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VOLUME 13 NUMBER 41
Black leaders cautioned
on criticism of Jackson
NEW YORK—In an exclusive
feature in the February issue of
ESSENCE Magazine, Minister
Louis Farrakhan, world
renowned leader of the Nation of
Islam, calls on Black America to
support the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s
candidacy for President and issues
a warning to Black leaders to be
cautious in their criticism of the
Rev. Jackson.
“I want to warn Black leaders to
be very careful about how they
handle their opposition to Jesse
Jackson’s candidacy,” writes
Farrakhan. “Please be careful of
your manner of criticizing Rev.
Jackson...lf you must criticize
(him), by all means do it in the
spirit of love and unity.”
Farrakhan rose to prominence in
the fate sixties when he succeeded
Malcolm X as the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad’s national
representative. The Muslim
minister was one of the delegation
of religious leaders who recently
accompanied Rev. Jackson on his
successful mission to Syria to gain
the release of Navy Lieutenant
Robert Goodman.
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OMEGAS PLEDGE JACKSON SUPPORT—The Rev.
Jesse Jackson, former national president and founder of
Operation PUSH, will receive local, regional and national
support from his Omega Psi Phi fraternity brothers, in his
bid for the 1984 Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Jackson, a former second vice basileus of the 70,000 member
Omega fraternity, is shown with Felmon D. Motley, national
director of public relations for the frat. Omegas across the
country will be involved in sponsoring voter registration lun
cheons with a goal of signing up three voters to every one
Omega man.
(Bfre Augusta Neuis-Steuttiu
Louis Farrakhan
“Farrakhan on Jesse Jackson: A
Warning to Black Leaders, A
Warning to Black America,” calls
calls Rev. Jackson’a campaign
“one of the most far-reaching and
significant events of this century.”
Farrakhan emphasizes that “If
Jesse Jackson can register millions
of Blacks, Hispanics, Native
Americans, women and poor
whites to vote, this would be a
Jimmy Stark
appointed to
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marvelous achievement, for it
would change the face, style and
base of the Democratic par
ty... Jesse’s candidacy will lift the
ceiling of the thinking of our
people, especially our young
people.
“The movement that Jesse’s
candidacy will fuel may produce
the greatest political earthquake in
our history. This earthquake will
stimulate and awaken the sleeping
giant, the Black church. And she
will finally take her proper and
rightful place and lead the chosen
of God to the promised land of
freedom, justice and equality.”
Help
someone
to register
and to vote
NAACP elects
new board
NEW YORK—The NAACF
National Board of Directors elec
ted a new slate of officers at its fir
st quarterly meeting as it stepped
up efforts to expand the
Association’s leadership in the civil
rights struggle during its 75th year
of work. The terms of officers,
under the NAACP constitution,
are for one year.
Elected chairman of the board
was Kelly Alexander Sr., of
Charlotte, S.C., a veteran civil
rights leader. He succeeds
Margaret Bush Wilson, who lost
her bid for re-election as a regular
member of the board. Alexander
first became a member of the
board in 1950 and was elected vice
chairman in 1976.
Succeeding Alexander as vice
chairman was Dr. William F. Gib
son of Greenville, S.C, He
previously was a national vice
president. He has been president of
the South Carolina State Con
ference of NAACP branches since
1977, the year he first became a
member of the national board.
Elected president to replace
James Kemp of Chicago, who died
last December after 11 months in
office, was Mrs. Enolia P.
McMillan of Baltimore, Md. She
had been involved witn the
NAACP in Baltimore and
Maryland since the early thirties
and is now serving her seventh
consecutive two-year term as
president ot the Baltimore
NAACP branch.
Other ornceis elected were:
Treasurer —Jesse Turner Sr.,
Memphis, Tenn., president of Tri-
State Bank and an active member
of the local NAACP branch since
the 50s.
Assistant Treasurer —William
Pollard, director of the AFL-CIO
Civil Rights Department in
Washington and a veteran fighter
in the struggle for equal oppor
tunity for Blacks in labor unions.
Vice President —The Rev. Ed
ward A. Hailes, executive director
of the Opportunities In
dustrialization Centrs in
Washington, since 1966 and
associate pastor of the 19th Street
Baptist Church in Washington for
the past four years, was re-elected
vice president.
Paine to mark
102nd year
of its fi
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Calhoun offered high post
Beard, Webster in
sheriffs election runoff
Only 443 votes seperated
Charles B. Webster and Johnny O.
Beard as they led a field of five
candidates in a special election
Jan. 31 to determine a successor to
J. B. Dykes, who resigned in early
December after pleading guilty to
two countys of obstruction of
justice and is now serving a four
year prison term.
Webster had 9,776 votes to
Beard’s 9,333.
While Webster had the higher
vote count, Beard won in the
largest number of precincts. He
won 32 compared to Webster’s 27.
The two will meet in a run-off
election February 21.
Webster, who had 43.8 percent
of the votes compared to 41.8 per
cent for Beard, said that he plans
to seek the endorsement of the
other three candidates in the race.
He told the News-Review Wed
nesday that he “anticipated all the
time that there would be a run-off
between me and Beard. Maybe I
didn’t expect it to be as close, and I
didn’t really know who would be
in front.
“I plan to see every registered
voter in Richmond County and to
run harder than he does.”
Beard said '.hat he won a
“people’s victory.” Webster, he
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said had the money, the endor
sement of the daily newspaper, the
politicians, but I had the people
and coming that close, it was a
great victory.”
Beard also said he was not sur
prised by the outcome.
“I figured it would be between
me and Webster, with five men in
the race it would be impossible for
one man to take it.”
He said he was surprised at the
low vote totals for the other three.
“With the experience that Calhoun
had I though he’d do better.
Singley is a fine man. He speaks
well. He’s well educated. He
knows what he’s talking about. I
thought he’d do a lot better.”
Bothe candidates said they will
seek the endorsements of the
losers, especially Calhoun.
Beard said, “I’ve talked to all of
them and Webster’s people have
also talked to him.
“I’ve made him an offer of one
of the top jobs and so have Web
ster’s people. They told him they
will get his 18 years in law enfor
cement reinstated, but I don’t
believe they can do that.”
Calhoun received 1 905 votes or
8.5 percent. Singley, the lone Black
in the race, had <370 votes or 3.9 per
cent. Florida had 4UO or 1.7 percent.
Rev. Arthur Sims
to lead rally for
e defense
The Rev. Arthur D. Sims,
former pastor of First Mount
Moriah Baptist Church in
Augusta, will lead a rally for the
Ed Mclntyre—Joe Jones
Defense Fund. The rally will be
held at Tabernacle Baptist
Church Feb 9at 7 n.m.
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