PORTLAND/OBSERVER Jan. 28. 1971
The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund recently
announced that th e ir publication,
Equal Justice, would be pub
lished quarterly "to report on
the most significant of some 600
cases" the Fund Is handling.
The Observer learned that the
newsletter is being discontinued
with the Jan. issue and that the
editor, Iz)is Muss, had left LDF.
Charles Hayes, d irector of pub
l i c inform ation, could not be
reached for comment, but LDF
source said that the quarterly's
termination was due to lack of
funds. Two black journalists re
port that LDF approached them
with an offer to w rite a history
of the organization, offering
$30,000 for the job. The w rite rs
say that LDF hopes to make
back advance— plus a p ro fit—
from sales of the book. LDF
sources say that project might
not m aterialize because of bud
getary problems.
Dewey T a y lo r Observer re p o rte r and A d ve rtis in g M anager
in te rvie w s M r. H om er C am pbell, M c D o n a ld ’s new Black
m anager at U n io n and F rem ont S treet.
By DEWEY TAYLOR
Homer L. Campbell, born in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2nd oldest of
6 boys. Attended E lliott and
Chapman Schools, Benson Tech.
High School, where he majored
in A u t o m o t iv e and drafting
courses.
He graduated from Benson,
and went on to Portland Com
munity College, graduated from
t h e r e in 'A ir c r a ft Engineering
and Mechanics. A ll from the
Portland public school d is tric t.
His is not a token position, but
a position for which he had to
qualify. This should be an ex
ample to a ll young black people
of what it means to finish
school. H. E. Management, Inc.
the operators of McDonald’s are
very proud and fortunate to have
a man like Homer L. Campbell.
His fam ily status: m arried 20
y e a r s , 5 children, 4 in high
school ages 15-19 years, and 1
nine year old in Kennedy Ele
mentary School. M r. Campbell
also is a very talented musi
cian. He made his own guitars
and am plifiers.
Sometime in
the near future, the Portland
Observer w ill te ll more about
this young man's very talented
fam ily. Remember you get it all
in the Portland Observer,
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opportunities
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hundred and fifty seven on-the-
job training opportunities w ill
be made available in the m id-
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Valley area to
jobless and/or under-employed
persons under a recently ap
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manpower program,
Ross Morgan, A dm inistrator of
the Oregon Employment D ivi
sion, announced today.
The project is being operated
by the Valley Migrant League
under a contract awarded to
them by the State Employment
D ivision, (the State OJT Agen
cy), and w ill extend over a
period of 12 months. A federal
investment of $185,000 in funds
is involved. The Employment
D i v i s i o n w ill monitor p e rfor
mance under the contract.
O n-the-job training w ill be
given by private industry with
federal government reim burse
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hired by the employer as a reg
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HOW A B O U T A H AM -
H I H iiE H . T h is car ran
s tra ig h t in to M r. Burgers
last S atu rd a y. Three o th e r
cars were involved.
B la c k F B I
In two recently published
books— Crim e in America, by
Ramsey
Clark,
and
The
Orangeburg Massacre, by Jack
Nelson and Jack Bass--the ra
cial attitudes and policies of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
and its d ire cto r, J. Edgar Hoo
ver, have come in fo r some dis
cussion. The Washington Post's
Potomac magazine, In its Jan.
10 edition, reported some little
known figures on the FBI's ra
cial composition. Potomac quot
ed "an FBI spokesman" as say
ing that 51 of the bureau's 7,910
special agents are black, ’and
1,521 blacks are among the total
of 18,592 persons employed In
all capacities by the FBI.
S eam stresses w illin g to le a rn
power sewing m achine operation
via o n -th e -jo b tra in in g . A p p ly:
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N .E . U n io n
T h e local League has tw o p ro
fessional s ta ff vacancies, re
q u ire m e n ts are a degree in social
w ork, sociology, o r related fields,
w ith some experience. A p p ly 718
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NAACP organizes
LDF ended
M c D o n a ld ’s N e w
B la c k M a n a g e r
Panthers
resist Pan
Africanism
Two simultaneous meetings
held In early September, 1970
illustrated-by the a u d ie n c e s
they attracted - a deep sp lit in
the black revolutionary move
ment.
T h e Congress of African
People brought together blacks
representing a broad political
spectrum -from
lntegratlonists
like Whitney Young of the Na
tional Urgan League to M inister
Louis Farrakhan of the Nation
of Islam. Whites were excluded.
At the black Panther Party
c o n fe re n c e
to organize a
People's Constitutional Conven
t i o n , large numbers of black
youths were joined by an even
larger number of white radi
cals, including representatives
o f the Gay Liberation Move
ment.
Although the white media, and
white generally, tend to lump all
black revolutionaries together,
the deep contrast between the
Atlanta and Philadelphia meet
ings and the ideologies of the
groups sponsoring them was
clear. The Panthers are not
only w illing to form alliances
with whites but also to seek
them out. The other groups
variously called "c u ltu ra l na
tio n a lis t," "P a n -A fric a n is t" or
"black n a tio n a list" are unw ill
ing to ally with whites, at least
in meetings where plans are
being made. Their c ritic s say,
however, that they s o lic it white
financial support.
The roots of the division are
id e o l o g i c a l and experiencial.
The Panthers define themselves
as a revolutionary party guided
by the principles of M arxist-
Leninism, as do the white
groups. Simply stated, they be
lieve that social class, not race,
is the prim ary cause of black
people's oppression, and that
class struggle, not black revo
lution, is the proper, indeed in
evitable, remedy fo r that op
pression.
The
"black
natio nalist"
groups would be w illin g to grant
the justice of that statement up
to a point. They say that many
whites are exploited by the " r e
actionary ruling c irc le s ," and
that they do not, themselves,
participate in overt acts of ra c
ism . But, the cultural national
ists argue, these whites s till
participate in the oppression of
blacks.
Furtherm ore, Carmichael and
Hamilton wrote, black people
must fir s t unite within them
selves before form ing coalitions
with whites. Since this unity has
not yet been brought about, co
a l i t i o n s between black and
whites are, at this tim e, prem a-
t u r e . Pan-Africanism , which
has been called the "highest
manifestation of black pow er,"
takes the domestic argument
one step further, calling fo r
unification of blacks a ll over the
globe, on the basis of th e ir
common culture and experience.
The NAACP Board of Direc
tors met Saturday under the
leadership of the new President,
E llis H. tasson.
The purpose of the "w o rk "
session was to approve plans
and recommendations by the
president for the year.
N A A C P w o rkin g
m itte e fo r the task.
com
The Board approved the fo l
lowing as committee chairmen:
Church Work
S. P. Broadous
Community Coordinator
Gertrude Crowe
Education
Brenda Green
Freedom Fund DeLois Eldridge
Housing
Vern Summer
Labor - Industry
Hazel Hays
Branch Attorney
Keith Burns
Veterans
Carlos Rivera, J r.
Youth Work
Fred C. Markey
Life Membership L. C. Ellison
Freedom Seals
Minnie H arris
legislation
C. Don Vann
Program - Membership
Harry C. Ward
Press - Publicity
E llis H. Casson
v
T h e president stated "each
committee w ill have the right to
c h o o s e its own committee
m em bers."
In other business, M rs. Ruth
S p e n c e r , elected secretary in
December, resigned because of
other commitments, and the
president appointed Rev. Rich
ard J. Parker to that position.
The president appointed a
committee to work with the
Urban League in seeing what
can be done about the problems
people living in Albina, both
black and white, have in secur
in g Insurance. The NAACP
committee is headed by Atty.
Keith Burns and the Urban
league, by A tty. Vic I-evey.
T h e president, firs t vice
p r e s id e n t , and second vice
president were elected to rep
resent the branch at the NAACP
Area Conference to be held in
Bremerton, Saturday and Sun
day.
Rev. Parker, board member,
stated, "that the President has
offered us a bold and vigorous
program for this year and I
trust
that
we,
as
board
members and the community at
large, w ill get behind him as he
leads the branch fo rw a rd ."
Twenty-two members attend
ed the meeting held at Hughes
United Methodist Church.
D u rin g C itiz e n P a rtic ip n tio n session Ix*on H a rriso n , right,
discuss A lb in a Problem s w ith M a rk u H aggard ot th e G o v
e rn or M c C a ll office. Iz*on H a rris is head of the M u lti -Ser
vice Center.
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