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The Augusta News - Review January 5,1985
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Dr. Bertha L. Maxwell
Delta's to hold Founder's
Day celebration
The Augusta Alumnae Chapter
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc. will celebrate Founder’s Day
on Jan. 6, at the Paine College
Chapel at 3 p.m. Founded on
January 13, 1913, this will mark
the sorority’s 72nd anniversary.
Their speaker for the occasion
will be Dr. Bertha L. Maxwell,
South Atlantic Regional Director
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Dr. Maxwell currently serves as
chairman of Afro-American and
Catastrophe
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both Union Carbide and the inter
national business community’s
wanton abuse of lethal chemicals.
This is indeed a problem of
global dimensons. Bhopal is yet
another example of a clear pattern
of victimizing poor and Third
World people both in the United
States and around the world.
We call upon the United Nations
and its appropriate agencies to
conduct a full scale investigation
of Bhopal, with priority placed on
curtailing the abuses of greed and
on measures to prevent future such
tragedies. At the same time, there
must be just compensation of the
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African Studies at the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte.
She also holds the distinction of
being a Frank Porter Graham
Professor at UNC. A noted
speaker on African History. Dr.
Maxwell also conducts workshops
and serves as consultant on the
topic of Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
The affair will also include selec
tions from the Delta Ensemble.
The public is cordially invited to
attend.
victims of Bhopal, as well as effor
ts to meet the economic and public
health crisis created by the
disaster.
If there is any God given right.it
is the right of all the world’s
peoples to a clean and healthy en
vironment. Bhopal gives added
weight to the moral and
theological imperative, subscribed
to by many people in the church
community, to stop the abuse of
toxic chemical production and
disposal.
We call upon all churches of a
denominations, and peoples of all
faiths to join us in this effort.
Since the Moynihan report....
By Blanche Bernstein
In March 1965, Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, then head of the Office
of Planning and Research in the
U.S. Department of Labor,
authored a report entitled The
Negro Family The Case for
National Action.* It is fascinating
to reread it almost 20 years later; it
is also instructive to review its
major thesis, the reaction to it,
developments since its publication,
and consider again the case for
national action.
Moynihan warmly welcomed the
establishment of the President’s
Committee on Equal Opportunity,
the Manpower Development and
Training Act of 1962, the
Economic Opportunity Act of
1964, and the Civil Rights Act of
1964, all efforts to improve the
economic position of Blacks,
abolish poverty, and eliminate
legal and formal discrimination
against Blacks. The report also
eloquently and sympathetically
describes in the chapter on the
“Roots of the Problem” the ill ef
fects of the period of slavery, the
frequently high levels of unem
ployment and low wages, and in
ferior education on the structure
and well-being of the Black family.
But as Moynihan studied the
economic and demographic trends
evident in available data for 1940-
1963, he foresaw a serious clash
between the newly enunciated
Black goals of achieving not just
equal opportunity but equal results
—in the sense of a comparable
Mary McLeod Bethune to appear
on U.S. postage stamp
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune,
founder of Bethune-Cookman
College, will appear on a United
States Postage Stamp next year.
The issuance of the stamp featuring
Dr. Bethune is a project ot tne
National Council of Negro
Women, the organization she
founded in 1935.
According to Dorothy I. Height,
national president, the National
Council of Negro Women will
begin its 50th Anniversary year in
1985 with major goals. One of
those goals will be to have that
stamp issued.
Major emphasis will be placed in
the coming year on the establish-
distribution of income, education,
etc, as between whites and non
hites— and what he referred to as
the crumbling of the Black family.
He noted that the white family
“has achieved a high degree of
stability” and is maintaining it,
but in contrast, “the family struc
ture of lower class Negroes is
highly unstable, and in many ur
ban centers is approaching co
mplete breakdown.” He added
that “so long as this situation per
sists, the cycle of poverty and
disadvantage will continue to
repeat itself” and hecalled for
national action “directed to a new
kind of national goal: the
establishment of a stable Negro
family structure.
Did the report bring about a
widespread public recognition of
the role of the family stability in
improving the economic and social
situation of Blacks and a plan for
national action? Quite the con
trary: it elictied a sustained,
vociferous attack from Black
leaders and many liberal white
opinion makers. Moynihan was
labeled racist and reactionary, as
was anyone else who argued
similarly in the ensuing years. And
this despite the fact that some out
standing Blacks had already writ
ten, or were to- write in a similar
vein: among other, E. Franklin
Frazier in 1939 and Andrew
Brimmer, then a member of the
Federal Reserve Board, who in
1970, while noting the significant
economic progress made by Blacks
ment of programs dealing with
the rising problem of adolescent
motherhood and single parenting.
In addition, the NCNW will focus
on approaches to major global
problems by organizing workshops
in many U.S. cities on how to in
fluence world hunger and advan
cement of education issues.
In preparation for the United
Nations international women’s
conference (held once every 10
years) in Nairobi, Kenya in
November of 1985, the NCNW
will hold hearings in 20 U.S. cities
on the economic state of Black
women in the United States.
during the 19605, pointed out the
deepening schism in the Black
community evident “above all in
the dramatic deterioration in the
position of Negro families headed
by a female,” Despite those and
some other voices raised in defense
of the Moynihan thesis, the over
whelming reaction in terms of its
influence on public policy was one
of rejection. Some defended early
child bearing on the grounds that
Black girls were more mature than
whites and even plans to expand
family planning services to Blacks
were labeled genocide.
As in the period prior to the
passage of equal opportunity and
civil rights legislation, the focus of
attention of Black leaders and
others remained on denial of civi’
rights, discrimination, unem
ployment and low wages. As the
1980 White House Conference on
Families and Children, though
President Carter began with the
notion of strengthening the intact
family, an HEW task force urged a
more “neutral” model as the
liberal goal; the task force won.
As a result, the White House Con
ference degenerated into a con
ference on wavs of aiding any and
all types of families rather than
focusing on the intact family. In
deed, the intact family got short
shrift in the proceedings, and little
consideration, if any, was given to
possible programs for the preven
ton of family break-up or the non
formation of families.
During the almost 20 years since
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Howard Rollins and Cicely Tyson
Rollins and Tyson
a dynamic duo
Howard E. Rollins, Jr. and
Cicely Tyson are without question
two of the most dynamic actors on
the American screen - Neither
Tyson nor Rollins work as often as
fans would like but when they do,
watch out —Oscar nominations are
usually not far behind.
Tyson who received a 1972 Best
Actress Oscar nomination for the
critically acclaimed “Sounder”
and who was recently honored at a
tribute program by Northern
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Kim Fields
Kim Fields — growing up
Kim Fields, who has grown up
before millions of TV viewers as
star of the NBC series “The Facts
Os Life,” has blossomed into a
lovely and very talented teenager,
reports the January EBONY.
Kim at 15 maintains a schedule
that would tire many adults;
beginning with exercise at 5:30
a.m., continuing with work and
school and ending as late as 9:00
p.m. Kim also keeps busy with
charity work and appears in
numerous community plays, many
of which are written by her mother
Chip Fields. In addition, Kim has
the publication of the Moynihan
Report, has the economic and
social situation of Blacks improved
and what do the data which
became available in this period tell
us about the current situation of
the Black family and its impact on
their well-beine?
Between 1940 and 1960-64 (the
period examined in the Report),
Moynihan found that the rate of
Black births out-of-wedlock has
risen from 17 to 24 percent of all
live births, the comparable figures
for whites was from two to three
percent. Between 1950 and 1960
the ratio of female-headed Black
familes rose from 18 to 21 percent;
among whites the figure was un
changed at about nine percent.
The big increase in the indices of
the deterioration of the Black
family were vet to come. At the
beginning of the 1980 s, the propor
tion of Black families headed by
women has reached 41 percent,
almost a doubling of the ratio in
two decades. It should be noted
that the increase in families headed
by a woman as a result of divorce,
'desertion, or non-formation of
a family is evident among all in
come and ethnic groups, but
among whites it reached 12 percent
and among Hispanics, 20 percent,
as compared to 41 percent among
Does family structure make a
difference in terms of the family’s
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California Women in Film-TV is a
big fan of Columbia Picture’s new
hit “A Soldier’s Story,” starring
Howard E. Rollins, Jr., and a host
of other talented actors.
Industry sources are already
speculating on Academy Award
nominations for the film, and its
cast. Rollins previously received a
Best Actor nomination for his 1981
film “RAGTIME”. If all goes
well he may find himself in the race
once again!
branched out as a recording star
with a large following in Africa
and Europe.
Although Kim’s manager
mother is also an actress, they’ve
never experienced problems
because of Kim’s success. Kim is
also thankful that her mother has
never pressured her about her
career. Says Kim, “She never
pushed me into anything I didn’t
want to do. Even though I’ve been
at it a long time, she still asks me if
I’m sure I want to do
something... She’s one of the best
moms anyone could ever have.”