To Be Equal by Vaiuun K. Jordan, Portland/Observer Thursday July 6, 1972 Page 3 Ebony Club provides j i . variety that degree means their chil­ summed up for me at f ougaloo dren w ill be (rood from the College, In Mississippi, where In (ha pair sevaral weak a burdens of field labor, of hard, the senior class valedictorian I have apokan at commence­ jrutal physical labor, of said that "w e end to begin." ment exerclaes at alx black Jesse Hudson, owner-man­ powertessness. He meant that he and his fel­ colleges and universities In ager of the Ebony Clut^ is a There is not question but low-graduates were ending if® south, and It has been an 31 year resident of the Port­ that our society views a col­ their stay at Tuugaloo, but exhilarating experience. land area. A fte r serving 8 lege degree as an entry pen­ were now em barklr^ on die Just standing on the plat­ years In the A rm y, Hudson ult to the middle class, an beginning of a lifetim e of ser­ form and looking out at the returned to the Portland area, “ It gate from die prison of vice to their black brothers In sea of bright faces of gradu­ where he has been Involved poverty. The young men and die urban and rural ghettos ates, tlwlrpiound patents, and In the Insurance business. M r. women graduating today have of die land. their friends Is a moving ex­ Hudson currently resides In far mote opportunities than perience. So too. Is the d® local community with his their forhearera. | can re ­ This consciousness of using realization of what that great wife and 2 sons. call. as recently as I960, grad­ their education on hehalf of moment means to those young- uating from Howard Law and all black and brown Americans stent, who have struggled to getting a Job that paid >35 Approximately one year ago and thus for the benefit of the complete their education In a week. Tcxlay, corporate re­ M r . Hudson bought a night entire nation Is among the the face of a l i f e t i m e cruiters are common on black club located at 2125 N. Van­ most Inspiring aspects of of poverty, hardship and dis­ college campuses and oppor­ couver. He spent from April these commencements. You crim ination. tunities have grown. T h atco l- 1971 until late December to­ get the feeling that while so lege degree Is now a ticket tally remodeling the old club. Most are poor: 70 per cent many Americans are hung up to an Instant living wage. In December, the Ebony Club come from fam ilies whose on an orgy of consumerism, Hut while the opportunities opened, featuring live music total income Is less than or cut themselves off from for these young people have 15,000 per year, and the over­ and a tasteful, comfortably concern about their society, expanded, they still have to decorated Interior, designed whelming m ajority are the that here ate the best of deal with racism . They grad­ to produce a relaxed atmos- Am erica's youth avidly grasp­ firs t In their fam ilies to uated at a time when the pl«re for the clientele. ing d® challenges facing them graduate from college. country seems to be turning and their country. Even without statistics, you Its back on die evils of dis­ Sine/*its opening, the Ebony know this from the faces of crimination and racism; at a I t ’s fairly common these their parents. T h e ir took of has attracted such nationally tin® when they must not only days to hear people m akedls- Joy and the tears of pride known artists as B.B, King, swim against die tkle of overt fwrsglng remarks about the welling In their eyes tell the the Stylistics, M ajo r Lance, discrimination, but also of struggling black colleges of story of the sacrifices made the Malitxi and Soul Explo­ that neglect and Indifference this land. But if there are and dreams fulfilled. Youcan sion. Hudson has also brought which Is often ever mote In­ •ny doubters as to the value see the faces etched with the In the best In local talent In­ sidious. and Importance of the black lines of tune and struggle cluding such artists asShades M y Impression of these colleges, let them come to breaking Into Joytxis smiles of Brown, Greg Smith and young people Is that they aie •ny doubters as to the value as their beloved children Gene Diamond. fully aware of dio challenges and Importance of die black clutch that degree that marks and that they’ ve developed a colleges, let them come to the passkey to a better life. toughness In dealing wldi is­ f®sales providing a friendly oi® of these commencements Por many white fam ilies of sues of race that their elders and let them feel how hundreds atmosphere for their regular college graduates, the major­ could well envy. They're a of souls vibrate as one to customers, Hudson has en­ ity probably, a colloge degree sophisticated group that knows the deepest longings of the couraged group luncheons and Is a continuation of a family It has a charge to keep arxl functions. The Ebony has people. It would take a hard tradition or a long taken-for- a duty to perform that goes hosted such groups as Model heart and an empty mind to granted event. But for the well beyond die merely per­ C lt® s, the Black Caucus, Ad miss (I® Importance amt rele­ parents of these black your<- sonal strivings so common to Jesse Hudson, owner-manager of Hoc committee. Oregon Wo- vance of these schools which steiv graduating from the the Ebony Club, shows the our society. remodeled Interior of his nightclub men Political Caucus and constitute a national treasure black colleges of die south. and banquet hall on Van- couver Avenue. This wss perhaps best of d® firs t order. numerous private parties. 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Industry, providing more Jobs one exception, if corroded if the Arm y ordnance handling mittee headed by Senator ille n Law, principal of Jeffer- aixl Income for the villagers. water pipes start leaking due of the explosives, no one was McGovern In tl® aftermath of •°n High School w ill be the to age, tl® tenant Is not re­ Injured. the 1968 Democratic conven- guest speaker. NEW VACCINE sponsible. Chalk up another Arm y QUESTION medical discovery. 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