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Portland Observer Section II Thursday, February 23, 1978 Page 11 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS Southern legislators regarding their overt intentions to deny the vote to Blacks. It was Black people who took the “law and order" route by going to the courts to overturn these uncon stitutional acts. This country has never admit ted the existence and possible utilization of a clear provision of the Constitution: Paragraph two of the 14th Amendment, ratified July 9th, 1968. That section reads: Representatives shall be ap portioned among the several states according to their respec tive number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not tax ed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participa tion in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation there in shall be reduced in the propor tion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Notwithstanding the well do cumented record of Black voter denials for decades, there has never been any effort to enforce this provision of the U.S. Consti tution. Where was the inclination toward “law and order?” How many congressional represents tives and senators achieved power and influence through sen iority, that is, who were elected to office years ago when vast segments of Blacks were exclud ed from the polling booths? How legitimate were those elections in the first place? How much respect is due these persons now, when they were launched on their political careers in less than a free, open and competitive process? Congressional Black Caucus - Back Row: Honorable Louis Stokes - Demo crat, Ohio Honorable William L. Clay - Democrat, Missouri Honorable John Conyers, Jr. - Democrat, Michigan Honorable Augustus F. Hawkins - Democrat, California Honorable Charles C. Diggs. Jr. - Democrat, Michigan Honorable Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. - Democrat, Pennsylvania Honorable Ralph H. Metcalfe - Democrat, Illinois Honorable Parren J. Mitchell - Democrat, Maryland Honorable Charles B. Rangel - Democrat, New York Front Row: Honorable Ronald V. Dellums - Democrat, California Honorable Shirley Chisholm - Democrat, New York Honorable Walter E. Fauntroy - Democrat, District of Colum bia Honorable Yvonne B. Burke - Democrat, California Honorable Barbara C. Jordan - Democrat, Texas Honorable Cardiss C o l l i n . . D e mocrat, Illinois Honorable Harold Ford Demo crat, Tennessee DR.PERCV L. JULIAN he brilliant scientist who T ENTERED DEPAUW U N IV ., AS A SUB-FRESHM AN" AND GRADUATED IN 1920 W IT H THE HIGHEST HONORS, THE P H I B E T A KAPPA KE Y A N D DE LIV ER E D T H E V A L E D IC T O R IA N ADDRESS. HE EARNED HIS MASTERS DEGREE AT HARVARD IN 1925 AND PH D. AT THE U N IV OF V IE N N A IN 1951. HE WAS BORN IN MONTGOMERY A L A .,IN 1899. HE TAUGHT AT HOWARD* AND W.VIRGINIA U DR JULIAN JOINED THE GLIDDEN C O ,IN 1956, A PAINT COM PANY IN CHICAGO.DURING WORLD WARE HE PRODUCED A FIRE-FIGHTING FOAM FROM SOYBEAN PROTEIN THAT SAVED JOSEPH CINQUE The Congolese Chief who led the revolt against the slave ship Armistad as it sailed the Atlantic. Rep. Wally Priestley THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN THE ARMY AND NAVY. HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO M ANKIND HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUS, HE DEVELOPED CORTISONE AT LOW COST FOR ARTHRITIS SUFFERERS, DRUGS TO AID RHEUMATIC FEVER, GLAUCOM A,BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND COUNTLESS OTHER USES. THE RESEARCH OF TH E SOYBEAN SOON ESTABLISHED THE JU LIA N LABORA TORIES AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES. ALTHO RETIRED AS PRESIDENT HE IS STILL ACTIVE IN RESEARCH.... Fran White Company 5001 N.E. Union Avo. 288-5303 " P Viilatut ¿ Oldest and S/ata"
