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Robeson receives
Whitney Young Award
Paul Koteson, s r „ often
referred to as die "fa ttie r of
the c iv il rights mov em ent,"
was
the 2nd Annual Whitney M.
Young, J r . National Mo: rial
Awird. Also named t re
ceive y o ung A w a r Is were
Dr,
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B ern ha rd.
The selections of the re
cipients I tie award were
announced by tie Hoard of
D ire cto rs of die New y rk
Urban I eague.
D r . B ryant, innovator of
the New Y o ik l rba League's
famed S treet A adem ies, w ill
receive the y oung se rv ic e
Award, m i .
a .fo r
Girls Choir seeks members
The Portland Oregon C lrla
C hoir la, at present, conduct
ing audilluns ly appointment.
I Ids choir Is quite well known,
liavlng just returned from its
annual summer tour through
U^ltlah (lohunl la, ( 'ana u .
» ere the g irls were wel
comed by the Honorable lorn
C am pteit, May, I : p I
of Vancouver, and the Honor
able WwA/.’ . I ton nett, premier
of tlie Province of B ritis h
Columbia.
| he ch n irg lrls
were given tfie honor and dis
tinction of being the finest
G irls C hoir in the Great
P acific Northwest. Ilie y lu iv e
engagements line up for M exi
co and Central America next
year.
Conductor of the Portland
Oregon G irls C hoir is pro
fessor Joseph I . Correa, an
outstanding musician from
Peru.
who organized tl«
choir in September of 1971.
M r. Correa completed hlstle-
groe in Music Education at
die Conservatory of Music
in Lim a, Peru and dien tra -
velod around the world gather-
Professor Correa lias set
down three ol jeclives for die
Portland Oregon G irls Choir:
I o develop. a le tte r under
standing of good music; to
promote professional musi
cianship; and to bring happi
ness to the world through
m usic.
m e r president ut the New
York I rban | eague, Will r e
ceive tie y ung Industrial
Award. \11 three recipients
w ill receive a bronze plaque:
m addition M r. Robeson w ill
It you have a g irl in your
receive a sjiecial medallion.
home ¡etween die ages of 8
I he plaque inscriptions w ill
and I! who as a good voice
read as follows:
and likes to sing, dien you
I tie New York I rten I eague-
might want to jxjt l e i in touch
W h.itney M. young, J r . Na
win, a real music experience,
tional M em orial Award to
ta c h ch o lrg irl receives in
Paul h bea ■. i. : . : i h e w »
struction in music theory,
ment in the betterment of
history, eai training, eight
Hrodierhood
and Mankind
reading, restive a its , pos
through e juality;
ture, uiterpretative move
Of M r, Koteson, Eoony
ment, state presence, concert
Magazine recently said: "u n e
e ti juette, tout ettlquette and
of tie most m ulti-faceted
¡»rsonal discipline.
geniuses of recorded history
If you are interested In
fo r nearly a half century,
having your daughter audition
Paul Koteson, now til at 74
fo r die Portland Oregon G irls
years of age. dedicate I htm-
C hoir, please call 281-8393,
aelf totally to the cause of
or write i
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tie 1 iteration of all oppressed
Portland, Oregon 97220, fo r
(»ople irrespective of c o lo r,"
an appointment.
w rite s sterling Stuckey. " A t
one time liailed ss d e grea
test end ever to trod tie
g rid iro n ; at another time
called tie greatest le ss la r i-
tone in tie w orld, Kotesun was
also one of tie w orld's grea
test actors,
\ lawyer and
linguist — he mastered two
Voter registration drive begins
I he Council on Voter Edu
cation and Registration is
conducting a month long drive
to promote voter registration
In Multnomah County.
Be
ginning Saturday, September
9, volunteer canvasses w ill
te
going door-to-door in
Multnomah County informing
die (xibllc of registration pro
cedures and registration lo
cations,
I he following facts empha
size tlie important of regis
tration:
(lj
I lie I9h8 Presidential
isce was decided by a m a r-
g r of ll.i-.», votes— less
tl an I .
(2j I he |9ti(j Oregon se
natorial race was decided
I7 less than one vote je r
precinct.
( '' 1 ml)
• I A m cri-
cans eligible to vote are
registered to vote.
Giant Nelson, spokesman
for die Council, stated diat
not invent locally?
Savings on deposit with us
go to work here in Oregon.
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ing» w ill also reveal him as
one i f the ce ntury'sm ostper-
ceptlve commentators on the
ultures of the Hast, tie West
and Africa. No black man
has ever lad more to give—
o r has given more - - to his
people than Robeson.
His
enormous g ilts and hit in
contestable humanity should
easily earn him a place on
any lis t of great men.” And
D r. Vln. ent Harding adds: "1
think Robeson and DuBoia
represent in uudem a tena-
Clous keeping of tie faith fo r
us during some very very
Jays ol persecution,
red-baiting and everything
else.
Black consciousness
was grasped and articulated
in very crucial ways by Rote-
son and DuHois."
M r. Bernhard, whowas fo r
m erly with Lehman Brothers,
is a general fiartner of Abra
ham s Company.
D r. Susie Bryant, a form er
professor of history at Win
ston-Salem Teachers College
and Tennessee Agricultural
si Industrial state U niversity,
is a member of the Board of
D irectors of the Urban League
of E nglewood, .New Jersey and
a fo rm e r d ire cto r of remedial
reading of HARYCX ACT,
Inc.'s Project U p lift. [) r .
Bryant was also acting p rin -
ipal and d ire c to r of Tutorial
services of Neward Prepara
tory School.
"th e registration drive w ill
inform eligible voters that
registering to vote isa simple
process." lie added that re
gistration locations are scat
tered throughout all neighbor
hoods in Multnomah County
in banks, schools, Safeway
and M eier and | rank stores,
die Portland I alxir Center,
the County Courdiouse, City
Hall, and at many private
homes.
I tie Council w ill urge all
diose voters who have moved
o r dunged dien name to re
g is te r.
those who w ill 1«
18 years of age by November
7th and those who have lived
in Oregon th irty days by
N ovetnler 7th w ill also le
encouraged to register.
O ctoter 7th marks the last
day a jerson can register and
le eligible to vote In the
general election on November
7th.
Highland
festival
C l l ^ a /-Z o f
L lv J i
en languages and
.s-
sesses some knowledge of a
half dozen more - - Rolesor
is a Pan-Africanist who has
long visioned a fam ily of
nations in which Africans and
Asians arid New World Hacks
w ill play a decisive role. W.nen
his
scholarship is Letter
known, :e w ill win recognition
as the fu e st ideologist of
black ratio alism since Sidney
"H ighlights of H ighland", a
showing of fashions made by
children and adults In tlie
Highland sewing room, and
demonstrations of other cen
ter activities w ill be held at
Cascade College, 715 N. K il
ling »worth on September I3tb
at 7:30 p jn . Reverend sain
Johnson, founder of Highland
Community Canter, and Rev.
Daniel F ra z ie r, d ire cto r, w ill
explain the centers goals and
projects.
I he 9th C irc u it Court of
Appeals in San Francisco has
ordered that 18 year old
Cheryl jam es be returned to
Term inal Island Federal P r i
son. Cheryl recently revealed
that she was raped while in
prison and is expecting a child
any day. Cheryl was sen
tenced to federal prison on
A p ril 15, 1971 when she waa
a 17 year old high school stu
dent, tu t was not committed
until after her High School
graduation on June 7 of tlwt
year.
Cheryl was found guilty of
tte cfarges of assaulting a
federal
o ffice r
who
had
troker. into her home to a r
rest .her o l d e r brother,
Charles, an AWOL service
man.
on January 4, 1971,
Cheryl was at home with le r
mother and 13 brothers and
sisters, when two federal
officers broke into the home.
In cf.e confusion that re
sulted, one of the officers
grabbed 14 year old David,
who was trying to restrain
the
fam ily
dog. C heryl,
fe a r in g
fo r her younger
brother, struck the o ffice r
with a rolling pin.
Charles had asked fo r leave
to m a rry his fiancee before
his
baby was born, but
the leave had been cancelled.
The fam ily maintains that
CHERYL
federal o fficia ls and Con
gresswoman Edith Green had
tr ia l.
beer, aware that Charles was
The sppea; was heard by a
living at home and that the
panel of three judges from
o ffice r's
approach to the
the 9th C irc u it Court of Ap
fa m ily was abusive. Charles
peals.
The decision handed
and Cheryl was sent to prison
down on July 2bth found by
and Martha was placed on
a m ajority of 20 to 1 against
probation.
C heryl.
However, Justice
Cheryl was released in
Shirley Hufstedler filed a dis
March on $5,000 cash bed
senting opinion saying that
that was raised by the b i-
C h e ryl’s constitutional rights
racial Cheryl James Fund
to a ju ry tria l had been
Committee, pending an appeal
denied.
to the 9th C irc u it Court of
Attorney Nick Chaivoe was
Appeals in San Francisco.
in Europe at the time the
Her attorney, Nick Chaivoe,
opinion was handed down.
charged that Cheryl had teen
His secretary was in the hos
denied her constitutional right
p ita l. As a result, the w rit
to a ju ry tria l, since she had
of review asking fo r a new
not teen fu lly aware of her
hearing was late being file d .
rights when she waived a ju ry
On Monday , September llth .
ERNEST HARTZOC
Members of tlie Portland
Chapter, National Association
fo r
the Advancement
of
Colored People, on Sept. 17
plan to hear an address by
an adm inistrator of the P o rt
land School D is tric t.
Ernest Hartzog, superin
tendent's associate fo r com
munity and staff relations.
w ill speak on "Intergroup and
M u lti-C u ltu re Programs In
the Portland Public Schools."
I lmed at 4 p jn M the meet
ing w ill be field at the Bethel
A ME Church, 5828 NJE. 8 th
Ave,
E llis Casson, president of
the Portland chapter, said the
NAACP meeting is open to
the public.
the 9th C irc u it C ourt of
Appeals ordered that Cheryl
be picked up and returned to
federal
prison
since the
period of appeal had passed.
She was given a two day stay,
and was to picked up on Wed
nesday, September 13th.
V alerie Taylor, Interna
tional President of the ILWU
F e d e ra l
A u xilia ry pre
sented a statement represent
ing members from Oregon,
Washington, C alifornia, Alas
ka
and B ritis h Columbia
which reads as follows:
"C h e ry l James was sen
tenced at 17 to a correctional
(Continued on pg. 8, col. 4)
Will the city council
appoint a Black ?
one of the fir s t actions of
the new M ayor of the C ity
of Portland and his fellow
Commissioners w ill be to ap
point someone to fill the
vacancy created by his elec
tion. Many names are being
mentioned, lu t tlie black com
munity is requesting that a
black person be named to
this
position. In
recent
weeks, tlie B la c k Caucus
sponsored Community Con
vention
favored Chalmers
Jones; and AMA, N.AACP, and
the U rb a n i eague met together
and selected C. Don Vann
and E llis Casson.
The C ity Commissioners
have publically stated that
they w ill not name a person
who has run fo r election
against present city council
members. This would e li
minate E llis Casson, as well
as several white contenders.
NAACP hears Hartzog
JAMES
by John H. Jackson, President
Albina M in iste ria l Alliance
Having lived in Portland
fo r seven years, It has been
a real source of interest and
study in human nature to
follow the creeping kinds of
false concepts of black re
presentation In our govern
mental
and adm inistrative
arena. It la a common fact
that moat of the Blacks ap
pointed were already on the
payroll of the city, state or
federal
government. This
tie -in indicates that they are
not free to fu lly represent
the community that they are
supposed to represent.
As I review the past, we
heard some rumors about the
possibility of the appointment
of a black City Commissioner
when Commissioner Bowes
died. However, none of these
rum ors were meaningful and
it ended like a puff of smoke
from a cig a ritte .
At that tim e we were not
close enough to even get
public mention. We can see
that at least this is a step
forward, a semblance of re
cognition,
when Chalmers
Jones is being considered
along with the other people
from whom the appointment
w ill be made.
I am aware, as are other
groups — the Urban League
and the N.AACP — that our
voting strength is not great
enough to elect a black per
son. So, if we are to try our
wings in adm inistration, it
w ill be through appointment.
It is my personal feeling that
if the Green Amendment is
activated and a Human Re
sources Department esta
blished, and if a black person
is placed in charge of that
department, thia w ill be a
political payoff and it w ill not
be considered necessary to
appoint a black to the city
council because we w ill have
a black In a high level ad
m in istra tive position. This
would fit into the kind of
creeping representation we
have had.
1 would hope that a black
person be appointed to the
city council who would be
tru ly representative of the
black community in all its
phases and would be free from
other tie-ups that would pre
vent him from representing
the feelings and demands fo r
black and white progress In
Portland.
1 am always afraid that the
curse of white lib e ra ls be
comes a demeaning factor in
these appointments. They de
cide who to appoint, and they
only appoint those whom they
assume are good fo r us and
who think the way whites want
them to think. If thia is
done, we w ill have a repre
sentative who is not repre
sentative, and the b la c k
community w ill be black-
washed with a dot of white
tokenism, tte w ill have teen
given the appearance of hav
ing progressed, while in fact,
we have not.
I
am not a politician.
Therefore, it is d iffic u lt fo r
me, as It It is fo r many
m em ters of the black com
munity, to understand the
games the politicians play.
Again, I ask the question:
Does the city council really,
honestly intend to appoint a
black to the city council?
On the face of It, my answer
is 'no'.
I sincerely hope I
am wrong.