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The march from Alabama to Washington D.C. for extension
of the Voting Rights Act came through Augusta, where a rally
was held at Miles Memorial C.M.E. Church. Pictured are (above
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Charging
that the Reagan administration’s
proposed budget cuts for FY 1983
would reverse years of progress in
Black child welfare and create havoc
in Black communities across
America, the National Black Child
Development Institute (NBCDI) has
issued a 52-page report entitled
Budget Cuts and Black Children: A
response to the President’s Budget
for Fiscal Year 1983.
Detailing proposed cuts in 12
major areas, from adoption and
foster care to vocational education,
the report maintains that the budget
cuts would have a devastating im
pact on Black child welfare and
destroy gains in Black self
su fficency.
“Coming on the heels of last
year’s cruel attack on working aid
recipients, the new proposals mark a
clear line of demarcation against the
poor,” says Evelyn K. Moore,
executive director of NBCDI.
“The cumulative weight of the
proposed measures signified a
dramatic and callous disregard for
the future and current well-being of
the 42 percent of Black children who
live in poverty and rely heavily on
federally funded programs.”
Although Black children com
prise only 17 percent of all the
children in the U.S., they constitute
between 30 and 50 percent of
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Reagan budget threatens
welfare of black children
children who receive federal aid.
The report attests that proposed
cuts in Aid to Families with Depen
dent Children (AFDC), Title XX,
child nutrition and job training
programs would cripple services
which have proved effective; put
formerly cooperative programs
against each other in competition
for reduced funding; impose further
strains on already desperate Black
families; and end up costing tax
payers more through increased
future unemployment and increased
future need for remedial education
and health care.
If the Reagan budget is approved
by Congress, the report concludes
that:
•Changes in eligibility for food
stamps, Medicaid and Aid to
Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC) will increase the incidence
of undernutrition and illness,
resulting in higher health costs and
increased infant mortality rates.
• The families most drastically af
fected will be those headed by single
women, who represent 40 percent of
all Black families and account for 45
percent of all Black children.
(Under the Reagan plan minimum
wage requirements would remain in
tact).
The AFL-CIO has also been op
posed to the enterprise zone concept,
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contending that this would only serve
to “create new subclasses of
citizens.” The union has formulated
a program which, they assert, directly
addresses the problems of unem
ployment and deteriorating neigh
borhoods.
The revitalization package calls for
investment in public infrastructure,
including sewers, highways, bridges,
mass transit, railroads, and other
needed facilities. In addition, it calls
for investment in low and moderate
income housing and the establish
ment of job training programs and
public employment opportunities.
Address the problem of financing,
the AFL-CIO plan would establish a
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
to restructure the nation’s industrial
base by aiding sectors of the economy
that need special financial assistance.
In assistance to the Reagan plan,
In March 1944, a significant step in
history was taken when 13 Black men
were commissioned as officers in the
U.S. Navy at the Officers Candidate
School in Great Lakes, Illinois. In
April, 38 years later, the eight
surviving members will return to sea.
Self-named the “Golden Thir-
Black Navy officers return to the sea
First black
Navy Officers
return to the sea
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May 8,1982
four other proposals have been made
to date which provides similar incen
tives for investment in urban areas as
offered in the Reagan plan, including
the Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone
Act, the Targeted Area Revitalization
Act, The Enterprise Development Act
and the Urban and Rural
Revitalization Act, co-sponspored by
Sen. Donald Riegle.
The Urban Jobs and Enterprise
Zone required that 40 percent of em
ployees in the zone areas be CETA
eligible, but the Targeted Area
Revitalization Act has no em
ployment requirements.
Under the Enterprise Development
Act, 50 percent of the hours of service
in any one company must be perfor
med by residents of the zone, and the
Riegle proposal requires that 50 per
cent of the employees in the zone area
be zone residents.
teen”—the first Black men to wear
the gold stripes of U.S. Navy of
ficers—these men will embark on a
short cruise aboard USS KIDD
(DD993), a modern destroyer from
Norfolk, Virginia. During the cruise,
they will receive extensive briefings
and observe ship exercises in
Less than 75 percent Advertising
National SCLC marchers came to
Augusta chanting “Reagan, Reagan,
he’s no good, send him back to
Hollywood”.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery,
national president of SCLC, said of
the President, ‘White folks may con
sider Reagan charming, but I say he’s
alarming”.
Lowery lead a rally Thursday night
at the Miles Memorial Christian
Episcopal Church in support of the
extension of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act.
This marks one of the few times
that a national civil rights activity has
been headquartered at a local C.M.E
Church.
The Rev. Timothy R. Green,
pastor of Miles Memorial, supported
the action noting that it was very im
portant for the church to play some
part in the voting rights issue. Par
ticularly in light of the Reagan budget
cuts.
“It is a serious situation,” Dr.
Lowery told a capacity crowd at the
church. We must dramatize the
critical nature of our concerns and
lift the level of consciousness of all
Americans, he said.
Lowery brought the crowd o
its feet with his criticism of the
Reagan administration’s stand on
more funds being allocated for the
defense budget in the face of the
many social, economical, and
Vernon Jordan
to speak at Paine’s
Commencement
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Former
president of the National Urban
League, has been named as the 1982
Paine College Centennial Commen
cement speaker to be held June 13,
according to President Julius S. Scott
Jr.
Jordan directed the National Ur
ban League from Jan. 1, 1972
through 1982. He directed this
organization whose 116 affiliates,
four regional offices, Washington
Bureau and New York headquarters
worked khard to bring solid advances
to the minority community.
Prior to presiding over the
National Urban League, Jordan ser
ved as executive director of the
United Negro College Fund, director
of the Voter Education Project of the
Southern Regional Council as well as
Georgia Field Director of the
National Association for the Advan
cement of Colored People.
He has had several federal appoin
tments which include the Council on
White House Conference, “To Fulfill
These Rights” (1966), the Presiden
tial Clemency Board (1974), and the
Advisory Council on Social Security
(1974).
In 1957 Jordan received a B.A.
degree from Defauw University. He
went on to obtain a law degree from
Howard University in 1960.
shiphandling, navigation, seaman
ship, engineering and gunnery.
In World War 11, they served with
distinction aboard small craft and at
Navy shore stations and like many
Americans were discharged at the
conclusion of the war. Thirty-eight
years later, each surviving member
Vernon Jordan
to speak at Paine’s
Commencement
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educational cutbacks. “President
Reagan should develop a program
designed to support life, instead of
the administration’s program which
is designed to destroy life,” he said.
Lowery said, “we must take a
critical look at an administration
that won’t put its people to work,
who considers its poor as expendable,
an administration that is willing to
destroy the public system yet provide
tax breaks for private schools.”
“America can not be world leaders
as long as she denies Black, Red, and
Brown people their constitutional
rights.”
Citing the situation in Ft. Valley,
Ga., where black officials lost their
positions, as an example, Lowery
said, “Blacks have grown too
relaxed. We think we don’t need each
other anymore. Although we have
won some victories, the war is still
going on. What this pilgrimage is
doing for us is creating a new sense of
‘each-otherness’, it is creating a social
and economical interdependence. We
have got to turn to each other in the
time of crisis.”
While in Augusta, SCLC workers
conducted a door-to-door campaign
to seek out unregistered voters for the
purpose registering them.
The pilgrims marched from
Augusta into the county of Edgefield,
South Carolina.
After resigning from the Urban
League, Jordan joined the law firm
of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Haver, and
Feld in their Washington office.
He is married to the former Shirley
M. Yarbrough. The couple has one
daughter and reside in New York
City.
Jordan is a member of the Omega
Psi Phi.
can claim exceptional success in his
chosen civilian profession. Among
the “Golden Thirteen” members are
educators, businessmen and a Justice,
Illinois Appellate Court. This marks
their first time on board a United
States warship since World War 11.
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