, Wilkins said
that Blacks were tired of
waiting so many years for
change. “My heart is with
them 100 percent,” he
said. “I just can’t join
them.”
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Cohn, charged that Ms.
Cole was in breach of
contract and that the action
of the stage manager
interfered with the
performance of Walter
Jackson.
The church, which
made refunds, suffered
losses totaling over $60,000
as well as damage to its
credibility and his own
reputation Rev. Holly said.
“The church and
myself went through a
great deal of
embarrassment,” Rev.
Holley said. “We went
through the intimidation of
the press, and I was even
Joan Jackson, of Phoenix,
that she would not cross
the PATCO (Professional
Air Traffic Controllers)
picket line if the strike had
continued through the date
set.
She also felt that a
long train trip, which would
Six years later, on the
day before the
organization’s 68th national
convention in his native St.
Louis, Wilkins, 75, and on
the verge of retiring, left
future leaders with this
succinct advice: “Be alert.”
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called a shyster.”
The church’s attorney,
Douglas Elliard, was quite
please with the settlement.
"I felt that it was very
fair,” he said.
Rev. Holley said he is
very satisfied with the
agreement and is glad the
episode has ended.
“It (the settlement)
basically covered what the
judge felt were our
expenses and what J udge
Cohn felt that the church
was due under the
circumstances,” he said.
The money, he added, is
not important; what’s
important is that the truth
finally be known.
“It’s important that
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to what she felt was just
battle on the part of the
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she said.
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